I’ve just finished my dinner at the same place that I had one last night – I thought I would be luckier with my cepelinai quest if I have my dinner early. Just to refresh your memory, Cepelinai is a large zepellin-shaped potato dish with meat on the inside. Well, I was lucky tonight, so I had some Cepelinai for dinner and boy, did they stuff me really well. They taste like a comibination of a large gnocchi and the Chinese-Indonesian “Bacang” (pronounced: Baa-chung). Bacang is rice with stuffed meat and cooked inside some pandan leaves. I also had some “Šaltibarščiai” as a starter (Cold Beetroot Soup). I think I’m hooked! The first time I tasted the cold beetroot soup was when I was in Riga, and it was really suitable for mid-summer soup. So I may cook some when I’m back in Adelaide.
It seems that there are some culinary similarities between Latvia and Lithuania – both have cold beetroot soup, and both have an affinity with kefir. I see people drinking kefir when they go to restaurants, either in Riga or in Vilnius. I didn’t observe that in Tallinn, but maybe it is also prevalent there?
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