PragueBuzz!

A friend visited Prague and took the nicest food pictures. Too nice I behold them at one instance and pinch my butt out of jealousy for not being able to do the same

 
Czech Chicken at Hotel              Czech Pepa Cheese at Hotel
restaurant “U Divadlo”               restaurant “U Divadlo”

 
Ham and Potatao Pancakes       Beef Goulash
with sauerkraut

 
Ham and flour dumpling with     Potato dumpling with Sauerkraut
spinach

 
Boar steak and bacon                Grilled meat
dumpling

 
Risotto                             Black Squid with rice

Bread goulash

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Meat-lovers and curious diners should not miss this simple five-table Bosnian-owned restaurant at Zizkov. They offer freshly grilled cevapi (cevapcici), minced Bosnian-style sausages. For 100 CZK, you’ll get a 175 gr of popping hot meat stuffed in pocket bread (Bosnian sarma). You can also get half portion for 50 CZK. Another variation of cevapi, spicy cevapi, is called Sis Cevap. The meat is made into longer-shaped sausage, similar to typical sausages you see in Czech restaurants. However, I don’t think the Sis Cevap are
as spicy as they are in Bosnia. Real meat-lovers can try  a combo plate of cevapi and sis cevap, Mamut, which comes in various sizes.

The cevapi is served exactly like in Sarajevo, with only onion slices dotted along the plate and no tomatoes seen in wall pictures. The proper way to savor every bite from this delicious meal is to use your hands, tearing a piece of sarma bread, picking the sausage and feeling the juiciness in your mouth and the grease on your fingers. Yummy!

And you know how they really eat this meal in Bosnia? They wash it down with plain, thick white yogurt instead of beer, soda as people here in Czech do quite often. 

Tasty, healthy salads are surprisingly cheap as well for only 35 CZK a bowl.

Cevapis are everyday dish but Bosnian pies (burek, meat pies; prompirusa, potato pies; sirnica, cheese pies) comes only on Thursday on daily menu. There is a little bit of something for sweet-toothers too. For 40 CZK, you can indulge yourself with Bosnian’s extra-sweet baklava and apple cakes.

Bosna Grill. Restaurace, Balkánská kuchyně. Havlíčkovo náměstí 4 Praha 3 13000.
Metro: (Line C) Hlavní Nádraží. Tram: 05, 09, 26 (Stop: Lipanská). [Map]
Website: Bosna Grill
Hours: 10 to 23

Where to Buy Rice Cookers in Prague

How can one make real Asian dishes without first cooking a quality bowl of rice? And how can one make a quality bowl of rice with a rice cooker? During my first year in this country, I found myself burning over three pots, four plastic utensils, countless of holed rice bags because I forgot to stand by the stove and keep vigilant eyes of my future meals, check water and stir the rice. Even when the rice was done, I would be very lucky if it was cooked properly. Indian curry chicken, Japanese sushi, Chinese kungpao and Vietnamese fried veggie had no chance to turn into real dishes because of their messy rice portion.

I desperately searched many department stores in Prague for a rice cooker in a year, but the closest ones I found were steam pots to make bread and dumplings. Upon discovering this, I turned to my boyfriend and said “Are you guys kidding me? You have pots for making your stupid bread and not my precious rice?” The Vietnamese supermarket at Sapa sells plenty of steam rice cookers, but the prices were around 2000 CZK and without warranty. My typical Asian mother, worrying about my food supply, tries to convince me to let her ship a small rice cooker from the US. Tempted, I almost let her do it before realizing the faulty of this solution: US appliances don’t work with European electric sockets. For this to work, I will need a converter and an adaptor as well.

I did occasionally eat rice by the boxes as Czech and expats do, I bought 10-kg bag of rice from the Vietnamese Sapa market. But worms started getting into the bags because I got lazy cooking my rice, and because nobody wanted to eat nasty burned rice cooked in regular pots.

“Can a girl eat rice with some dignity?” Sometimes I wonder.

And an African dude from Senegal answered my secret prayer. He invited my boyfriend and I over to his new flat for a dinner party eating Senegali curry chicken. I forgot to ask how he made the rice because I was ashamed that some African managed to cook rice better than an Asian who grew up with the damn thing.

Had had enough with his pots and utensils being burned in addition to a smelly kitchen; my boyfriend had bought me a real rice cooker from Daart for only 900 CZK. Yoohoo!  I cooked the first rice on Christmas and ate it with only soy sauce, cucumber and chilly pepper.

Oh holly molly cow coming out of Czech empty heaven, the simple meal was goooooooooood.

On the website, click on Maly dom�c� spot?ebi?e-> Parn� hrnce (Small Home Appliance -> Steam pot)

Note:  The pot might not be available at every store. Call them first to ask. We bought this rice cooker in the store at Zlicin. Czech employees might not know what you are referring to so don’t expect their help too much. Czechs might not know such electric pots for cooking rice exist. My roommate kept complaining that her parents like to eat rice but that they burned it a lot and did not know to cook it properly. Upon seeing our rice cooker, she immediately purchased the same one for her parent’s Christmas present.

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Where can you find good and cheap pizza place in down town of Prague?

What prices beat 1 CZK?

Every Saturday and Sunday, Al Capone Pizza offers the 2nd pizza of the same price range for only 1 CZK. A regular pizza costs from 90 to 134 CZK. Don’t think that by paying 1 crown, you will get a cold, shitty pizza warmed by microwave; the delicious pizzas are popping hot right from the oven. I like the restaurant’s underground setting with unpainted bricked wall and dimmed atmosphere. 

I ate there happily twice.

Address: Pizzeria Al Capone - Na Porici 1933/36 (Tram stop: Billa Labut. Metro B: Namesti Republiky or Florence and then walk for about 7 minutes)
Website: www.pizzeriaalcapone.cz