Gokce and I didn't know what to expect when we first landed but the city
captured our imagination from the start in the three days that we were there
five things stood out for us as to why we absolutely loved Melbourne on our first
day in Melbourne we knew we wanted to check out the local food and while we were
hesitant at first enough people recommended we try kangaroo so we headed
over to Degraves street to give it a go
I am actually very excited about it
Please dont judge us for eating Kangoroo
because we actually love kangoroos
Obviously, coming all the way to Australia we couldnt help ourselves
and we just wanted to try Kangoroo meat
we ordered a kangoroo burger at this very popular place
Metro Burger!
Metro Burger! Thank you
Though, I think we both like different burgers I actually
like lamb a little bit more got a little spicy sauce with it and Gokce
actually like kangaroo bit more it's definitely gamey
chewy I like both the fries are amazing too here so highly recommend Metro Burger
on Degrave Street in Melbourne
This really reminds me of Istanbul
yep this looks a bit like Kadikoy for sure
and like, it really has a Kadikoy vibe
with the art, with the streets
with amazing coffee
resturants
it really really makes me feel like home, I kinda like it
After the second World War,
Italian immigrated here they brought a very important thing with them which is
Expresso Machine!
if you ever make it to Melbourne look for the black
sign right behind us and you'll find it Dukes there's a few of them I believe
and they roast their own coffee bean so they have really great coffee
it was really good!
on the way to our hotel from the airport we passed by Melbourne's Chinatown
and we knew we wanted to try it out for dinner on our first night
Since we are around the Chinatown obviously there are
so many different kinds of Asian food here
Embarrassingly, we don't know what kind of Asian food this is
But we are going to go try because Yelp has better views on this
So Steve ordered for entire family
We came to this place where you buy your food based on grams
and Steve decided to buy like over a Kg
No no it's under a Kg
OK! Close to a Kg
I mean, can you see the amount of red pepper they added?
They asked me how much I wanted and I said Super Hot!
Obviously, but... Woof!
we love the food so much we were excited to return to the world's second oldest
Chinatown on our last night in Melbourne to try the dumpling this time
That's why we are here!
We ordered the shrimp spring roll
and then we got the spicy chicken and mushroom dumplings
and then we also got the spicy soup with dumplings!
It is embarrassing but we inhaled the whole food
we ordered more, actually, we ordered more spicy chicken dumplings
they're really that good
we had heard many great things about
Australia's wine so on our last night before leaving we met up with our lovely
friend Senem in Carlton Melbourne's Little Italy to try some out!
We are here in Melbourne! We are here with our really good YouTube friends, Senem.
She has a Turkish YouTube channel, its called "Senems Melbourne Diary"
Oh I love that how you say that with an American accent!
It sounds so much better!
If someone wants to visit Melbourne
where should they visit for sure
See, thats a tough question
I would say like whole Victoria? I would definitely say the Great Ocean Road tour which you guys did it, amazing
I would say Yarra Valley, especially for winery wine tour and
drinking all those wines. Third one, I would say definitely go with the Wilson Prom
and do camping at least one or two nights you will be amazed, I promise
Before getting to Melbourne Gokce's friend told us
about some amazing Riverside spots
to check out unfortunately the weather wasn't
on our side most of the time
so I'm very disappointed because of the rain, actually there is no table
that is not wet. But if you ever come to Melbourne, this is a great spot actually
right on the water, definitely come check it out!
All my Turks, you know it!
Do you want some Mama's Gozleme?
They usually have free screenings of movies apparently here
as well as sporting events during the summer months and this is
federation square was built in 2002 to celebrate Australia's 100-year
anniversary of independence from the British
Gokce found this amazing rooftop bar that called Transit on the river
in federation square it's called transit
It is so amazing! I always have a tendency to look up when we are like exploring cities
and I always get lucky with the best rooftop
It has all the best Australia skyline sites like Eureka Tower so come check it out
and we got a great scenery and we're gonna watch the sunset from here it's sort of
I was a beautiful day, I had a great time
Me too!
OMG! This is how it feels like when it is not raining in Melbourne!
We really enjoyed walking around the central business district
and getting lost down the many different land waves like Hosier lane we were super
impressed by how easily Melbourne mixes it's art culture into its business district
we also found a way into a few of some of Melbourne's oldest arcades or
shopping lanes but didn't have enough room in our bags to buy it it looks a
bit like the indoor mall in Milan
I was gonna say, I swear!
this is really beautiful
so we made it to Gokce's favorite area in Melbourne the shopping district
But we cant do shopping because we are travelling with a backpack!
so we're just gonna look and not shop but uh
This is terrible! This is such a tease for me!
You know, I am like getting nothing out of it!
This tea room is actually the oldest tenant in this entire passage
Look at this beautiful place, we are hoping to come back here for tea
and dessert later?
I am trying to convince Steve so he will take me here!
if he had wanted to hop on the trams they're entirely free within the CBD but
walking everywhere was really easy which we really appreciated honestly
so we may get a little bit of flack for this, but we enjoy the free walking tour and
learning about Melbourne's Gold Rush history and its infamous criminals Ned Kelly
so actually Gokce is the expert of these free walking tours and is the one pretty
much told me, let's do this!
Yeah, I am not an expert but I did this in Milan with my sisters before
and we had a great time! It's just like an amazing way to explore the city and
have some understanding of their cultural places and a story behind
Many many of these houses and their beautiful architecture
and their iron lace work
anywhere within the first couple of rings of suburbs here in Melbourne
so this walking tour has actually been pretty cool they teach you the history of
Melbourne and all that stuff, its really cool in green city and you know if he
would have necessarily discovered all this by ourselves and in our time over here
from the moment we landed at the airport
people were so friendly!
even the police came over and said
"Sorry, you can't video record here.
There's actually a fine of $20."
and he didnt even fine us! He just said "Sorry"
Everywhere you looked Melbourne was welcoming to all people
and finally we rented a car and I drove on the left side for the first time in my life
and we took a day trip out to the Great Ocean Road
I almost went to the other side to sit, but Steve is sitting as a driver, look at that
I am treating you as if you have never driven before
No I haven't driven, this is like bizarre
and I am only driving on the one way street, so its not even that bad.