Baking ARMENIAN GATA Bread + HUGE Feast in Armenia’s Little Switzerland | Dilijan, Armenia

okay my turn to make the gotta chose itthere’s awesome[Music]good morning everyone I hope you’re alldoing great this is David Hoffman fromDavid’s been here beautiful delete JohnArmenia guys I am in alright now I justwoke up I’m staying here at the Donovanguesthouse this place is awesome we arein the middle of a national park and asyou can see it’s really really green outhere lots of beautiful mountains and yettoday what we’re doing is we’re gonnahave a simple breakfast right here atthe guesthouse and then after this we’regonna go explore the National Parkwe’re nieces and wildlife hopefully seesome deer then we’re gonna see amonastery and I’m gonna finish it off ata restaurant that does like traditionalold-school cooking methods so they makefood like the old school way here inArmenia I’m super excited looking guysthis style right here hey buddy goodbeautiful this guesthouse I slept like ababy last night the food is deliciousI’m about to have an Armenian coffeewhich is like really really thickmorning how are you Armenian coffee ohyeah super strong guys just very thickoh now it’s better before it was liketoo much Cheers we got wash we’d lovedus so we got a lavash which is the breadwe have some eggs some cheese some honeyvery simple breakfast well I can’t waitlet’s eat can read my stuff like an eggsandwich guys look we got the lab usthrow the egg on top right crumblycheese a little bit all over it that’show you just roll it up right maybe it’stoo much so maybe I put is the wholehours it’s good yeah okay she did yeahwow this is an Armenian egg sandwichthis isn’t about the lavash cuz i was sotasty love a cheese sour cream it’sdifferent this is not like this likestraight organic sour cream simplefilling and delicious more lavaoh thanks my friend so you don’t needBravo coffee know how brothers breakfastif every professor breakfastthe acts like you up you see them nowit’s that typical simpler menialbreakfast so this is how it works superstrong coffee and nice egg sandwich ourmeeting style hmm I’ll be strong what’sgood actually love this tough breakfastvery simple but filling me some sourcream so the Armenian coffee is verythick right so when you finish it at thevery bottom it was like mmm it’s likevery very thick and you flip it over andshe’s gonna read my fortune now thankyou so much amazing my dear come thankyou so it’s 9 rooms here right latinrooms and her cottage yeah okay just soyou guys know when you’re coming throughthe time you’re staying herealright let’s go cold morning John tosee some deals the Legion is a cozycorner in Northeast of Romania and manycall it Little Switzerland the fourththen reclusive town is home to manyArmenian famous are these composers willmakeand it features also some traditionalArmenian architecture you can come hereto relax to do hiking mountain bikingand just having fresh here usually inthe morning you go for work so you’regonna love the later on I’m excited I’mreally excited for this to be thisbeautiful scenery Wow we literally keeprunning into cows here we just turned aright and went up the mountain and it’slike non-stop cows we actually saw apuppy and we saw like one is this thinganother 25 calluses well got some copssome big cows be really careful going uphere because they just like literallyjust jump like no but there was one guythere I guess like yeah give it thestick with the stick and here are thered deers WowFletcher Fletcher and David pleasure wefor today we’re gonna stop and have alittle bit of coffee these uh thesegentlemen invited us to some deliciousArmenian coffee it’s not that badactually this is pretty good this withthe cold weather beautiful scenery oh ifI was a smoker and have a big cigaretteI’m laughing right now do want me toread your fortuneno no earlier when you come to the reddeer breeding center what you could dohere is basically feed the deer spermoutside this massive cagewe got exclusive access today to enterthe cage we’re gonna keep a distancefrom the deer though and why why isthere a second cage within this actuallythere’s a second cage because this is abreeding periodand they separate heat the stronger malefrom the ottawa’s from the younger onesnot to let him to be more aggressiveright here he’s going up and down thecage basically like intimidating theother three males so you have smallmales inside you have this big guy andyou could tell his antlers his antlersare huge and you have a few smaller onesaround here so as you see we have thisone dominant male he’s the only oneoutside of that smaller cage so it’s himand all these female and then whathappens here is that in the breedingcenter the goal is to breed them andthen re release them into the wild andyou know we are in the National Park sothey literally just release them righthere right I mean that’s it okay great Imean let’s go feed them can we do thatyeah how close they are it literallyjust came out to us because we have thefood they all came up to us okay oh mygosh nice oh my gosh it took a rippingapart so this is what you have to dowhen you come here you have to feed thedeer[Laughter][Music][Music]hey thank you thank you so much thankyouawesome so we’re going next anotherhidden treasure in the Legion forest oldschool monastery like a thousand yearsor something yeah okay I can’t waitthis monster is a little different theother monsters we visited this one’sactually hidden within the forest soit’s a hidden monastery to get here it’sonly like 15 minutes from daily John asyou can see beautiful road leading up tothe monastery you really feel like thisis like you know in the middle ofnowheresuper secluded together with the othermonasteries around the Legion it was oneof the educational and spiritual centersof this area and it represents a veryiconic architectural style of medievalperiod so we made it here to themonasteries you can see it’s right overhere and we’re actually gonna be doing amaster class right now a master class inGod yet meaning basically master classeshere is that when they teach us how tomake a certain dish helloLizabeth son society[Laughter]these two ladies they’re gonna show ushow to make the gutter gotta my god it’sa simple sweet feeling this is blueberryand this is apricot and time so what isgonna work is they’re gonna make one ofeach of these right so they’re gonnamake one of each then I’m gonna make oneI don’t know what you’re I’m gonna makeactually I might make the blueberry onethat’s the one I like the most I mean Ijust love blueberry I’m all about itokay my turn to make the gotta have toget 100 grams so I’m gonna make above100 grams so see hopefully make like ameatball right similar all right okayso I’ll put this in the middle mm-hmmand then literally like that and thenhow do you close it so you put it inlike this right thank you[Music]is that good close it there’s awesomeroll it that’s from perfect and thenwhat will happen now all right Oh followme guysthat’s how they to go stop doing okaybabyspc international oh this is how youdecorate it in series how this how youmake some of it some opinions habits ornot I’m doing a face okay so then I justburn it I know what am i doingalright guys so after 10 minutes ofcooking the gotta it is ready and Igotta say the experience here is reallyamazing everybody super friendly the twoladies here they’re like my my Armeniangrandmother’s for help and and here wego they gotta so they caught like apizza right like triangles and then wehave right here like a blueberry jamwhoa it looks good and then we also havetwo teas and it’s called the raw sheepyou said the raw sheep right it’s therough sheep I’ve never really seen thisit’s uh it’s a fruit from here and theymade some tea out of it so I’m gonna tryot mmm minty so I put mint Roshi verynice very like and here we go[Music]so good mmm that’s sweetlove with blueberries I’m saying theblueberries a little different it’s notblueberries then we know it’s a littledifferent comes from this area inArmenia soft dough in the middle popsthis little crunchy inside you have theblueberry open it up you see thatblueberry wow I love the jam though outin the jam it’s a mustsomeone lies a little dick t’v becauseit’s so sweet and the biggest differencehere is that this is actually very smallcompared to the other ones I’ve triedthey’re usually like really really biglike that he was like the sweetest rightI’ve had in my life thank you thank youthank you thank you so much thank you somuch hey man thank you thank you have agood one all right let’s go explore themonastery by the way this monster wasreconstructed by dr. Sheikh Sultan fromUnited Arab Emirates he was here headmired the side and decided to supportall the reconstruction of this complexnow we go to refectory this is one ofthe best survivesrefractories from 13th century inArmenia this is very old photo Wow so hesaw like like really old run-down and hedecided to you know bring his money andfix it up Wow wow what a differencewhat a difference the factory is dininghall for the monks who lived in thismonastery and it is built and includes12 columns around that symbolized 12apostles of Jesus Christ did this insideit’s totally or did you know 13thcentury constructionbeautiful spot and I love I love thetables by the way this is like traditionArmenian craftsmanship right and whosits in the middle like the head monthcuz can sit in here whenever they havespecial celebrations so this is the seatfor the patriarch we are about to enterthe oldest church in this complex thiscomplex consists of four churchesrefectory prayer halls Hajj cars and nowright now we’re standing at the oldestchurch of this complex this is st.Gregory the illuminator Church 10thcentury narthex this is first hole andthen we are entering the church weseparate Gnostics from the church okaythis is the entrance to the church whichis cross shape dome church like typicalfor a minyan architecture and actuallyharborton is one of those examples ofconic examples o army and architecturein Middle Ageswell this church is tiny guys tinyChurch there’s two benches here thealtar and that’s it really old 10thcentury us we got here while it thiswalls these stones huge stones the lightcoming in I mean this is like real likemaybe people you could really feel itreally dark or anything as the candleand the light this is the ruins of achurch here the ruins are the engines ofthe church huge pillars these area weopen doing the reconstruction and as thechurch guys then a beautiful Church 10thcentury by the way David this is even11th century we have inscription on thewall so is the 11th century Churchthere’s four churches here correct yesand there’s also something reallyspecialyour time is an ancient one a tree thatthey planted here during the same timeperiod to a thousand yes tradition saysthat they planted the walnut tree whenthey started the construction of themonastery so it is as old as monasterymany churches in hermia they have walnuttrees next to them because walnut hasability to take lightning on it as manychurches had wooden roof so next to thechurches they plant eight who own thetrees to protect the church from thelightning so an imagined in severalyears ago this walnut tree finally hadits mission to take the lightening on itso it’s half of it just burned downwhen was that yeah whoaso I got stopped by lightning thousandyears after was planted yeah that’spretty easy and that’s it guys we sawtwo of the churches here at themonastery this for they’re all a littledifferent you know some of them dateback in 11th century 1270 13th centuryright you have to see the walnut treeand now you know why it’s so significantover a thousand years old it was plantedduring the construction of the monasterynow let’s go to lunchwhere we’re going we are going back tothe Dijon town and we’re going to trysome local traditional accusing you’regoing to love it yeah yesalright guys after like a 10-minuteDrive we’re back in the town and we’regoing to eat at a restaurant here Ithink it’s called tava we’re going torestaurant tellthey are in the same building there areall really good ones you will see thefirst floor but I guess it’s better whenwe go upstairs so you will love theatmosphere here you will love people inhereand you’re gonna love the food wow thisis nice this is different I like thisplace very funky love the colorsbeautiful this is so coolit’s more like a feels like more likevintage modern guys Wow beautiful spotreally nice oh manand they got lot of wine I sees a lot ofwine oh yeah oh my god what is this likecheese boards cook cheese got me it’sgot breadthis is appetizer set some localcheese’s they did with their own spicesyou see Buster my right in there seedifferent kind of meat snacks yeah thisis this is lushthis one is already cool Wow already iscoming close foolsbraised everything is coming radiothat’s a really really big brick ovenyes that’s hugeyes while the aroma here the smell justlike hits you how delicious terminationissue oh my god I can’t wait so it’s tworestaurants downstairs got lost upstairsyou have Java Java is more like avintage restaurants downstairs so lushand tava have different menus differentvibes and the food is awesome like thefood looks incrediblewell I can’t wait to eat all this foodlet’s go let’s go this is no joke guysthis islook at this piece we have so manydifferent things we have right here thebruschetta we have the cheese breadboard in the middle then we have I thinkthis is couscous with mushrooms overhere we have chicken with what is thatso tomatoes onion peppers you have sometwo different sauces one of them spicyyes over here we have Armenian noodlestell me Armenian or and pork belly yeahwhat so guys I’m gonna start off withthe bruschetta and just try one of thesereally all looks so beautiful it’s likea delicate that I get a little play herethis one has some meat on top this thepieceand see a fruity Jam the saltiness witha sweet inbred phenomenal bravery gotsome cheese so this is cheeseWow this cheese looks good I thinkthere’s peppers in it right red pepperalways the bread here in Armenia is kingthere’s almost like a mine chill I’mgonna get some of this couscousright there couscous get some mushrooms[Music]this is tree mushrooms it’s very localcouscous see smaller grains well alittle fruity no got some proof there’salmost week right here we’re trying themushrooms it’s amazing as I see threemushroom grows on treesmy god so now we’re gonna get some ofthe pork and I’m also gonna get some ofthe noodles you know this is sodifferent you know Armenian noodles alittle bit of a twist on it right thenwe’re also get some chicken I thinkunder the chicken there’s some beanswe’re gonna get a tomato and this saucethe sauce like a spicy sauce you saidit’s a little stuffed this little hot becareful and they always give us you knowsome lettuce and this is like to makeyourself a sandwich if you want to makeyourself a little pork bellyalmost like Korea you know get some ofthe sauce put it inside[Music]my first house is not a spicy love thecrunch began a little lettuce wrap alldelicious wow that’s an amazing portright here we have chicken charging himwith some of that sauce to give me spicyall dayand then here we have Armenian noodleswhoa hey that’s so different that’s likeit almost feels like noodles in Chinabut these are a little piece like alittle more oily you know no sausage isgood oil delicious wow that’s so goodthe food is like comfort food really maygive you a home all the best ingredientssuper fresh all organic and basically myfavorite I don’t know the noodles butyou know what haven’t even tried thebeans here so let me see that a lotbeansnice and mushy big that’s goodthere’s like real good food Wowso right here they have like fourdifferent cheeses and Street cheese thisis like the typical ones very salty andthis one is almost like a almost like aparmesan but a little creamier softerthat’s so goodthis meal has been epic so good soorganic everything is so delicious myfavorite two things though I have to sayis the mushrooms you’re so good andearthy and delicious also the the beansreally good as well I mean everything isamazing but I think those two myfavorite thing they just keep going andkeep eating them yeah so it’s not justwhat we did today which was epic andthen we started off the breakfast at thebed-and-breakfast right Demming went tosee the deers so the Red Deer amazingbeautiful animal we fed them after thatwent to the monastery store themonastery another really historicalmonastery you have to visit I mean thisis what our meeting is about you knowlots of history here over 2,000 years ofyou know almost Christianity here andyeah I mean the DeJohn is amazing it’sdefinitely a gem what people don’t knowabout it so I recommend you coming whenyou go to Armenia if you love this videothumbs up comment below scar to mychannel and we’ll see the next route toadventure in Armenia[Music]