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Old 01-11-2010, 12:32 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Bwahahaha! I can't believe the "Burger King" place is still there! Did ya every get the nerve to eat at it?

The Texas restaurant we went to was further west (up river) and a few blocks in from it. I just found that Texas Monthly actually did an article on it...

Burritos in Bosnia



I wish there was a date for the article but it has to be back from before I was there the summer of '98 because it states the place had only been open six months.

It was almost as cool as eating at the Texas Embassy in London!

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sorry to hijack this thread, but Hungary and Bosnia are right next to each other...
Errrr.... I think you meant the former Yugoslavia and Hungary were right next to each other!

But enough of the geography lesson...let's continue talking about Eastern European food and its connections to Texas!

Cheers! M2
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Old 01-11-2010, 01:06 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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sorry to hijack this thread, but Hungary and Bosnia are right next to each other, share a similar language, and a lot of food.
Hmmmmmmm... wait a moment here: the last time I was looking at the map Hungary and Bosnia were not right to each other. There is Croatia in between...
And as of the language: Hungarian language is related to Finno-Ugric and Turkic has no relation to any of the of the slavic languages. The most closely related language to Hungarian is spoken on the eastern side of the Ural Mountain in western Sibiria by Khanty and Manshi people. Finnish, Estonian, and some other smaller languages within the Finno-Ugric language family are much more distantly related to Hungarian.
In Bosnia and Croatia they speak slavic languages ( using cyrillic or latin letters).
Their languages sound more like russian and czech, and people that speak Russian, Czech or Polish can usually understand some of the words.

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Old 01-11-2010, 01:14 PM
 
Location: Somewhere in San Antonio
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I'm having a hard time locating anything hungarian...near here...we were told there is a group/club at Austin associated with U.T. but I'm not finding it..

Closest I found was Dallas/Irving.

The things I do for my friends
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Old 01-11-2010, 01:35 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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"But enough of the geography lesson...let's continue talking about Eastern European food and its connections to Texas! "

When in Central Europe, I didn't really saw any of the Mexican food there. They have Spanish restaurants, and I am sure that the food is related. I would guess, that the Tex-Mex dishes you ate in Bosnia were cooked for the Americans to make them feel more home. Of course, once established the restaurants would try to continue to offer the Tex-Mex cuisine to the general public
I saw stands with food similar to tacos with wide variety of “fillings”, but I could not call it Mexican, though.
But, things change all the time, people travel and eat all kinds of food, and try to sell it back home. If the food taste good then is no matter how it calls and where the recipe come from, it will always sell good.
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Old 01-11-2010, 01:44 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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I'm having a hard time locating anything hungarian...near here...we were told there is a group/club at Austin associated with U.T. but I'm not finding it..

Closest I found was Dallas/Irving.

The things I do for my friends
Not sure why, would assume that there are not very many Hungarians around in SA.

Did you check this? Welcome to HUSA (http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/husa/ - broken link)
The Hungarian American Cultural Association (HACA) of Houston

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Old 01-11-2010, 01:54 PM
 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
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you got me, I was thinking Bulgarian and any time I say Bosnia, I'm usually talking about what used to be Yugoslavia. They're IVO each other, better?
What we need here is a restaurant that specializes in the food I found in Bosnia, especially the civapi (civapcici for Serbs and Croats) and the baklava they had for every meal in the chow hall. I would also love some goulash like my mom used to make. It's not a thing like Hungarian goulash, even though she used to call it that. Her ancestry is English/Scottish, so she didn't know any better.
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Old 01-11-2010, 02:15 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Here's the card from the Texas restaurant in Sarajevo, I forgot there was a map on the back...




Best I can tell (and remember), it was located about here...

Cheers! M2
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Old 01-11-2010, 02:44 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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The menu was leaning toward German. Monica complained about that a bit; that there weren't more Hugarian dishes. I'm guessing it was because that's what the locals (more germans or german familiar folkes) eat. However, Monica had Stuffed Cabbage and she was very please with what she had...we shared ....The stuff cabbage was a little different for me ...and that was because when I ate it ..it was made by a polock.

Not sure what do you mean... pollock the fish, or ****** a guy from Poland.
I know my cabbage rolls filled with ground meat and rice, wrapped in cabbage leaves and backed in the oven. Then they will be swimming in a tomato sauce. So that's probably the way you remember it.

They don't usually serve theirs with a sauce like the Hugarians do. The sauce was a paprika sauce...they made theirs with sauerkraut and it had a drizzle of sour cream on top.

Hmmmmmmmmmm... sauerkraut. Just sauerkraut, no meat? no mushrooms?

I was surprised they didn't have gyspy snitzle. They had weiner and jager snitzle..and the ham snitzle.

Ham schnitzel was some kind of fake le cordon blue, I guess...

They were prepping for a wedding that evening and they had no brochen. (??)


All I saw for dessert was cheese cake..although they had a list of desserts...I wanted to try their Black Forest cake which was listed as made with cherry liqoeur, to me..would be too rich.

Naaaaaaaaah... just a few drops to moisten the cake Any tiramisu has more alcohol there. lol

I didn't see it so I didn't ask. They played a mix of music but lots of it..per Monica was Hungarian Gypsy music. It was elegant but comfortable. The atmosphere was loverly. Bath room was small (two stalls) but clean.
Hm... is that in Pflugerville?? I might go there and try what else weird they have in their menu...
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Old 01-11-2010, 02:49 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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Ouch... my editing sucks!!! All my answers are in Chicca's gray window....

Hahahahaha... I guess, a word Pola*k is a obscene word for the moderatorlol
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Old 01-11-2010, 02:59 PM
 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
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oh wow, I never hung out in that area, but I think that is by the Holiday Inn, which was rumored to be owned by the mafia. I'm pretty sure that was a pretty accurate rumor too..

and I'm going to have to ask this girl I know from Poland if that word is offensive. I thought that was what you called a person from Poland. So are they just Poles? strange
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