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Budapest, Hungary
6 dishes to eat in Budapest, what is in them, and where they belong.
In Hungary this is a soup, not a stew — beef, potato and a great deal of paprika in broth.
Deep-fried dough with sour cream and grated cheese, from a market or bath-side stall.
Sweet dough wound on a spit, rolled in sugar and baked over coals until it caramelises.
Sweet and hot, smoked and fresh — the defining Hungarian ingredient, sold by grade at the market hall.
A fiery river-fish soup, heavy with paprika, traditionally cooked in a kettle over open fire.
The sweet botrytised wine of Tokaj, plus serious dry reds from Villány and Eger.
