Zdravo Zdravo! and welcome back to Belgrade
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so it's only morning in Belgrade on a Friday morning and how I got up this
morning is a mystery that will remain unsolved for the rest of my life I think
it's freezing and if you're new welcome I'm David I'm from the UK originally and
I've been traveling and working online full-time for the last three and a half
years I'm currently living and working in Belgrade for a few months this is my
second time here I was here last year in the summer when it was considerably
warmer if you want to check out those videos you can check out the link up
above today we're gonna check out something in Belgrade which I think when
anyone googles Belgrade this thing comes up yes we're gonna try and find
some Burek, I don't know how I'm going to eat at this time
morning but let's go
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okay I'm standing on the Belgrade sign at the big roundabout and before we
start can I just say how wonderful it is to be back in Belgrade it's just such an
underrated city you know if you are looking for somewhere in terms of long
term travel or if you're a digital nomad and you're looking for somewhere to stay
long-term in Europe that's affordable Belgrade is fantastic the people are so
welcoming you know forget that thing about Eastern
European people are blunt and direct, that's rubbish you know people in Belgrade are
fantastically welcoming and hospitable I'm loving it here I'm beyond happy so on
that note we're going to continue the happiness by having some food it's just
down there
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I love the trams/streetcars in Belgrade they are absolutely beautiful
there are so many different types of them as well
older ones more modern ones the place I'm going is just over there next to the
streetcar/tram and I've read that it's the best place to go in Belgrade for
Burek, behind the camera I'm doing quote marks because often when we talk
about the best place to go often it is something that you know
you've seen on TripAdvisor it's not necessarily the best place so if you're
from Belgrade what would be great put down in the comments what your favorite
place to get break is thank you! as you can see there is a bit of a queue it's
not too bad when you go to bakeries especially in the morning in Belgrade
you will find a line or a queue depending if you do American English or
British English but you know it's not too bad lovely let's have a look now as
well as adding your suggestions down in the comments through our best places to
go in Belgrade for Burek there's a very important point I would like you to
remember I'm a foreigner okay and if you're from Belgrade or from Serbia you
might be thinking well who is this English idiot coming to Belgrade
thinking he knows about Burek you know what that's a valid point because what I
see foreigners go to England talking about traditional English dishes and
getting everything wrong it really frustrates me and I can do research
until I'm blue in the face but there will always be something wrong or I'll
miss something so you know what let's turn that into a positive if you are
from Belgrade and you've got an opinion about but aircore more information to
add put that down in the comments as well cuz I'm sure that will add to the
viewers experience enough talking let's eat
can I get some yoghurt aswell? Yes just one. Hvala! I have Burek! I'm so happy, right let's find somewhere to sit
down on a bench that isn't covered in bird shit and eat and guess what I've
got with it everyone I've got yogurt a lot of you
tell me you must have yogurt with Burek so that's what I've done so
let's take the gloves off and chuck them over there and let's open the burek OMG to
the max look right you know what I'm gonna do first I'm gonna eat it first
cuz if you're serving you know everything about Burek but if you
don't know anything about burek we'll talk about it after okay right we have
burek wonderful by the way there were two lines in that bakery so one of them
one of them was for burek the other one was for other bakery items so I have
burek with cheese it's like a filo pastry kind of thing it's quite heavy it
feels quite heavy and it's piping hot so it's beautiful this this morning you
know freezing cold right we've got a bit of a wreck let's eat
holy moly holy crap burek is the best it's like cottage
cheese all right and the pastry is crispy it's beautiful I mean it's quite
light I was anticipating that it would be quite quite weighty you know because
it's heavy but actually when you eat it it feels like so it's a bit of a
contradiction and the cheese is wonderful
it's like cottage cheese that I'll get in the UK you know the pastry is similar
to like samosa type filo pastry you know apologies a meeting with my mouth full
mmm this is wonderful I'm speechless finally break has happened people right
this is where you Serbians come in so as far as I'm aware there are many
different types of but you can get them filled with cheese like this meat
vegetables there's also one in that place I believe a pizza burek it's
kind of I think it's kind of like a novelty one it's not considered a
traditional buttock and as I said before it's quite common throughout the Balkans
Burak has history in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire back in the day very
common and it comes in lots of different varieties throughout the Balkans and
it's considered very much a staple breakfast dish to be honest it feels
like something that you know I wouldn't eat this every day because it would be
quite tough because once you when you do eat a lot of it it does get quite
filling you know so it's very similar in my mind to something like fish and chips
in England where people say that it yo people in England eat that all the time
but in reality it's not something that is eaten on a daily basis no I don't see
people walking around Belgrade having a burek for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Yoghurt is the other thing you have got have yoghurt with it
another thing I'll say about this pastry is it kind of tastes like pancakes you
know and when I had cevapi last year the bread of that had kind of the
same texture and taste it's stunning
yeah absolute pancake if you know what I mean okay people that is the bakery the
details and the address will be down in the description if you would like to go
for somebody you'll be glad to know that I had my yogurts with my Burek it was
a nice little accompaniment I think to wash it down with beautiful just normal
generic natural yoghurt I think now the thing I want to say about Serbian food
I've only had as an English person who previously didn't know much about Serbia
whatsoever I didn't know that Serbian food was so legendary and I think when
we think about food cuisine around the world we think of Mexican food Italian
food Japanese food having that legendary stated Serbian food needs to have that
legendary say hopefully these videos will go some way to achieving that
because it's hearty it's filling it's delicious I'm loving it and hopefully
going forward we'll be able to experience some more wonderful Serbian
food
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we're heading back now to where I'm staying we're approaching, well we're in
Savamala area now that road up there on the right by Idea the convenience
store that's why I stayed last time just up there
and this time I'm kind of centra lvery central very close to the main shopping
street belgrade fortress kind of Dorcol area Studenski Park that's where we're going, and over to the left is Belgrade
waterfront there's a lot of development going on there lots of new buildings
being bought, built sorry apartment buildings that kind of thing
so there's definitely lot of development in Belgrade it's not all you know these
older style buildings a lot of people say I've heard it before
communist buildings they're not communist buildings what are you talking
about now that's where I stayed last time that hostel there and I'm a great
appreciator if that's a word oh it's not a word of architecture and this might look like
just like you know regular boring building but actually a lot of the
architecture in Belgrade is very rustic looking slightly dilapidated in places
but I think that adds to the charm of it and in the next video we're going to be
heading to Dorcal area which is absolutely stunning in terms of
architecture absolutely love it so make sure you subscribe if you want to check
out that video so you'll get that in there somewhere
see what I mean balconies brickwork graffiti yes that might be vandalism but
I appreciate graffiti I think it was great plus you have these buildings that
are more you know generic just rectangular concrete buildings birth
again I think it's part of the charm I feel great I'm under the bridge down
that goes over to Novi Beograd or new Belgrade and Zemun to the video
there last time
graffiti yes they smile at like a bit of a hellhole that I'm walking through but
actually I think it's quite pretty
so we're almost home and I wanted this video to purely be about burek hence
why we're not going anywhere else so hopefully this is giving you a bit of
insight into some of some more of the food that Serbia has to offer we'll be
exploring some more in upcoming videos so what's for watching I don't go home
do some work now and warm up because I'm freezing me bollocks off and I'll see
you next time thanks for watching catch you later
thankyou, goodbye!