We visit Transylvania Food and Coffee to find out more about Romanian food
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00:00 And where are we today?
00:01 In Glasgow.
00:02 In Glasgow. Whereabouts in Glasgow?
00:05 Transylvania shop and coffee.
00:08 You're amazing.
00:09 Viki Rhodes.
00:11 So tell me a bit about this place.
00:13 Well, in the middle of pandemic, we came with an idea
00:19 because we left here in Scotland since 2008.
00:24 However, we were moving also to Glasgow in 2016.
00:29 And yeah, and in the middle of pandemic, we were deciding to open
00:36 our first branch in Glasgow and with groceries and everything from Transylvania.
00:43 But it's a mix between like the whole parts in Romania.
00:50 Also, we have including like Hungarian products and everything.
00:53 What is Transylvanian food then?
00:55 Diverse, nice, religious culture and everything.
01:00 Yeah. And we've got like so many popular dishes like during the Easter,
01:07 Christmas, fasting periods, like lots of vegan options as well,
01:16 vegetarians and lots of meat as well.
01:19 Yeah, of course.
01:20 Pork, beef, lamb, buffalo as well, wild pork and mangalica.
01:30 Mangalica, it's actually a pork that doesn't have cholesterol and it's curly.
01:36 Looks like a sheep.
01:38 Was made by the party of Ceaușescu, the Communist Party, however,
01:46 and in a laboratory and all this stuff.
01:50 So, yeah, it's the type of pork that doesn't have cholesterol and everything.
01:57 And it's suitable for everyone.
01:59 See some of the food that we've got here.
02:01 What is all this?
02:02 So basically, yeah, this is the Victoria salami.
02:07 But this is from the company of Gabioti.
02:11 It's a bit different compared with the other ones,
02:13 because this one has like lots of meat and everything.
02:17 And it's a bit much to eat as well.
02:20 And it has included as well like mangalica pork.
02:25 As well, we've got like deer sausages here.
02:29 On this side, we have spring salami, which is like mixed meat.
02:36 We've got eggplants in here, salad, honey mustard, cheese, smoked cheese.
02:46 And here we've got buffalo cheese.
02:49 On this side, we've got pork scrunchies,
02:52 which are a bit different compared with other countries.
02:57 We've got as well tofu made in Romania and it's special for summer or fasting period.
03:05 Because during the Christmas, like before Christmas or Easter
03:10 or different occasions, we need to fast.