We're Jordan and Emily, after traveling the world for over 170 days we've realized
that we absolutely love exploring a new place through their food from Khao soi in Thailand
to Pani Puri in India or even raw herring in the Netherlands
it's actually not bad trying the local cuisine
always ends up being the best thing we do so today we're exploring beautiful
Belgrade and trying to find the best possible food Serbia has to offer
so we have heard that we absolutely must start our day with a traditional Serbian breakfast
called Burek looks like there's going to be a shop just around the corner
i feel so naughty this lovely restaurant has their chairs still out so we're just gonna enjoy
our breakfast here we've made ourselves a bit of a list for today's food tour because we are
so rushed on time here in Serbia i don't know why but i didn't really have that higher expectations
for Serbian food until i started making this list and then last night it just blew out of
proportions because we had Ćevapi for the first time and it is the best thing i've ever eaten
but starting the traditional way with Burek and yogurt we went for the cheese break
which looks incredible it is like this flaky dough jam-packed with cheese oh my god it smells so good
whoa look at all of those layers
to wash it down we've heard you need a yogurt drink apparently you need to shake this up
quite well and the idea is that you're meant to take a sip of this take a bite of your break and
enjoy them together but i think i'm going to try them separately first really worried about not
shaking it enough i've seen so many people say foreigners don't do this i want to be a local
the outside can you hear that it's so crispy oh my god
that is the best way to start your day undeniable it's 190 Serbian dinna which is about 1.90
Australian the outside is kind of oily but still crispy and crunchy and that inside
dough is just so soft and delicious and then the cheese has a little bit of a punch to it
i've heard a lot of Serbians say that this is the perfect hangover cure
and i can see why it's like oily but hearty warming comforting
look at all that juice look how greasy that's so good no wonder people say it's a hangover cure
it's just a super drinkable yogurt like it's
i don't know what else to say it's delicious but it's very thin very drinkable consistency
i feel like this is where i become ratatouille when he eats the cheese and the strawberries
together and they blend and explode into beautiful flavours combine one flavour with another
and something new was created
it does completely change it surely not well it's yogurt it becomes this really creamy
consistency that has that almost tartness from like a Greek yogurt you know that
like tang from a yogurt ah you want some? too bad
it's surprisingly dense like pretty affordable in the morning
and it will fill you up probably all the way past lunch amazing way to start the day i'm
full already the next food is actually lunch but it doesn't open for a little
while so we're going to make some room in our stomachs and go for a walk to the fortress
it happens to us so often we've developed the ability to look through the construction
it's really beautiful
it is so pretty up here on this old fortress wall overlooking the
Danube and the something else river i think we might come back here for
sunset because i'm pretty sure it would set over that way somewhere maybe yeah that way
from here we have about a 20 minute walk which will take us into more of the heart of the old
town of Serbia we've got two things that i am so excited to try it is insane pretty much two of my
favourite things from different cuisines but they do them really well here so they're on the list
i thought we'd pull over for a quick iced coffee on the way to the next
food stop decided to get an iced coffee because it's hot in Serbia today
and apparently ice coffees in Serbia are served with an entire ice cream
oh she brought it out like nothing was weird there's an entire magnum in there
okay beef sounds good gorgeous thank you so much have a nice day this next place is never something
i would think we would be trying but it is something for the Belgrade institution has been in
operation since like 19 something in 1999 i think a long long time it's essentially a piece of pizza
with salad dressing on top but there's beef salad chicken salad tuna salad
it looks weird from everything on google basically says you'll either love it or hate
it but you cannot leave Belgrade without trying it we went for the Goveda she did teach me how
to say it but i've forgotten instantly which is the beef salad so somehow there is beef in here
you know what that reminds me of it's almost like pizza slice with cob loaf that has like a beefy
tang to it like if you made the cob loaf inside and poured in a two minute noodle beef packet
that's what it tastes like it's so tangy and creamy and delicious
the pizza's okay it's not like the best pizza i've ever had in
my life but that salad dressing just takes it to a whole other weird level
i've already got it on my hands it's pretty messy
it doesn't sound like something that would be good salad dressing on a pizza but it is
once we finish this messy thing we're gonna have the second half of our lunch it's about
a ten minute walk from here to a place that serves some pretty delicious hot dogs
so we've been struggling all yesterday and all today with how to get the crosswalk things to
work pressing the top the side the bottom and then someone just walked up apparently it's underneath
she saw us just hitting everything she was like no those idiots *Dink*
had a few comments lately about not pronouncing things right so we've just
asked exactly how we pronounce it Kobasica
not the easiest language for us to pick up but it is effectively a hot dog i ask what's
the most traditional ingredients in the most traditional way they have it and it's pretty
standard it looks like it is the traditional meat the bun which feels really good the bread here is
incredible everywhere you go onions lettuce and mustard and it looks incredible basically when we
were researching what foods to try and a hot dog came up we didn't ask any other questions because
we love hot dogs apparently it's traditional i don't really know how i guess eastern European
and Balkan sort of style food it's a lot of meat and bread things so a hot dog kind of makes sense
that made it insane less chag-grilled than the Ćevapi we've had previously but there's
like a spice to it as well i've got spice to the actual meat and i'm dripping everywhere
less of a hot dog bun more of a sandwich like top and bottom bread is delicious and
tastes really fresh they've just got such a good consistency with all the bread we've had here
it's been incredible and the mustard obviously adds a really nice tang
if you like something you just eat it you don't worry about the mess it's a compliment
i am stuffed we are both stuffed but like two minutes from here
there is one of the main walking streets it's like
fully blocked off to cars and pedestrianized looks gorgeous i've seen photos of it at night
definitely need to go for a bit of a wall until we have the next food which i'm so excited for
okay that walking street is really cute it is lined on both sides with really cute romantic
looking restaurants bars cafes all that fun stuff definitely the place to be at night time
all right one more thing to eat
first thing we had when we got to Serbia it's also going to be the last thing we eat today
we're literally going back to the same place we went last night because it is so good
so we've come to this restaurant literally around the corner from our airbnb which we
came to last night because it's so close and the Ćevapi here was
so good we just had to come back i'm sure it's equally as delicious elsewhere but
it was just too good we're also doing the same thing we did last night and got a couple of beers
to have with it too we heard it's the best and only way to enjoy it i'm so excited Emily got it
last time but i didn't and she let me have little bites that i'm just so keen to have
my own bunch so Ćevapi is sort of similar to a Romanian Mici in that it's known as little meat
fingers i think it's a super popular dish sort of across the Balkans and everywhere has their
own twist and take on it the Serbian version seems to be amazing and my favorite so far it is really
char grilled beautifully charred and comes with this traditional flat bread that is
also delicious it also comes with some onions and we have gotten Kajmark to try it with today
yeah we get some of that on the side yeah yeah perfect thank you
it's like a side dish that apparently adds a bit of a boost to it
my mouth is watering even just the smell straight away it's so charred
really and delicious i'm going to try some of the Kajmark with it
it is delicious and it oddly has like this sweetness to it it's very rich and creamy
not at all what you expect i have assembled my traditional flat bread with some of the Ćevapi
the Kajmark and fresh onions in there so it's going to be the perfect bite
i am never going to be the same after this this is my new favorite
dish in the entire world the Ćevapi is just so juicy and tender and perfectly herby
it's so savory the char grill there's literally not a thing i would change
it's so good
we have a list of all the best food we've had since we've been going around the world
i think this has just got to the top of that list incredible
my favorite part about it is the chargrill of the juicy meat combined with the soft warm bread
just inside
i would like to try the meat one the potato one the spinach one the cheese one