15 products from Vladivostok that cannot be found anywhere else

Vladivostok is a city whose name even 15 years ago made many wrinkle their brows in fruitless attempts to recall the school geography course. “This is between Tokyo and Beijing,” the inhabitants of one of the main cities of the Far East said sarcastically. However, we will not indulge in discussions about the unique nature of Primorye and the beauty of the sea port city. Wday.ru has collected a whole list of products and dishes that are common for residents of Vladivostok, and for people from the western part of the country – a real exotic.

Chocolate with sea salt, kelp and sea urchin

One of the most common souvenirs brought from Vladivostok. Coarse sea salt is really added to the chocolate. If you just gnaw on the tiles, you hardly feel it. And if you put a cage of chocolate on your tongue and let it slowly dissolve, you can feel all the shades of taste. In addition, there is chocolate with kelp, sesame, sea urchin extract – very unusual. Chinese tourists buy up such chocolate in kilograms and take it to their homeland.

Deep-fried peanuts with hot peppers

This snack is brought to Vladivostok by residents of neighboring China. Deep-fried spicy chili mixed with peanuts and sesame seeds, generously flavored with Chinese spices. Such exotic crackers. All this is packed in a jar – for one they ask 45-50 rubles. In St. Petersburg, for example, we managed to find such a delicacy in just one place, and the bank costs 120 rubles.

Classic Vladivostok fast food, steamed pies made from yeast dough stuffed with cabbage, meat, onions and spices. Yes, they also sell them in Moscow and St. Petersburg. But in a glamorous form. A huge pie, which is enough to fill up to the dump, costs 70 rubles in Vladivostok, it is fragrant, amazingly tasty, and even warms up perfectly. Western counterparts pyan-se are three times less, the taste is quite neutral, the dough is much thinner, and they cost 250 rubles.

In some places, you can find this Korean milk drink in small cans. But in Vladivostok it is sold in 20 liter bottles, and you can find it in every supermarket. It costs only 30-XNUMX rubles more than the usual cola. And the taste is simply unforgettable: something like carbonated milk, only tastier. “One and a half liters of sugar clouds” – these are the reviews about the drink.

Yes, almost every city has its own “Bird’s milk” – sweets made from soufflés in chocolate. However, in “Primorskie” poorly dissolved sugar never crunches, and the soufflé itself is made not on gelatin, but on agar-agar. This makes sweets not only tasty, but also healthy! Even vegans can eat them fearlessly.

So here they call not only garden pests that devour potatoes, but also a variety of sea reptiles. Shrimp Bear is the older brother of the shrimp. Here they are called Medvedki in Vladivostok. They are much larger than shrimp. And, according to the deepest conviction of the inhabitants of Primorye, it is tastier. “I climbed into the refrigerator, woke up sitting on the floor, elbow-deep in bears. I ate a kilogram, I don’t remember how, ”is a typical story.

There are so many dried seafood in Vladivostok that the eyes run wide. Here are squids, for example – dried, dried, rings, shavings, tentacles, with pepper. Sweet and salty, delicious taste. And not tough, like plastic, which is often the case with packaged squid, but perfectly tender. And also spicy dried pollock, dried flounder and catfish – this is not the spotted monster that is sold here, but a fish that looks like a huge smelt. Delicious indescribable.

Or vinaigrette with seaweed. Or even herring. Or with herring caviar. It sounds dubious, but the creators of the Far Eastern cuisine brand claim that it is deliciously delicious. And crabs are eaten here as soon as they are not: they put them in Olivier, boil them whole and season with lemon juice. They also cook okroshka with mussel stew, and freshly caught scallops are eaten alive.

Or “Golden” mayonnaise. The sauce is originally from Korea, it is sold in two- or even three-liter plastic cans. He does not have time to deteriorate, such a sauce is eaten very quickly. It is thick, almost like butter, delicate, without any foreign tastes and odors. But for some reason they don’t bring him to the west. At least massively.

What is sold in the western part of the country under this name is just a pitiful fake. Japanese coffee, though freeze-dried, smells like a fairy tale. Even connoisseurs of exclusively natural coffee don’t spit. Also, by the way, one of the most popular souvenirs brought from Vladivostok.

Dry cream “Sopio Krima” and “New Milky”

Very funny names, right? Regular powdered milk is rarely bought here. Korean dry cream is much more interesting. They instantly dissolve without any lumps and make any drink better. And the porridge cooked with such cream turns out to be simply amazing. Pancakes, dough for pies, cottage cheese casseroles – wherever they are not added. A universal thing.

The most real, from fermented soybeans. It is brought from South Korea. Many people think that this sauce is much better than even the popular Japanese ones. And it certainly tastes better than cheap soy sauce from the mass market. True, we cannot give its name – we did not learn Korean, and on the translation label it is simply “soy sauce”. It seems that the word “divine” has been omitted, but this is not certain. They also sell Japanese oyster sauce, especially for seafood dishes. It’s also a very tasty thing.

This is a Japanese snack for healthy food advocates. It somehow resembles a large triangular roll. In fact, this is a rice pie with different fillings: with chicken, with tuna, with vegetables. Onigiri is wrapped in nori – a leaf of dried seaweed. Definitely healthier than croissants or corner store buns.

“What are they eating ?!” – this is how residents of St. Petersburg and Moscow usually react to remarks about dishes made from bracken fern. Yes, they still eat! Young fern is harvested, salted, dried, and then warm salads with meat are prepared from it. It is somewhat reminiscent of the arrows of garlic, but tastier.

Smelt is considered the signature fish of St. Petersburg. But they catch her in the Far East too. The main difference is the river smelt in St. Petersburg, and the sea smelt in the Far East. Therefore, its taste is also different. Residents of Vladivostok, of course, believe that in favor of the sea. And they both smell the same – fresh cucumbers.