- So check this out, it's Trevor James and today I'm
in Istanbul, Turkey and we're gonna have some
Turkish pizza, don't call it that though, it's pide.
We're gonna have some delicious pide, and we're at the
best pide place here in Istanbul, number one rated.
Let's go check it out.
Awesome.
This is what I've ordered here, these are the ingredients,
right, I've ordered three pide and what goes inside them,
what are these ingredients here?
- [Woman] This is Turkish sausage.
- [Trevor] Turkish sausage.
- [Woman] Meat from the cow.
- [Trevor] Meat from the cow.
- [Woman] Also from the cow meat and onions.
- [Trevor] Meat and onions.
- [Woman] And this is pastrami.
- [Trevor] Pastrami.
- Yes, and we have also a pide with cheese, traditional
cheese and it's coming here.
- It's coming here, this is the cheese right here.
- This is the cheese, yes.
- This is the traditional cheese.
Okay, thank you.
Okay then, this is beef with onions, right?
Okay, is this good?
Okay, good.
Awesome.
And this is a little Turkish sausage, Turkish sausage,
okay, put a few in there.
- [Woman] Six, seven, eight--
- [Trevor] Six, seven, eight okay.
Wow, look at that pide.
A little more?
Take this off.
Yeah, a little more okay.
Good.
Awesome!
Look at this oven, oh my god.
A little pastrami, fresh pastrami.
So this is the mixed pide, right?
- [Woman] Yes.
- [Trevor] Wow.
The pide was then pinched together by the hands of a master
pide maker, an uncommon thing these days.
Most pide in Istanbul is left open, but here it's made
the traditional way with the pide pinched closed.
Oh yeah, look at him load it up on that pide paddle.
Into the beast.
Now this is almost magical.
Mystical, a huge stone oven that pumps out pide so
delicious it's worth flying halfway across the world for.
And I found the spot.
I'm serious.
This whole experience was magic.
From being invited to the back kitchen to help make the pide
to watching the kitchen pump out its awesome art,
and to eventually eating with the owner.
And just look at this.
So much butter.
So much butter packed on, you'll gain weight just from
eating one bite.
Slathered in egg yolk and then the true magic.
Crack a raw egg yolk over top.
Boom!
Now this looks awesome.
And that's the type of stuff I can handle.
It's ready to be devoured.
But wait, there's more.
The traditional Turkish cheese pide and pastrami was
still being made, and you guessed it.
The same amount of excessive butter and egg yolk and raw
egg cracked over top are absolutely necessary.
Now that's what I'm talking about.
Oh.
Oh, wow, oh, wow.
Thank you, thank you.
Okay, awesome.
So this is the pide.
Okay.
You cut it, all right.
- (speaking Turkish)
- [Woman] It's also in the cheese.
- Eat with your hands, okay I can do that.
Thank you, he's really getting it ready for, oh, it's hot.
Look in there.
This is the mix, okay.
Check out this mix.
Wow.
That is really good.
That is mind blowing pide.
The pastrami is so fragrant.
The sausage is so satisfying.
And it's just really really buttery so it gives it a super
super amazing flavor.
That is awesome.
Thank you.
Oh the egg, the cracked egg, it's really,
it's really wet.
It's just really wet with eggs and juice and that beef
is just so awesome.
Mmm!
Mmm.
Wow!
Oh my god.
Look at the raw egg on there.
Mix it up, oh wow.
I am ecstatic right now.
That looks super oily and crispy.
And fatty.
And juicy.
And salty.
And cheesy, oh my.
Thank you, oh it's dripping.
It's dripping, look at that, look at that, it's dripping.
Okay.
Oh it's hot, it just came from the oven it's really hot.
Oh he's, okay.
Look at all the juice in there, look at all the raw egg.
Wow, it's just dripping with raw egg,
pastrami juice and butter.
Mmm!
It's so gooey, this one is really gooey.
And really really buttery.
And that raw egg just adds another dimension
of satisfying.
Amazing pide.
Mmm.
It's so cheesy.
And it's so crispy and buttery.
I'm gonna be honest here, it's heavy.
I feel like after I ate this it's gonna take a while
to digest this super heavy pide.
It's so buttery.
While it is super delicious, I can probably see myself
eating this only once a week, maybe every two weeks
because it's severely heavy.
They give you Iran to drink it down.
It clears it off, it's super sour, it's like a watered
down yogurt, and then there's some pickled vegetables
here as well, and I can see how you need this.
This is super heavy.
Oh.
Amazing.
It's good.
Thank you.
So good.
Thank you, so delicious.
Thank you, thank you.
Oh okay, thank you, thank you.
That was the best pide, super delicious, way better
than pizza, a little bit of a heart attack, but so,
so satisfying, I'm really full.
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