the sweets!

One of the most wonderful and charming things about Hungary are their sweets, or in Hungarian: sütemény.  Perhaps you can imagine the problem with having such great sweets.  They are readily available, they are inexpensive, and they are very very tasty.  So what I'm saying is that it's difficult to hold back.  Luckily, I've become pretty serious about running here, so that offsets any weight gain issues, I hope.

Just below my apartment at the Baha'i Centre, there is a bakery with some pastries, and they have one thing called an olasz túrós pita, which to my best translation is an italian cheese pie.  But it's square.  And moist and so satisfying, and only costs about a dollar.  I've been having a few too many of those...

Check out this display case in one of the many local cukrászdák (confectionary shops)

 

 The sweets you see here range in price from about 100 forint to 300 forint, or about 50 cents to $1.50.  I had the third one from the right side, on the bottom row on the day I took this picture. I had asked for the most Hungarian thing.  It was called a nostalgia creamy.  Delicious!  And this is a rare shop in which smoking is prohibited.  Also, this is my favourite shop because she makes the best cappuccino at the lowest price I've found, just over a dollar.  She puts a generous dollop of real cream in it too.

All my raving about this place, which is right around the corner from the American Corner where I am right now, has seduced me into another visit.  Less than a 2 minute walk.  I better take the long, scenic route home to burn off some of those delicious calories.  Jó étvágyat! (Bon appetite!)