Istanbul

 

Gözleme, paper-thin, yeast-free yufka dough stretched into a crepe and cooked on an iron burner called a sac, filled with cheese and spinach
Lahmacun, flatbread with spicy minced meat.
börek
Midye Tava, fried mussels
Colorful mezze
Turkish coffee
Salgam suyu, made with the juice of pickled red carrots
Turkish pickles at a market
Kadikoy market
Trying out some Turkish coffee
Susurluk ayran, a popular drink made of yoghurt, water and salt
Kokoreç, prepared by wrapping lamb intestines over skewered sweetbreads and other innards and rotating the log of offal over screaming hot charcoal
Balik ekmek (fish sandwich), a very popular snack.
Kadikoy market
Midye Dolma, mussels stuffed with seasoned rice. Sold as streetfood.
Lahmacun, flatbread with spicy minced meat.
ıslak Burger, a steamed burger. With some ayran
Midye Dolma, mussels stuffed with seasoned rice. Sold as streetfood.
Kokoreç, prepared by wrapping lamb intestines over skewered sweetbreads and other innards and rotating the log of offal over screaming hot charcoal
Turkish coffee
ıslak Burger, a steamed burger.
Gözleme, paper-thin, yeast-free yufka dough stretched into a crepe and cooked on an iron burner called a sac, filled with cheese and spinach
Balik ekmek (fish sandwich), a very popular snack.
Sahlep, whole milk and sahlep flour, which is a powder made from the dried roots (buds) of a wild Anatolian mountain orchid
Susurluk ayran, a popular drink made of yoghurt, water and salt
Midye Dolma, mussels stuffed with seasoned rice. Sold as streetfood.