We Tried The BEST Traditional SERBIAN (BALKAN) Food | Belgrade, Serbia!
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- We Tried The BEST Traditional SERBIAN (BALKAN) Food | Belgrade, Serbia!
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As a Sebian who lives in Belgrade i find your way of saying names of our dishes soo cute 😁😁🔝🔝 btw u can not find kajmak abroad... serbs living outside the state are always bringing it with themselves from here 🤣🤣
Ahahahaha thanks so much! Man Kajmak is the best!
@@dabbleandtravel haahahah so glad you loved it :D
Plenty of Kajmak here in Vancouver!
I've just watched all 6 videos so far and I'm primarily impressed how good research you've done about places you have visited, including history, pronunciation and so on... Really enjoyed watching this and looking forward for new ones.
Hey! Thanks! This means a lot to us! Hope you follow our journey 😍
Serbia has the best kajmak .... greetings from Macedonia 🇲🇰
You have the best lamb and tomatos tho! Greetings back from Serbia braco naša!
It is the same kajmak and paprika, like in Macedonia. But, paprika in Macedonia is the best on the world! ❤️
U have the best ajvar and paprike
you have the best lamb brothers braćoo
Food looks amazing. Sometimes it a shame that great cuisines such as this are relatively unknown beyond their borders.
True! Thanks for watching!
Welcome to Serbian my dear,wish all the best 🍻🍻🍻
She said Karadjordjeva Snicla pretty much perfectly :)
Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Karadjordjeva шнишла
Smooth rakija ..at the beggining I liked her but man You can adopt qiuckly with serbian:)
Volim te Srbijo 🇷🇸🍀🍀👏🙏Pozdrav iz Frankfurt am Main
What I like about your videos is you being so positive and just enjoying every day. I am originally from the area, a bit north of Belgrade, but majority of my life a spent living close to where you are from. I see you visited some other Balkan countries, I know there is a lot to complain about as a tourist in Balkans, but you never complain, just looking for the joy and that's what I like about you. Enjoy and have fun!
Thanks so much, that’s really kind of you!
Cant wait to come back to Belgrade and visit those restorants and try best food in the world 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸😊
Our food always served in big portion.We eat a lot of meat and caloric foods but we have not problem with obesity because we always go for walk without reasons,we buzz aronund the city in our free time.We have a coffe or drink beers with friends every day.By the way:Great videos, i saw all of them!
We also eat a lot of bread. Bread is a must with every Serbian meal.
@@danicadabic9789 👍
Don't forget the fact that the food just is of much better quality. I always lose weight when I'm in Serbia but I eat more and are not more active than usual. Obesity in some western countries isn't only the fault of the consumers. You can even see people from Serbia get a lot fatter when they move to some western countries without much change in their lifestyle.
@@12123188 Yes I agree.I think food in Serbia is more GMO free than food in Western countries,but staying fact Serbs go for walk more often and longer than people in Western countries.I have been in North America and I saw their food,their habits,generaly their way of life and it is total opposite in compare to Serbia!
God did not give us everything to enjoy life...
But He give us life to enjoy everything...
May God bless you both Matt and Molly ❤️💕♥️
Greetings from the 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Go to the interior of Serbia. Lot's to see, and even better foods. There is also an option of village tourism, where you essentially stay in a village household, with all home made foods.
Thanks!
OMG that food looked amazing, especially what you were eating Matt, just loved it x
Thanks for watching!
@@dabbleandtravel I am learning more from your videos than i did at school lol x
Kajmak is prepared when you boil milk and let it cool down, on top you get that thin layer, then you scoop it up and put it in some dish. So you need to do this for several days with new milk (usually freshly milked). There is "young kajmak" if you decide to eat it immediately and it's mild, and there is "old kajmak" which is matured and with stronger taste.
If you're doing it over several days, don't do it from the same milk. Do it from the daily milk that you milk from the animals. Just a necessary caveat. XD
What a beautiful little city, and the food definitely looks yummy❤️😍😋🙏
Belgrade has a lot of good food😋😋😋😋take care guys💕
Sure does! Thanks for watching!
So glad that U guys have enjoyed your stay in Belgrade .
I am chef and I can tell you real Karađorđeva šnicla is stuffed only with kajmak. All other variations aren't Karađorđeva. I worked with a chef who actually invented this dish, profesor Mića Stojanović.
Thanks so much!
@@dabbleandtravel you're welcome.
@@martius021 Ма шта причаш још је цар Душан јео Карађорђеву шницлу са помфритом :)
@@krakataukrakatau9137 hahahahha
@@janakolasinac1686 Really?When was the last time that a pedestrian was hit or killed by a driver in Belgrade(city of almost 2mill ppl)?
You guys made me so hungry I got to go downstairs and have some food! Fr u! I'm from Belgrade. I love ur channel and I live in canada
Visit Avala montain, and after that Ada Ciganlija lake!🍻
Nice food vlog. Lol... food comma. 😃 Cheers and stay safe. 👍
Thanks so much!
Thank you for this Video hvala 👍👏👏🙏🇷🇸
You guys are amazing.🥰 I am from Belgrade and I am currently living in San Francisco. If you ever decided to visit SF let me know and we can have some beers 🍻😋
Bolje se vrati u Srbiju, polako nestajemo jer mladi odlaze..
they wait for green light 'cause you can be fined by police for crossing the road on red light :D
Didn’t know this!!! Thank you!
@@janakolasinac1686 na pogrešnom videu ostavljaš te komentare druže... Jebote, baljezgas o Mitroviću na turističkom videu dvoje stranaca, koji je tebi?
@@janakolasinac1686 još jednom, pišeš pogrešne komentare na pogrešnom videu. nema potrebe za tim, gledamo jedan lep video o strancima u Beogradu. Svakodnevno se dešavaju nepravde i kod nas i u svetu, ali za to postoje mesta za diskusiju, sigurno ne ovde.
@@janakolasinac1686 MANI SE MENE I MOJIH KOMENTARA, on došao i ostavlja na moj komentar njegov, koji nema veze žive s videom... bravo kralju!
You are really very cute! I enjoyed your company, and what won me over above all is that you left Belgrade satisfied, with the intention of coming back again and visiting us in Serbia. Happy Easter and all the best! 😁
Happy Easter! Thanks for watching!
I am really really glad that you are enjoying here in Serbia. You are very welcome every single time, hope that you will come many many more times.
Have watched all of your videos, keep it like this. Dont worry dont cry drink rakija and fly 😂🖐🖐
Oh my God ! She’s so cute and funny. Love her she giggles when she crossed the street giggles when toasting the beer mugs. Giggles when she jumped on the hotel bed in other videos. She makes me laugh everytime. She’s enjoying herself ❤️😂😆🤣
Aiways giggling 🤣🤣🤣🤣 thank you! ❤️
super cool videos
You guys are making me hungry. 😛😋
Get some food 😉
@@dabbleandtravel 🤣😅
I am hungry.... Belgrade here I come.....
Definitely!
@@dabbleandtravel Link for you to order KAJMAK in UK :)
www.magazaonline.co.uk/collections/dairy/products/lazar-young-kajmak-mladi-kajmak-400g
Thanks for this wonderful video n thanks for sharing your experience with d traditional Balkan food.
Thanks so much!
@@dabbleandtravel 😁
Awesome amazing love the food..Have a wonderful weekend.Love the Raki too.Ziveli.CHEERS
Thank you!
First day of unlock go to BELA REKA, New Belgrade. The best etno restaurant in Belgrade. If you want to try a sausage, steak or pljeskavica from 1 meter in diameter then go to DJERDAN.
Thanks so much!
The name of the restaurant - Baburaj!!! Hahahahahah, so similar to Zavičaj (Завичај-homeland)... It's in Cyrillic, plus, it's written in cursive letters so it may look like "baburaj"... Hahahahahaha, the best laugh I had for days.
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I’ve seen all the videos too. The Best 😘✌️
Thank you!
Secret about tasty food in Serbia is so simple... GMO food is forbidden by the law in Serbia!
Amazing😍
@@dabbleandtravel Yup, its like that from 2009... Serbia received a lot of critics from EU for it but we enjoy our food and taste it have. BTW great videos! 😉👍👏
When I visit Serbia, there is definitely a difference in the taste of the tomatoes and cucumbers.
@@frostflower5555 true! When I host some friends from Bavaria this is the first what they notice and RAKIJA... 🥃🥃🥃
Molly, you look gorgeous! Matt, you're quite handsome too. Thank you for your interesting vlogs always. Love your food vlogs!
Thank you so much ❤️
Hey guys! Lovely channel!
And you both have done your homework rather nicely, in both pronunciation and conceptualization of the language.
I think this might've went under the premise of the video, since you've done it so smoothly that I wonder how many tries it actually took for you to learn it the correct way...
So, to sum it up in a way >>> The Serbian way is to relax and enjoy life, being carefree and enjoying the music. We say "Udri brigu na veselje". This motto remains true even in the worst of situations, and we had a fair share of those.
This is why we tend to really enjoy food and gastronomy in general, and would never give it up for anything else in the world. You might say that we tend to be similar to italians when it comes to the food. Just as easily annoyed when stuff isn't made properly.
When we've a chance to show you our food or dishes, it makes us happy when you experience happiness. There's rarely a feeling that can beat that.
Serbian cuisine is somewhat special since it is not really known in the world, yet it is severely intricate and delicious that you'd have to wonder how it is not as famous as the French or Italian ones, right?
Etymologically speaking, drawbacks happened which reflect the harsh truth depicting constant wars in the past thousand years or so, barely giving Serbian people enough time to catch a breath and actually promote our enormously rich cuisine. Such drawbacks also affected the spread of the culture itself, be it geographically or linguistically. It had to go via proxy countries, and it shows.
So, I wanted to write to you a bit about the Paprika.
What's the deal? Well, this is the most commonly used Serbian phrase worldwide, which got famous thanks to the Hungarians. In this particular case Hungarians worked as a proxy country and many books will depict Paprika as a hungarian phrase, even though the suffix "-ika" is purely slavic in origin.
Serbia was occupied and enslaved at the time by Ottoman empire and didn't really have much power at the time. Another Serbian phrase you'd commonly found being spoken worldwide would be Vampir thanks to the case of Petar Blagojevic.
So, when you say "Pepper", we actually say "Paprika" without thinking about it as a spice. Rather, for us "Paprika" is an entire plant, be it a regular red pepper, chili pepper, bell pepper (Babura) etc.
Paprika is a feminine name for the pepper, deriving from the phrase Papar (meaning- "Hot" or "Spicy") which in turn originated in Hellas (Hellenic, ancient Greece). Papar in turn is a name used for black pepper, and the whirl of convolutedness can give anyone a headache.
However, Paprika was bought to the Balkans thanks to the Ottoman empire, and started spreading from the Kosovo region since 1400s slowly building up to the Hungarian region up to 1500s. Paprika was a staple food for a full century before it got introduced to the Hungarians thanks to one of the Turkish Janissary of Serbian ethnicity who visited a hungarian dutchess of sort (or some other royalty) and giving her this exotic plant for the sake of decor.
Since the Serbian region was heavily occupied under slavery of the Ottoman Empire, this gave enough freedom to the Hungarians to spread this fantastic plant to the rest of the Europe and promote its health benefits. It is here that some form of mistranslation came to be known since Paprika was referred to as a spice, rather than an entire plant.
The so called Ajvar is known as the Red Caviar ([C]Aviar/Ajvar) that got famous around the time when Danube was used heavily to farm Caviar. Ajvar was the staple food for the poor folk, and an act of rebellion and mockery of the rich and famous who ate Caviar.
I hope this helps clear some things and help you out on your journey of discovering the gem known as Serbian cuisine.
Stay safe in your travels and godspeed to both of you.
Wow! Thank you so much, we appreciate helping us learn more!
Hope you are well!
While you are around, why don't you check if there are visits to Karađorđević Royal Pallace and White Court ? It's nice, there. It's at Dedinje, not so far from a city center.
And, there Is a Tito's memorial museum - Kuća Cveća in a Dedinje neighborhood, I Guess you shouldn't miss it.
It will be good for you , to burn all that food 😁.
For what I know is that every Balkan eats they're peppers with bread they basically dip it in the peppers and I'm just not a fan of peppers so idk what they taste like
šopska salad, is there anything better?
Right!!!
Not sure if someone commented this yet, but Kajmak iz actually easy to make. You take regular milk when you've milked the cow, or goat, or what ever animal you have and just boil the milk then let it sit. The skin that forms on top is Kajmak, you collect the skin off the top and you can add a very tiny bit of salt, but it really doesn't need it. Leave it in the fridge for a day for extra flavor, or just eat it as is.
Glad you two Londoners enjoyed my home city...Really cute how Molly said 'tavce na gravce' :) Matt's 'Karadjordjeva' was next to perfect pronunciation :) Cheers! Ziveli!
You like the peppers because they are thick-walled variety grown in the summer, not the Dutch greenhouse peppers grown to look nice in the supermarket. Peppers need sun and warmth, and are superiors when grown in the Balkans or Spain.
They are amazing! Thanks for watching!
Serbian people are very nice .. greetings from Southamerica =)
You guys are so cute! I really hope you enjoy every second in Serbia and I hope you visit us again. Cheers!
Like how positive you are in your videos, carry on :)
Thank you! ❤️
Kajmak is made by boiling "raw"/unskimmed milk then let it cool down. The fat from milk will create a crust that you separate from milk and let in ferment for a few days, with added salt, and it is battered?/mixed to get consistency. But using unskimmed milk is the key. I grew up in smal town and we bought milk from local dairy farmers few houses down. After boiling the milk mother would skim the milk and batter it, sometimes with salt but sometimes with suger for imidiate use that or next day. I am sure you can find exact recipe online.
Well actually it's neither the chips or French fries we say pomfrit, as French call them
Ahah! We call it the English or American version
@Binsr I didn't want to lecture them I was just refering to 10:30 when he was talking about fish and chips, I misunderstood that. Thought he is wondering how we actually call chips. So that's what I was saying, it's pomfrit here and of course they can call it as they want
Just seen like 4 vids in one sitting and loving ur way of showing serbia and belgrade. To fullyemerge with serbia u need someone from serbia to lets say represent it and explain it. Cuz our way of life is something u cant translate on english language. Its a lot different than europes way. Its too bad that is covid time and not fully opened . Our night life is maybe the best in europe, maybe after moscow.
One thing about rakija is if you're iffy about the food you're gonna be eating, weather it is something unusual or just a gut feeling it won't be comfortable, a shot of rakija before and after the meal will clear that up!
Quick-storytime: My mother went to Egypt on vacation and she always took rakija before and after the meal, she was the only one who hadn't contracted the stomach virus in the whole hotel.
the music in the background while you are eating adds a nice touch
Thank you!
The restaurant's name is "Zavičaj" / Завичај(Cyrillic letters) and it means 'homeland'!!! Greetings from a Serb guy living in Harlow UK !!! :)
We got there in the end!!! Thanks for watching!
If you guys ever wanna buy Serbian/Balkan food in the UK, we’ve got a few in London, like around Acton area. Main ones are like Magaza, Mugi, Vardar. There’s also a few nice cafes/restaurants if you ever fancy it, like “cafe kod pirketa”, “Fulham Kitchen” - which is where the Serbian footballers who play in the Prem sometimes go, like Mitrovic, Matic, Milivojevic…
Cheers from London,
Thanks for visiting Serbia🙏🏼
Thanks for the recommendations, we'll have to try it when we're back in the UK
19:25 we call them MAD MAX!!! :P
Watching you is so fun and cozy))
Thank you!
Legend has it Matt never stopped knocking the Rakia shots back 😂....great video guys!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks for watching!
"Soviet cheese"... That's hilarious... :D
The Kings Shnitzla ...With Macedonian/ Gra- Baked Beans. Stuffed Cheese Peppers... Jelen Pivo and Orange Slice in the Glass. Highly Recommended....
Thank you guys for lovely presentation one of the oldest city in the world 🇷🇸and amazing food 🍻 it is really enjoyable to watch ❤️
Thanks for watching!
Your pronunciation is so good
Thank you!!
you are so fun, cheers from Belgrade. love yous.
Karadjordjeva snicla was created by a Serbian chef Mića Stojanović. He was the personal chef of Josip Broz Tito. And Mića is still alive, owns a small restaurant called "Mićina Domaća Kuhinja" in Zemun municipality. So if you want to eat the original cooked by the guy who invented it you still can.
Great video guys loved it, the food you guys had looks amazing and mat’s pepper dish looks to die for so thank you for sharing and your hard work filling and editing watching all your videos every time you upload cheers 👍
Thanks for watching! Take care!
Usually they wouldn't let you in with nirvana hoodie, hat and ripped jeans...It's kinda disrespectful
ZAVICAJ - something like home town or more precisely place where are you from..That can be little town ,village,big town...Where the home is and where were you born
Thanks for the information! We actually went back there we loved it so much 😏
You are the best duo! Sending love to England from Serbia!
Thank you!
Food Coma:) Oh God,i understand you 100%..All the best!
I really liked this video of Serbian food and its restaurants...in fact the Skadalija area videos...
Thanks for watching!
Just one notice. As word "dictator" is used in a negative way, Thatcher was more "dicatator" than Tito.
Just to let you know guys,Kajmak is not "a kind of a cheese" it's a pure milk fat :D enjoy your stay :)
Thanks for watching!
You both are the best UA-cam I see.God bless you and your family
"Kajmak" is to be found in "Magaza", a Bosnian-owned shop in Uxbridge Road, London and in some Turkish-owned shops.
Thank you!
thanks for your video im planning to go to belgrade this month this video very helpfull👍🏻
Enjoy!
the place is called "zavicaj", it's written in cyrilic :)))
Yummy Serbian food
It's not too difficult to make your own kajmak. There are plenty of recipes on the web.
We might try it one day!
Miroslav Ilic in the backgroun 😂
Kajmak is wery easy to make yourself you just bolil milk and when it is cooled you skup kajmak from the top it is as simple as that
I am at Zavicaj right now, guys, on your recommendation. 😀
Really love the way you talk about food. For the kajmak go to north london Turkish food center they have it there,green lanes
Thanks!
Welcome to Serbia! Karadjordje's steak, we in Serbia say girl's dream.
you people are amazing ......
Kajmak is a clotted cream in the UK (Rodda's which is usually only eaten with scones)
So nice !!
You're making our mouths water!
Hahah! Thanks for watching!
Kajmak is a Serbian specialty. There is aged and young kajmak. The aged one has a special taste-and the only cheese that has some resemblance to it is creamy blue cheese.
8:53 Bravo!
@7:31 - 7:37 ?!??
I am from Serbia and I heard it first time in my life (translation of Karadjordjeva Snicla"). I would say it was someone's BAD sense of humor (who told you that). Karadjordje or Crni Djordje (Black George translation from Turkish Kara - Black) Djordje - George was Historical figure in Serbian History. He lead First Serbian uprising against Ottoman ruler from 1804 until 1813 when was crushed. So that dish was named in honer of Serbian rebel leader.
EDIT:
Monument of Karadjordje is close to Sent Sava Temple (with Turkish sword pointing down). But his name is written in Cyrillic alphabet. About street stone blocks material that is in Skadarlija Street is called "Kaldrma" and it is original stones from Ottoman times. :)
@Binsr
Yes. Correct.
Kaymak is my favourite I miss it so much! It’s so good on the meat!
Hehe it so is
Kajmak is supposed to be "clotted cream" in English.
Interesting! Thanks!
there is no word for kajmak in english
Guys, you should come to Novi Sad,the most beautiful city in Serbia.
Love your blogs .take your hat off in a restaurant 👍
Thank you!! He would have but he hasn’t had a hair cut 🤣
Rules are to be broken not to obay them,humans are not animals to be disciplined....freedom is alpha and omega in Serbia just enjoy in it....not to be disrespectful to your culture but we like life on other way....
If you guys want to compare and to explain what 'kaymak"(that Serbian cheese) is, go like this:
"What is butter for margarine, that is kaymak for butter"
True! Thanks!
Hello Molly and Matt have a wonderful day wow that’s foods are so yummy makes me hungry guys enjoy eating have a blessed holly week and may god’s always bless you my idols 💖💖💖👍👍👍
Thanks for always watching!
@@dabbleandtravel always my idols
Love you both, few years back my wife and I had some 'prebranc' at my mum's on good Friday , and spent few hours on the toilet alternatively,,LOL
Hahhahaa!
That was a great upload. I am glad you did make it to Skadarlija as I suggested in my comment to you in your "First Impressions of BELGRADE..." (ua-cam.com/video/4sFdww2Vw-Q/v-deo.html). I was under impression you already left for the next destination. Well, I will follow your next trip where ever you go next and thanks for visiting Belgrade even if it was a wrong time of the year a but freezing winter time (without a proper clothing). Come back again and thanks for the upload.
We’re in Serbia for a while! Thanks so much! Lots more videos to come!
Thumbs up for drinking rakija like water.
🤣🤣🤣
Baburash is Zavičaj, it's pronounced like Zavichay..
We got there in the end hehe!
The closest thing to make something that tastes like kajmak is a mix of cream cheese, feta cheese and butter.
I miss the traditional one so much but this is very good substitute. Let me know what you think when you try it.
When you get back to the UK, there is a shop that sells Balkan products. It's called Magaza. Here's the link (there's kajmak there :) ) www.magazaonline.co.uk/
OMG! Game changer!!! Thanks for letting us know!
jesen u mom sokaku u kafani po imenu zavicaj... nostalgija do bola
That rakia in Skadarlia is guaranteed a very good quality. And quality rakia is not cheap. The way you have it is actually sipping, not bottom up. Drunkards have their drinks in shots. :-) If Serbians nod, it may mean they do not understand what you are saying, or do not know how to say sth, so they avoid being unpleasant by not saying anything. Prebranac could be fantastic, it's prepared with lots of onion and without meat - basically it is the same thing as tavche-gravche in N.Macedonia.