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Saaremaa Island Travel – Food, drink, accommodation
It would be a sin to leave the island without trying the fish. Nowadays the fish is more rare than it used to be when the nets were so full that the fishermen took only the liver out of the codfish and threw the rest back into the sea. The best fish on the island are the smoked eels and flatfish, but you should also try the Baltic herring, sprat or herring that the locals still love. Also, look for codfish, salmon, trout and garfish, also called the “poor man’s eel”.
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Tallinn Restaurants
Estonian cuisine cannot boast great variety and the country has no enormous food markets or history of gourmet cooking, but can find some rather unusual culinary experiences, so everyone keeps eyes open.
Estonian cuisine has actually been fusion for centuries. Definitely, one food that is most representative of Estonian cuisine, it would probably not be pork roast with sauerkraut (too German) or flummery (too archaic), but namely spiced sprats. Spiced spratsi with hot boiled potatoes, sour cream and curd and onion and boiled eggs – this is very Estonian. Eggs and milk products and potatoes have always grown locally in Estonia, and are very tasty too. The recipe of Tallinn sprats is unique and inimitable.
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