Turkey is the perfect destination for foodie travellers. We can find a
vast variety of foods to try, and trust me, you will not get tired of the food
options, even every day we can have something new, it doesn't matter if you choose street foods,
homemade food type, or even a high-end restaurant, there are plenty of choices for all budgets.
In today's video, we're going to make a foodie tour with only 10 U.S. dollars and
for that, we have chosen one of our favorites areas, Kadıköyö on the Asian side of Istanbul.
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if you are ready, then let's discover together how many street foods we can get with 10 dollars.
So finally today we're going to show you what you can get as street foods
in Istanbul for only 10 U.S. dollars and as of today 10 U.S dollars is the equivalent to almost
almost 160 liras, so we're going to show you how much you can get in Istanbul with only 160 liras.
This is one of the most famous street foods in Turkey, and kokoreç is a dish that consists of
goat or lamb intestines, yes, intestines! but don't get scared, kokoreç is really tasty and it's a
must try dish. So our first stop was stopping to buy some kokoreç and mussels, filled mussels or
in Turkish "midye". As many of you already know, one of my favorite street foods in Turkey is of course
the midye and I could eat this every single day. For this occasion I'm just trying to get
a little bit of everything because we are going to try to eat as much as we can with only 10 U.S.
dollars because we want to show you how much you can really get with 10 dollars which is
plenty of foods, so in this case, I only got a small piece which is 1/4 of kokoreç
bread, you can also get the half of it or the full one but it is only for myself
so it's more than enough 1/4 and this was was only 30 Turkish liras and each piece of
mussels were 2.5 Turkish liras which I believe it is quite affordable.
Now it's the turn for the delicious midye and these ones are just delicious! As you can see
these are stuffed or filled with rice and the only thing that you have to do is just put some lemon
as much as you want really, I like it with plenty of lemon and then you're gonna use
this one to scoop it out and then you're gonna eat it. Oh! Even my mouth is watering right now,
I love them!
and of course, another delicious meal that you can enjoy in Istanbul is the beautiful and famous tantuni.
Tantuni is basically made of minced meat and you can also find it with the chicken option but
in my case, I like it more when it's with red meat, the beef meat, and as you can see this is
also in a dürüm, a burrito type and you can also ask for it inside a bread but I personally
like this one more, and then you can put also this pepper which in Turkish they know it
as "turşu" so you just put it here also, you will put some lemon, the lemon,
because lemon will enhance the flavor, I just love everything with lemon, and you can take a bite.
This food is really delicious, it's so tasty, and it is so affordable, the piece is only 32
Turkish liras, remember that on the screen we are going to be writing also the equivalent in
U.S. dollars so you will have an idea, but this one, I also love it, actually I love everything.
Another option for affordable foods that you can try in Istanbul is of course the
lahmacun, we already introduced you to our favorite places in Istanbul to have some of these.
If you want to go check that video out, we will be leaving the link somewhere here so
you can go click after finishing this video of course. So this is also very affordable
and before the inflation going on in Turkey it was even more affordable.
Per piece even 3-4 months ago it was between 9 to 12 liras depending on the place,
right now for this one, we paid 20 liras, still it's affordable but it's not as before of course,
but yeah, you will really enjoy this, this is another thing that I like eating.
In our next stop, of course it has to be some "turşu suyu"
or pickle juice, this is also very famous in Turkey and you cannot go without trying one of these,
there is not a middle point, either people love it or hate it, in my case I love it,
especially in summer, this is very refreshing so you can find it in many places, especially in
Kadıköy, you will find it here and I already got mine it is cold and I love it,
this is so good also you have the option of getting only the juice or also you can choose if
they want to put the pickles or some other things you can choose from there and this one was only
4 lira I think, only 4 liras for this one, and the other one with pickles and some other
vegetables it will cost you about 7- 8 liras I think but this is also affordable.
Now we have gotten this "Islak burger" or wet hamburger and these ones are
quite famous in Turkey, but let me tell you something and I'll be very honest,
this is the very first time in all of these 7 years that I'm trying one of these,
I have seen them a lot on the street but this is the first time, I said, "okay, why not?" this will
be the time for trying them and one piece was 19 Turkish liras and as you can see it's all
covered in tomato sauce, it's quite hot so let's see how it is, I have never tried it.
Not bad, not the best either, I mean, for the first time that's okay.
We still have a little bit of money left and we decided to go try some "çığ köfte" which by the
way çığ köfte is also very famous in Turkish cuisine and this one is literally çığ köfte
means raw meatballs but in reality it's not made of raw meat anymore so this is made of
bulgur and some spices and many other things and actually, if you're vegetarian or vegan,
this is vegan-vegetarian friendly food so you should try çığ köfte if you are in Turkey.
so we got it in a dürüm, as you can see, I'm sorry but I already gave it a bite
and this is what it looks inside and this is very tasty as well or you can only get the çığ köfte
balls and you put them in lettuce leaves and that way you can also eat them.
And this dürüm was only 12 Turkish liras which I believe it is very very affordable
And finally we are here getting our last meal with 10 U.S. dollars in Istanbul, and this time we
are getting the dessert and of course, we have to finish with the best part of a meal with the
dessert and we are getting the famous kunefe and kunefe is a dessert in
Turkey and many other nearby countries, which is mainly filled with cheese and this
is one of my favorite desserts as well so as you can see we have it here and let's try it
this one was 35 Turkish liras and with this we have finished our budget, we only
have 3 liras left but with 3 liras we cannot buy anything except 1 bottle of water
so that will be it for this video.
So this was our foodie tour in istanbul with only 10
U.S. dollars, as you could see we were able to get plenty of foods with this amount of money
and we wanted to show you not just how much food you can buy with this budget but also
we wanted to give you an introduction into Turkish cuisine. If you enjoy the video, please
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