okay now what do you see yes what's that hair
turkish food is considered as one of the most diverse in the world we are in istanbul
and what better way to explore a new country than through food that is so delicious today
we've enlisted the help of a friend local foodie and pastry chef isago with her help
we will be showing you the must try foods and drinks of istanbul and make sure you stick
around till the end where i eat a very obscure dessert that has a very unexpected ingredients
okay guys so this is a typical kavalti restaurant means breakfast
breakfast is a big deal over here we're just going to start with my favorites basically
we will have some of the menaman over here is a very typical dish everyone eats it
most of the day like every day basically it's a type of scrambled eggs with some tomato sauce
you can come with like different cheeses different vegetables or stuff this will be like a savory
thing and then we are going to get some type of typical honey honeycomb basically and some kaimak
i think kaimuk is quite special chinese everywhere but kaimak is very turkish this is exciting
so obviously we have to start a food and drinks tour with some turkish tea now we've had this
a few times already every turkish person seems to drink this any season any time of the day it
doesn't matter it's always time for turkish tea and sugar we both like it quite sweet
but it basically is just regular bitter tea i would call it black tea cheese
very hot it's very hot literally so here we have some turkish bread this is former
breakfast bread called kete i'm gonna take some of this cheese that is buffalo milk
and then some honey
yeah see what this is like
that's honey it's so sweet wow that is really tasty so the cheese isn't necessarily a cheese
it's just the fat top layer of buffalo milk so hence why it's probably quite neutral wow that's
so good oh i love that that is wow that is like the best honey ever so we're gonna try the savory
dish now which is manaman which is kind of similar to shakshuka in the sense that it's got the tomato
sauce the eggs in there and green pepper but the eggs are scrambled in the sense as opposed to just
clocked in there it's also had with bread which is something that i quite like about turkey they
have bread with everything oh and there's cheese in this one too right yes ah forgot about that
oh that's like a hearty warm definitely a nice breakfast dish but i did this any time of the
day 100 i like that it's good what a great first meal to start on i think we'll be eating a lot
of that honey and kaimak during this trip on our way to the next place asia girl is taking
us through kuchukuma street a more local area of the city center of istanbul filled with artwork
antique shops and colorful buildings the first main meal of the day today is at this place a
restaurant called baran after a matter of seconds of ordering a dough is rolled through a machine
covered in a meaty spread and thrown in the oven within two minutes a perfectly cooked lama jun
is ready for us to eat alongside one of the many local drinks we're going to be trying today
this one is a form of salty yogurt called iron let's see what it's like
it's simply just like yogurt salt and water we just rip it out a little bit of salt yes it is we
eat yogurt always salty okay yeah only kids maybe eat like fruit yogurt okay so you're trying yes
wow that's not at all as i was expecting it is salty it is salty i like salty stuff but with
yogurt in my head it's meant to be sweet it grows on you hmm tastes like salad dressing a little bit
i know maybe like hip here yeah hippie butter milk yeah like i said it grows on you
that's not me for me it tastes like something's gone off like really sour my eyes are watering
so it's like basically two pieces this one so you start with the lemon juice you just like
pour it all over and after whatever you want from here for example i don't like onions but
it's up to you however you like you will just have a little bit inside and then a
little bit of the adjustment like spice mash this really also gives a lot of flavor like
i do this right in the middle and you you want to you don't want to feel it too much
otherwise you don't feel the pizza right you will just like
roll it
kind of like a burrito yeah like this oh that's nice the lemon really brings out
the taste in everything quite meaty sour not spicy very nice
so this one only this is like the name of it it's one of the oldest confectionary shops over here so
we're here to try to turkish the lights but when it comes to lights you can get good turkish slice
and bad turkish plates okay and better question more out there basically it is more like colorful
a bit more touristic okay it looks nice but it doesn't taste good so this is exactly where
turkish people are buying their truck slice from okay so all of these are different church slices
like different flavors most of the time it's either the nuts like hazelnuts pistachio
almonds these are the things that that's changing or the fruity flavor so it can be like orange
pomegranate different versions okay this is already my favorite time of the day it is turkish
delight time we are sat in a very old school confectionary place called aoi muhidin hashi pekis
it's written down here we're here for the turkish delight now we have a few different flavors we
have rose we have pomegranates and pistachios we have lemon we have hazelnuts orange and then
a coconut roasted almond variation here as well alongside some turkish tea of course i'm going to
try the rose one smells nice um oh wow actually smells like rose in a good way it smells like
rose because you don't want to be eating flowers necessarily but that's like sweet understated
i feel like a fancy old lady eating this this is so good i don't know if i've ever actually
really tried turkish delights i know my mum likes turkish lights hello ma'am i'm going to try one of
the nutsy ones this is pomegranates and pistachio mmm wow delicious that is lovely oh really nice
it's lovely really nice not my new favorite thing thanks to like good thing we're in turkey
yeah delicious so yeah we are having durum over here it's the type of bread
the room is it can be made from chicken tomatoes vegetables everything can be dirty right okay
we are here in this shop because they are cooking both the bread and the meat on the actual charcoal
rather than the grill you know like electrical so yeah they are making it in a very traditional way
this is a type of flat bread called lavash whilst it's cooking the fat drips off and he puts the
meat in the bread so that the fat all drips in sorry for all you vegetarians and we also
have some pickles chilies that meant to be a little bit spicy so i'm gonna stick some
of those in there and we realized that anthony bourdain has eaten here so you know it's good
well it doesn't always mean that it's good but you can assume that it will be good
wow that is delicious nothing like any kebab you would get in the uk you could taste the smokiness
of the charcoal on the bread on the meat as well i'm not usually a huge fan of raw onion inside
something like this but it kind of goes together well the meat is tender nothing inside this is dry
best kebab i've ever had so i've got my kebab now i've just been told that even though i think a
kebab is anything that's got meat inside that's not necessarily what it means it means anything
that's been marinated and cooked on cold in mine it's more cheese oriented it's still got the same
raw onion bit of parsley tomato in there but there's no meat it's just cheese that is
so delicious like dylan was saying you can see how moist it is there's no sauce necessarily in
there just everything is nicely marinated i like onion and the raw onion is really adding to this
even if you don't like raw onion it's like almost used as a herb in this instance as opposed to like
a filler it is really delicious it's approved by anthony bourdain it's approved by adriana
before we move on to the next place we've got to try this adama shalgam which is essentially like
a fermented beetroot drink which is commonly had with kebabs of any nature oh okay i should not
have smelt it no look at that so it actually does smell like pickle juice a little bit
it's not sweet it looks innocent pink oh cute smells like the opposite of what it looks like
it's sour it is straight up tasting a little bit like pickle juice i don't love this one i
think i prefer the yogurt from her hair give me a slime okay you want to try it
yeah it does taste like what these have been pickled in
ah it's sugar-free that's good maybe it needs a little bit of sugar i'm gonna say no to that one
the drinks for me today have been not my not my taste
okay now we're on to get some more small things to eat now if you want to try any of the things
in the video today we'll put all of them all the location tags in the description box below
i have a very good server thank you very much you can try these two yeah the stuffed mussels
are stuffed the type of spicy rice neither one of them tastes like mussels which is like most
of the other spices and other ingredients and we have the fried mussels over here on a streak
so we're currently sat in ardell gusta coco arnold is the chef and he's fried us up this feast
the mussels stuffed with a little bit of spiced rice we've got some sardines that are sort of
breaded almost like corn flour covered and fried so they look like this and then we've got the
almost sort of tempura mussels all with some tartar sauce so it's like a seafood feast if
you will okay so as you can see it comes with two shelves how we do is you just squeeze a little bit
of lemon juice all over it so it has the mussels up and down and it's filled with this rice inside
basically so this is like a spoon it comes with a spoon so you just like scoop it like this
i needed the wrong piece yeah yeah yeah beautiful almost perfect doesn't taste so much like muscle
the rice in there it's almost like a little bit spiced rice like a spiced paella
simple yeah tasty very good then we have the anchovies
not as salty as the anchovies in malaysia there is bones in there but not like bones like you'd
expect in a fish nice mine one of the really really nice things about these little side
streets in turkey is that they're one very unexpected too full of food and drinks and
really nice people so basically anywhere you can look there's somebody having a drink some coffee
definitely a lot of tea and we are on our way to the next little snack foodie place and onwards we
go after the best kebab i've ever had it's time to nibble on some tasty snacks on the way to the next
place asiagol takes us through one of the many small markets in and around istanbul and shows
us the tools used to make traditional turkish coffee that's not what we're having next up
next today is a traditional pickle shop this place is full of anything pickled that you can imagine
adriana loves pickles myself not so much but i'll give any chili a are an integral staple
of turkish cuisine and a glass of pickle juice is famed as a quick tasty and natural cure for
headaches i think i'll stick to ibuprofen though let's move on to something a bit sweeter shall we
my favorite time we've just come to a place called sapa which is a buckle of our place they have some
other stuff too but we're here specifically for the baklava now he offered us a tiny tiny little
piece it wasn't even that tiny he offered us a small piece of baklava whilst we were looking at
the dish super delicious but what we've actually decided to go for today is sort of a summer
variation of bakula they look like this it's made the same way as regular baklava that you may have
seen previously except that the syrup is replaced with a sort of milky syrup and there's sort of
grated cocoa powder on top they look amazing they definitely look a little bit messier to eat than
the regular baklava and if you've seen our last video in turkey then you would have seen us having
some baklava at the olu where that baklava was not like this because we ordered the original
now this is less original but also very much a favorite of the people so let's check in
oh yeah
oh that's actually really really nice it's obviously not crispy at
all so it's just like super moist like super moist and like a little bit cool
i can see why it would be really popular during the summer time nice that's good
this is more like a dessert than a snack i think i could eat more of these than a normal bachelor
wax is less rich and easier to eat more of that one's probably the nicest one today
really really good asian girl said there's one more place today she's going to take us
that has a very interesting ingredient and she's not going to tell us what it
is and it's not vegetarian i've got chocolate alone gone okay goodbye
you look nervous this is a type of milky dessert it has some milk inside and milk rice sugar
and there's one ingredient that's secret so what they do is they basically just put this into the
tray they burn one side and it's caramelized this is just like caramelization simply
and then they will just like scoop a little bit of cinnamon all over it's good okay we're currently
in karakoy and we have this dessert which has a secret ingredient in there okay you have to
take care of the texture it will give you the clue the texture shall i all of it yes
what does it taste like a little bit cinnamon a little bit burnt but taste and texture i don't
know okay now what do you see yes what's that hair it's not hair it's like um bone marrow or
something like that or it's not bone marrow um but you're getting closer you know muscle it's
not muscle can you guess i know what it is oh you know what it is i know what's inside which is why
i'm not having it so that gives a little clue that this is not vegetarian yeah i know it's
not vegetarian that's why i was but don't don't think along the weird path think along what do
you normally eat but you wouldn't necessarily put in a dessert much like meat yeah like beef buffalo
no sheep should i go ahead yeah okay so let me just show you so as you can see it stretches out
and it has kind of like a hair-like fibers which is kind of like shredded chicken simply it's
chicken it is called kazandibe this one uh the original version is simply directly translated as
chicken breast pudding i didn't know it was actually chicken until i was like 12. you know
what do you think about it now not bad i'll give it a 5 out of 10. i'll take it thank you very
much bye wow what a day eating some of the most delicious sweet sour and savory dishes that turkey
has to offer we couldn't believe how surprisingly salty that yogurt drink was and it's safe to say
that the turkish delight was the most delightful i've ever had thank you to the lovely asian girl
who showed us some amazing foods and drinks here in istanbul from the absolute classics to the
somewhat more obscure local dishes if you're interested in booking your own tour with her
her instagram is in the description box below if you've enjoyed this video we think you'll
really enjoy the video on the screen where we saw what we can get for 100 us dollars here in turkey