Copenhagen Street food tour 🇩🇰 | (Smørrebrød, Fiskerikadeller, Danish Pastry & More in Denmark)

In this video... Oh wow, that's a big skin on it. We are eating our way through Copenhagen, Denmark. This is like a little hors d'oeuvre thing. From street sweets... My hands are chocolatey mouse. To gluttonous hot dogs. You get it on this paper tray and then you kind of fight for it. This city has it all. Everything here is very vast, very big, very wide. It is both Deanna and my first time here, so let's find out if this S-tier city can live up to the hype or if it falls short on the foodie side. All right, we're in the heart of Copenhagen and the city is popping and we're gonna take you on a street food tour. I hope we find a good amount of things but it looks promising, so let's go and eat. Our first stop brings us into the heart of the city where we start with a quite famous pastry which we will consume Copenhagen style right at the water which is such a big part of this city. If you guys know me, you know that I love going to bakeries in every country, so we had to go to a bakery while on this trip and I feel like as an American you know danishes, right? Danish the pastry. I think they're called Spandauer here? Spandauer. So we've decided to get a Spandauer vanilla filling one. It looks very good. It has a nice chunky filling. It looks like almonds on top and then a nice icing glaze on here. And how nice is this like inner water area here? There's so many boats going by from little canoes to like tour boats. Very cute. Yes, a lot of people sunbathing. A lot of people getting into the water but this is it. It looks very good. A nice little fluffy pastry. I'm gonna give it a try. It's like the classic danish... We just call them danishes but it has a nice flaky dough. That's eggy custard in there but very good. Like an egg tart? Yeah, kind of like an egg tart. Yeah, exactly like an egg tart. This is awesome. This was 30 danish kroner. I'm still trying to figure out the currency exchange because right now I'm used to euros. And dollars and it just feels like fake money right now. We're just throwing numbers out. It's a good start. This looks so epic with this awesome brick building behind you. The green roofs, the boats flying by. Everything here feels very vast, very big, very wide. This is very sweet with the glazing here, sugar glazing. The highlight for me definitely the custard. Yeah. The party boat scene here is big too. Especially it's Friday afternoon, almost evening. Very similar to what's going on in the Netherlands. You know, in every city that has like a lot of water. After a great start we are making our way through the city and one thing becomes very apparent to me. As we're in the heart of the city here, I think the first impression is Copenhagen feels busy to me. There are so many pedestrians outside. Everybody seems to be walking fast. The bicycles are, I don't know, in a hurry to go home or something. It might be because it is a Friday afternoon and I'm sure it is busier than during the week. So the weekend just started. But yeah, that's my first impression. It is beautiful. But if I have to sum it up in one word, busy. We make it over to this entire block that features a fresh fruit market and plenty of food and drinking options. And we are here to try our next item. A dish that a lot of you told us we have to try when coming to Denmark. So we come to this market section here and Copenhagen has a lot of them. It's this indoor-outdoor food market and it's very nice to go around and eat and drink. But we came here for fish. And we came to a place called Boutique Fisk and I think it's a fish specialty shop. And we got this thing here. Fiskefrikadelle. So it's a fish meatball. Fish cake, basically meatball. And it comes on this rye bread. And rye bread in Denmark, a very popular choice of bread apparently. Then we have like a tartar remoulade sauce on the side. Some pickled onions. And you squeeze a little bit of lemon on top of that. It looks almost doughy. Dude, it's so thick and harder than I expected. That's what she said. There we go, there we go. A bit of remoulade on top. Maybe a couple of these onions. The fish kind of tastes like cornbread-y almost. Like it's like a thicker texture. I like it a lot. I love it. It's not super apparent immediately that you're eating fish on the texture. But it has this typical like fish cake. It's very fluffy for fish cake. It's not like a crab cake where it's a lot of crab meat. Like, you know, it's more of this like airy, maybe filled or minced. And dude, I love it with the tartar sauce and a little bit of pickled onions. You took my piece. Very nice. To me, the highlight is the tartar sauce with the pickled onion. And I wonder if the fish cake is a bit of an excuse to just shove that stuff into you. And what a great excuse it was. We are moving on and this city looks and feels great. Whenever we see this many people choosing bicycles as transportation, it is a sign of great city planning. The next thing we are trying is Denmark's traditional dish. And it turns out it is more than just a slice of bread. Arriving at our next place. Nice little daily takeaway. Oh, awesome. Thank you. All right. Next thing on the list is going to be this smødebrød. Whenever I was looking up a Danish food, this is everywhere. Like, the Danish love their rye bread, but then they love these open-faced sandwiches. And so far, we've been in the city for not too long and we've seen them everywhere. From like markets to just like little street stalls to restaurants full of this open-faced sandwich. It looks so fancy. This is like a little hors d'oeuvre thing. So this one, it comes with a flat, thin rye bread slice. And then we have eggs and shrimp as the main protein on here. But it also comes with, it looks like, cashew nuts, sliced cucumber, tomato, and greens. Yeah. Don't drop any. Wow. Check out the bite. Please tell me this is fantastic. Wow. There's a nice mayonnaise on there too. That's really good. It better be because this little tiny thing here costs 85 Danish crowns, which is about 12 euros. And once you put that in there, I couldn't actually believe how small this is. Literally a small, a very small slice of bread, but then chopped very nicely. What do you think? Tastes expensive. I like the nuts in there. You get a crunch all of a sudden. The nuts are a nice crunch to it. Because the bread is kind of soft itself. Yeah. And you would think the crabs are maybe what makes it so expensive, but there were a lot of variations, like just avocado or roast beef, and they were all the same price. So I feel like if I had one of these, it would be better than like binging on way more food. So this tastes very elaborate. It looks like it. And please tell me if you are from Denmark, this cannot be an everyday thing, can it? This has to be. I see it everywhere. There's no way it's not normal if it's not everywhere in the city, right? Or is it just for tourists? It also took like 10 minutes to make, which was interesting. I can finish that if you want. I'll finish it. Don't get us wrong. It tastes amazing, but please let us know how often you buy these and if these prices are normal. The shop even had a huge Smørrebrød manual. And since we are on Denmark's traditional dishes, we had to try Denmark's number one street food dish next. And for this one, we had to venture out of the city center for a bit, but the public transportation of Copenhagen was great as well. For our next item, we came out to the outskirts a little bit more. The public transport here is amazing so far. Not the cheapest in the world, but amazingly convenient. We're out here for basically Denmark's national street food dish. And the best one is supposed to be here on the outskirts where we are. Let's see if it's there. The internet told me so. Yes. Harry's Place. The best hot dog in the world. Wow. If that's not local, then I don't know. Did you know that Denmark is the number one consumer in hot dogs globally per capita? Per capita. I think on average, they eat 60 hot dogs per year, per person. Dang, that's more than one a month. Every six days, you eat a hot dog. That's nice. That's more than one a week. These are the nice dogs. They're pretty big. He asked if we wanted them light or dark, so we got dark. They've been sitting on a little longer. Yeah, and he told us a bit about the history. Apparently, in prison, the people were fed hot dogs a lot in Denmark, but the sausages were all different sizes. And the prisoners started fighting for the biggest sausages. And then this guy who started this place, I guess Harry, not sure, wanted to make a sausage that's one and a half portions. And then he came up with this thing, basically big sausages. So we're going to try it. Yeah, try it. Oh, wow. That's a big skin on it. I know exactly what this reminds me of. That is crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. Nice. What does it remind you of? The Krakauer. This is way more like a Krakauer than it is a bratwurst in Germany. There's also plenty of different condiments here. We have this tartar sauce. This looks like a sweet mustard. He said this is how a lot of the locals eat it. It's like deconstructed and you kind of put it at yourself. You have roasted onions, onions, sauce, ketchup, mustard, and you just kind of put it all in there. Show the skills. Yeah. This is called the Big Borge. Big Borge. Big Borrow. And you get it on this paper tray and then you kind of fight for it. He says. Put it all together. Look at this. This might be the highlight of the day so far. I really like it. Also tartar sauce is very non-American, right? Yeah. That was kind of awesome and we're getting a bit full but we are far from being done. Back in the city, we walk off the meat sweats through the King's Garden. Yes, Denmark is a monarchy with royal castles, royal fish, lion statues, real lions, and royally cut tree lights. Very nice. We more or less just stumbled upon this humongous park which is beautiful with this castle there. This is the Rosenborg Castle which is a Danish Renaissance castle from the Renaissance period. It is known to have a rich collection of royal artifacts in there. One of the most visited places in Denmark apparently. So many bikers everywhere. Look at this. Very cool. One thing that I really like so far is that the city is definitely not made for cars. There are some cars but the streets are like dominated by pedestrians and by bicycles. By car like that just has to be annoying. And after these gluttonous glizzies, we were forced to balance our stomachs with a sweet afternoon treat. Thank you. Bye-bye. Another thing I was supposed to try is a flødeboller. I don't know if I'm saying that right but it's pretty much a chocolate-covered marshmallow. We went into the place called Spresen and they had so many different types. I decided to go with a coffee one. She said that was pretty popular. It's supposed to be a marshmallow inside. It looks like a Dickmann's. Yeah. I'm gonna try it. See if it's like filled with anything. Oh, it's creamy. That looks pretty nice. That is a way softer marshmallow than I expected. Just melt in there. Wow. My hands are so messy. Dude, my hands are chocolatey mess. You know in Germany the Dickmann's, it's a little bit like that. It's just a fancy version. It's a fancy Dickmann's. The cream on the inside is not fully white. It is a little colored. Yeah, and it's also not like super marshmallow-y. Not like the sticky s'mores marshmallow-y. It's way lighter and fluffier and creamier. So this is a nut and marzipan version of it. Yeah, that looks awesome. It looks very nice. It has nuts on the top. Oh, it's whiter. Whiter in there. The marzipan is in the bottom. The bottom is double layered. Yeah. And there's marzipan in there. Dark chocolate. Milk chocolate and nuts. Yeah, milk chocolate and just nuts on the top. I think I prefer this one. At least I shoved it in properly. I think the marzipan one is better. Because it makes it heavier. It makes it hardier. There's a bit more oomph to it. A little bit more on the bottom. And it's very nice. So in the end, these are pretty nice. How much were they? 20 Danish Krones each. That was really good. I'm happy. I always say one thing that the perfect city needs is a 7-Eleven. And Denmark has 7-Elevens. I just never been in one here. Let's see if they're as good as in other parts of the world. It's not quite the Thai 7-Eleven, but it has drinks and snacks. So it's better than no 7-Eleven. Fun drink time. Sunjoy Pineapple and Coconut from 7-Eleven. How is it? Oh my god, it's amazing. Oh my god, it tastes like a pina colada. So maybe the 7-Eleven is worth it after. It smells over here like a pina colada. That's so dangerous. I was looking at the sugar content. Oh, baby, there's alcohol in there. No, there's not. This is so typical. So many green places in this city. Little alleys of trees and stuff. Kind of like it. It's growing on me a little bit, the city. This is growing on me a lot. I love this. Yeah. When I look at this thing, I think this is a little mall. And maybe we can find some licorice in there. Yes, Denmark loves their candy. Especially their licorice. And people recommend Lakritz by Bülow. This brand has a nice shop in the Magasin du Nord. And after trying some flavors, we decided to buy an entire jar. So they all come in these like balls. And that's the brand Lakritz by Bülow. Yeah. These are green because this is... Sour strawberry. Sour strawberry licorice balls. We asked for the popular ones. He said this one's popular. So let's give it a try. I did not know licorice is this big of a deal in Denmark. But there were so many stores that offer it. Yeah. This being one of the better ones, I'm curious. So these are super hard and super green. Oh. Oh my god. I love it. That's candy. Is that licorice at all? I don't know. That tastes way better than any of the licorice I've tried. So this tastes everything but licorice. So it's amazing. It's almost like a sour green apple on the outside and a strawberry on the inside. Very good. I'm surprised by how good these are. This feels like it's licorice for the people who don't like licorice, which is us. Copenhagen, turning out to be a fairly expensive city. This thing here, 270 grams. Guess how much this is. I'll give you three seconds. Three, two, one. This was 21 euros for this little thing. So very good. But also not cheap. It definitely feels like you pay for how nice this city is. But for 21 euros, you can also get a fatty, heavy meal, which we are doing for dinner. But just walking through the city, you stumble upon waterfronts and amazing architecture left and right. We're passing this massive palace. This is the Christianborg Palace. This is where the Danish parliament resides inside. So this is like the political parliament center here. And plenty of bikers to work. Look at these biking park plots, the biking parking lot. All the parliament politicians come by bike and also a lot of skaters here right in front of it. It looks even way more massive from this side. Look how small Diana is. It's like this U-shape, nice aesthetics, brown, white windows. And we have this big statue in front of it. It kind of reminds me of the main one in Vienna a little bit. What's the one called? Hof Palace. The one in Vienna, the big one with the statue. This feels a bit like it. Enough with the tour guide or the sweet dishes. It is time to end the day with some proper fatty food coma food. Yeah, time for some American influence. Big on the building. Gasoline grill. Apparently iconic. We came to a place called Gasoline Burger. And apparently this is one of the best burgers in all of Denmark. It became a chain, but it started out as like a gas station burger. Hence the name Gasoline Burger. We got it right here. It actually looks very, very nice. Is this a smash patty? It's like between a smash and not. But it's pretty thick and I like it. There's pickles on there, tomato, lettuce and a lot of sauce. This is the gasoline sauce. They have their homemade sauce as well. So check this thing out. It looks very, very good. Big, big chunk of lettuce. We'll see. Super crunchy first bite. A couple of layers of green lettuce in there. Iceberg lettuce. This is a very saucy burger. And the sauce, the gasoline sauce, is something within the realm of a cocktail sauce, I think. It is one of the most crunchy burgers I've ever bitten into. Yeah, there's a lot of lettuce on there. Very crunchy, very fresh. And the meat tastes nice as well. Good patty, good bun. Overall, not too greasy. A lot of ingredients. Very, very good burger. Came with fries. And we chose the gasoline sauce on the side. The fries are good too. They're very potatoey. Feel a bit more real, you know. Less processed than the ones at McDonald's. But I'm not sure if I can get fully behind the gasoline sauce. But overall, very, very satisfying. And look what it came with. Faxe Kondi. This is apparently the most popular soda in Denmark. But zero calories. Or as they say here, zero caloria. Tastes like a carbonated Sprite. But less sweet. Isn't Sprite always carbonated? Yeah, but like not super, super carbonated. All right, I want to give this a try. It looks pretty good. The bun is pretty good. Not too dry, but a nice bun that holds its form. And what I like is they have a very small menu. It's just like the original burger. And there's a cheeseburger. And like a chicken version and a vegan version, that's it. That's quite a satisfying burger. I would give it a 7.5 out of 10. This was also 175 Danish crowns. So something like 24-ish euros. I think we've spent 100 euros today on the street food here in Copenhagen. It was a little more expensive than we anticipated, but we got to try a lot of things. Oh, and by the way, there were no hotel rooms under $300 in the city. So camping ground it is. Welcome to a humble abode. Camping 2.0. Yes. So this was our street food tour here in Copenhagen. Actually, I'm super impressed by the city. A lot of the food was very, very good. I wish a little cheaper, but very, very good. Yeah, it was really good. And I was pleasantly surprised to try more of Denmark. Because beforehand, I only had Danish candy. Yeah, this was actually our first time in Copenhagen. What's your, how do you like Denmark so far? Denmark. Awesome. I feel like it's very clean. It's very modern. It's easy to get around via public transportation. Felt super safe. Yeah, it had like a mix of like old architecture and new architecture. So I liked that. We also came on the nicest time of the year, the nicest day. So I feel like we're a little biased. Yeah. And as you can see, we're on a campground again. So if you followed us through our journey across Germany, we are camping people now. Second time. This is our second time. We got infected by the camping virus and now we're doing it with campers. Also, Copenhagen, way too expensive when it comes to hotels. If you book last minute like we did, yes. Yes. So we're going to continue further north, actually, through Scandinavia. The next stop is going to be Sweden. If you want to see that, tune back in next week. Yeah. Thanks for watching. See ya. Bye. Sweden! Ready? Sweden! Ayyy! We're in it! Sweden!