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Eating in Kaunas
Eating in Kaunas
While in Lithuania, one should try these national dishes: appetizers - Piršteliai prie alaus - thin, rolled-up puff pastries served with beer (4-7 LTL); main courses: Cepelinai (or didžkukuliai) su spirgučiais - potato balls with meat (~11 LTL/3,2 EUR); Vėdarai - a sausage, made of a potato stuffed intestine of a pig (~10 LTL/3 EUR); Skilandis - pig stomach stuffed with meat, garlic and cold-smoked; Plokštainis - meal of potatoes(~8-12LTL/2,3-4 EUR); Bulviniai blynai (grated potato pancakes) with different sauces(~8-11 LTL); Virtinukai - curd patties(~10 LTL); Kastinys - soft sour cream butter (3-4 LTL); Šaltnosiukai - dumplings filled with lingonberries; Fish - pike or perch, is often baked whole or stuffed, or made into gefilte fish (various prices); Herring (silkė) - marinated, baked, fried, or served in aspic; soups - Šaltibarščiai (a summer soup based on beets and soured milk), Juka (blood soup) or Cabbage soup flavored with carrots, ham, onions (around 4-6 LTL). Ruginė duona (dark rye bread) is very advisable to try with soups. Lithuanian cuisine is also famous for wide use of wild berries, mushrooms, and cheese. Honey and poppy seeds are commonly used as filling in pastries. For desserts, try Žagarėliai - twisted, thin deep-fried pastries dusted with powdered sugar or Spurgos - a Lithuanian variant of doughnuts, often filled with preserves.
Of course, European, Oriental, French, Italian, Russian and other cuisines are available at Kaunas' restaurants.
Chocolate Museum - Taikos av. 88; An interactive museum at the premises of largest Lithuanian chocolate producer Kraft Foods have been opened to the public since 2004. One could take a look at the cacao seeds, the spadix, the leaves of the cocoa tree, and to be introduced at the tricks of making chocolate. The museum aims to the younger audience and is opened on We 12 PM - 1 AM only. Groups from 10 to 20 people are accepted. Only pre-arranged guided tours are available, please call +370 37 305110 to register.
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