If you make your way to East Seventh Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square, you'll see East Village chiropractic and right beside it this blue Cyrillic sign.

如果你走到東七街，在第二大道和庫珀廣場之間，你會看到東村脊骨神經療法，旁邊就有這個藍色的西里爾語招牌。

Head down the stairs below it and you'll find handmade Ukrainian comfort food at this treasured hideaway called Stretch Up.

沿著它下面的樓梯往下走，你會在這個名為Stretch Up的珍稀藏身處找到手工製作的烏克蘭舒適食品。

Meet the Chef.

見過廚師。

My name is the Metro Kovalenko, and I ran kitchen.

我叫麥特羅-科瓦連科，是廚房的負責人。

It's stretcher.

這是擔架。

Stretch is not your typical restaurant.

拉伸不是一般的餐廳。

It opened 40 years ago to raise money for ST George Ukrainian Catholic Church.

它在40年前開業，為ST喬治烏克蘭天主教堂籌集資金。

Which is why do Metro or Dema calls it a church kitchen?

這就是為什麼麥德龍或德瑪叫它教堂廚房？

It's run entirely by volunteers who come to make pierogi by hand or in Ukrainian, we say Veronica.

它完全是由志願者經營的，他們來手工製作墩子，或者用烏克蘭語，我們說維羅妮卡。

Yeah, but in some part of Ukraine, they say pirogi.

是的，但在烏克蘭的某些地方，他們說pirogi。

So bosses right.

所以老闆是吧。

Dema starts by making the outer layer.

德瑪先做外層。

I'm making door think I'm using this roller to make circles on.

我讓門以為我是用這個滾筒在上面做圈。

I put feeling on it.

我把感覺放在上面。

Potato, onion, She's butter.

洋芋，洋蔥，她是黃油。

So black pepper e.

所以黑胡椒e。

Guess that's it.

我猜就是這樣。

It's simple, but people say it's delicious.

雖然簡單，但大家都說好吃。

It's beautiful.

真漂亮

E.

E.

Tell you through the best Baranek I ever, ever.

通過最好的Baranek告訴你，我曾經，曾經。

That's about my grandchildren.

那是關於我的孫子。

They never like.

他們從不喜歡。

Like what?

像什麼？

I made that at home.

我在家裡做的。

He said No, they wanted from Lima.

他說不，他們要從利馬來。

That's Helen.

那是海倫

Like the rest of the women around this table.

就像這張桌子旁的其他女人一樣。

She comes by once a week to help make Very Nikki.

她每週來一次，幫助製作《非常尼基》。

That's old woman from the parish of the charge.

那是收費的教區的老太太。

So, yeah, that's like a part of their social activities.

所以，是的，這就像是他們社會活動的一部分。

They like to make kind of the nation's off the charge.

他們喜歡使種全國的關負責。

So by helping here in in the structure Yeah, they do that 20 years.

所以，通過幫助這裡在結構 是的，他們這樣做，20年。

I like working 20 years.

我喜歡工作20年。

Yeah, I am a g e.

是的，我是一個g e。

I like it because this nice quits.

我喜歡它，因為這個好的quits。

Maybe.

也許吧

Nice boss.

好老闆

One steam is done cutting dough.

一蒸就完成了切面團。

The woman helped pinch each dumpling closed is the same.

女人幫著捏著每個餃子合上是一樣的。

Like you have a boyfriend and squeeze you and kiss you pages thin.

就像你有一個男朋友，捏著你，親著你頁薄。

They're boiled for five minutes and set beside a window to dry.

它們被煮了5分鐘，然後放在窗邊晾乾。

Uh, don't let them go.

呃，不要讓他們走。

They have tow package, Hiroki.

弘樹，他們有拖曳裝置

Usually we make like a 2000 off pierogi every Friday, and then they all gone by the next Wednesday.

通常我們每週五都會做2000塊錢的餛飩，然後到下週三就全沒了。

Each plate it's served with caramelized onions and a large dollop of sour cream.

每一盤它都有焦糖洋蔥和一大團酸奶油。

Super comfort food definitely gets its flavor from caramelized onions.

超級舒適的食物絕對來自焦糖洋蔥的味道。

He was right so savory and soft and silky.

他說的沒錯，所以鹹香軟滑。

Maybe.

也許吧

And we can say that about all Ukrainian food.

我們可以說，所有的烏克蘭食品。

It's, ah, little bit like sweet and salty.

這是，啊，有點像甜和鹹。

It's pleasure to eat but you know, needed even take, you know, the goal right south inside.

吃飯很高興，但你知道，需要甚至採取，你知道，目標右南內。

Very, very tasty.

非常，非常好吃。

Along with Ukrainian dumplings, Seema serves three other traditional dishes.

除了烏克蘭餃子，Seema還提供其他三種傳統菜餚。

This is like four most famous Ukrainian dishes.

這就像烏克蘭最著名的四道菜。

That's what people comes here for.

這就是人們來這裡的原因。

They always want to see those parochial bush stuffed cabbage.

他們總想看看那些偏僻的灌木叢裡的白菜。

If you do something else, they I'm gonna say you where is where the stuffed cabbage You're gonna hear it for sure.

如果你做了別的事，他們會說你在哪裡釀成的捲心菜，你一定會聽到的。

Although the kitchen serves mostly churchgoers, it's open to the public to some come just for demons.

雖然廚房的服務對象主要是教堂的信徒，但它對公眾開放，有些人只是為了魔鬼而來。

Daily specials like fish with mushrooms in a cream sauce.

奶油醬蘑菇魚等每日特色菜。

It's like home cooked food.

就像家常菜一樣。

Are you always get like the booth?

你總是得到像攤位？

But then, once you started doing specials just every single day and it all costs no more than $8.

但後來，一旦你開始做特價，只是每天都有，而且都不超過8元。

Eso Our price range is like from $4 for the bush of stuffed cabbage and $5.60 G's.

Eso我們的價格區間就像從4元的包菜叢和5.6元的G。

Okay, have a good day.

好吧，有一個良好的一天。

You hold him.

你抱著他。

Demo left eastern Ukraine six years ago to escape the ongoing conflict there between Ukraine and pro Russian separatists.

六年前，德莫離開烏克蘭東部，以躲避烏克蘭和親俄羅斯分離主義分子之間的持續衝突。

Shortly after arriving in New York, he became a volunteer and head of the kitchen at ST Yah.

到紐約後不久，他就成為ST亞的志願者和廚房負責人。

First, they didn't like me.

首先，他們不喜歡我。

Yeah, well, that the new guy, he's younger, like we're here.

是啊，新來的傢伙，他更年輕，就像我們在這裡。

Like, you know what to do.

就像，你知道該怎麼做。

He do everything wrong.

他做的一切都是錯的。

And, uh, to be honest, I was doing a little bit wrong.

而且，呃，說實話，我做得有點不對。

You know?

你知道嗎？

It took me time to get experience, to learn how to do it.

我需要時間去積累經驗，去學習如何做。

So they like it.

所以他們喜歡。

The door.

那扇門

It was tough for them.

這對他們來說很艱難。

Make it softer.

讓它更柔軟。

Make it softer.

讓它更柔軟。

That's what I heard.

我也是這麼聽說的。

Yeah, and now, now they're my best friends.

是啊，現在，現在他們是我最好的朋友。

Dean is one of many who have found a second home in this little Ukrainian island underground, which fits right in with what stretcher as a place was meant to be.

迪恩是眾多在這個烏克蘭地下小島上找到第二個家的人之一，這正符合擔架這個地方的本意。

Teacher.

老師

It's like an old fashioned Ukrainian work for meeting like a place.

這就像一個老式的烏克蘭工作，因為像一個地方的會議。

But Charles, which is makes sense and somehow even thousands of miles from Ukraine deem is a little bit closer because of strata e.

但查爾斯，這是有道理的，某種程度上，即使從烏克蘭數千英里，認為是一個有點接近，因為地層e。

I feel myself not being home, but I'm doing here something that gave me closer to home and that I told you that means a lot for me because I'm missing home so much mhm.

我覺得自己不在家，但我在這裡做的事情，讓我離家更近，我告訴你，這對我來說意義重大，因為我太想家了，嗯。