Balik ekmek (fish sandwich), a very popular snack.

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

Sahlep, whole milk and sahlep flour, which is a powder made from the dried roots (buds) of a wild Anatolian mountain orchid

Turkish coffee

Susurluk ayran, a popular drink made of yoghurt, water and salt

Salgam suyu, made with the juice of pickled red carrots

ıslak Burger, a steamed burger. With some ayran

Kadikoy market

Kadikoy market

Kokoreç, prepared by wrapping lamb intestines over skewered sweetbreads and other innards and rotating the log of offal over screaming hot charcoal

Midye Tava, fried mussels

Lahmacun, flatbread with spicy minced meat.

Balik ekmek (fish sandwich), a very popular snack.

Midye Dolma, mussels stuffed with seasoned rice. Sold as streetfood.

Turkish coffee

Kokoreç, prepared by wrapping lamb intestines over skewered sweetbreads and other innards and rotating the log of offal over screaming hot charcoal

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

Trying out some Turkish coffee

Midye Dolma, mussels stuffed with seasoned rice. Sold as streetfood.