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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #60 on: September 07, 2017, 12:49:13 PM »
I know you would love the beer, even though it's not real ale of course.  It's really well made Pilsner, usually available as 10 or 12 degrees.  They'll also have a dark beer from the same brewery.  You can ask for a half light/ half dark, but that word (saw or cut) in Czech has both the Z with a hat and the unpronounceable r with a hat.  In short, you can't say it.  You can mine it by pretending to cut a log . 

My favourite custom is that every time your beer gets low, they bring you another without asking.  If you don't want another, you put a coaster on top.  If you are passed out, they top up your pint because you might need another when you wake up.  If you fall down the stairs, they rush over with an emergency beer. 

The only bad thing happening was the trend to hire a topless waitress on a random night.  It was always massively embarrassing for everyone and usually she would be miserable and a bad waitress.  Where do you look when ordering? 


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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #61 on: September 07, 2017, 12:53:49 PM »
I actually meant the dumpling with the butter and powdered sugar.  Also the dumplings with gravy.

I'm not a fan of Czech beer  :\\\'(


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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #62 on: September 07, 2017, 01:09:57 PM »
Mmmm, Czech beer!  I was in the middle of nowhere in the Czech Republic two years ago and I went to a local brew pub. Czech craft beer and oh man, that beer was awesome.
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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #63 on: September 07, 2017, 01:10:26 PM »
I actually meant the dumpling with the butter and powdered sugar.  Also the dumplings with gravy.

I'm not a fan of Czech beer  :\\\'(

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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #64 on: September 07, 2017, 01:20:20 PM »
I want to know more about fried cheese, please.  I assume this isn't like American fried mozzarella sticks, but something different?  Details, please!
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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #65 on: September 07, 2017, 01:31:02 PM »
Well, they had two types.  One was a big hunk of hard yellow cheese similar to Emmantal.  It was coated in crumbs and fried until gooey on the inside.  Served everywhere with tartar sauce and fries.  Literally, the Czech National Dish.  Smazeny Syr. 

In a fancy restaurant, they would serve Smazany Hermolin, which is a good hunk of the locally made brie, also with chips.  This is nicer as the Brie melts really nicely.   Almost always, Hermalin is wrongly translated on the menu to "Ermine", so if you are looking at an English menu always order the Fried Ermine.


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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #66 on: September 07, 2017, 01:48:14 PM »
Almost always, Hermalin is wrongly translated on the menu to "Ermine", so if you are looking at an English menu always order the Fried Ermine.

You promise I won't get one of these on a plate?  Because they are amazing, and do I want one, but not on my dinner plate!
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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #67 on: September 07, 2017, 02:36:33 PM »
That thing is terrifying


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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #68 on: September 07, 2017, 02:38:40 PM »
That thing is terrifying



Aww... he's trying to be ferocious!  :)  But I can't stay mad, because he also looks like this:

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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #69 on: September 07, 2017, 02:45:45 PM »
Ermines are not just for Christmas


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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #70 on: September 07, 2017, 08:56:32 PM »
Please tell us how to make dumplings.  I had some in Germany and I forgot how much I love them.

Change of plans; hubby took me out because he's away all weekend.

It's my mom's recipe so I'll have to dig it out this weekend :) My house is kind of a big jumble at the moment with moving next weekend.


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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #71 on: September 07, 2017, 09:00:03 PM »
I know you would love the beer, even though it's not real ale of course.  It's really well made Pilsner, usually available as 10 or 12 degrees.  They'll also have a dark beer from the same brewery.  You can ask for a half light/ half dark, but that word (saw or cut) in Czech has both the Z with a hat and the unpronounceable r with a hat.  In short, you can't say it.  You can mine it by pretending to cut a log . 

My favourite custom is that every time your beer gets low, they bring you another without asking.  If you don't want another, you put a coaster on top.  If you are passed out, they top up your pint because you might need another when you wake up.  If you fall down the stairs, they rush over with an emergency beer. 

The only bad thing happening was the trend to hire a topless waitress on a random night.  It was always massively embarrassing for everyone and usually she would be miserable and a bad waitress.  Where do you look when ordering?


I love the beer there!! I really enjoyed the pork and dumpling dishes there as well :D


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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #72 on: September 07, 2017, 09:19:34 PM »
My family used to live in a very Polish neighborhood and i love the food. The sectionfor it at Tesco and asda near me is great though, both have amazing sour soup mix and asda has kielbasa.

For those of you near London there is a great polish vodka bar in the alley behind holborn tube station that has great pierogi. Or they did when I last went in like 2013. We need to visit again. I think it's called Bar Polski (used to be Karczma).
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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #73 on: September 07, 2017, 09:50:49 PM »

Aww... he's trying to be ferocious!  :)  But I can't stay mad, because he also looks like this:



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Re: What's for dinner?
« Reply #74 on: September 08, 2017, 10:45:00 AM »
Change of plans; hubby took me out because he's away all weekend.

It's my mom's recipe so I'll have to dig it out this weekend :) My house is kind of a big jumble at the moment with moving next weekend.

Don't rush on my account, I won't make them any time soon.

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