Istanbul

 

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