Restaurants in Miskolc

Eating in Hungary has been less than expected. We anticipated great Hungarian food in the form of delicious breads, goulash, chicken paprikas, etc. Much to our dismay, the most common foods here in Miskolc have been hamburgers and pizza. Kentucky Fried Chicken and Chinese Buffets are also very popular.  On the positive side, we have never had a better hamburger than the ones here and the pizza is also very good.  But unless you are a young missionary, one can only eat so many pizzas and hamburgers without feeling the overload.  

So -- we started a quest to find a better restaurant.  Enter - trip advisor!  Why didn't we think of that sooner?  We found "Creppy" - the #1 restaurant in Miskolc.  On our morning walk, we took a big detour from our usual route and ended up literally turning the corner and there it was at the end of a secluded narrow street.   So we went there last night and oh wow!  It was delicious!  Worth a trip to Hungary - for anyone who might be interested.   It certainly gives the crepe place in Vegas a run for their money.  Hands down Creppy has them beat! 

over stuffed with deliciously
seasoned chicken and crispy
fresh veggies on the side

fried palancsinta (crepe) stuffed
with chicken

Sweet crepe - raspberry with
ice cream on the side - this is
a one half portion

Last week we took our landlord and his wife to dinner.  Andras has been a great landlord.  His response to any request we have had (and they have been fairly numerous because this house had been vacant for so many years) has been almost immediate.  Our refrigerator stopped working and the next morning he showed up with a temporary small fridge and took the old one to get repaired.  Unfortunately, it cost too much to repair, so he showed up with a brand new fridge!  He and Jon spent well over an hour changing the door so that it would open the right way.  His wife had come with him (this was the first time to meet her) and when we realized that we were not wanted or needed to help with the refrigerator, I invited her into the living room to chat.  You need to understand how awkward this is when she doesn't speak English and I speak extremely limited Hungarian.  Short conversations are not too bad, but sitting in the same room for an hour is definitely very stressful and awkward, I think we were both surprised at what were were able to communicate to each other.  I actually learned quite a bit about her and her family.  I think we could even be friends if we were able to communicate better.  We invited them to dinner and then asked the missionaries to go with us to translate - which made the evening much more enjoyable and relaxing.  We discussed the church a little, but hope to be able to invite them again for more in depth discussions about the church.

The past couple weeks we have had the opportunity to go to teaching appointments with the missionaries a few times.  Today we met with a member of the 7th Day Adventist church who said she was interested in learning about the church.  As it turned out, I think she was really more interested in telling us about her church.  I finally asked her why she wanted to learn about our church and she said that she had heard bad things about the church and wanted to find out for herself what it was really all about.  A good start, but even though she read the entire Book of Mormon several years ago, she is not willing to read it again and to pray to find out if it is true.  She still wants to attend English class and hopefully we planted a seed that will grow into her wanting to learn even more.  I can't even imagine the roller coaster ride that the young missionaries are on.  They get so excited to have someone to teach and then they react the way this lady did, or they cancel at the last minute like one of the teachings that we were going to attend on Friday.  I admire these young missionaries so much for their continual positive attitudes and desire to bring others to Christ.