This Serbian food in NYC is blowing my mind!

In this episode of NYC food around the world. I bring you to Astoria, Queens to eat at Selo, a recently opened restaurant that serves Serbian and Croatian food. I have eaten take-out from this place before and it was absolutely amazing. So I decided to revisit this place in person with two friends of mine and the food again had been so good that it was blowing our minds. We, three full-sized adult men, were stuffed to the core after finishing absolutely everything on the plate and it averaged to around 50 dollars per person, a deal hard to find these days in New York.
This meal opened my mind to Balkan food and eastern European food in general, and I can see myself exploring more food from this region in the future.
Selo Restaurant
3305 Broadway, Queens, NY 11106
00:00 Intro: Restaurant Selo
01:20 Serbian/Croatian Beer
02:51 Bread with Pindjur
03:29 Urnebes
04:59 Karadjodjeva
07:05 Gurmanska
08:40 Stuffed Calamari
10:27 Istrian Gnocchi
11:39 Chocolate Cake
12:42 Cream Puff
13:38 Conclusion
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[@nentj]

Always nice to see Serbian food getting recognition it deserves. Calamari & Gnocchi are both Italian. An Authentic Croatian dish would be some fish on grills or anything that has fish in it. Some sausages. That is about it. We're not Eastern Europe, we are South-Eastern Europe. The Slavic people here are known as "Southeastern Slavic". And yes, the food here is insanely good. We take it for granted. 1. I don't know what that is, but that 100% is not pindjur. Pindjur is similar to ajvar, but bigger chunks of paprika & garlic. 2. That Urnebes looks too yellow. Urnebes is just a really popular street food condiment, made out of cow cottage cheese, a bit of garlic, and chili flakes. Delicious. 3. Whenever you have some cabbage salad as side-dish, it is 100% a Serbian. 4. Gurmanska translates to "Gastronome's", a type of Pljeskavica. It translates to "Gastronome's Pljeskavica" which is just like a typical pljeskavica, but usually with added smoked paprika, smoked bacon etc. In restaurants you will get it in a plate, but it is a street-food that comes in bread, usually in "Lepinja" or "Somun". If it is a fair, it can also come in a flatbread. 5. Chocolate cake is called "Reforma", extremely popular in Ex Yugoslavia. 6. The "Cream Puff" is Princess Krofna (Princess Donut). A staple in any "Poslasticarnica".

[@Fufski]

You are an expert!

[@StodOneR]

Pindjur is a mix of tomato and paprika , chuck size doesent matter so long as the ingredients and preparation is there. Its basically mix of ljutenica and ajvar .

[@markomarjanovic8348]

So happy you like our food :) please come to Serbia :)

[@Fufski]

Some day!

[@wilee.coyote1841]

The Serbian part of the food, pljeskavica and Karadjordjeva shnitzel were subpar, good Serbian food in the States is in Chicago area and Milwaukee, where majority of the Serbs had settled. The overall problem is the quality of the ingridients since our cousine doesn't use much spices and that's why it never is as good abroad as is in Serbia.

[@Fufski]

I see, but I do think the food here was actually quite okay, it has a five star rating on Yelp so far which is rare and most of the people in that restaurants (and the neighborhood) are of Serbia origin. That being said, if there is a better version of it, I'm all in!

[@goranhrkman3789]

Very interesting combination of food! I bet the owners of this resturaunt is a couple, one being Serbian and the other being Croatian. Nice video!

[@Fufski]

Thanks!

[@hypatiatv421]

05:50 ha ha ha Skenderbeg is actually half Serb, his wife is Serbian also.

[@Fufski]

Oh! Good to know! Always learning 😂

[@YASTravelsEatsWell]

Very impressive restaurant! When I come again to Astoria I will definitely make an effort to stop bye!

[@thorro3]

selo means village

[@Fufski]

Good to know!

[@zaklinakovace6792]

Looks very good food. God bless you for this video

[@blackgruya011]

Skenderbeg was also a Serbian :)

[@Fufski]

Yes I have come to learn that a bit!

[@Mastakilla91]

Half Albanian, half Serb.

[@vericaz3894]

​@@Mastakilla91 No half Serbian and half Greek

[@Brave2standalone]

It's even tastier at the source!!!

[@Fufski]

I believe that!

[@danicao.6778]

The best Serbian beer is Jelen (Deer) or Lav (Lion)!!! Look in some Balkanian shop in larger American cities!!! Only Balkan products or those from EX-Yugoslavia are sold there!!! Greetings from Serbia 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸

[@Fufski]

Thanks for the tips, will try next time!

[@Niraol]

Loved the video, didn't know this restaurant existed. And yes Southern European more than eastern countries when balkans are in question

[@Fufski]

I’m glad you liked it!

[@vanja2565]

If this was good, which i have no doubt it was, it'll be 100 times better in Serbia, trust me on that. I definitely do hope that you'll visit someday. PS Gurmanska is a "subspecies" of pljeskavica, although it is not meant to be that small.

[@Fufski]

I thought that was pretty big already 😂

[@vanja2565]

@@Fufski they're usually double or triple that in Serbia

[@bicgohill8756]

Yo I knew fufski when he was at around 500 subs. FUFSKI AND James are the best.

[@Fufski]

Aha! Thanks for joining me right from the beginning!

[@mrednblack6]

I LOOOOVE ur lil history lesson. Please do that whenever you can. I LOVE history. That gnocchi looks good! And the pita!!

[@zpetar]

14:15 This is not really cheese inside. Here in Balkans we call it Kajmak. After fresh milk is boiled and cooled down milk fat starts to float on top. We scoop it and that's Kajmak. Basically Kajmak is milk fat with some milk in it. Fresh Kajmak has creamy milky texture and aroma. As it gets older it will start to get more and more cheesy texture and aroma. It is milk fat oozing out, like melted butter. 2:50 These pinjur and urnebes have strange yellow color. Pinjur main ingredient is type of sweet red pepper. Urnebes is grounded cheese mixed with grounded chillies.

[@Fufski]

Thanks for the insight!

[@cokrlicix]

Finished a dinner?? Dam dude you can eat more in one meal, than I can in a week.

[@Fufski]

Well we had three adult sized man so not a problem, we were pretty full tho.

[@hypatiatv421]

That bear NIŠKO, we almost do not having it in our stores. The most popular beers in Serbia are: Jelen, Zaječarsko, Lav and montenegrian beer called Nikšićko. Actually, Jelen and Nikšićko pivo, it is belgian company as owner. Lav is Carlsberg i think?. Zaječarsko, owner is some german company.

[@Fufski]

Is Niško good?

[@jelenalora6879]

Prelepo 😊❤

[@AndjelaDra99]

That skenderbeg thing is so hilarious its so obviously a copied karadjordjeva 😂😂

[@AndjelaDra99]

Thank you 👍🏼👍🏼 happy you likee our food

[@gerillazack77]

It's called "Karađorđeva Šnicla", Kara (in turkish means black)-Đorđe(George - name of rebellion leader) Schnitzel type of meat, albanians just copied ours with their rebellion leader who btw was serbian origin.

[@FilK79]

Stuffed Calamari are as croatian as Sushi is.... They are Venetian/Dalmatian/Serbian.

[@Ms777Lena]

There was no Albania in the time of Ottomans. There was few albanian tribes, amongst eveybody else, mostly Greek and Serbs, because the space of todays Albania was devided between Serbia and Greece. Skender Begs mother was a Serbian and his father was a Greek, with the last name Kastriotis.

[@Fufski]

Thanks for the insight! Daily history lesson learned.

[@RajskaBasta]

There is no Albania before 19 century and Skender Beg was a Serbian hero. Turks brought Albanians, thay fight along with them agenst serbs and they stayed. Olso they joined Germany in great war and nazi in second ww. Very similar was with Croats. Serbs and Croats fight together against Ottoman Empire later catholics converted most of the serbs in that area and they become enemy. So we are the same people with many similarities but roots are Serbian.

[@Fufski]

Interesting story to know! Thanks for the insight!

[@lukapopovic6431]

100% true

[@vericaz3894]

​@@Fufski You should really get your facts straight I'm not trying to be mean but really even the location of the country Yugoslavia stands for literal translation South slaves it's Southeastern not Eastern Europe And like I said in my earlier comment the food is all the same all over Serbians love seafood and fish as much as Croatians do it's the same but I'm glad that you like it and that you are trying just don't say things that you're not completely sure of❤

[@vericaz3894]

​@@penelopemathers However though it's absolutely true

[@gerillazack77]

Дај бре не лупај чак је и Цар Душан помињао Арбанасе, само их није било више од 5% на Космету и северној данашњој Албанији. А ако ћеш да причаш о њиховом пореклу са Кавказа барем се боље распитај како су дошли из јужне Италије тј. ко их је покатоличио и пребацио да ратују против Византије.

[@GenX975]

you should come ...

[@Fufski]

One day!

[@FabianKaeser1985]

do you have 2 stomachs?

[@Fufski]

No 😂 but I did bring two friends with me so that’s three stomachs in total

[@svarozjov]

Well, you should come to the source, all that things you ate would be x3 more deliciouse because in Serbia we still eat natural food, not that extensive farming GMO products you can only get in USA... The one thing stucked to my eye, the restoraunt have mix serbo-croatian cousine roughly divided to continental and sea food, but there was no "river cousine" in there, something that is very big part of Balkan cousine in general, and that is river (not sea) fish stews and variouse river fish. Cat-fish or carp stakes, or drunken carp, that is something you need to try before you die, but I am afraid you need to come to some coast of bigger Balkan rivers for that experience...

[@Fufski]

Haha. One day

[@xuhan4998]

我想问一下怎么感觉份量好大好多啊，三个大肉菜+一个主食，一个人真的能吃的完吗 还有甜品

[@Fufski]

主菜分量就是巨大，所以很划算。三个人去吃的。

[@xuhan4998]

@@Fufski 主要我觉得如果餐厅给单人的分量这么大的话，其他一个人去的客人铁定吃不完

[@Fufski]

@@xuhan4998 就点这一个菜的话还能吃完，量大点不好么😂

[@danicao.6778]

Why do you think Serbian athletes are so good and a country with only 7 million people!?!? Because we grew up on that food pure natural and without GMO!!! Everything is organic!!! Greetings from Serbia!!! 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸

[@danicao.6778]

​@@Fufskiit's Pingur!!!

[@rgr5088]

居然中间插播广告了！很好！

[@Fufski]

只要我选择开启广告油管就会自动插播

[@luacino]

斯拉夫菜加多点香料？

[@Fufski]

其实巴尔干菜不怎么用香料，一点点而已，不是印度阿拉伯那种浓烈的

[@ivanbutorac9199]

а иза две њушке балканске :D

[@rgr5088]

拉格啤酒

[@edvinmester5228]

Happy you liked it. Looked really good and tasty. Also your knowledge about Yugoslavia and the history behind it is impressive.

[@Fufski]

As a Chinese how could I forget that US bombed our embassy in Belgrade “by accident”… fortunately, it will never happen again.

[@Srdjone]

The cheese in "Karadjordjeva" schnitzel Is not a cheese its "Kajmak" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymak