Sampling 10 Weirdest Hasidic Foods with Frieda Vizel, Brooklyn Tour Guide

Today we are joining Frieda Vizel, a former member of the Satmar Hasidic community who conducts tours of Hasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn. In this video she goes looking for the most exotic foods available in this Jewish neighborhood, or as she puts it, foods that have more of an acquired taste.

She tries fargliverta fish zaft, yapchik, galareta, kishka, herring and even a cake that in English translates to: "rag cake". It’s an unusual food tour on the hunt for the food that will most challenge the faint of heart!

1) 1:10 - Kuchinya [Hungarian] / Fargliverte Fish Zaft [Yiddish] / Fish Jelly 

2) 1:50 - Grieven / Chicken Scraps 

3) 2:38 - Yapchik / Overnight Potato Kugel with Meat 

4) 3:05 Galareta or P’tcha / Calves Foot Jelly 

5) 4:10 Shmaltz Herring with Kichel 

6 & 7) 6:23 Chollent and Kishka / Everything Bean Stew and Stuffed Intestines 

8) 7:31 Browne Eyer / Overnight Hardboiled Chollent Eggs 

9) 8:10 Falche Fish / Fake Fish, Imitation Fish made of Chicken 

10) 9:00 Shmata Cake / Rag Cake