Russia's favorite dessert - Pastila

Pastila, also known as fruit cake, is a dessert made of dried fruit and berry puree or juice, and is a delicacy in Russia.
Pastila has been known since the fourteenth century. It can be made from three ingredients, the first of which is pureed with the pulp of Russian sour apples and berries (cow berries, mountain berries, raspberries, currants, cranberries, sea buckthorn).

The second important ingredient is honey, which since the 19th century also includes sugar. The third ingredient is the protein, which has been used since the 15th century to give it a white color.

Traditionally, fruit cakes are made in Russian ovens: the heat of the oven is gradually reduced to ensure that the paste made of apple puree, honey, sugar and protein dries evenly. Several layers of initially dried paste are stacked together and then a second drying is carried out in alder wooden boxes in the kiln.

In the former Soviet Union period, a kind of fruit cake in the form of small white strips appeared, and began industrial production and popularization. It tastes more like marshmallows.

The Kolomna Pastry Museum, opened in January 2009 in Kolomna, restores the pre-revolutionary pastry recipes, where visitors can taste and buy pastries made according to ancient recipes.
Pastila is usually served with tea and is delicious.

Here 300 king crabs get fed up

Vladivostok may not be familiar, but Vladivostok certainly is.

It is Russia's Far Eastern frontier region, and Chinese residents can visit it for seven days without a visa.

It takes only 2 hours to fly from Shanghai, closer than to Yunnan! Because it's on the right side of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. It is arguably the most convenient city to experience Russian style.

But I think Vladivostok this place to travel really too boring! But the cheap king crab is worth the trip.

After all, it costs 💰1800 to buy a similar king crab in Hema

This restaurant is called the Crab Factory.
I was surfing the Internet to find a restaurant for a long time, because the city of Vladivostok is close to China, South Korea and Japan. So a lot of Chinese, Koreans, Japanese people travel, and even though the architecture and everything is European, the streets are full of Asian faces.

Tourism can also have a lot of potholes. But the Crab Factory is really nice, otherwise I wouldn't have gone there twice.

King crab is really fresh and big, there are three sizes to choose from, the first time I chose medium, the second time I chose small.
The clerk will bring the live crab to you to see and take pictures of before you cook it. Besides the king crab, the fried rice is also very good.