7 Most Common Czech Food Specialties

Tourists, especially dieters or vegetarians, do not come to the Czech Republic to experiment its cuisine. There are many things to experience here, but unfortunately food is not one of them. However if you still insist, try these top seven common Czech foods.

1. Dumpling / Svickova knedlik: Czech dumplings, made from either wheat flour or potato, have similar look and taste like heavy white bread. Four or five slices of dumplings are placed on a side of the plate along side beef steak or pork soaked in cream vegetable. A teaspoon of cranberry sauce is added on top for better presentation. This meal usually come with Sauerkraut, sour garbage.

2. Fruit Dumpling / Ovocny knedliky: These round-shaped dumplings are filled with a variety of fruit: peach, apricot, or plump and served as a dessert or even main course. Some Czech sprinkle cacao and pour butter over the dumpling creating a deliciously strange taste: sweet, sour and fat all at the same time. This meal is very economical and common during the summer as fruits are abundant in the gardens.

3. Beef Goulas: The Hungarians claimed they invented this beef-stew with tender beef simmered in this mixture of thick onion and paprika soup. But who cares? The Czech eat it a lot and so will you.

4. Fried cheese with tartar sauce / Smazeny syr: Deep-fried cheese covered in flour, egg and breadcrumbs and served with a side salad or red cabbage and fried potatoes. Czech Republic is no France and can not brag too much about their cheese cuisine, but you should try this snack if you can. The melting bite of cheese in your mouth will complete your unhealthy and fatty food experiment in this country. According to Prague.tv, the best Smazeny syr restaurant is Restaurace Doba - Nam. Miru, Prague 2; Tel: +420 222 322 022.

5. Soup / Polevky: Czech usually eat soup during lunch or after being wasted for consuming too much beer and alcohol. (*) This typical soup is made of beef and vegetable.

6. Fried Potatoes / Bramboraky: This simple but yummy snack is a national Belorussian dish. It found it way to Poland, and the Polish called it theirfood. Somehow this heavenly fried potato meal traveled westward to the Czech Republic, and guess what, became Czech food. To make a basic bramboraky is very easy. First you skin and shred the potatoes, then dump in flour and eggs, then fry the entire mixture with a little bit of oil.

7. Sausage: You can spot these fast-food sausage (hotdog) stands every where in Prague The variety of sausages and the cheap prices make them must-have for budget travelers. If you are hotdog lovers from America, you will not be able to resist this much better quality street-food. (*) The claim is not always true.

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