Hi you two characters! I loved this video (and the 2 prior to this one) - the food looks amazing & I was drooling all the way through. It looks like a very interesting country & a feast for the senses. I hope Atlas didn't miss you too much 🥰
Thank you so much for the support! Food was amazing for sure! You can easily spend a week in the city alone exploring. Haha Atlas had fun with his babysitter back in Italy 😄 she always gives him extra snacks.
09:40 i guess it's "tahin pekmez", furthermore nothing on that table is random. You have to take little bites so it constantly refreshes your pallet and you can enjoy every bite. 11:00 that is not hellim, it's çeçil. 17:25 that's "bulgur pilavı" not rice. 24:55 coffees are legit but grand bazaar is a giant tourist trap. 3:25 that's hünkarbeğendi, lamb with mashed grilled aubergine sauce. 32:15 i think thats vegetarian version, because its banned to sell that on street. Those grains are bulgur.
Thank for the wonderful video. As a Turk i would advise you guys to find some local person and go to more local places. Prices will go down and experience will definitely go up. Over all great video.
We definitely will be coming back in the warmer months in 2025. In our three days so far we had a wonderful experience so I can’t even imagine it getting even better 😄
The second last lamb stew the sauce was made with eggplant and the last one the raw meat is actually not raw meat anymore but they use mostly bulgur instead of the meat these days.
Hi Vermon and Varyana, i am so pleased to whatch your video about Istanbul and Turkiye but i really wanted to make some comment about the things you lived on your trip. You have made many assumtions about the food you ate, yet most of them were accutaly wrong :D For example; Turkish people like to eat their food hot and with bread, for that reason, when we take bite of hot meat, rice and bread and chew it, we take a sip ayran to cool it down and make it easier to swallow ;) Sultan’s Delicacy is not the real name of the dish; it is Hünkar Beğendi, which means The Sultan Liked It :D and it is not a simple dish, in the contrary, it is the hardest dish a chef can ever to cook :D Because you have to master yourself in making Bechamel souce and create the best consistency with the eggplat paste with it. Plus you have to good at, making the beef dish, that comes on top of it. The Bagel you ate in the Street is a different type af simit we eat, than the bagel you ate in the restaurant. We acctualy have 4-5 types of bagel; the one you had in the Street is the original one which hard to chew, then we have one with milk, the one you had in the restaurant, which is soft. We have “gevrek” which is made in İzmir; another bagel which is more harder to chew, because it is mor tender, then we have açma that looks like bagel but it is much softer :D We Türkish people love food made of dough, for hat reason, we have tons of different dough food which looks the same but taste totally different :D The beer you drank was Efes Pilsen; Pilsener is almost the only type of beer Turkish people drink, we don’t have Ale or Larger in Turkey and Efes is the most popular brand we have in Turkiye… The thing you ate at 2:00 is called “Parmak Kızartması” which means “Fried Finger” and it is a rool of curd, thats means it does not have real cheese in it, instead we have salty curd. We have two different types of curd in Turkiye, the sweet curd and salty curd and they are used in baking pastry. The dish you ate at 2:20 is called “Yaprak Sarması” “Wraped Leaf” in English, we have many different types of “Dolma”, dolma means filling, we have “pepper filling”, we have “eggplant filling”, "cabbage filling", “tomatoes filling”, we have “zucchini filling” we even have “intestine filling”, “abomasum filling” and all of them taste great, one day you must try them all. We eat most of these food with yoğurt because it gives a greater taste to them. The bread you ate at 2:59 is actually baked at that moment for you ad it is free, with many things they brought to your table. It is a tredition in Turkiye to bring extra stuff for free. But i have bad news for you, the olive oil you have tasted at 3:24 is not “olive oil” :D Olive oil is very expensive in Turkiye, altough, we are the 4th olive oil producer, it is almost impossible to find real olive oil in the Turkish restaurants, it is most probably “sunflower oil” thats why the season them, so that you think it is olive oil :D Let’s come to the kebaps; the kebap you have tasted at 4:22 might not be a real lamb kebap :D Food fraud is so common in Turkiye and instead of using real lamb meat, they use chicken meat and add food colouring to turn it into red meat :D because it is sooooo expensive at the moment. The thing you tasted at 9:38 is called “tahin pekmez” which is “tahini and grape molasses”. The dish you ate at 10:29 is called “Su Böreği” which is boiled dough, filled with curd or white cheese and it is a real tasty börek. If it did not have enough cheese in it, it means that it is scam too. And you don’t eat that börek with honey or jam :D It has to have a lot of flavour on its own :D The fish you ate at 18:26 is called “Palamut” “Bonito Fish”, it is a very fatty fish with a great flavour and we love it so much that, we fry it, bake it and every thing. The thing you ate at 33:03 is called “Çiğ Köfte”, “Raw Meatball” which is forbidden by Turkish government to be produced with raw meat, so now we produce it with wheat and the grains you show is chunks of weat :D I am so happy to meet with you guys but i have to tell you this; if you visit a country like Turkiye, you have to visit it with a guide, who knows the place well and who knows the real restaurants which cook the real stuff, so that you wont be scamed.
Oh dear Vernon and Maryana, welcome to Turkey🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷. I watched your video about Turkish food. Honestly, I really admired your taste. You interpreted many of our dishes correctly. Vernon didn't know the Sultan's delight dish very well but he liked its taste. The eggplant in the bottom plate is roasted and then turned into paste and flavored with spices. You also liked the olive varieties. We feed the olives with oil so that they don't dry out and remain delicious. We flavor them with thyme and red pepper flakes. I hope your next stop is our beautiful Izmir. You can see the ruins of the ancient Greek Hellenistic age there too. You will experience a feast of flavors again and you can choose local wine producers. Have a good day, stay healthy and well.💖😇🙏
@@Grgur8899 Could you please enlighten us with your vast knowledge of the history of world cuisine? Which dishes are not Turkish, professor?! Turkish breakfast? Sucuk,? Pastirma? Menemen? Adana kebab? Hunkarbegendi? Mercimek corba? Sarma? Ayran? Simit? Inegol kofte? Bulgur pilavi? Yogurt? Baklava? Maras dondurma? Kayseri manti? Cig kofte? Anybody who is interested in food knows that these are well known Turkish dishes. As a matter of fact, some of these dishes are unique to Turkiye. Some have pure Turkish names, and the whole world uses the same names such as yogurt, pastirma, sarma, etc. If you can provide even single evidence that these dishes are not Turkish, I will delete my comment. Until then your comment can only be qualified as a typical example of garbage dumped under YT videos about Turkish cuisine/food.
@@atillakaragazi838 the dishes you see there have been eaten in the Middle East thousands of years before the Turks came there. read your story. Turks come from the Chinese steppes. Turks eat boiled horse meat in bladder
@@Grgur8899 What do you gain by telling such a blatant lie? You don't even know what you are talking about. 1) Some of these dishes I mentioned above includes ingredients like tomatoes, peppers, crushed chilies, paprika, beans, corn, tomato paste, pepper paste. All these ingredients came from Americas. Namely, these ingredients didn't exist in Europe and Asia until 16th century. As a matter of fact, there was no tomato paste until the 19th century and no pepper paste until 20th century. Without any shame you are claiming that people in the ME have been eating these for thousands of years. That is absolute anachronism. 2) As for hunkarbegendi. It is an Ottoman dish. It is invented in royal kitchen of Ottomans. No nation in the world knows how to cook eggplants better than Turks. We have about more than 350 eggplant dishes in Turkiye, which is more than the sum of eggplant dishes in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, N. Africa and Balkans together. 3) Again, we have hundreds of koftes in Turkiye. almost every city has their own version. Even Swedish meatballs are based on Ottoman koftes. When the Swedish king were in exile in Ottoman empire. He developed taste for it, and took the recipe with himself when he turned back to Sweden. No country in the world has more kofte varieties than Turkiye. 4) Similarly, we have hundreds of kebabs and boreks in Turkiye. No country in the world has more kebab and borek varieties than Turkiye. 5) Pastirma is an absolute Turkish invention. It comes from the Turkish word "bastirmak", which means "to press". That is exactly how you make pastirma. You press the meat under some heavy blocks and dry it. Arabs took it from Turks and they call it "basterma or basturma". 6) Just like pastirma "shawarma" and "awarma" are Turkish dishes. The original name of shawarma is cevirme, which means to rotate. Awarma comes from Turkish kavurma, which means to cook meat in its own fat or fry. Because Arabs cannot pronounce the original words. By time they turn into "shawarma" and "awarma". 7) Yogurt and ayran are both Turkish inventions. Both are Turkish words, and the whole world uses these names. 8) As for baklava, that is 100% Turkish. The correct word is pahlava. It comes from the Turkish word pahlava, pahlavu which means to layer and stack something. For example, in Turksih we call rolling pin as oklava/ohlava. Moreover, desserts like baklava, kadayif, and tulumba were not available to masses because sugar was extremely scarce and very expensive. Only in late 19th cc sugar was started to be produced in large amounts thanks to mass production, and general public became familiar with such desserts. For example, as early as 15th century, these desserts were prepared at the royal kitchen and served to Janissaries before their salaries were paid. This was a gesture of the sultan to acknowledge the value of their service and loyalty. Also, Ottomans had strong control over production and trade of agricultural products in its territory. Many countries incorrectly call a large family of desserts as baklava. We have more than 50 desserts with different names like baklava, sobiyet, sari sarma, saray sarma, dolama, sari burma, havuc dilimi, sutlu nuriye, sarayli, bulbul yuvasi, kusgozu, etc. You call all of them as baklava. If you add the naming convention based on ingredients and shapes, then there are hundreds of varieties in Turkiye. The gold standard for baklava is Antep-style baklava. Baklavas in the ME uses things like rose water, orange blossom. They tend to be very dry, and usually they have poor quality pistachios that should never be used in baklava. To be able to make Antep-style baklava, you need several masters working in tandem. One prepares the dough and turns them into extremely thin, almost transparent yufka sheets; another prepares the sherbet; another prepares the kaymak, another spreads the kaymak; one pours the pistachios and another pours the butter; one bakes it, one pours the sherbet. It takes years to become a master for each of these steps. Also, Antep-style baklava uses a certain grade of flour, semolina, butter, milk, pistachios. You cannot make baklava with any type of pistachios, flour and butter. Many of the dishes above are mentioned in Katip Celebi's Seyhatname, and kitchen logs of the Ottoman Palace. So, if anyone wants to make a claim about Ottoman dishes they have to provide written historical evidence. Yes, we have some dishes from Arab countries and Iran like humus, hibesh, muhamara, babaganoush, maqlube, lebeniye. I am not gonna spend any time for what you said about Turkish history and origins of Turks. You are parroting typical cliches mentioned in Orientalist sources. I cannot go into the details of what Turk means, where Turks came from, who they interacted with, how many states and empires they founded, how many states and empires they ended, which nations and ethnic groups they ruled. It is better to stay quite when you don't know much about something. I have no further comments.
@@Grgur8899 What do you gain by telling such a blatant lie? You don't even know what you are talking about. 1) Some of these dishes I mentioned above include ingredients like tomatoes, peppers, crushed chilies, paprika, beans, corn, tomato paste, pepper paste. All these ingredients came from Americas. Namely, these ingredients didn't exist in Europe and Asia until 16th century. As a matter of fact, there was no tomato paste until the 19th century and no pepper paste until 20th century. Without any shame you are claiming that people in the ME have been eating these for thousands of years. Can you bother to explain us how your ancestors or people in the ME/NA were making menemen or shakshuka without tomatoes and peppers before 17th/18th century let alone thousands of years ago? That is absolute anachronism. 2) As for hunkarbegendi, it is a %100 Ottoman dish. It is invented in royal kitchen of Ottomans. No nation in the world knows how to cook eggplants better than Turks. We have about more than 350 eggplant dishes in Turkiye, which is more than the sum of eggplant dishes in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, N. Africa and Balkans together. 3) Again, we have hundreds of koftes in Turkiye. almost every city has their own version. Even Swedish meatballs are based on Ottoman koftes. When the Swedish king were in exile in Ottoman empire. He developed taste for it, and took the recipe with himself when he turned back to Sweden. No country in the world has more kofte varieties than Turkiye. 4) Similarly, we have hundreds of kebabs and boreks in Turkiye. No country in the world has more kebab and borek varieties than Turkiye. 5) Pastirma is an absolute Turkish invention. It comes from the Turkish word "bastirmak", which means "to press". That is exactly how you make pastirma. You press the meat under some heavy blocks and dry it. Arabs took it from Turks and they call it "basterma or basturma". 6) Just like pastirma "shawarma" and "awarma" are Turkish dishes. The original name of shawarma is cevirme, which means to rotate. Awarma comes from Turkish kavurma, which means to cook meat in its own fat or fry. Because Arabs cannot pronounce the original words. By time they turn into "shawarma" and "awarma". 7) Yogurt and ayran are both Turkish inventions. Both are Turkish words, and the whole world uses these names. 8) As for baklava, that is 100% Turkish. The correct word is pahlava. It comes from the Turkish word pahlava, pahlavu which means to layer and stack something. For example, in Turksih we call rolling pin as oklava/ohlava. Moreover, desserts like baklava, kadayif, and tulumba were not available to masses because sugar was extremely scarce and very expensive. Only in late 19th cc sugar was started to be produced in large amounts thanks to mass production, and general public became familiar with such desserts. For example, as early as 15th century, these desserts were prepared at the royal kitchen and served to Janissaries before their salaries were paid. This was a gesture of the sultan to acknowledge the value of their service and loyalty. Also, Ottomans had strong control over production and trade of agricultural products in its territory. Many countries incorrectly call a large family of desserts as baklava. We have more than 50 desserts with different names like baklava, sobiyet, sari sarma, saray sarma, dolama, sari burma, havuc dilimi, sutlu nuriye, sarayli, bulbul yuvasi, kusgozu, etc. You call all of them as baklava. If you add the naming convention based on ingredients and shapes, then there are hundreds of varieties in Turkiye. The gold standard for baklava is Antep-style baklava. Baklavas in the ME uses things like rose water, orange blossom. They tend to be very dry, and usually they have poor quality pistachios that should never be used in baklava. To be able to make Antep-style baklava, you need several masters working in tandem. One prepares the dough and turns them into extremely thin, almost transparent yufka sheets; another prepares the sherbet; another prepares the kaymak, another spreads the kaymak; one pours the pistachios and another pours the butter; one bakes it, one pours the sherbet. It takes years to become a master for each of these steps. Also, Antep-style baklava uses a certain grade of flour, semolina, butter, milk, pistachios. You cannot make baklava with any type of pistachios, flour and butter. Many of the dishes above are mentioned in Katip Celebi's Seyhatname, and kitchen logs of the Ottoman Palace. So, if anyone wants to make a claim about Ottoman dishes they have to provide written historical evidence. Yes, we have some dishes from Arab countries and Iran like humus, hibesh, muhamara, babaganoush, maqlube, lebeniye. I am not gonna spend any time for what you said about Turkish history and origins of Turks. You are parroting typical cliches mentioned in Orientalist sources. I cannot go into the details of what Turk means, where Turks came from, who they interacted with, how many states and empires they founded, how many states and empires they ended, which nations and ethnic groups they ruled. It is better to stay quite when you don't know much about something. I have no further comments.
The ‘meat’ wrap you had is actually a vegetarian wrap. It is called çiğ köfte (raw burger), but for the sake of public safety, selling raw meat was banned in Turkiye. So, the substitute you get nowadays is made with bulgur and Turkish spices. But, of course, I do not know all the paces in Istanbul. Maybe they still serve the traditional stuff, but I would be surprised if they did. Many thanks, by the way, for this wonderful video.
I was surprised by the authenticity of this woman's taste. I didn't know she had done my research beforehand. In Turkey, drinks are probiotic, ayran, boza, turnip juice, pickle juice, kefir.. it seems strange when you first drink it but it is very healthy. She didn't say ayran to cut the oily effect, it shocked me. But it wasn't a full street food tour.. They haven't tried many things like fish wrap, mussels, kunefe, tantuni, börek, gözleme, kumpir, döner, iskender, pide, lahmacun, raki, mezes etc.. until next time.
Hi Maryana & Vernon, I was in Istanbul for the first time in the middle of October and loved all the Turkish food I tried… I ate street food & yummy restaurants!!! I do have to say that I’ve had Turkish food in the LA area and their food is amazing like in Istanbul 🇹🇷😋😜
Denediginiz yemekler ulkemizdeki diger lezzetli yemeklerin bin,de bir,i dahi değil. Türkiye,de her il,in şehir,in kendine özgü yemek ,kebap, içecek,leri vardır. Yanliz dikkatli olun. Tüm Türkiye,yi gezerseniz bir daha başka yerde yemek yiyemezsiniz:))
Evlerimizde yaptigimiz yemekler o restoranlarin yemeklerinden daha guzeldir.Ustelik her aksam taze yemekler pisirir yeriz.Yani turk mutfagi ,restoran yemekleriyle kiyaslanamaz....
Sen ne biçim yorum yapmışsın böyle. Yazık ben de sana acıdım. Türk mutfağını küçümsemişsin. Türk mutfağı, Türk yemeleri dünyada sayılı mutfaklardan, daha doğrusu ilk sıralarda. Sence insanlar boşuna mı geliyorlar buraya?
@sunasuna9609 Sen önce videoyu seyrettin mi benim ne demek istediğimi iyi anlamamışsın Ilgın'da bir problem mi var kendi ülkesinde bu lezzetleri görmemiş yaşamış bizim ülkeme gelip burada yaşamış bu lezzetleri o anlamda anlattım
@Kraloyuncu3131 sen evinde mi konuşuyorsun? Sosyal medyada yorum yapıyorsun yani burası herkese açık bir ortam bilmem farkında mısın? Burada yorum yaparsan herkes de sana yorum yapar? Sen iyi misin?
Bagels originated in 17th-century Poland within Jewish communities and became a global favorite after being brought to North America by Jewish immigrants.
1:00 Heralde tanrıda yahudiydi. Bukadar abartmayın. Ben polonyaya gittim ama simit filan bilen yok. Ayrıca yahudilerin katı yiyecek kanumları çok çeşitliliğe fırsat vermez.
There is never rice pilaf in the original kebab plate, this was invented later. If Adana kebab is served rice with ,they will throw the plate at the man's head in south of Türkiye ...
Merhaba. Güzel bir video olmuş teşekkürler. Bir bilgilendirme yapmak isterim tarçın şekerin olumsuz etkilerini dengeleyen ve midenizi rahatlatan bir baharattır . Tatlıların yanında bol bol servis edilir.
you eating is sarma not dolma. Sarma is rulling dolma is fylning. Kan eat aubergine , paprika dolma. 🙂 You drinking ayran. (mixing yogur water en little salt. Brobiotik bakterier made is sour. Best is with meat end ayran.
Siz ikiniz hiç yemekten anlamıyorsunuz menemen sıcak yenilir iki saat konuştuktan sonra değil kebab da aynı sıcak yenilir çoğu yemekler sıcaken yeniliyor siz ikiniz yarım saat konuşup öyle uiyorsunuz Ozaman tadının yarısı gidiyor
böyle söylemek hiç kibarca değil. yemekten anlamıyorsunuz diye de cümleye başlanmaz. böyle yerseniz tadını alamazsınız, beklemeden yerseniz daha iyi olur diye söyleyebilirsin.
What is your favorite Turkish food?
Gözleme, Kofte & Dürüm Döner 😋
iskender, künefe,midye dolma, lahmacun, pide, gözleme,....
@@maribrambila5037 very delicious selection 😊
@@murattahan2391we need to come back and try the stuffed mussels for sure!
kurufasulye ve pirinç pilavı....lahmacun ve adana kebap....🙂
35:05 You put Arabic music in the ending, it's like going to Japan and putting Latin music 😂😂
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Doğru söylüyorsun ama gerçekten Arabistana dönüştü güzelim şehir
@@gokturkarkan4067 hayır dönüşmedi Arap turistler geliyor diye Arabistan'a dönüşmez.
That is good that food is not turkish
Turist mi? Resmen mahalle/semt kuruyorlar, sen bir taşın altında mı yaşıyorsun ne? @gurcanguray3776
Lots of love from Florida. I've missed my home, Turkey so much. Thank you
Thank you for watching! Hope you get to visit home soon! It's a wonderful country!
That not turkish food
Hi you two characters! I loved this video (and the 2 prior to this one) - the food looks amazing & I was drooling all the way through. It looks like a very interesting country & a feast for the senses. I hope Atlas didn't miss you too much 🥰
Thank you so much for the support! Food was amazing for sure! You can easily spend a week in the city alone exploring. Haha Atlas had fun with his babysitter back in Italy 😄 she always gives him extra snacks.
Aydan is a yoghurt drink. It’s basically watered down yoghurt with salt. Yes, it’s best with meat dishes like kebabs, Doner etc.
In the vide nothing is turkish
The item you thought chocolate is sesame paste + grape molasses
09:40 i guess it's "tahin pekmez", furthermore nothing on that table is random. You have to take little bites so it constantly refreshes your pallet and you can enjoy every bite.
11:00 that is not hellim, it's çeçil.
17:25 that's "bulgur pilavı" not rice.
24:55 coffees are legit but grand bazaar is a giant tourist trap.
3:25 that's hünkarbeğendi, lamb with mashed grilled aubergine sauce.
32:15 i think thats vegetarian version, because its banned to sell that on street. Those grains are bulgur.
None of the foods are tukish
I wish you had a local guide in this tour but great video, thanks for sharing!🧿
Thank for the wonderful video. As a Turk i would advise you guys to find some local person and go to more local places. Prices will go down and experience will definitely go up. Over all great video.
We definitely will be coming back in the warmer months in 2025. In our three days so far we had a wonderful experience so I can’t even imagine it getting even better 😄
@@vernonandmaryana if you visit Ankara sometime, I would like to show you guys around and be a translator. no money no nothing required.
Thank you! so so very kind of you ❤️
Not turkish food in the video
The second last lamb stew the sauce was made with eggplant and the last one the raw meat is actually not raw meat anymore but they use mostly bulgur instead of the meat these days.
Hi Vermon and Varyana, i am so pleased to whatch your video about Istanbul and Turkiye but i really wanted to make some comment about the things you lived on your trip.
You have made many assumtions about the food you ate, yet most of them were accutaly wrong :D For example; Turkish people like to eat their food hot and with bread, for that reason, when we take bite of hot meat, rice and bread and chew it, we take a sip ayran to cool it down and make it easier to swallow ;)
Sultan’s Delicacy is not the real name of the dish; it is Hünkar Beğendi, which means The Sultan Liked It :D and it is not a simple dish, in the contrary, it is the hardest dish a chef can ever to cook :D Because you have to master yourself in making Bechamel souce and create the best consistency with the eggplat paste with it. Plus you have to good at, making the beef dish, that comes on top of it.
The Bagel you ate in the Street is a different type af simit we eat, than the bagel you ate in the restaurant. We acctualy have 4-5 types of bagel; the one you had in the Street is the original one which hard to chew, then we have one with milk, the one you had in the restaurant, which is soft.
We have “gevrek” which is made in İzmir; another bagel which is more harder to chew, because it is mor tender, then we have açma that looks like bagel but it is much softer :D We Türkish people love food made of dough, for hat reason, we have tons of different dough food which looks the same but taste totally different :D
The beer you drank was Efes Pilsen; Pilsener is almost the only type of beer Turkish people drink, we don’t have Ale or Larger in Turkey and Efes is the most popular brand we have in Turkiye…
The thing you ate at 2:00 is called “Parmak Kızartması” which means “Fried Finger” and it is a rool of curd, thats means it does not have real cheese in it, instead we have salty curd. We have two different types of curd in Turkiye, the sweet curd and salty curd and they are used in baking pastry.
The dish you ate at 2:20 is called “Yaprak Sarması” “Wraped Leaf” in English, we have many different types of “Dolma”, dolma means filling, we have “pepper filling”, we have “eggplant filling”, "cabbage filling", “tomatoes filling”, we have “zucchini filling” we even have “intestine filling”, “abomasum filling” and all of them taste great, one day you must try them all. We eat most of these food with yoğurt because it gives a greater taste to them.
The bread you ate at 2:59 is actually baked at that moment for you ad it is free, with many things they brought to your table. It is a tredition in Turkiye to bring extra stuff for free. But i have bad news for you, the olive oil you have tasted at 3:24 is not “olive oil” :D Olive oil is very expensive in Turkiye, altough, we are the 4th olive oil producer, it is almost impossible to find real olive oil in the Turkish restaurants, it is most probably “sunflower oil” thats why the season them, so that you think it is olive oil :D
Let’s come to the kebaps; the kebap you have tasted at 4:22 might not be a real lamb kebap :D Food fraud is so common in Turkiye and instead of using real lamb meat, they use chicken meat and add food colouring to turn it into red meat :D because it is sooooo expensive at the moment.
The thing you tasted at 9:38 is called “tahin pekmez” which is “tahini and grape molasses”. The dish you ate at 10:29 is called “Su Böreği” which is boiled dough, filled with curd or white cheese and it is a real tasty börek. If it did not have enough cheese in it, it means that it is scam too. And you don’t eat that börek with honey or jam :D It has to have a lot of flavour on its own :D
The fish you ate at 18:26 is called “Palamut” “Bonito Fish”, it is a very fatty fish with a great flavour and we love it so much that, we fry it, bake it and every thing. The thing you ate at 33:03 is called “Çiğ Köfte”, “Raw Meatball” which is forbidden by Turkish government to be produced with raw meat, so now we produce it with wheat and the grains you show is chunks of weat :D
I am so happy to meet with you guys but i have to tell you this; if you visit a country like Turkiye, you have to visit it with a guide, who knows the place well and who knows the real restaurants which cook the real stuff, so that you wont be scamed.
Oh dear Vernon and Maryana, welcome to Turkey🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷. I watched your video about Turkish food. Honestly, I really admired your taste. You interpreted many of our dishes correctly. Vernon didn't know the Sultan's delight dish very well but he liked its taste. The eggplant in the bottom plate is roasted and then turned into paste and flavored with spices. You also liked the olive varieties. We feed the olives with oil so that they don't dry out and remain delicious. We flavor them with thyme and red pepper flakes. I hope your next stop is our beautiful Izmir. You can see the ruins of the ancient Greek Hellenistic age there too. You will experience a feast of flavors again and you can choose local wine producers. Have a good day, stay healthy and well.💖😇🙏
Thats not turkish food in the video
What you had at 32:00 is hunkarbegendi. It is an eggplant dish. That thing with oatmeal texture is pureed eggplant.
None of the dishes are turkish
@@Grgur8899 Could you please enlighten us with your vast knowledge of the history of world cuisine? Which dishes are not Turkish, professor?! Turkish breakfast? Sucuk,? Pastirma? Menemen? Adana kebab? Hunkarbegendi? Mercimek corba? Sarma? Ayran? Simit? Inegol kofte? Bulgur pilavi? Yogurt? Baklava? Maras dondurma? Kayseri manti? Cig kofte?
Anybody who is interested in food knows that these are well known Turkish dishes. As a matter of fact, some of these dishes are unique to Turkiye. Some have pure Turkish names, and the whole world uses the same names such as yogurt, pastirma, sarma, etc.
If you can provide even single evidence that these dishes are not Turkish, I will delete my comment. Until then your comment can only be qualified as a typical example of garbage dumped under YT videos about Turkish cuisine/food.
@@atillakaragazi838 the dishes you see there have been eaten in the Middle East thousands of years before the Turks came there. read your story. Turks come from the Chinese steppes. Turks eat boiled horse meat in bladder
@@Grgur8899 What do you gain by telling such a blatant lie? You don't even know what you are talking about.
1) Some of these dishes I mentioned above includes ingredients like tomatoes, peppers, crushed chilies, paprika, beans, corn, tomato paste, pepper paste. All these ingredients came from Americas. Namely, these ingredients didn't exist in Europe and Asia until 16th century. As a matter of fact, there was no tomato paste until the 19th century and no pepper paste until 20th century. Without any shame you are claiming that people in the ME have been eating these for thousands of years. That is absolute anachronism.
2) As for hunkarbegendi. It is an Ottoman dish. It is invented in royal kitchen of Ottomans. No nation in the world knows how to cook eggplants better than Turks. We have about more than 350 eggplant dishes in Turkiye, which is more than the sum of eggplant dishes in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, N. Africa and Balkans together.
3) Again, we have hundreds of koftes in Turkiye. almost every city has their own version. Even Swedish meatballs are based on Ottoman koftes. When the Swedish king were in exile in Ottoman empire. He developed taste for it, and took the recipe with himself when he turned back to Sweden. No country in the world has more kofte varieties than Turkiye.
4) Similarly, we have hundreds of kebabs and boreks in Turkiye. No country in the world has more kebab and borek varieties than Turkiye.
5) Pastirma is an absolute Turkish invention. It comes from the Turkish word "bastirmak", which means "to press". That is exactly how you make pastirma. You press the meat under some heavy blocks and dry it. Arabs took it from Turks and they call it "basterma or basturma".
6) Just like pastirma "shawarma" and "awarma" are Turkish dishes. The original name of shawarma is cevirme, which means to rotate. Awarma comes from Turkish kavurma, which means to cook meat in its own fat or fry. Because Arabs cannot pronounce the original words. By time they turn into "shawarma" and "awarma".
7) Yogurt and ayran are both Turkish inventions. Both are Turkish words, and the whole world uses these names.
8) As for baklava, that is 100% Turkish. The correct word is pahlava. It comes from the Turkish word pahlava, pahlavu which means to layer and stack something. For example, in Turksih we call rolling pin as oklava/ohlava. Moreover, desserts like baklava, kadayif, and tulumba were not available to masses because sugar was extremely scarce and very expensive. Only in late 19th cc sugar was started to be produced in large amounts thanks to mass production, and general public became familiar with such desserts. For example, as early as 15th century, these desserts were prepared at the royal kitchen and served to Janissaries before their salaries were paid. This was a gesture of the sultan to acknowledge the value of their service and loyalty. Also, Ottomans had strong control over production and trade of agricultural products in its territory.
Many countries incorrectly call a large family of desserts as baklava. We have more than 50 desserts with different names like baklava, sobiyet, sari sarma, saray sarma, dolama, sari burma, havuc dilimi, sutlu nuriye, sarayli, bulbul yuvasi, kusgozu, etc. You call all of them as baklava. If you add the naming convention based on ingredients and shapes, then there are hundreds of varieties in Turkiye.
The gold standard for baklava is Antep-style baklava. Baklavas in the ME uses things like rose water, orange blossom. They tend to be very dry, and usually they have poor quality pistachios that should never be used in baklava. To be able to make Antep-style baklava, you need several masters working in tandem. One prepares the dough and turns them into extremely thin, almost transparent yufka sheets; another prepares the sherbet; another prepares the kaymak, another spreads the kaymak; one pours the pistachios and another pours the butter; one bakes it, one pours the sherbet. It takes years to become a master for each of these steps. Also, Antep-style baklava uses a certain grade of flour, semolina, butter, milk, pistachios. You cannot make baklava with any type of pistachios, flour and butter.
Many of the dishes above are mentioned in Katip Celebi's Seyhatname, and kitchen logs of the Ottoman Palace. So, if anyone wants to make a claim about Ottoman dishes they have to provide written historical evidence.
Yes, we have some dishes from Arab countries and Iran like humus, hibesh, muhamara, babaganoush, maqlube, lebeniye.
I am not gonna spend any time for what you said about Turkish history and origins of Turks. You are parroting typical cliches mentioned in Orientalist sources. I cannot go into the details of what Turk means, where Turks came from, who they interacted with, how many states and empires they founded, how many states and empires they ended, which nations and ethnic groups they ruled.
It is better to stay quite when you don't know much about something.
I have no further comments.
@@Grgur8899 What do you gain by telling such a blatant lie? You don't even know what you are talking about.
1) Some of these dishes I mentioned above include ingredients like tomatoes, peppers, crushed chilies, paprika, beans, corn, tomato paste, pepper paste. All these ingredients came from Americas. Namely, these ingredients didn't exist in Europe and Asia until 16th century. As a matter of fact, there was no tomato paste until the 19th century and no pepper paste until 20th century. Without any shame you are claiming that people in the ME have been eating these for thousands of years. Can you bother to explain us how your ancestors or people in the ME/NA were making menemen or shakshuka without tomatoes and peppers before 17th/18th century let alone thousands of years ago? That is absolute anachronism.
2) As for hunkarbegendi, it is a %100 Ottoman dish. It is invented in royal kitchen of Ottomans. No nation in the world knows how to cook eggplants better than Turks. We have about more than 350 eggplant dishes in Turkiye, which is more than the sum of eggplant dishes in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, N. Africa and Balkans together.
3) Again, we have hundreds of koftes in Turkiye. almost every city has their own version. Even Swedish meatballs are based on Ottoman koftes. When the Swedish king were in exile in Ottoman empire. He developed taste for it, and took the recipe with himself when he turned back to Sweden. No country in the world has more kofte varieties than Turkiye.
4) Similarly, we have hundreds of kebabs and boreks in Turkiye. No country in the world has more kebab and borek varieties than Turkiye.
5) Pastirma is an absolute Turkish invention. It comes from the Turkish word "bastirmak", which means "to press". That is exactly how you make pastirma. You press the meat under some heavy blocks and dry it. Arabs took it from Turks and they call it "basterma or basturma".
6) Just like pastirma "shawarma" and "awarma" are Turkish dishes. The original name of shawarma is cevirme, which means to rotate. Awarma comes from Turkish kavurma, which means to cook meat in its own fat or fry. Because Arabs cannot pronounce the original words. By time they turn into "shawarma" and "awarma".
7) Yogurt and ayran are both Turkish inventions. Both are Turkish words, and the whole world uses these names.
8) As for baklava, that is 100% Turkish. The correct word is pahlava. It comes from the Turkish word pahlava, pahlavu which means to layer and stack something. For example, in Turksih we call rolling pin as oklava/ohlava. Moreover, desserts like baklava, kadayif, and tulumba were not available to masses because sugar was extremely scarce and very expensive. Only in late 19th cc sugar was started to be produced in large amounts thanks to mass production, and general public became familiar with such desserts. For example, as early as 15th century, these desserts were prepared at the royal kitchen and served to Janissaries before their salaries were paid. This was a gesture of the sultan to acknowledge the value of their service and loyalty. Also, Ottomans had strong control over production and trade of agricultural products in its territory.
Many countries incorrectly call a large family of desserts as baklava. We have more than 50 desserts with different names like baklava, sobiyet, sari sarma, saray sarma, dolama, sari burma, havuc dilimi, sutlu nuriye, sarayli, bulbul yuvasi, kusgozu, etc. You call all of them as baklava. If you add the naming convention based on ingredients and shapes, then there are hundreds of varieties in Turkiye.
The gold standard for baklava is Antep-style baklava. Baklavas in the ME uses things like rose water, orange blossom. They tend to be very dry, and usually they have poor quality pistachios that should never be used in baklava. To be able to make Antep-style baklava, you need several masters working in tandem. One prepares the dough and turns them into extremely thin, almost transparent yufka sheets; another prepares the sherbet; another prepares the kaymak, another spreads the kaymak; one pours the pistachios and another pours the butter; one bakes it, one pours the sherbet. It takes years to become a master for each of these steps. Also, Antep-style baklava uses a certain grade of flour, semolina, butter, milk, pistachios. You cannot make baklava with any type of pistachios, flour and butter.
Many of the dishes above are mentioned in Katip Celebi's Seyhatname, and kitchen logs of the Ottoman Palace. So, if anyone wants to make a claim about Ottoman dishes they have to provide written historical evidence.
Yes, we have some dishes from Arab countries and Iran like humus, hibesh, muhamara, babaganoush, maqlube, lebeniye.
I am not gonna spend any time for what you said about Turkish history and origins of Turks. You are parroting typical cliches mentioned in Orientalist sources. I cannot go into the details of what Turk means, where Turks came from, who they interacted with, how many states and empires they founded, how many states and empires they ended, which nations and ethnic groups they ruled.
It is better to stay quite when you don't know much about something.
I have no further comments.
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Not turkish food
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day in Turkey.
il cibo turco è spettacolare!!!! 🤩
Yes! Everything tasted so good!
The ‘meat’ wrap you had is actually a vegetarian wrap. It is called çiğ köfte (raw burger), but for the sake of public safety, selling raw meat was banned in Turkiye. So, the substitute you get nowadays is made with bulgur and Turkish spices. But, of course, I do not know all the paces in Istanbul. Maybe they still serve the traditional stuff, but I would be surprised if they did. Many thanks, by the way, for this wonderful video.
Thats not turkish food
I was surprised by the authenticity of this woman's taste. I didn't know she had done my research beforehand. In Turkey, drinks are probiotic, ayran, boza, turnip juice, pickle juice, kefir.. it seems strange when you first drink it but it is very healthy. She didn't say ayran to cut the oily effect, it shocked me. But it wasn't a full street food tour.. They haven't tried many things like fish wrap, mussels, kunefe, tantuni, börek, gözleme, kumpir, döner, iskender, pide, lahmacun, raki, mezes etc.. until next time.
Haha there is so much food to try in Turkey, we only had a short visit but we will be coming back for longer in 2025 to see more and eat more 😄
çok kilo alacak siniz bir süreli Gine sonrasımmalum bolca spor yapmak 😂😃😀
Türkiye'de yedeki erkekler bu uuzden göbekli yemek çok lezzetli olduğu için yiyor ama spor yapmiyoruz bir cogumuz usengeclikten 😂😃😀
Good food but not turkish
Türkiye ye hoşgeldiniz 😊🇹🇷👋
Not turkish food
Hi Maryana & Vernon, I was in Istanbul for the first time in the middle of October and loved all the Turkish food I tried… I ate street food & yummy restaurants!!! I do have to say that I’ve had Turkish food in the LA area and their food is amazing like in Istanbul 🇹🇷😋😜
What was your favorite Turkish dish? Istanbul has so many options to pick from, we loved it so much.
Welcome to Turkiye ❤
Not turkish food
Afiyet olsun 🤤
Not turkish food
Efes pilsner is famous the world over,it even says it on the glass.
Not turkish food
good video thanks
Not turkish food
Hahaha the music is really traditional...first ankara; then black sea region
Denediginiz yemekler ulkemizdeki diger lezzetli yemeklerin bin,de bir,i dahi değil. Türkiye,de her il,in şehir,in kendine özgü yemek ,kebap, içecek,leri vardır. Yanliz dikkatli olun. Tüm Türkiye,yi gezerseniz bir daha başka yerde yemek yiyemezsiniz:))
Evlerimizde yaptigimiz yemekler o restoranlarin yemeklerinden daha guzeldir.Ustelik her aksam taze yemekler pisirir yeriz.Yani turk mutfagi ,restoran yemekleriyle kiyaslanamaz....
Not turkish food
@Grgur8899 Türk yemeklerini ancak gurmeler beğenir.
bon appetite guys. but for a great food tour you need to travel to adana and antep province
Not turkish food
afiyet olsun 🧿🧿🧿
Thank you 😄
Süper
Künefe ve İskender denemelisiniz.
OLIVE OIL STUFFED LEAVES MY FAVORİ FOOD...
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🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷Türkiye İstanbul dan selamlar olsun kolay gelsin
nrverr tried cheese yet i live in the uk but simit was always popular just with tea plain there are simit sarayi shops in london now
Not turkish food
9.32 tahin and pekmez mix
If your kebap order comes with french fries, you are in the wrong kebap shop :)
Ali Usta is famous w his agressive behavior 😂😂 he even went viral for that. I'M GLAD U GUYS LIKED IT tho.
Siz nereden geldiniz uzaydan mı geldiniz geldiğiniz yerlerde böyle lezzetli şeyler yok mu yazık acıdım halinize
Sen ne biçim yorum yapmışsın böyle. Yazık ben de sana acıdım. Türk mutfağını küçümsemişsin. Türk mutfağı, Türk yemeleri dünyada sayılı mutfaklardan, daha doğrusu ilk sıralarda. Sence insanlar boşuna mı geliyorlar buraya?
@sunasuna9609 Sen önce videoyu seyrettin mi benim ne demek istediğimi iyi anlamamışsın Ilgın'da bir problem mi var kendi ülkesinde bu lezzetleri görmemiş yaşamış bizim ülkeme gelip burada yaşamış bu lezzetleri o anlamda anlattım
@Kraloyuncu3131 bence sende anlama sorunu var. Buraya deneyimlemeye gelmiş. Ne var bunda? Neyine acıyorsun?
@sunasuna9609 sizin bir probleminiz mi var ben kendimce bir yorum yaptım sizin niye bu kadar rahatsız ediyor siz onların bir avukatı falan mısınız
@Kraloyuncu3131 sen evinde mi konuşuyorsun? Sosyal medyada yorum yapıyorsun yani burası herkese açık bir ortam bilmem farkında mısın? Burada yorum yaparsan herkes de sana yorum yapar? Sen iyi misin?
actually that cigkofte made from bulgur rice so it's healthy and not meat :D btw I really enjoyed your video, thanks for comin to Turkey :)
Good food but not turkish
We had bagel before there was any USA.
Bagels originated in 17th-century Poland within Jewish communities and became a global favorite after being brought to North America by Jewish immigrants.
1:00 Heralde tanrıda yahudiydi. Bukadar abartmayın. Ben polonyaya gittim ama simit filan bilen yok. Ayrıca yahudilerin katı yiyecek kanumları çok çeşitliliğe fırsat vermez.
Welcome
Ali ustanın yer de lezzet durağı oldu ya
you came all the way and did zero research , welldone 🤣🤣
We live in Italy so not very far 🤗
@@vernonandmaryana 🤦ignorance is bliss...
Well you show your ignorance by judging someone from a short video. Sorry not everyone is am a hole like you 👍
That chocolatish cream at 9:37 is "Mixture of Tahini- Molasses... Molasses could be (Peach Molasses) it's so good with (grape molasses too)
rhat is called water borek
Good food but not turkish
There is never rice pilaf in the original kebab plate, this was invented later. If Adana kebab is served rice with ,they will throw the plate at the man's head in south of Türkiye ...
Haha thats not turkish food
Merhaba. Güzel bir video olmuş teşekkürler. Bir bilgilendirme yapmak isterim tarçın şekerin olumsuz etkilerini dengeleyen ve midenizi rahatlatan bir baharattır . Tatlıların yanında bol bol servis edilir.
Kokoreç ❤
🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
Habt ihr hinterm Mond gelebt?
Türkische Küche ist die beste der Welt.
@@yetkincice1026 Bravo!! Böyle basit seyler beni cok SIKIYO....
you eating is sarma not dolma. Sarma is rulling dolma is fylning. Kan eat aubergine , paprika dolma. 🙂 You drinking ayran. (mixing yogur water en little salt. Brobiotik bakterier made is sour. Best is with meat end ayran.
Good food but not tukish
Eger gercekten ilk defa Türk yemegi yediyseniz cok gec kalmissiniz....
Burasi TÜRKIYE.. NOT TURKEY!!!!
Artık Turkey değil ''Türkiye'' lütfen.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😄
🌷😋👍
Ham ham? 😂 that was beef salami
When you see fire run. It's a rip off
It's called raw meatballs, but it's vegan. There is no meat in it.
stuffed vine leaves, not stuffed. !! :))
13:15 bingo
welcome to KEBABİSTAN.....ENJOY YOUR MEAL
Thank you! 😃
Belli ki sen de Türk mutfağını tanımıyorsun. Türk mutfağında kebaplar çok küçük yer kaplar.
Not turkish food, kebapu is not turkish
Merhaba, videomuzu izlediğiniz için teşekkür ederiz 😄
Keşke yaz mevsiminde gelseydiniz. Daha rahat gezme imkanınız olurdu. Ama hoşgeldiniz. 🇹🇷. Ve Turkey değil. Türkiye. Lütfen buna dikkat edelim.
We absolutely loved visiting Turkey, we will definitely be coming back in 2025 🇹🇷❤️
Guys I am sorry, you chose to wrong place to try Turkish breakfast. That’s not a good selection of real Turkish breakfast food.
Videoyu izlemeden hemen yorumumu yapayım! TURKEY DEĞİL TÜRKİYE!!! BİR ZAHMET TELLAFUZ ETMEYİ ÖĞRENİN!
lentil iosfirst grown in turkey by humans near gobeklitepe
Did they really serve you canned sarma.. The punishement for that should be 10 to 15 years man come on..
EFES PİLSEN BEER YENİ RAKI....
Come Karachi Pakistan never beat any country Pakistani food
TÜRKİYE lütfen
Turkey değil
Hey you, people... you have to learn something... its not Turkey... Its now TÜRKIYE... write it correct please...
Siz ikiniz hiç yemekten anlamıyorsunuz menemen sıcak yenilir iki saat konuştuktan sonra değil kebab da aynı sıcak yenilir çoğu yemekler sıcaken yeniliyor siz ikiniz yarım saat konuşup öyle uiyorsunuz Ozaman tadının yarısı gidiyor
böyle söylemek hiç kibarca değil. yemekten anlamıyorsunuz diye de cümleye başlanmaz. böyle yerseniz tadını alamazsınız, beklemeden yerseniz daha iyi olur diye söyleyebilirsin.
👍 ok
Drink Salep you gonna like that.
Mary, I have to say, your hands are very well-groomed.