A foreign visit to Romania shows local food that isn’t traditional. Burgers, kebabs, laiden with fatty and sugary sauces. Eventually, we fall upon mici (miches? Miki?), but they come with a side…
Category: opinion
Scientist casts doubt on KFC “Chicken”
A US based scientist compared “chicken” from three major fast food retailers, and found that the chicken from KFC looked the least like real meat. It seems that KFC has the worst…
Romania is not safe from fake news online
Today is April 1st. I would expect to see more fake news than usual. However, I see the same, or even less. We had a couple of prank ideas that we thought…
Will Trump’s son open a golf course in Cluj?
Romania borders a few countries, the most important borders are with Moldova, Serbia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Hungary. Now, many Romanians consider Moldova a cultural extension of Romania, so we’ll cut that out. …
Is Romania safe to visit?
We normally won’t comment on things like Adonis Live. He is not in Cluj, and his channel brings out his story very clearly, in clear English. Do we really have anything to…
Romania’s pollution is getting worse, and so is obesity
When we read the weather reports, noticed that the air quality in Cluj-Napoca was going down. Then we read a blog for a Romanian travel expert who confirmed our fears. For obesity,…
The genius system of Romanian queueing
If you immigrated to Cluj in the past couple of years, you might be disappointed that the immigration service is in a cold and wet garage, and that you wait outside the…
Mind Days, review
To think of Mind Days, one should compare it to other film festivals in Cluj. I remember the 2021 edition of TIFF film festival. There was an autobiographical film where the filmmaker…
100 Romanians I never heard of
I once saw, “Top 100 Români de Pretutindeni” translated as “Top 100 Romanians from everywhere.” The translation appears to come from a self-published author who happened to get on that list. But…
ice hazard warning for walking, biking, driving in Cluj
This January has been much snowier than the previous five years. While frost could easily be found in 2023-2024, and below freezing temperatures have been common, this year seems to have more…