Hungarian kiwis help me out - My nigga is moving to Budapest this week

[AN/ALR56]

So, my friend got a job offer at a Hungarian branch of his company, he's moving this week to Budapest.
Before you recoil in shock and horror at a Brazilian dirtying the land of the Magyars, he's a full blooded Italian, his family moved after WW2 here and their grandchildren are now regretting that decision.


Anyway, he doesn't speak Hungarian (but plans to at least go on a conversational level)
Give me tips I can give him, decent food places, where to buy, where to go, how to not fall into traps, good food that is cheap to buy and make there, etc.

 

[millais]

@Male Idiot should give advice

 

[I hate women (like you)]

Make him pretend he's Polish.

 

[RollingRock2]

>but plans to at least go on a conversational level
Good luck, does he know Hungarian isn't a European language?

 

[latinlover]

Give me tips I can give him, decent food places, where to buy, where to go, how to not fall into traps, good food that is cheap to buy and make there, etc.

Rosszlanyok.hu/beszamolok.hu for his whoremongering needs. Simon's Burger is a cheap Five Guys knockoff and it gives away free food in exchange for positive reviews, the burger is literally so bad it's inedible though, avoid it like the absolute plague unless you want to shit your guts out, I'm serious. If he wants to try good (although in a bit fancier of a presentation than usual) Hungarian food do 'Retek bisztró'. Never go into any restaurant that has hostesses in front. If he misses home, wants to splurge a bit and enjoys fine dining try Essencia, it's quite good and I'm fairly sure the owner and chef Tiago is Brazilian.

Never EVER use the yellow/blue "Euro" ATMs, they are scams.

Never change money on the streets. In fact, you don't have to at all, you can pay by card in 99.99% of places, it's mandated by law. Occasionally they try and lie about the machine being broken to foreigners but you have to be pushy in those cases. Get Wise or Revolut and you're golden, they have the best exchange rates. 'Skrill' is mega based as it has precedent of telling the Hungarian IRS to go fuck themselves and not giving out any info at all, but it's more of a substitute for Paypal than it is for a regular bank account. Don't open an OTP account if you make a bank account, just choose anything else, it's the gayest fucking bank there is.

You also have to be insanely fucking racist, if someone speaks Hungarian and looks Indian, they are gipsies. Don't talk to them in public, don't show the time on your phone when they ask for it, don't give them money, don't start a gay little google translate back and forth with them, just walk with a purpose and ignore it if they try and flag you off in the subway or something. If you do this you have a decent chance of avoiding getting mugged.

If you're going to be taking Taxis, NEVER use anything that isn't Bolt or Főtaxi (the two largest providers) or it'll be a very expensive ride for you, you'll get ripped off, I think Bolt is the best because the app does the calculations and the driver literally has no way of ripping you off.

Also betting that he won't learn Hungarian for shit, I can't fault him for it, but he has to temper his expectations.

Budapest is irrationally expensive, just be prepared for it mentally.

Loads of expat places (Hoff House being one of the better ones), I'd recommend going to them so he won't feel as lonely, Budapest is a bit alienating to foreigners.

 

[Niall Meanwhile]

Anyway, he doesn't speak Hungarian (but plans to at least go on a conversational level)

Good luck, does he know Hungarian isn't a European language?

Also betting that he won't learn Hungarian for shit, I can't fault him for it, but he has to temper his expectations.

I won't dunk on anyone who makes the effort of learning the language of their host country, but have you ever seen what Hungarian looks like in writing? I have been to Budapest only very briefly, but something that stuck with me is hostel dude telling me they had to put numbers to metro stations cos foreigners won't be able to remember their names, let alone pronounce them semi-accurately.

Simon's Burger is a cheap Five Guys knockoff and it gives away free food in exchange for positive reviews, the burger is literally so bad it's inedible though, avoid it like the absolute plague unless you want to shit your guts out, I'm serious

I need to experience this. I'll try my best to remember it. Cheers.

Budapest is irrationally expensive, just be prepared for it mentally.

Depending on whereabouts he's from in Brazil (and based on the Italian ancestry bit I'd guess somewhere in the South), cost of living in Hungary will prolly be lower in comparison.

 

[Mexican Molotov Marauder]

Anyway, he doesn't speak Hungarian (but plans to at least go on a conversational level)

Oh bro, good luck with that. Hungarian language is stupidly complex. Not to mention that it's a completely different language type. Unlike Italian or Portuguese which are Fusional languages, Hungarian is Agglutinative. This means that there are root words and various pre- and suffixes can be added to it to change the words meaning. These morphemes, of course, can stack on each other for added difficulty. The most infamous example is "elszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért." In that giant fucking mess the "szent" in the beginning is the root and EVERYTHING else are multiple affixes glued on top of each other like a fucked up linguistic jenga tower. Obviously this isn't a real word anyone would ever use, it's an example used to show how retarded Hungarian can get. Tell him to temper his expectations, I wholeheartedly wish he manages to learn it as it is a genuinely beautiful language, but man, it won't be easy.

 

[DumbDude43]

Anyway, he doesn't speak Hungarian (but plans to at least go on a conversational level)

hungarian is probably the most difficult european language to learn. it's not romance, it's not germanic, it's not slavic, it's not indo-european at all, it's uralic which makes it completely separate and very alien.

 

[Male Idiot]

You also have to be insanely fucking racist, if someone speaks Hungarian and looks Indian, they are gipsies. Don't talk to them in public, don't show the time on your phone when they ask for it, don't give them money, don't start a gay little google translate back and forth with them, just walk with a purpose and ignore it if they try and flag you off in the subway or something. If you do this you have a decent chance of avoiding getting mugged

This. He needs to treat gypsies like favela ghetto narcs and beware.

Otherwise he should be fine, it isn't more dangerous than Brazil.

Getting to a basic level will likely take a good 5 years of effort. That's just for ordering grocies and shieeet.

But in Budapest he should be fine with English. There are enough tourists that anyone under 50 can at least converse in basic english.

Főtaxi is solid, yeah if he needs to use the airport. But I don't recommend taxying every day.

elszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért.

I think the first word should be "meg" not "el". The word means: Because of their pretenses to be un-de-secrate-able.

 

[Chongqing]

How big of a bag of paprika can you get him?

 

[Male Idiot]

1 kilogram bags are usually sold. Sweet or slightly spicy.

There is the gypsy threads here for more info on the plague.

Budapest is... okay public transport wise. Its generally safe, and usually goes everywhere. It isn't super cheap and isn't fast however.

 

[latinlover]

You can't really go wrong with paprika, I think the best paprika brand readily available in most in grocery stores is the Kalocsai Csemege, 1. osztályú (first grade, there's cheaper, 'second grade' version of the same brand), it comes usually in reasonably small, I think 100g baggies though, not the big kind. I prefer to go for the non-spicy kind personally, it's a lot easier to control the heat with various chiles or other peppers instead- most people in Hungary will buy the sweet kind.

Honestly, I do think Budapest has way above average public transport, I'd dare call it great. I've seen cheaper but it's still very affordable and is the way most people go around, one thing I don't see mentioned very often is that Budapest is also incredibly walkable, if you're a cardio man. The one flaw the Budapest public transport system has is the airport connection (or the lack of it, besides a single bus). I don't think I've ever gone to the airport not in a taxi, it's gonna set you back the equivalent of something like 25-30 bucks or slightly more (perhaps less) depending on where you're going from, but it saves a lot of headache.

Regarding public transport security... It is mostly quite safe, there are a few notable exceptions though. if you're looking for an interactive gorilla exhibition on wheels give bus line 99 and tram line 37 a shot, especially during dusk, you'll have a jolly good time, I promise. The 99 bus is the go to place for filling police quotes, the beat cop fedniggers need to get a few arrests? They literally just step on the bus, point at the first person and there's an about 60% chance they already have a warrant out for their arrests, it's hilarious.

 

[thrasymachus]

I had some good stuff to eat when I was in Budapest years ago. Some kind of creamy chicken dish I don't remember the name of, goose liver with baked apple, goulash of course, and I remember having apple strudle with tokaji aszu somewhere near the castle. Tokaji aszu is a heavenly sweet wine. It's probably expensive though

Hungarian cusine back in Habsburg days was known as some of the best food in Europe. It's reputation has gone down a bit but there's probably real good stuff to be had if you look for it.

Oh and Herz salami is good stuff too.