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

Lahmacun, flatbread with spicy minced meat.

Salgam suyu, made with the juice of pickled red carrots

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

Kadikoy market

Lahmacun, flatbread with spicy minced meat.

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

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

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

Colorful mezze

Turkish pickles at a market

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

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

Midye Tava, fried mussels

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