good morning guys its a beautiful morning here in istanbul turkey i actually landed here in
istanbul last night but this is my first time taking out my camera since i've left bali and
i am so excited to be in a new travel destination i'm going to be here in turkey for an entire month
traveling around the country and i can't wait to share my experiences of istanbul and obviously
the rest of turkey with you guys it is going to be an incredible adventure so i'm starting off
my trip here in turkey in istanbul i'm going to be here for an entire week i'm staying with my
friend jeanette she's actually working right now so i'm gonna go out and explore by myself and my
very first thing that's live and my very first thing that i want to do is go and find a turkish
breakfast so i'm looking for a traditional turkish breakfast i'm gonna head up to the basic square
area and hopefully find some food okay guys so one of the first things i've noticed here in istanbul
is that there are cats everywhere look at this cat so chill there's a cat chilling on this table
it's a pretty big dog next to it it's got a tag so it's like a street dog but it's got a tag
and there's another cat up there hello and there's another dog here a massive one oh my
god it's huge so something i've already noticed is some interesting cars but also so many beautiful
for buildings i don't even know what this is but this is literally
like three minutes walk from where we're staying this huge ancient wall
bazaar indonesia one of the first shops i've seen so one thing i'm quickly learning is
that istanbul is quite famous for its rooftop terraces so you might see like a small little
restaurant what looks like a small restaurant on the outside and then once you go inside and
go all the way up the steps you'll notice that there are a lot of terraces and seats and tables
on the roof so i'll definitely be showing you a few of these because they have amazing views
often you can see the water see the asian side of istanbul and then you can see maybe
the blue mosque or you can see haya sofia so really cool views from these rooftop terraces
this is a mini bazaar so lots of shops selling different types of tea i think it is hello
lazy sure which is the best one all of them oh okay
thank you if you want to really seal the boxes
is it or it's turquoise oh it's turkish delight okay my first choker should like right it's good
we have so many different types of turkish delight here i always thought it was just
one type of turkish delight but no wow thank you i gotta go have breakfast see you again
so many beautiful mosaic tiles
look how beautiful this street is it's cold okay guys i've just come across this little cafe
uh in my general area where i'm staying it is called kosk cafe restaurant since 1981 they didn't
actually have breakfast written on the menu but the guy was like oh no i can make you breakfast
i can put something together and i think i'm like the only person here right now in this cafe um so
yeah looking forward to my first turkish breakfast check out this breakfast it looks incredible
so the guy pretty much went and made this for me especially
it's huge it's like this huge platter on the board and he brought me tea as well
oh got cheese cucumber with some chili on it tomatoes more cheese eggs olives i love olives
so much food i don't know how i'm gonna eat all of this and it all looks so delicious
i've missed cheese so much because you really get very much cheese in
indonesia it's not really a thing and also it's really expensive
oh my god a whole thing of olives so guys one thing i love about turkey and i've
realized this straight away by just having two meals here is that after you order food
and you're ready to pay often they will bring you one last cup of tea on the house for free
so you never have enough tea when you're in turkey especially in istanbul
as you guys can see corn is super popular snack on the streets here
so you always see these little corn stalls like this guy over here
look at the size of this dog oh my god jake jay makes friends everywhere it's either cats or dogs
look at the way it's sitting it's almost like a human
so they've just brought us a dish for free how kind is this what is just some sort of
salad with dressing and yummy yummy bread because you can never have enough fries
wow such balance check out this mother mixed mezzy platter wow absolutely incredible wow goodness
what is that it looks unreal little french fries in the middle oh my god happy jeanette
photo yes oh it's a video it's a video but you can be in it what is it what did
you order um they call it casserole a chicken casserole i don't think it's okay great thank
you thank you thank you so much thank you i'll take a video everyone but i feel like the um
they call a lot of things crossroads like basically if they cook it but
have you had the shrimp casserole i have not it's like it's basically shrimp
so essentially there's this one area which is kind of the area we're in right now in istanbul where
people love to go and take photos and there's all these beautiful rooftops with kind of carpets and
pillows all over the ground and you sit there and you have this amazing view of the city so
that's kind of what we're looking for i wonder how much so we are looking for some famous cafes
that we saw on instagram so this looks like to be one of them it's called santi santia
look at that view
okay so we've made it up to the terrace and we got one of the last kind of remaining
tables with a view let's just checking out the menu check out this view guys
okay guys so we actually just changed our table because we think this one has a better view
we've got the bridge and over there you've got let me focus it
got the galactic tower
you can see all the different terraces there's another terrace in here guys we
both ordered these uh caramel lattes it's my first coffee of the day
this is like street muscles apparently this is a popular like
snack snack here in istanbul have you ever seen street muscles before
you had some before right so random there's rice inside oh rice okay
oh gosh i don't need any more okay i will and i swear i've and i'm not joking i've
actually never eaten a muscle are you serious i'm not even joking how much are
well good guys i'm not even kidding i've actually
never eaten a mussel before so i'm kind of scared of seafood
okay now you're making me scared please bought us money so i guess i have to have it
thank you it's actually pretty good so we're checking out some sort of uh shisha bar harabe
yeah i know i wish they would warn when cool stuff is coming out
wow
okay yeah this is sick
wow
so guys just before i head home tonight i'm gonna get a donut kebab so excited about this
okay guys i'm gonna finish today's vlog right here as i head home
for an early night but be sure to check back for more turkey vlogs in the future