amanda purba

Sitting on the edge of Belgrade Fortress

Belgrade Fortress separated by Sava River

Knez Mihajlova

Terrace Cafe in Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad

Interested to visit this city? here some tips and trick for you who holds Indonesian Passport and planning to go there:

1. Preparing the Visa
a bit afraid after reading some experiences when some people couldn't enter the country without Serbian Visa, i asked the Embassy of Serbia about the procedure to enter the country with Schengen Visa. Luckily, we can enter this country with Schengen Visa with two condition: it has to be Multiple Visit Schengen Visa, and you have to arrived and go through the immigration process in one of Schengen Country before flying to Serbia. 

IMPORTANT! you couldn't go directly to Serbia OR transit in one of Schengen country without going through their immigration process. That's why you have to hold a multiple visit schengen visa.

or else, you can just apply for Serbian Visa only :)

2. Language
it's pretty hard to speak using foreign language (read: english) with elderly, but the youth could speak english fluently.

3. Culture
Speaking of the culture, since this country has a pretty chaotic past due to war, all i can think is they're having a cold gesture and a pretty scary appearance. Well, apparently i shouldn't overthink. The people are very nice (both the look and the gesture), and they're having a nice building everywhere where they leave the exterior architecture as it is (after the bombing), where they re-make the interior as modern as i saw in another big city!

Well, that's a little bit of my experience i could share about preparation going to Serbia. Will share the details in another post. Stay tune!

Too bad i arrived two hours before they closed, so the hot kitchen closed already. But lucky me, i still can taste their coffee and delicious cruffin. YUM!

this is my first time being here, so i asked the waitress which coffee will suit me when i like coffee with milk and not-too-strong shot due to my acute gastritis.

She suggests a latte with God-only-knows-what-she-said-about-the-arabica-robusta-mixing haha. but i agreed right away. it's summer and i want to sip my coffee!

while she get me the latte, i move my ass to the counter and take a look at their cakes. Me and Rico got ourselves a cake, a Chocolate and Macadamia Cruffin for me, and i think it's a Walnut Tart for Rico.



and the first bite says enough about the cruffin. What a delish one! they've got a hidden coconut inside, so it feels like a twist hihi.

The walnut tart also taste good :D #nomnom

and the coffee finally arrived. Here's the moment of truth... *drumrolls*


i don't know if it's because of those arabica-robusta mix the waitress said earlier or i was just too tired and dehydrated, but the coffee tastes incredibly good! It doesn't have something special that you should look for, but by sipping their coffee, i know why they called themselves as a family. There's a thing that makes this coffee tastes like a home-made coffee with all the feelings in it.

and another thing that makes me happy:

the whole street in front of this cafe was so instagrammable! *wink*



so for you who intend to spend a couple hours to sit back and relax, you can head over to this place and have yourself a tasty coffee.

My most favorite month finally arrived. I was born in this month, so basically i'm waiting for *drumrolls*.... my birthday!

Looking forward to my birthday, i received my, let's say, early birthday gift from my new colleagues. Free VVIP ticket to Halloween Horror Nights in Universal Studio Singapore.

Even Singapore wasn't in my bucket list for this month, i won't miss the opportunity to go out with my new colleagues as well.

We arrived at lunch time, so we're heading to the Chinatown right after to try the famous michelin star hawker.

My boyfriend told me before that there are two stalls hawker had been awarded with michelin star, and they're not even adjust their price.

At china town, i saw a long queue in front of the stall. People bring some snacks and lemonade to accompany them while they're waiting. I don't know that the queue would be THAT long, and i end up waiting for almost 2 hours.

Long queue at Liao Fan Hong Kong Chicken Rice

Pork Rice. So Delish!

My most favorite carbs was the Horfun, accompanied by the chicken and the crispy pork. Well, basically the food was delicious and it's worth to try.

They're opening a new restaurant which has better design and more comfy nearby sponsored by Tim Ho Wan. It could be a nice alternative for you guys who doesn't want to eat in their original place which quite hotter than the new one.