[00:00:00] Hello everyone. This is Austin Bellino, the host of the Educational Podcast Culture to Grow where you get to travel the world and learn about different cultures from the comfort of your home. Maybe your car, or if you're half asleep, you're bed.
Hello everyone. This is your host, Austin Bellino, and I am thrilled to have you join me on this new adventure. And I promise this was not planned, but once again, we will be focusing on food yummy. Now, I have whipped up something extraordinary for us today as we embark on a culinary adventure around the world.
But before we dive into these mouthwatering dishes, I want to take a moment to give a special shout out to the incredible creations from those closest to me, from the kitchens of my family.
[00:01:00] Here are some of my favorites. My wife's amazing meat, seafood dumplings. My mother's Tasty, Sloppy Joe, my dad's juicy turkey, and my sister's delicious mac and cheese.
I need to stop before I cut this episode short, so let's shift our focus to another delightful topic. The world of tasty creations.
First stop. Nepal!
My name is Shritika and I'm from Kathmandu, Nepal. Momo, it was like, from my understanding, it was believed to be started from, like, it was originated from Tibet, but it is like, uh, popular and delicious food in Nepal.
It is basically a dumplings made up of like stuffed vegetables or meat filings inside dough and it can be like, uh, steamed as well. But nowadays we can find like fried Momo as well and semi fried, which we call Kothey Momo.
[00:02:00] And we like serve it with pickle, tomato pickle and it's like, uh, delicious. I love all kinds of Momo, but if I had to choose one, so I would say a Momo, that is semi fried.
Hello, my name is Alexandra, but everyone calls me Ola. Definitely Red Soup. It's called Red Borscht. It's, it's quite, it's with a beet root. I'm not really sure if you've heard of it. And dumpling pierogi, that's for sure with we have them with cabbage and some of the people preferred them during Christmas Eve with potatoes, but it's more common to eat them with potatoes during normal days during the year but on Christmas Eve, definitely dumplings with cabbage and mushrooms.
Hello everyone. I am Yewon and some of my friends also call me by Erin. I am from Korea. I would choose Kimbap, which is a Korean roll dish made with seaweed rice and vegetables.
It [00:03:00] could even go with meat inside. It really depends on what you wanna put in it, but the basic ingredients are seaweed and rice, so it's basically, it kind of looks like sushi, but it's not sushi cause it doesn't have fish in it. And you basically have this flat piece of seaweed. It kind of looks like paper and then you put some rice over it and then some veggies and you just roll it. And it's like an easy meal to eat because you don't have to like, you don't have to cut it with an, I mean you have to cut it with a knife before you eat it, but when, at the moment when you eat it, you just have to put it in like this in your mouth, like a snack, if that makes sense with your chopsticks.
And a lot of Korean people eat this for like their packed lunch when they go to a picnic. And I remember when I was in grade school, my mom liked to give pack me kimbap because it's like a, one of the most famous food to
[00:04:00] bring on picnics. I like mine with ham in it. I mean, it's one of the most basic ingredients and I don't like it to be too much because I don't want to eat too heavy.
Hello everyone. I hope you're all doing well. I'm Esraa Hamdy I'm from Egypt, and now I told you about one or maybe two of the most famous dishes here in Egypt. The first one is Kushari. It's a very popular dish here in Egypt. It consists of rice, lentils onions, garlic, chickpeas, and tomato sauce. Actually, it has four sources of carbohydrate, which made a very popular here in Egypt, especially in lunch.
And the second dish, which is also very popular here, is. Mulukhiya Or it's about leaves of root and plants it prepared by
[00:05:00] chopping leaves with garlic and coconut in an animal stock such as chicken, beef, or even rabbit, and serve by rice or bread. Actually, both of these dishes are very popular here in Egypt.
And that brings us to the end of our journey through diverse cultures, including Nepal, Poland, South Korea, and Egypt. I hope the exploration of food from different parts of the world will help you discover how it has the remarkable ability to bridge gaps, breakdown barriers, and bring us closer together. Thank you for joining me on this flavorful adventure, and remember to keep exploring, trying new dishes, and sharing your own culinary creations with your friends and family.
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[00:06:00] Take care everyone, and bye-bye!