After World War II (1939-1945), Czech food was strongly influenced by the region’s communist period, the late 1940s through the 1980s. (Communism is a political and economic system in which the government owns most things, like land and businesses, and aims to share them fairly among its citizens.) During the communist period, Czech recipes became much simpler and had fewer ingredients, which is still the case today. Many Czech dishes include a mix of meat, potatoes and a form of bread or dumplings. I am a pescatarian (I eat fish but not meat), so I am unable to try a lot of traditional Czech foods, but I am constantly on the hunt for more! Prague also has a lot of Vietnamese food, as many people from Vietnam immigrated here in the late 1900s. I absolutely love Vietnamese food, so that has been fun to eat, too.
One of my favorite foods I have tried here is called škubánky s mákem! Some people also call it mohnnudel, which is technically the Austrian name. Many dishes in the Czech Republic have similar versions in neighboring countries, like Austria. Mohnnudel is made mostly of potatoes, with potato "noodles" that are topped with poppyseeds, sugar and butter.
