INTERESTING MENU ITEMS

Soup (ciorba) is a big part of the diet here. I noticed that the restaurant at my hotel has 7 kinds of soup on the menu. I tried chicken sour soup w/ vegetables, and it was really delicious. I'm not quite sure what makes it sour, but it sure is tasty.Of course I've seen the dreaded "ciorba de burta" on the menu. It is tripe soup, or as my guidebook describes it "cow innards soup". I love the rest of what my guidebook says. It has "the idea alone is enough to send some running". I consider myself one of the running. Tried goulash too -- what better place to try goulash than a place that used to be part of Hungary! Very delicious with a great mixture of meat, gravy, carrots, potatoes, little noodles, etc. Couldn't even fathom a guess at what "saramura de crap" was. I just don't know that I could go in a restaurant and ask someone to bring me crap. Turns out crap is the word for carp, and this term is grilled carp. I think maybe I won't try that.