Residents of Yekaterinburg came to the defense of Udmurt perepechi.

      Residents of Yekaterinburg in the comments under a post on the Telegram channel @e1_news reacted skeptically to the idea of a Ural chef changing the recipe of the national Udmurt pastry popular throughout the Urals — perepechi.

      The "celebrity" chef from Yekaterinburg Mikhail Arakelov (Khmeli-Suneli, James, Steak House, Grand Buffet) shared a recipe for Asian-style perepechi on the show "Poedem, poyedim!" (12+) on the NTV channel.

      Together with the program's host, Italian Federico Arnaldi, he prepared perepechi in the style of gyoza (the Japanese equivalent of dumplings — note by Uralweb). As a result, they ended up with a dish of pan-Asian cuisine, and, moreover, it was not baked in an oven.

      However, subscribers of the Telegram channel @e1_news, which published the news along with the recipe, met the new "perepechi" with hostility. It turned out that Yekaterinburg residents know perfectly well what perepechi are, and the dish the chefs produced has little in common with the baked goods native to Udmurtia.

      "Why call them perepechi, they're not them at all," one of @e1_news's subscribers — expressing the opinion of the majority of commenters — said.