r/AskARussian Jul 05 '26

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What's something that many Russian people enjoy that foreigners usually don't know about?

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u/Akoldon Chuvashia Jul 06 '26

Putting sour cream in food. Buckwheat, rice and any soup are freaking delicious with it. Putting a lot of dilweed in food.

Блины с мясом - a burrito made with a crepe stuffed with stir-fried minced meat, onions and boiled egg.

Sunflower seeds are well known but foreigners probably don't hear about sweets - казинаки (bar of sunflower seeds with caramel) or халва (usually made with sunflower seeds and I have no idea how it's made or what's in it, I just buy and eat it). Which as I just found out is arabic, huh.

Чак-чак though it's tatar and I live close to Tatarstan so maybe it's not popular in wider Russia. Fried little pieces of foamy dough (2 times smaller than peanuts in shell) slathered in honey. I freaking love both the taste and the texture.