the asian site of istanbul it's one of
the most affordable places in the world
and for those of you who have never seen
it hello
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we're in kadikoy this is a one of the
districts in istanbul they have 32
districts it's a massive city 17 million
people it takes you forever
even with the cap it took us like 20
minutes to get here i love these
restaurants everywhere you walk by here
there is a restaurant or cafe with a
very open terrace it's quite a social
culture here everyone's sitting outside
it doesn't matter if it's a rainy day or
not they still enjoy everything from
jewelry shoes underwear clothing i saw
some fancy dresses and
everything they seem pretty fancy i
don't know if they're expensive or not
pretty well designed it's quite cool
they are like a chanel type
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so from what i'm seeing every restaurant
has a terrace and endless
shopping the big brands the small brands
the turkish brands the brands we never
heard of to reach the area that we're
going to called moda it's an hour and a
half walking we got some rain but so
what is so refreshing
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you can wear masks if you want to but a
lot of people are not wearing masks
they're bringing the fresh air even
inside stores it's not it's not an
obligation if you want to you can but
yeah it's been
very comfortable like that
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very cozy place here
this is the menu
this is incredible and it's turkish
pizza too
look they have the coolest cocktails
this is a mojito red hot chili margarita
i love their presentation
they come up like with the most creative
and beautiful ways to present food again
to attract you to their table
detox and mine it's like
it has gene it has i don't know what but
it looks so delicious staying on the
healthy side
it's strong but it's so delicious that's
how you drink alcohol with something
healthy and put some juice in it right
so this is something like a pita bread
and there's no coincidence that on this
part of the world they use so many
spices
baked to perfection and covered with
these fine spices it's incredible and
then all the little dips they use over
the bread in valencia you can really
go really authentic with the food for
example if there was a turkish
restaurant they would make only dinner
kebab and something that it's just a
little more accepted by the locals they
don't go full on authentic turkish food
and it's a shame because you know the
food is incredible and you can have
people that go there just try their food
yeah in berlin for example i tried great
turkish restaurant
but not in spain they don't they just
keep it very very basic same with syrian
and other middle eastern places very
basic the valley in istanbul is
something
all of this i had an alcoholic cocktail
detox green
smoothie
pelegrino water a big large water
pellegrino
and the food that we had
it's like 16
not even euros so it's like 14 15 euros
incredible this in l.a just a cocktail
it's 17 dollars
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yeah this is boysenberry white
boysenberry so rare i haven't seen it
insane yet it's so sweet but it's
natural sweetness it's like any dry
fruit
check out the apple pool it's like a big
another big bag
so futuristic high windows all glass and
it looks like it has a little garden up
there
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nachos mini quesadillas
thousands of salads
mexican food and all the places are like
from 3000 thousand enough reviews it's
incredible
until time i promise i'm gonna try it in
pretty much every place we go
so let's compare this one to the one at
the hotel
on point
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cats are literally everywhere
look at this beautiful park
can you hear the prayer
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it's a snail
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so on the first level it's only the big
massive luxury price and then it says mr
aquarium
but i don't know how real that is and
then we're gonna go to turkish village
with restaurants and more markets
let's explore
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these are real flowers look
i love it look at this it's like an old
laundry laundromat
and that's turkish village really cool
we're gonna try a few of these places
but look how cool it is
i'm getting a little bit of a vegas
vibe it's very cool
they made these like interior houses
like a street life here and of course a
lot of foods
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that's the menu
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i give it 11 out of 10. i had only this
one only a couple times the trader joe
version of onion soup which was pretty
good so these two i read in the reviews
it's supposed to be
mind-blowing let's see
very good
so they didn't have the sea bass which
is fine you know
we're gonna replace it with the dijon
master salmon which i'm sure it's gonna
be excellent i learned from gary vee
that wherever you go
try not to bring your impressions about
what kind of wine you like and so on
just try something new try something
that's local from the region and i did
that i said just give me something
strong powerful full body flavorful and
i'm trying this turkish wine it's merlot
but it's
excellent
oh my god
they just arrived with our dessert and i
was so shocked this dessert is called
surprise
and on the on the menu it looked like a
handful
bowl of chocolate but we got this
it's a chocolate shell and they pour hot
chocolate so it breaks the shell and it
opens up the inside and it has like ice
cream some pomegranate sorbet i don't
know it's so good i love this place
what do you say what they say no what
day is it today it's my favorite day
istanbul got moody today i've been
craving this so much cotsy meat it's a
round bread when you cut it and toast it
with butter
fresh orange juice
oh look at the tiniest meat it's a
typical turkish breakfast so tiny so
cool
tomatoes
oh they have some cheese pastries
eggs
oh that's nice cheese with some water
look how nicely presented it
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now the sugar conversations will start
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this restaurant was recommended from the
reception
at the hotel
what an incredible view the restaurant
is situated right on the bus for us so
don't know what to expect but it seemed
full and beautiful
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oh wow so it is this restaurant that's
the terrace
so happy we made it here
the place is pretty cool
it is very big kind of family style
maybe
big chef brings a big book for a big
order
with great pictures by the way
all right let's dive in it has a lot of
options from burgers to pizza to pasta
to some traditional turkish
dishes fajitas everything actually not
just for show this is a way of
transportation here in istanbul
ginger is sour it looks very good
here
this is a big fajita cold soup made out
of yogurt and cucumbers and possibly
garlic and this is like a palaco bowl
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into a little tray with a little flour
and a
chocolate truffle
this is my
my sleepy tea this is called
baked alaska
look at this old raspberries
and the prices are very very very
reasonable and that's why istanbul was
rated as one
of the most affordable cities actually
number one
european city
and
it is it is worth coming here and
experiencing that
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you