5 Great Hungarian Products

via Wikipedia Commons

Breaking: Hungary doesn’t just make great films. As millions of travellers and tourists know, Hungary also has a lot of goods on offer that are peerless…which is to say, distinctly Hungarian. Have a look below for some of the wonderful things you can buy once you are lucky enough to cross the border into Hungary.

5. Tokaj Aszú: Perhaps the ‘wine of kings’ is virtually unknown in places like America because they have no tradition of royalty, or due to the fact that dessert wines don’t figure into many contemporary menus. Or perhaps it is the price that is prohibitive, a modest 3 puttonyos bottle could set you back close to a hundred dollars at a wine shop. But in Hungary, Tokaj Aszú – made from grapes that have attained a ‘noble rot ‘ on the vine – is available relatively inexpensively by the bottle – or by the glass at any of any upscale bar.

4. Tisza Trainers: Retro-hip has never been cooler in Budapest, especially to a generation that is discovering kitsch and didn’t have to endure the repression of the Soviet-imposed socialist regime. This re-fangled brand of shoe updates the omnipresent state-owned Tisza trainer, to fantastic results. It is only a matter of time before Millennial shoe fetishists catch on.

3. Szatmári plumb jam. As we posted before, this distinctly Hungarian delicacy, made from Hungarian ‘Nemtudom’ or, ‘I Don’t Know’ plumbs, is so dense and packed with bitter sweetness it could pass as chocolate. Hungarians are rightly proud of this jam, and it turns out, so are the Japanese, who have developed a taste for the product as an import.

2. Mangalica pork: believe the hype. The rescue of this species of wooly pig from near extinction and its ascension as a sought-after gourmet foodstuff is already well documented, so much so that it has become popular to bash the trendy pig. But there is a good reason mangalica it has found its way onto the menus of the world’s most esteemed restaurants: the meat is beautifully marbled and fantastically rich. That’ll do, pig.

1. Le Parfum perfumes: Using scents of derived from such whimsical sources as absinthe and smoky lapsang souchong tea, Zsolt Zólyomi’s perfumes, which he creates for his own line as well as already existing brands, are inventive and exclusive. But expect no Eastern European budget shopping here: prices of his artisan perfumes run close to $ 150 for a 100-ml size bottle. The price of  Le Parfum may make you dizzy, but the scent will make you swoon.

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