Tourists can expect excellent fresh fish dishes on menus.
Examples are pike, trout, perch, whitefish, salmon and Baltic herring. All are in abundance most of the year. One should also try reindeer meat, smoked or in other forms. Regional dishes include kalakukko , a kind of fish and pork pie, baked in a rye flour crust, and karjalan piirakat , a pasty of rye flour stuffed with rice pudding or potato and eaten with egg butter. Various kinds of thick soups are also popular.