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

Lahmacun, flatbread with spicy minced meat.

Salgam suyu, made with the juice of pickled red carrots

Turkish coffee

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.

Trying out some Turkish coffee

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

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

ıslak Burger, a steamed burger.

Turkish pickles at a market

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

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

Kadikoy market