Adventures in Russian Food #8

STREET MEAT EDITION

Sorry CIEE, but I ate a lot of street meat while in Volgograd. I'm not going to specify exactly how much, but enough to significantly increase the chances of getting food poisoning.

Street Meat #1- Котлет по-Киевски
Chicken Kiev. 25-30 rubles

Just like Shaverma in St. Petersburg, there were kiosks and stands everywhere in Volgograd. You could probably manage to find one on every corner, literally.
Chicken Kiev in this context is a little chunk of chicken, wrapped around either cheese and mushrooms, or just straight up butter. In both varieties, there is a significant amount of butter added.

These guys have a pretty delightful texture. You bite in, and it crunches and squirts much like you'd imagine a gigantic beetle to. They serve them in plastic bags partly because it's impossible to eat one without liquid butter getting everywhere.

Money shot

Street Meat #2- Хачапури
Khachapuri. 30-50 rubles

 

This is apparently a Georgian dish and is basically deep fried bread with an assortment of fillings. I only had one, and it was stuffed with a feta-like cheese. It tastes pretty much like you'd expect, but delicious nonetheless.