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🇹🇷Culinary Voyage Through Turkey s Delights HUGE Istanbul Food Tour Foodie Heaven
Jul 3, 2024
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You know, one of the best parts of traveling is stepping out of your comfort zone and trying new things
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Let me tell you, my very first meal in Istanbul was at this restaurant, and I unknowingly had an intestine sandwich
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which was actually quite tasty if you don't think about what you're eating
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The best way to start your day in Istanbul is with a delicious Turkish coffee
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But actually, you can have them any time of day or night
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The coffee master. Turkish coffee, very good. Yeah, Turkish coffee. Oh, look at that
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Oh, look at that. Beautiful Turkish coffee. All right. Thank you. All right
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. All right, so I just had a Turkish coffee and I was making a video of the guy as he made it
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The Turkish coffee, as I've said before, it's very different than our coffee
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It's very finely ground, very, very powdery. and they put the grind straight into the pot and they boil it
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They get it just as it's about to boil. Then they take it off of the fire
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They're constantly steering it up. Then you let the grind settle to the bottom and you drink it
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And when you get to the bottom, you're going to have like a little bit of mud at the bottom because coffee is not filtered out
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So it's very unique. And if you want sugar, you have to order sugar before
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So they put the sugar in as they're cooking, the coffee is not afterwards
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So it's a little different, but it's a very unique taste. I like it, not everybody likes it
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but I think when you're in Turkey, you have to try a Turkish coffee
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Right, so I finished my coffee, and now I want to show you the bottom
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Can you see all the coffee grinds in there that are left over
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So you drink it down to the bottom, and then you stop when you get a little bit of mud in there
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And I guess something, places, they do like a fortune telling. They read your coffee grinds to see what your fortune's going to be
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Kind of like reading tea leaves, I suppose. But anyway, Turkish coffee, bottom of your cup
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All right, so we're having a little Turkish breakfast in our neighborhood
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And look, we got these beautiful vegetables. cucumber, tomatoes, some cheese, olives, some bordec
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we have a chai and a Turkish coffee, bread. And this is Minaman and it is scrambled eggs
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It's like scrambled eggs. It has cheese in it. And this is really good. It is like scrambled eggs with salsa, if you will
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So it is quite delicious. And you just kind of take it, scoop it up
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Stick it on your bread. And this is really good. Mmm, mm-hmm
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Mm-hmm, mm-mm. It's one of the best things I've had in turkey
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To be quite honest, we just a little spicy. I mean, it did really, really good
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Nice turkey's breakfast. Good an appetite. Oh yeah, that's a lot of
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All right, we got our Lama Kuhl fresh out of the stone oven
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I'm gonna put a little bit of, whatever this is, parsley maybe
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and squirt some lemon on there. We got the spicy kind. So good, so good. Good
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Good and appetit. All right, good. A little bit of yogurt to drink See that See that
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And the yogurt is like a perfect drink. If you're drinking something spicy
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it helps cut the spice down. But yeah, there you go. Really good
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Lama Kuh. Okay, we also got some pita. Look at that. Also fresh out of it
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of the oven. Nice melted cheese on there. This is our favorite neighborhood bakery
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with a friendly staff that always made us feel welcome. You know, turkey isn't just baklava and pita
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There's also a variety of cakes, cookies, pastries, and breads to satisfy your craving for, carbs
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All right, so this is what they call the cookie bomb. And I guess it's a cookie filled with chocolate
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I don't know if it's, I don't know, we'll see. It's like a inside chocolate chip cookie with a big chocolate chip
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It didn't explode. But it is kind of like a giant chocolate chip
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tasty very sweet but um pretty good i wish i had a nice cup of coffee to go with it but i think
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they're out of coffee or out of tea the best thing we do is a bottle of water so anyway so
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this is i guess a traditional dessert in istanbul the cookie bomb got to try one when you're here
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Okay, the best donor and cadiqoid. We got donor with rice and looked excellent
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And she was slicing it off the spit. We had some delicious lentil soup
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We've got some french fries, salad. Fides drink it some. Iran, I think it's called a yogurt drink. Alright
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Looks delicious, looks great. It looks great. Smells great. Bon Appetit. Okay, so we stopped at this pharmacy
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We were looking for some usurin, lotion, and the people at the pharmacy were really nice
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They fit over backwards to help us and to find some stuff that we needed
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And then when we left, they gave us a list of their recommended places
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places to visit and on the list was this place called espresso lab. It's kind of a logo chain
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I guess. We've seen several of them before. I haven't been in one, but we came in this one and
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it's really nice. They make, you know, traditional like coffee like I guess Starbucks type coffee
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We also have like the croissants and things like that. They have their own bakeries. You can go in
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and you can see where they're baking their own stuff. And also they make like the traditional Turkish
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coffee and the chai, Turkish tea. So if you're looking for a place to get an espresso, latte, cappuccino, or a Turkish coffee
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or a chai, then check out the espresso lab. Very friendly and good service
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All right, so here in our neighborhood, our region of Caddy Koi, they're supposed to have
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the best ice cream. We walked by yesterday, and this shop, the line was really long
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That was Sunday. Today on Monday, they're still a line but not quite as many people. So we have pistachio and coffee. I really like the crunched up peanuts on top. Quite good
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All right. It's good ice cream. Okay, so we have the Iskender, um, donor
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And, um, we're familiar of donor kebab. Duna. And we have the donor meat, and it's on top of bread, and it put the tomato sauce on it
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and then they pour hot butter over the top. And then you have your yogurt on the side with the pepper and tomato
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So different way to eat Duna Let see That good One apache
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One appetite. All right, Betty, so what are we eating for breakfast
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For breakfast today, we're having a cheese burrek and also half cheese
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and half potato barrette that's been cut up a nice bite-sized pizza and we're also having
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finished pita with cheese inside and it's delicious and large cups of try tea and it's
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okay and it's right down the street from our air bamb we just found it yesterday and so we're
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excited that um we have a good pita place to try delicious delicious
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All right, sounds great. Hello, everyone. So we are about to have some baklava and ice cream here at this place
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We would do this place at another location, and it was excellent cake in baklaba
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And we've been reading about baklava with ice cream. So we're pretty excited to try that
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And we're also getting a chai, the traditional tea, and a Turkish coffee
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Can't wait. So, right, so we have our baklava. It looks really good
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We've got some ice cream, some pistachio, and cream. And we have a nice chai there, and I have a traditional Turkish coffee
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So it kind of looks like an espresso, but it's made a little bit differently
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It's not cooked in like a pressurized, like an espresso. but it's cooked in a little pot and the grounds the coffee is like really thinly ground up
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finely ground up and they actually just boil the coffee grounds into the water so at the bottom
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of your cup there's going to be some mud some coffee grinds but it's really good really
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powerful coffee and now we get to eat our baklaba. All right, so we have a dinner guest this evening and we walked down our neighborhood just down the road and we got this little place that makes homemade bento noodles and they are outstanding
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We were heard two days ago I think and wanted to come back so these noodles are really good
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We had chicken the other night and now we got beef. They've got some kimpob and we got the kimchi kimbob the other night we had beef and
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So yeah, this has been a real fine in our neighborhood to come here and get these bento noodles
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They're really quite delicious and then you never know who's going to join you for dinner. All right, so we've got these things
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They're like donut holes. I don't know how else to describe them. Little pistachio powder on them and see them around people selling them
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So the service might be terrible, but generally they're pretty tasty snack
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Ketchi barbecue. It's supposed to be the best burgers in this temple
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If you've had your fill of traditional Turkish food and you need something different
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you can get a great burger and fries from Ketchi barbecue. It was delicious and really hit the spot
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Oh, my, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Oh my man! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, what's shirny
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My name is Lee
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My name is Ilhan. Yes. No. No. Pist, piced. Ah, yes. Okay, one minute, one minute
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Okay, one minute. Extra for you, okay? Ah, okay. Okay, all right
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Bye bye. Okay so we are at Bitt Hope I pronouncing that right in the middle of Istanbul uh not far from the grand bazaar i think
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not too far from the grand bazaar so a very busy part of part of town but this meal was fantastic
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our tour guide when we first got here recommended this restaurant to us so this is the second time
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we've been here so it's a wednesday evening so it wasn't too busy so
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night, but the service was fantastic, and our food was really good. The dish I had was the same
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name as the restaurant, Bid Liesli, the garlic dish with lamb. It takes about 30, 35 minutes to cook
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Well worth the weight, that was absolutely delicious. Fetti had chicken kebabs. They were
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also fantastic. You could tell they were cooked on the grill. Really good. We had an appetizer
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An appetizer, it's called like a meatball or something like that, but it doesn't have any meat in it
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But we didn't really care for that too much. But I mean, it was okay, but it wasn't the best thing we had
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But they give you free appetizers, which were really good, like some sort of vegetable dip
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and they gave us some sort of sauteed onions. Those were very tasty, and then they gave us lots of chai to drink
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So very good. If you're in Istanbul, in the middle of the same
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by the bazaar come to Pidlisi and you will not be disappointed it was an excellent meal
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right so this is the dish of canufe canape not really sure but it's kind of like a
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dessert dish it's sweet has pistachio and roasted coconut but it has like cheese in the middle
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so it's not too sweet so it's a good balance of sweet and
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flavor i guess and uh let's see if we get some of this see the cheese pulling there
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that's very good just when you think it's a little too sweet sweetness goes away and you get that
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cheesy taste it's a really really good balance very nice dish i wish i knew exactly what it's called
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We'll put it in them screen, but very tasty, very delicious. Right around the corner from our Airbnb was our favorite fish restaurant
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It's not a fancy place, but it offers delicious fresh fish at a great price
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They start you off with the free appetizer of fresh bread and dips. Be sure to order a fresh salad and the delicious calamari as a starter
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We tried several different fish dishes and all were incredibly delicious. To top it off, the meal ends with a free dessert and a hot glass of chai
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All right, so this is really good. Everything we got. He took me inside
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They have like a little bar. He pointed some stuff out and told me what it was. He said he bring us like some sample dishes
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All right. So we have our, I guess, appetizer plates, and we have some hummus, some grapeies. This is kind of like the cold dish
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And then we have some different soups, vegetable soup. That is lambshank
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I don't know. It all looks really good. Fantastic. It's really good. And then we got a kebab
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Don't know. We got a kebab coming or a donor. And can't wait to try that
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Alright, so we have our Cape up donor wrapped up in pita
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Looks really good. All the appetizers were outstanding. Alright. After dinner, chai
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Of course, no trip to Istanbul is complete without up some locum, otherwise known as Turkish delight, to pack into your suitcase for the trip home
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Thanks for joining us on this tour of the culinary delights of Istanbul
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