Have you visited the Budapest Mangalica Festival?

Budapest launches a great number of gastronomic festivals yearly. One of them is the mangalica festival, which just took place this year in February.

Mangalica pig? What is that?

In case you’ve never heard about the mangalica, let me introduce this special looking Hungarian swine to you.  It is mostly blonde but has always long curly hair. At first glance you might think it’s a sheep, but it’s not. It’s a cold breed which is resistent against cold and illnesses, is not forced into cages, can run around outside and have a life before landing on our plates with its deliciously full flavored and low cholesterol meat.  It has an over 200 years old history and it’s becoming more and more…

February 21, 2019 Budapest, Budapest food, Cooking, Dine out, eat out, Food, Food festival, Foodie, Foodtruck, Hungarian, Hungary, Lifestyle, Mangalica, Pulled pork, Traditional food

Foodtruck Court Budapest Üllői út

Found this Foodtruck court separated only by a big gate from one of the busiest city roads in Budapest. We tried a beef-vegetable-plum-peanut-soup, which was really nice and had a pulled pork sandwich with sweet-and-sour onion-chutney and cabbage chutney in a crusty ciabatta. Everything home made.After that the owner of the BBQ-truck invited us for a bowl of sweet-gnocchi with plum chutney combination from one of the other trucks. Had a nice “fröccs” as a drink, made with red wine (but more common to have it here with white wine), what you call in Germany Spritzer and is wine with soda water and is very refreshing ?
You can sit, enjoy yr food, there is even music. We enjoyed our…

April 10, 2017 Foodtruck, Hungarian, Hungary, Lifestyle, Pulled pork