Some tips for the christmas market in Budapest

Hi there,

I just want to share some good ideas with you about the food on the christmas market.

These kind of tourist event always means higher prices and a little acting for the mess of tourists. I mean, you can buy typical hungarian foods here as real hungarian ones, although you can get those anytime at any butcher shop in budapest or any town of hungary, at around half price. And most of the butcher shop has own oven, so you do not have to prepare the food yourself at your hotel room :-)
So if you want to save some money, buy a pair of hurka or kolbasz (sausages) at a butcher shop with slice of bread and some sour cucumber salad...that's how it goes.

Do you know what hurka is?
Hurka is a kind like a sausage, but it is a mixture of port meat and rice and spices.
Two type is usuall, the red one is the bloody one, since pork blood added to the mixture (sounds weird, but taste great), and the greyish one is with liver added.
Kolbasz or sausage is also a type of hungarian food, it is like a sausage but fully meat, there are fried, grilled or smoked versions.

Where to find a butcher ?
Almost anywhere, but if you are near the Great Market Hall on the Buda side, or any major marketplace like the one on the Feny square (it is at the underground stop Moszkva ter on the red line, take off and the marketplace is back of the Mammut shopping centre, you can get there by tram no 4,6 from Nyugati train station) or the marketplace on the Lehel square, it is behind the westend city centre, you have to walk around 500meteres, a real 'can not miss' building.