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in the video
what's up and welcome to another episode
of chopstick travel my name's luke
martin and today is day four here
in istanbul turkey this is our last day
here
and we still have a lot of things we
want to try so we've planned a full day
of eating and if you didn't see
yesterday's episode we tried
the most succulent and delicious cog
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kabob
so today for lunch we are getting our
meat fix we are at another kebab
restaurant here in istanbul
and i can see just layers of fat and
meat okay i'm just gonna rip a piece of
this little wrapper
off and then i'm gonna make my own
little
lamb kebab wrap and look at that oh man
that came off
really easily
that is seriously one of the juiciest
meats i've ever tasted so if you haven't
checked out that episode already hit the
link down in the description box and
like i said we've got a full day
of eating planned ahead of ourselves so
let's go get breakfast
so for breakfast today we are at a
little restaurant called la days menemen
and they are serving menemen which is a
turkish style of scrambled eggs and we
just ordered ours up
it is absolutely beautiful looking it is
these super super
creamy eggs and we ordered ours with
turkish sausage which is called
which is a beef sausage made with cumin
and spices and then you can just see
that this has been cooked actually
inside of the bowl that it's served in
so i'm gonna mix that up a little bit
there's also green peppers in there and
tomatoes
so over here we've also got ourselves a
chai and a drop in
nice little sugar cube here mix that up
and of course this is served with a huge
mountain of bread sort of like a
baguette style bread
so another thing you're going to want to
do with this metaman is add a little bit
of salt and pepper
so i'm going to add some salt in here
and add a little bit of pepper
it's not really seasoned before they
serve it to you so you're going to want
to season it yourself
and this is just super super creamy
check that out
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oh man it kind of reminds me of
chili like chili stew but i think
actually i could add
a little bit more spice they've included
some
chili pepper flakes on the table and i'm
going to add a little just a little bit
of this in here
it is smoldering hot there's oil forming
on the top of that
and let me grab some bread here rip a
piece off
so it is a quite a plain dish before you
season it you're definitely going to
want to season it i like it with a
little bit of chili pepper
and i love the turkey sausage in there
that sujook
look at that bite there's a ton of that
sausage
man and then lapping it all up with the
bread was
just seriously joyful so that place is
especially convenient if you're staying
in the taxi
area like we are for breakfast you can
go there it's open kind of all day and
also early in the morning
really good we are headed right now to a
palace to kind of digest the food before
we go on to the next one
turkish is one of those languages that
is quite hard to pronounce and the name
of this palace is no exception so i'm
going to put it on the bottom of the
screen here
but we are here in the palace now and
from what i understand this is where
the sultans moved after leaving the
topkapi palace yeah so we were just at
the takopi palace yesterday so we're
going gonna come and see
where they moved the ottoman sultans to
kind of this modern day
palace and there's like calligraphy
inside and different art pieces so
we're gonna go in and check it out yeah
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finished off exploring the palace that
was absolutely extravagant it is
so beautiful and really large
unfortunately there was no pictures
allowed
inside uh we are finished now though it
has started raining a little bit but i
think we're going to head to get lunch
now we're going to get a donut
so we have come to get our donor and we
are just blown away already from this
spot because he has literally
probably the world's largest donor kebab
i've
i've ever seen for sure i'm not sure if
there's a bigger one in the world let me
know down in the comment box
if there is but this guy is like the
king of kabobs
he's got this huge vertical spit with
all of that lamb meat roasting and it
just smells incredible we ordered ours
up we ordered the kind the p-day kind
which is with this
nice soft bread there is tomatoes and
peppers in there but it's really all
about that meat
so let me dig into this this just looks
too good
oh my god oh man
that is seriously good so it's not too
salty whatsoever
it's really the highlight there it's the
the
lamb meat is so ridiculously succulent
this puts the other donor we had at the
grand bazaar to shame this is
seriously good that massive
lamb spit is just completely dripping
with juices everywhere and i love the
bread that this is served in as well
and then a nice little vegetable green
pepper
tomato kick too let's go for one more
bite
so this place has become very famous and
that's probably due to the sheer
size of the display when you have places
like that sometimes the quality
is compromised but here is not the case
this is
really juicy and succulent and you can
tell that the meat is of high quality
really delicious it is raining quite
hard now here in istanbul but that donor
kabob
blew my mind seriously that is worth the
trip to turkey alone
definitely the best one i've ever had
and i'm guessing that's one of the best
in all of istanbul so we are in an area
that has a lot of good looking snacks
we've spotted something else up the
street so we're going to go try that
right now
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so we spotted this little cafe on our
way to the donors we decided to come
back and try it this
place is selling goslame it's a little
cafe so we ordered a mixed one so we're
just waiting for it to come now
so our flatbread has arrived we've
already tried this once here in istanbul
it's a really
like good on-the-go snack we ordered the
mix kind so i'm not exactly sure what
it's stuck with but i'm guessing it's
probably cheese
and i see some parsley peeking out so
let's just crack it
into it so we can see for ourselves what
is inside i don't
know if there's going to be meat i don't
really expect there to be meat but
potentially there is but definitely
cheese i can smell the cheese
oh yeah yeah so it looks like just
cheese and parsley actually
a couple different types of cheese maybe
look inside there oh man
look at that i see also some onions and
it looks like some tomatoes i don't know
if there's potatoes in it i don't think
there's potatoes just onions
okay i was wrong for sure there is a ton
of potatoes in there actually
and i don't think there's actually any
onions and it's kind of
starchy it's sort of like a potato
flatbread it kind of almost reminds me
of like a paratha
from india it's very hearty and i think
it could be cooked a little bit longer
because the outside
isn't very crispy let's try the tea
though
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yeah this is going to be filling but
let's keep going so that was
quite disappointing actually it is
really coming down out here
there is one more spot that we wanted to
try that is close to here
and that is for some seafood stuffed
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mussels
so we just got our stuffed mussels they
actually come in this kind of like
kentucky fried chicken style bucket and
you can see it is just
filled to the top with these stuffed
mussels these mussels should be stuffed
with
some spiced rice and we're also served a
lemon
so i'm gonna grab one of these i love
mussels and yeah look at that
homemade you can see the mussel there
with
all that rice in there oh man okay let
me break this off
grab a little bit of lemon definitely
want to squeeze some lemon on there
those are super super soft almost creamy
a little bit of sourness from that lemon
that rice isn't spicy it was definitely
a little bit of like a black pepper
flavor but that mussel is extremely
tender
just falls apart in your mouth oh man
this is like the perfect snacking food
just sit here and eat these if i can
open it up
there yeah check those out oh man
these are good a little bit more lemon
these are perfect snacking food i could
go
for a glass of beer right now so we did
a lot of snacking today for
lunch we are quite full those stuffed
mussels were particularly delicious and
that is a really popular spot
so i think we're going to head now to
get a cup of coffee
some more super tea teaspoon yeah
three scoop okay medium sugar four
one not full two
half okay okay
hot water one cup
okay just one cup mix
so for coffee today we are at the most
famous place
to try traditional turkish coffee this
place is called mandabatmas
this is a over 50 year old cafe and we
just ordered up
our beautiful cup of turkish coffee you
can see there
it is the extremely thick dark
coffee and the way that they make it is
pretty unique the owner actually just
walked me through the steps they
mix in the coffee grinds which are
specifically ground to be turkish coffee
and mixes it with the amount of sugar
that you order and you don't boil
the coffee you actually just bring it up
to the right temperature and they use
it a special device that's like a little
copper pot handheld pot
that they use to cook it so this looks
like almost like the texture of like
melted chocolate or mud
oh man yeah
that'll wake you up in the morning for
sure that is
really really rich it's kind of got a
little bit of a bitterness and a little
bit of an acidity too
i ordered mine with the medium sugar
it's not too sweet
but it is all about the texture there's
almost like little
kind of sandy uh coffee grinds
in there it's almost gives it like a
gritty texture
but very very thick let me try one more
drink
oh man so like luke said this coffee is
very silty it's thick and unfiltered and
actually one of the traditions
is to leave the silt alone so that it
sinks to the bottom of your cup
and then when you are finished the
coffee you can use the patterns at the
bottom of the cup to tell a fortune so
you have to leave the silt alone when
you drink turkish coffee
i actually ordered mine without sugar oh
that is bitter that is like a punch in
the face
okay we are all revved up after that
super strong cup of turkish coffee
definitely try that place out for the
best authentic turkish coffee here in
istanbul
now we are heading to the other side of
the water to check out the egyptian
spice market
so we have made it to the egyptian spice
market this is similar to the grand
bazaar but
a lot less touristy it's also a lot
smaller
and as the name suggests they specialize
in spices here
so as soon as you step into this really
old building since 1664 you just get a
huge
waft of spices especially saffron
and it kind of spills into the outdoors
so we're in the indoor section now we're
gonna walk around check it out
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something you'll notice as soon as you
step outside of the
egyptian spice market indoor part to the
outdoor part is the smell
of roast coffee there are some really
famous coffee roasters that serve
the turkish coffee grinded beans to
pretty much the whole of turkey and you
can just
smell this like the smoky kind of
chocolatey
scent of that coffee in all these little
alleyways
so after all of that exploring in the
market that was a lot of fun but we are
getting a little bit hungry again so
we're heading now to a restaurant that
serves coco ridge
okay yeah all right
so we found the kokores stall and what
kokoraj is
is a traditional turkish dish consisting
of
lots of different parts of the lamb
so there is the small intestine that is
wrapped around all kinds of different uh
intestinal organs like the heart the
liver
the lungs the thymus gland and that is
all spiced
and then put on a spit and then grilled
so
i've ordered it up it comes kind of in a
sandwich here and he
he heavily spices it with some chili
flakes maybe it's a satire or
just thyme and then some salt so you can
see i've got my sandwich here
you can see all those uh lamb intestines
in there and honestly it smells and
looks a lot better
once you have it in your hand than the
way that it sounds
me describing it right there so let's
try it
oh man oh that is delicious
i was kind of thinking that it was going
to be a little bit chewy considering the
ingredients but actually it's very
tender
and very juicy and there's sort of some
little crispy bits in there as well
and honestly if you can get over the
fact that it's just a bunch of
intestines it is
really really delicious
okay guys that is going to be it for our
episode today and that will be it for
our series here
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exploring istanbul and i'm sure we will
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