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Another great video Sonny! I've been to Turkey quite a few times many years ago. Mostly around Adana, twice to Antalya, and only once to Istanbul. Amazing food, culture, and for the most part, friendly people. I would love to go back.
@@avlabari346 I came as a soldier, but unlike many people that never left the confines of the base, I truly enjoyed exploring the city and countryside to learn about different cultures, languages, foods, and especially meeting and getting to know the local people. I am not scared of our differences, I embrace them when possible, but we all do have some things in common, which I wish more people would take the time to realize. That is one of the many reasons I love Sonny's travel videos. I say when travelling, get to know your hosts.
@@kemosabebeats I dont know if you read the title but this is the "Bizarre" Turkish foods, and bizarre foods is usually organs or weird animals! Also, even though it's organs it looks so good and I don't even like organs.
@@Scohill If you never had a tripe, tongue, cheek and head tacos (or even just the meat by itself) you're missing out. Most tender and delicious meat you'll have.
@@presidentemaiq8652 I've eaten head meat and brain when I was younger and I remember I kept eating so it must've tasted nice, never in taco form though that sounds delicious!
Turkish food is most underrated cuisine in the world. It deserves to be promoted better. It's a ancient-anatolian-meditterian-middle east-asian mixed culture and so rich ! Of course people are the most warm and friendly people I've ever seen❤️
It’s stolen Greek Arab. What the f..k this country has stolen food they copy everything like Chinese even the people is stolen from previous centuries wars.
@@baroutes I know I live there, they have only few of their own traditional dishes, but I'm highly doubt these foods too, rest is copy cuisine foods from every culture, they are invaded and setteled their clonies in the native land and they are started to copy and asimilating the people cultures.. with ignoring their existence.. Not only food they stole the people and their traditions, their folk costumes, they stole everything and they started to asimlate the cultures, they are inverted mongralized everything, they dumb down the people mind into lower meterial awarenes of existence They are parasites lives among us with shapeshifting theirselfs
I bought once from a turkish butcher the balls of the goat and looked up the recipe "Koc Yumurta". Cooked it up and wanted to give it to a friend to troll him. What happened instead i tried it, it was so tasty that i nearly left nothing for him to prank :P
Hey Turkish person! How safe is this raw meat dish? Do they use some special meat with harsh regulations and checks (for bacteria, viruses and parasites) ?
This is more urgent than this....... sonny has never mentioned his wife this many times in old episodes.... it's only in the recent ones. Something is seriously wrong..... sonny has been on dates with some of the most beautiful hosts of the world's best food tour hostesses... wow I'm speechless
In case if anybody is wondering what he is saying at 7:39 : "Burada 7 tane kuzunun uykulugu var. 7 tane kuzu. Direkt afrodizyak etkisi var." "Here we have 7 lamb thymuses. 7 lambs. Has an effect of aphrodisiac."
If you ever go to Turkey and you're open-minded to trying different things, try kokorec (the regular way of eating is the copped one as a sandwich) and cig kofte (the first dish, although it's mostly done meatless these days, it's done with lentils). As a Turkish, I tried the testicle once as a kid and never had it for the rest of my life. Thymus I didn't even know existed as food.
The kofte made with lentils is lentil kofte "mercimek kofte" then there is cig kofte made with raw meat or uncooked bulgur. I prefer and recommend the one with raw meat.
I have gotten thymus (sweetbreads) here in the US - helps to live near a metropolitan area (NYC in my case) or to travel through Pennsylvania Dutch country. My parents used to cook it, and I have done so on occasion. This Turkish recipe seems like a whole new take on it, and I'd like to try it that way next time I luck into thymus. (I have had both calf and lamb thymus.)
I think sweetbreads are pancreases. My mother used to make them when I was a child. They were really inexpensive back then because no one wanted them. If you knew a butcher you could get them practically for free, as well as tongue, jowls, heart, and kidneys. Most of the time those things were going to just be pitched out. We also got long bones and my dad would cut them in half and we would remove the marrow and cook that too. We would also biol down the joints and tendons. We even cooked and ate the eyes of both fish and mammals. These days all those parts have become very expensive and are treated like a delicacy. My ancestors have been cooking this way for thousands of years before America was a thing, but now we're getting priced out of the market.
Turkey is a very cheap country since turkish lira losing it's value, you can come whenever you want and make sure taste the traditional foods like Çiğköfte or raw meatballs without meat, Döner kebab and perde pilavı.
What you called "burbur" is actually "bulgur". It's not unusual - it's a common ingredient in tabbouleh. The Turkish equivalent of tabbouleh is kısır, and uses much more bulgur than tabbouleh does.
*it's not unusual even outside Turkey, these days it's eaten in pretty much the whole of Europe. Plus Turkish food is everywhere (probably the most popular food in Europe the last few decades, together with like Lebanese), so weird he said "burbur"..
@@maeryn4200 As a Turkish I guess I m the right person to answer that mostly in the middle Anatolian parts of Turkey (like Ankara, Corum Yozgat vs.) we use bulgur so often. and so most of the Middle Anatolian prefer bulgur to rice. But in the western side (Aegean) they mostly use kuskus. We have bulgur as pilav mostly in very different types, we make it with beef with tomato paste and with vegetables but as o middle Anatolian I prefer to eat it simple, just bulgur and some oil. I believe everyone coming to Turkey must try bulgur pilav with chicken, turkey or duck meat
@ 9:02 Thymus gland isn’t that hard to find. You just have to know it’s proper “food” name, which is: sweetbread. They are served all around the world, just look for sweetbread on the menu or ask the establishment if they serve sweetbread. ✌🏻💕😃
Although Çiğköfte means raw meatballs, it is generally used as meatless, it is a meal mainly made with bulgur and many spices, has two types as meat and meatless.
@@dannywest9510 There is a channel called Refika's Kitchen on youtube you can watch her videos edit: I found a better channel, if you've seen the old one, I suggest you check out Refika.
@@trinininja8386 İt is like asians eat raw fish. Some people also make the fried version at home, but if you are going to eat çiğköfte, you usually eat them raw. Meaty one is not so common you can eat it just few places, i never tried meaty one but i am sure it is not tasty as the
In a couple of restaurants just outside of the town of Edirne in Turkey near the Greek border, they have a specialty of thinly sliced and battered deep fried lamb's liver.... served with pickles and bread....a once in a lifetime taste experience.
Go for it man! apart from the food, most culutres are super interesting and will change your life (in very little ways, but still, you will see stuff differently).
my brother that drink is absinthe its a botanical spirit with anise wormwood and a bunch of other things traditionally mixed with water and a sugar cube
@@JonasEmre 5 million of whom are forcabily displaced Kurdish people from northern Kurdistan. the rest are Greek, Albanians and anything under the sun. Turks are Asian, far Asian at that. I'm talking Xinjiang region kinda Asian.
Kokorec is the best street food hands down. That shop was my local when I lived at that exact neighborhood. Enjoyed it every weekend after countless of beers!
I am a Kokoreç and Uykuluk fan, born and raised in Istanbul. My wife is from Adana and strangely she doesn’t like this “Bizarre” stuff 😞 Until tonite 🥳🥳🥳 She watched this and first time in her life she agreed to at least try both 🤩 She will love I am sure, thanks for the help Mr.Sonny 🙏
I love your videos man, but I'm always worrying about your stomach! Lol I am grateful for all the adventures places you go and all the foods that you try and the amount of respect that you showed all the people and cultures that you visit. I sincerely hope you have a good health and thank you for all the great videos
C'mon we eat these in Turkey here and there and we are fine 😋Although Cigkofte is banned for many years here if it's made hygienic it shouldn't cause any problems
@@St0n3dCold first of all I was talking about his ability to eat foods all over the world in really exotic locations. He has spoken in a number of videos about the fact that he has had diarrhea for almost 2 years. She eats a lot of exotic foods and it's not about whether it's hygienic or not, it's about whether or not the local bacteria and foods are some thing that his body can tolerate as he travels so much. He is a very adventurous person and I really enjoy his videos but I know for a fact that he struggles with stomach issues from all the different foods and locations that he eats at. And having been to a lot of places in Africa and all over the world I can say for a fact that eating local cuisine can cause stomach problems, that just happens for travelers.
Crazy the difference in price between Paris and Istanbull on the thymus. You get a lot for 6 bucks. Looked good too. Those intestine logs looked amazing. Was fun to watch. Great video
Kokorec is made of the intestines of sheep, it should be cleaned and completely washed up for many times. Then you can marinate or roll it, so that you can grill it on ambers, i must say, it's awesome, so delicious. Always eat it after sprinkling some chilli peppers, thyme, cumin and salt together with some onion slices.
Turkish food is amazing . I'm every second mount going to Istanbul eaty ❤️ Kebab Söğüş kelle paça soup İskender çiğ köfte ciğer Last baklava ice cream 👌
As a Turkish person you tried so delicious food for our country, I think every people must try Turkish food people I bet you guys you will fall in love, extremely delicious.
I just found your channel? I don't know if you usually try only meat dishes but Turkey has so many amazing vegetable dishes. It's like a vegetarian heaven.
Another great video. I've had thymus both grilled and in a cream sauce. Very hard to decide which is best. The raw meatballs sound like an advanced version of steak tartare, would like to try them.
29 year old Turkish guy here for some more information if anyone is interested. - As far as i remember selling rawmeat with actual meat is forbidden by laws because raw meat has a potential to spoil and most of the smaller local restaurants will use them that way. Tho the restaurant in this video is a huge one in a very popular area so they may have got a permit idk. Also you don't use that bs mixing blade in traditional making of rawmeat. You just constantly knead everything with your hands for like 2 to 3 hours (you even add some ice cubes to the mixture) to catch the consistency of rawmeat and at the end, traditionally you throw some rawmeat to the ceiling. If it sticks there, it's ready to eat. If not, you gotta knead more. - 6:10 You see the yellow line on the glass? That simply measures the "single" or "double" serving of "Rakı". Since it's a strong alcohol, drinking it straight is not so enjoyable so you have to balance the rakı/water balance according to your taste by trying. That much added water in the video is usually soooo little for a double rakı if you are drinking it for the first time. It should have been like single serving of rakı and water through the rest of the glass. You also add one or two big ice cubes in it to drink it cold. Even with these, it takes couple more feasts to start to enjoy rakı, it's a different alcohol. - From 4:14 to 9:03, no one on earth can make me eat those things sir. Can try for once, but prolly won't eat them for the rest of my life. I have never understood why some of our people like to eat offal (we literally have a dish named Kelle Paça that roughly translates into Head and Trotter and it literally is a combination of these as a soup), but i believe huge majority of Turkish people don't like eating those but some freaks just eat them in a regular basis. - Kokoreç is a whole different thing tho. Most people would like and eat it. They have a big history in the cuisine back to ottomans. As far as i remember it was started as a street food in common folk and later presented to the palace. Why you eat it with so much spice is as you can guess, because it's made of intestine.
Something to add. In çiğ köfte, even though that meat seems so much, in volume it is not the biggest component of the dish. One of the first steps of making bulgur is boiling the wheat for a couple of hours and then drying it up. Thats why, from the minute the bulgur interacts with any liquid or any fat/oil, it starts to absorb it. And grow tremendously. Also, the reason to use that much of salt and spices is to "cook" the meat while kneading. Sadly most food from İstanbul is far from the traditional stuff. Originially it is kneaded for a much longer time and with ice cubes. Which actually helps to keep the meat safe to eat since the heat of your hands keep warming it up. Also it changes the texture a lot. Since this process takes so long, in the eastern parts of Turkey, people have gatherings occasionally and they sing songs and enjoy while one of them makes the çiğ köfte. I wanted to talk about just one of the dishes because first of all, the dishes changes when they are served in İstanbul. I have a lot of friends and family who travels almost monthly to feast better to various cities. I like this show because i feel like you guys really work hard to find hidden food and traditions around the world and i dont think you can do that by just traveling İstanbul.
The turnip juice! It is the best company to Raki you had before. Also, no matter how salty it tastes for the first time, once you develop an appetite for it, it is a great drink for gamie (is that how you spell it?:) food.
Anyone else remember how he would always say he wouldn't get a girlfriend and now he give his wife a cute lil shout-out in his vids 🥺💖💖💖💖💖💖 You've grown my guy and I'm here for it
Hi, Sonny! I would like to correct something about Kokoreç. Its center is not fat at all. It is thymus (pancreas), actually the type of meat he ate right before kokoreç. In Turkey, we call this part 'uykuluk'.
I like this no filter version of Sonny here! Hahaha! Anyway, if you want to try thymus in the US, go to any Argentinian steak house then ask for sweetbread. I always ask for extra for when I order the steak platter!
I’ve always been amazed by the size of the bites Sonny takes. He should be eating with a shovel. 😂 But, all jokes aside, taking a big bite when trying new foods is the best compliment to the people making the foods. So many people barely hits the tip of the tongue when trying something new and never really getting the full taste of the dish before stating that the like or dislike a dish. Very entertaining and cultural educational food videos. Sonny seems so likeable and adventurous. A go-to channel for entertainment, culinary and cultural food show. I wish you all the best Sonny, and looking forward to follow your adventures in the future. 🫶🏼
U made me hungry when i seen the chicofte. The raw meat might put people off.but it technically cures with the chilli and the mixing. It is very light and it can be found in alot of countries. The vegetarian version is just as good. Glad you enjoyed it.
They don't put raw meat into it anymore. It was prohibited in Türkiye by sanitary regulations long ago. I think they made an exception for this guy only.
I was one of those who actually hated "kokorec" until I gave it a shot and fortunately I loved it. It is as he says, it's freaking delicious. I wish I ate more in my trip in istanbul.
Çiğ (which means raw in English) köfte is actually forbidden in Türkiye now. They now make a pulse based version of it and give it the same name. It's delicious.
İn our turkish family there is a saying “ you are a real man if you eat a whole kokoreç in a bread“ also love your videos and thank you for showing our cuisine to the world. Lastly my god our economy is down bad, 1 dolar is 18 liras.
In America we called those balls mountain oysters. It’s taste yummy. Just kidding never eat it before. But people in Texas love it. Thank you for sharing sonny. God bless you.🙏🙏❤️
finally the kokoreç episode. By the way when it comes to kokoreç there are 2 types, you tasted İstanbul style. with veggies and shit. But the other one is İzmir style which consists of only kokoreç meat and ground cumin. I really love İzmir style because oregano destroys the taste. Also some people like it on shish ( crunchy on the outside and soft and chewy in the inside or fully chopped and grilled for those people who can't stand eating chewy medium rare inside. And when it comes to Black carrot juice called şalgam, it goes so well with kokoreç and rice filled mussels called midye dolma. If you are still in here in Turkey, go for some Ottoman cuisine, try karnıyarık. keep up the good work Sonny. I love your videos
Turkish meat kitchen is the best in the world! By far! That's why me and my wife, we are in Turkey every second year. Not for the beaches, not for anything else but the delicious meat and overall food
Im a Turk, and after seeing the title, I was kinda hoping you'd eat mumbar or işkembe, I recommend checking those out if you ever go back to Turkey. Great video, as always!
10:00 All i heard was organ spice craddled under organ oil drippings on organ premium diamond grade organ beef organ with an extra side of gold karat organ with extra organ on top and the organ emergency has been called as no one has ever survived without it and you happen to be the organ king It is not a precaution We simply care
at 1:50 that is not raw, because you have to knead the mass for at least an hour so it becomes perfect. And since you knead the mass with the palm of your hands, the meat etc. are getting cooked slowly with the heat of your palms, that's why you should at least knead it for 30 minutes constantly ;)
so the food processor/blade part should speed it up because the machine is faster and hotter than human hands? or is it 30 min by hand then the machine is just to finish?
@@calamitysangfroid2407 it can be done both ways because that machine is also heating up a little bit, so all in all it makes the whole preparation for the dish easier and less exhausting
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Ok 👍👍👍
Lots of love from pakistan,hope to see you again soon in pakistan.
Pork is Haram
Ok
Turkey and İstanbul deserve a few episodes on the main channel!! Come on!
My daughter is a world traveler and has spent a lot of time there, and loves it.
@@standdown4929 Does she have instagram account or youtube channel ? I want to travel too but i dont know how i need to start.
@@standdown4929 Does she like brownies ?
@@uguruyar11 oltaya geldi mi usta
@@emirgokmen9245 jdnegjskwntndj cevap vermedi bile kadın
Another great video Sonny! I've been to Turkey quite a few times many years ago. Mostly around Adana, twice to Antalya, and only once to Istanbul. Amazing food, culture, and for the most part, friendly people. I would love to go back.
You are Always welcome my friend
Except yellow taxi drivers 😅
If you travel to Adana specifically that means you are either a real foodie or an Allied soldier can be both tough.
@@avlabari346 I came as a soldier, but unlike many people that never left the confines of the base, I truly enjoyed exploring the city and countryside to learn about different cultures, languages, foods, and especially meeting and getting to know the local people. I am not scared of our differences, I embrace them when possible, but we all do have some things in common, which I wish more people would take the time to realize. That is one of the many reasons I love Sonny's travel videos. I say when travelling, get to know your hosts.
Adana, not only the most beautiful city of Turkey, the most beautiful city of the world.
Turkish food is criminally underrated!
Bc it’s criminally organy
@@kemosabebeats I dont know if you read the title but this is the "Bizarre" Turkish foods, and bizarre foods is usually organs or weird animals!
Also, even though it's organs it looks so good and I don't even like organs.
@@Scohill If you never had a tripe, tongue, cheek and head tacos (or even just the meat by itself) you're missing out. Most tender and delicious meat you'll have.
@@presidentemaiq8652 I've eaten head meat and brain when I was younger and I remember I kept eating so it must've tasted nice, never in taco form though that sounds delicious!
Cus Western Morons wanna prise some "fake" Turkish food done in a bad way. Is called "Greek food".
I am a Turk living in Canada and if there is one thing that i miss the most, it's kokoreç. Unbeliavable taste!
🥲🥲🥲 canadanin neresinden gel sarilalim. o degil de cig koftenin tabagin 80 liraya kitlemisler adama lol😂😂
@@omerkuyumcu363 80 lirayı duyunca yuh dedim ben de 😂
80 lira bana da bir s*ktir çektirdi gerçekten
@@omerkuyumcu363 gel sarılalım 😂 calgary, sen?
@@TeaOnTue bilmiyorum tabi ama bulgur yerine etli olunca 80 lira normal değil mi?
Sonny your way of presentation is just awesome.....
You don't overhype reactions....
Mark Wiens has a dwarf tugging him off under the table to get the expression just right, so I've heard.
@@MrSimonj1970 😂😂😂
@@MrSimonj1970 bruh
@@MrSimonj1970🤦♀️
@@MrSimonj1970yup. I sure do. That's where the open mouth and weird whoa/wow comes from.
Turkish food is most underrated cuisine in the world. It deserves to be promoted better. It's a ancient-anatolian-meditterian-middle east-asian mixed culture and so rich ! Of course people are the most warm and friendly people I've ever seen❤️
Asian mixed culture is very less
Agzina salık miss Firuze,nice comments,belcikadan selam
Most of it is copied food from Persia, Greek and some from Arabs.
It’s stolen Greek Arab. What the f..k this country has stolen food they copy everything like Chinese even the people is stolen from previous centuries wars.
@@baroutes I know I live there, they have only few of their own traditional dishes, but I'm highly doubt these foods too, rest is copy cuisine foods from every culture, they are invaded and setteled their clonies in the native land and they are started to copy and asimilating the people cultures.. with ignoring their existence..
Not only food they stole the people and their traditions, their folk costumes, they stole everything and they started to asimlate the cultures, they are inverted mongralized everything, they dumb down the people mind into lower meterial awarenes of existence
They are parasites lives among us with shapeshifting theirselfs
Turkish people and their food is amazing. I am amazed by love they are showing to their guest,its awesome 😘😍
I live in Ghent Belgium, 15% turkish Origins, you are absolutely correct 👍👍👍
I spent 3 months in Turkiye.
Adana Kebabs still haunt my dreams ... so good
@@AStupidTourist Adana kebap is life !
Everyone acts differently on camera also he I guarantee he pays them a couple hundred $ to film
Indeed 👏👏👏👏
I bought once from a turkish butcher the balls of the goat and looked up the recipe "Koc Yumurta". Cooked it up and wanted to give it to a friend to troll him. What happened instead i tried it, it was so tasty that i nearly left nothing for him to prank :P
The glizzy globbler
Didn't have the "balls" to prank him? 😆💥‼️
Loooollll
😆 that's nice dude
Ram* nuts
Not goat's
do more of turkey pls dont let it be this short... there is SO much food there
Absolutely love this turkey series. Please more!
Thanks from Turkey 🇹🇷
@@elifguney2362 It's actually Turkiye now :D
@@lordshitpost31 yes Türkiye ☺️
@@elifguney2362 not türkiye its turkiye
Dude I am 48 and I live in Turkey. You are trying things I have never eaten in Turkey. You have balls I give you that 😁
How long have you lived in Turkey ?
@@FrankyZielmann I am Turkish. Since I was born.
Agree😅
You haven't tried them out of fear of getting food poisoning?:)
@@Karadjordje2 Turkish cuisine has amazing food. I prefer sticking with those.
i love what sunny does, he goes to other countries, trying their food and it encourages other's to do the same
As a Turkish person, thanks for trying our food! We hope you liked it.
bîji kurdistan
Hey Turkish person! How safe is this raw meat dish? Do they use some special meat with harsh regulations and checks (for bacteria, viruses and parasites) ?
@@sweetLemonist Hi jasmina , When kneading the mortar, the raw meat is cooked by friction. this is what i know as a turkish
person ^^
@@jodawgsup 🤢
@@iamher8328 woof
Blink twice Sonny if you're being coerced to mention your wife on every episode 😂😂😂
Now he doesn't have eye lashes, so he may be blinking but you can't see
I think he’s grateful to have one after all these years on the road snuggling up to random animals and tribes 😂😂
This is more urgent than this....... sonny has never mentioned his wife this many times in old episodes.... it's only in the recent ones. Something is seriously wrong..... sonny has been on dates with some of the most beautiful hosts of the world's best food tour hostesses... wow I'm speechless
Thought it was only me 😅
@@mannyserrano5552 I noticed this as well!!! What do you think may be going on?
In case if anybody is wondering what he is saying at 7:39 :
"Burada 7 tane kuzunun uykulugu var. 7 tane kuzu. Direkt afrodizyak etkisi var."
"Here we have 7 lamb thymuses. 7 lambs. Has an effect of aphrodisiac."
If you ever go to Turkey and you're open-minded to trying different things, try kokorec (the regular way of eating is the copped one as a sandwich) and cig kofte (the first dish, although it's mostly done meatless these days, it's done with lentils). As a Turkish, I tried the testicle once as a kid and never had it for the rest of my life. Thymus I didn't even know existed as food.
Kokoreç yediysen içinde onu da yemişsindir usta.
uykuluk nasıl bilmiyon reis .d
@Sepanta Jan aynen.bennde yanlışmı anladım ben diye düşündüm.
I’ve always had an unsaturated craving for raw meat ever since I was a kid. I think I’d love the raw meat that Sonny tried in this episode.
The kofte made with lentils is lentil kofte "mercimek kofte" then there is cig kofte made with raw meat or uncooked bulgur. I prefer and recommend the one with raw meat.
I am a fan of kokorec !! Turkish food is yummy ! Awesome country, awesome people !! ❤👍
Thank you! :)
Adamsin turkish food best Kokorec mumbar sirdan :)
wrggg
@Theo Chi thats funny
ı am sick of this Man, he using cringe clickbaits all time
I have gotten thymus (sweetbreads) here in the US - helps to live near a metropolitan area (NYC in my case) or to travel through Pennsylvania Dutch country. My parents used to cook it, and I have done so on occasion. This Turkish recipe seems like a whole new take on it, and I'd like to try it that way next time I luck into thymus. (I have had both calf and lamb thymus.)
Thanks from Turkey 🇹🇷
I think sweetbreads are pancreases. My mother used to make them when I was a child. They were really inexpensive back then because no one wanted them. If you knew a butcher you could get them practically for free, as well as tongue, jowls, heart, and kidneys. Most of the time those things were going to just be pitched out. We also got long bones and my dad would cut them in half and we would remove the marrow and cook that too. We would also biol down the joints and tendons. We even cooked and ate the eyes of both fish and mammals. These days all those parts have become very expensive and are treated like a delicacy. My ancestors have been cooking this way for thousands of years before America was a thing, but now we're getting priced out of the market.
Kokoreç is our most popular after pub food
I have lived in Turkey for 4yrs. The food is just amazing i miss turkish cuisine so much!!!!!
Dude my mouth is watering!!!! Love turkey amazing country. Take care love from England! X
Turkey is a very cheap country since turkish lira losing it's value, you can come whenever you want and make sure taste the traditional foods like Çiğköfte or raw meatballs without meat, Döner kebab and perde pilavı.
What you called "burbur" is actually "bulgur". It's not unusual - it's a common ingredient in tabbouleh. The Turkish equivalent of tabbouleh is kısır, and uses much more bulgur than tabbouleh does.
Don't they usually use couscous?
@@maeryn4200 bulgur is more common.
*it's not unusual even outside Turkey, these days it's eaten in pretty much the whole of Europe. Plus Turkish food is everywhere (probably the most popular food in Europe the last few decades, together with like Lebanese), so weird he said "burbur"..
@@maeryn4200 bulgur
@@maeryn4200 As a Turkish I guess I m the right person to answer that mostly in the middle Anatolian parts of Turkey (like Ankara, Corum Yozgat vs.) we use bulgur so often. and so most of the Middle Anatolian prefer bulgur to rice. But in the western side (Aegean) they mostly use kuskus. We have bulgur as pilav mostly in very different types, we make it with beef with tomato paste and with vegetables but as o middle Anatolian I prefer to eat it simple, just bulgur and some oil. I believe everyone coming to Turkey must try bulgur pilav with chicken, turkey or duck meat
Turkey was added to my bucket list not just to visit beautiful places but to try their delicacies 🤩
Man, the Istanbul food series are the best :D
Please note, in 5-10 years it will be marketed as Greek çiğ köfte 😂😂
Çiğ köfte is so good! I've noticed it's slowly becoming popular here in Germany as well. There are even some food deliveries that specialize on it.
There’s is a huge population of Turkish immigrants in Deutschland, so that makes sense to me
Kokoreç is actually the best and the most common drunk food since forever. Officially, sort of.
Kokorec is my favorite food of all time everytime i'm in turkey im eating at least one everyday
I went into people's houses for a old job, and turkish people are legit one of the nicest out there. Very Welcoming
@ 9:02 Thymus gland isn’t that hard to find. You just have to know it’s proper “food” name, which is: sweetbread.
They are served all around the world, just look for sweetbread on the menu or ask the establishment if they serve sweetbread. ✌🏻💕😃
@2:25 me every Saturday night when I don't go out.
Although Çiğköfte means raw meatballs, it is generally used as meatless, it is a meal mainly made with bulgur and many spices, has two types as meat and meatless.
Exactly!
Like he said in the video
Anybody have a recipe for the meatless?
@@dannywest9510 There is a channel called Refika's Kitchen on youtube you can watch her videos
edit: I found a better channel, if you've seen the old one, I suggest you check out Refika.
That looked like it would be tasty if they cooked it. Not sure why they would eat it raw
@@trinininja8386 İt is like asians eat raw fish. Some people also make the fried version at home, but if you are going to eat çiğköfte, you usually eat them raw. Meaty one is not so common you can eat it just few places, i never tried meaty one but i am sure it is not tasty as the
In a couple of restaurants just outside of the town of Edirne in Turkey near the Greek border, they have a specialty of thinly sliced and battered deep fried lamb's liver.... served with pickles and bread....a once in a lifetime taste experience.
çığ köfte is so delicious i love it with the spice sauce but i’m sad they didn’t serve the sauce there 😊
Nothing scary about raw meat. In Western Europe we consume a lot of raw meat: Carpaccio, Tartar, Mett (Germany) and all the others I don't know of.
I have never left America and I would love to travel around to different countries and trying different cultures’ unique food
I mean, depending on where you are in America, you can have them right at home... NYC is full of authentic restaurants
Go to Spain, soo good!!
@@reisshep NYC is NOT full of authentic restaurants.
sincerely, a european that had to endure that culinary cesspool.
Go for it man! apart from the food, most culutres are super interesting and will change your life (in very little ways, but still, you will see stuff differently).
my brother that drink is absinthe its a botanical spirit with anise wormwood and a bunch of other things traditionally mixed with water and a sugar cube
I keep laughing every time Sonny says thank you in Turkish. He pronounces teşekkürler like "testicular", but it is really pronounced "te-shek-ku-ler".
Not really. Its pronounced ”te-she-kur-ler”. :)
Yes teşekkürler 🇹🇷
No its pronounced the-shek-kur-ler
@@chronicbadsect0r yok artık daha neler😂
Yok Ta-shak cooler....
@5:10 Did he just said "one you're done handling your balls, put them on the grill"?
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This food is SO up my alley! Thank you, Sonny!
😂😂😂I love the humor and the education in this show
I am so proud that this guy is in Turkey Istanbul which is my city and enjoying food. Enjoy man wish I was there !
5:24 - "The chef is cutting his other testicles.." .. I lost it.. 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Turkish food is what I loved the most after Asian cuisine. Super delicious 😋
@@irlfarming part of both Asia and Europe, which means Eurasia
@@JonasEmre Only a tiny part of it is in Europe tho, it's mainly an Asian country.
@@ithilgreenleaf8184 10 million people live in the European part, and we prefer to say Eurasia, it would be wrong to say only Asia
@@ithilgreenleaf8184 that small part has millions of people in it more than some european countries
@@JonasEmre 5 million of whom are forcabily displaced Kurdish people from northern Kurdistan. the rest are Greek, Albanians and anything under the sun. Turks are Asian, far Asian at that. I'm talking Xinjiang region kinda Asian.
Yup. I’m 100% stressed out and hungry at the same time bc my dream career is THIS EXACTLY. I absolutely love his channel.
Haven't been to Turkey for more than 7 years now and I can tell you guys i dream about kokorec
Kokorec is the best street food hands down. That shop was my local when I lived at that exact neighborhood. Enjoyed it every weekend after countless of beers!
I am a Kokoreç and Uykuluk fan, born and raised in Istanbul.
My wife is from Adana and strangely she doesn’t like this “Bizarre” stuff 😞
Until tonite 🥳🥳🥳 She watched this and first time in her life she agreed to at least try both 🤩
She will love I am sure, thanks for the help Mr.Sonny 🙏
I love your videos man, but I'm always worrying about your stomach! Lol I am grateful for all the adventures places you go and all the foods that you try and the amount of respect that you showed all the people and cultures that you visit. I sincerely hope you have a good health and thank you for all the great videos
C'mon we eat these in Turkey here and there and we are fine 😋Although Cigkofte is banned for many years here if it's made hygienic it shouldn't cause any problems
@@St0n3dCold first of all I was talking about his ability to eat foods all over the world in really exotic locations. He has spoken in a number of videos about the fact that he has had diarrhea for almost 2 years. She eats a lot of exotic foods and it's not about whether it's hygienic or not, it's about whether or not the local bacteria and foods are some thing that his body can tolerate as he travels so much. He is a very adventurous person and I really enjoy his videos but I know for a fact that he struggles with stomach issues from all the different foods and locations that he eats at. And having been to a lot of places in Africa and all over the world I can say for a fact that eating local cuisine can cause stomach problems, that just happens for travelers.
@@TheZenguitarguy I didn't know about this, makes sense.
I came with my family 18 years ago on holiday still here great people great weather great food .
Crazy the difference in price between Paris and Istanbull on the thymus. You get a lot for 6 bucks. Looked good too. Those intestine logs looked amazing. Was fun to watch. Great video
And it s sooooo tasty. We crave for it 😂I hope u have a chance to taste it one day 🥰
Kokorec is made of the intestines of sheep, it should be cleaned and completely washed up for many times. Then you can marinate or roll it, so that you can grill it on ambers, i must say, it's awesome, so delicious. Always eat it after sprinkling some chilli peppers, thyme, cumin and salt together with some onion slices.
Turkey is where civilization started.
Turkish food is amazing . I'm every second mount going to Istanbul eaty ❤️ Kebab Söğüş kelle paça soup İskender çiğ köfte ciğer Last baklava ice cream 👌
As a Turkish person you tried so delicious food for our country, I think every people must try Turkish food people I bet you guys you will fall in love, extremely delicious.
kokorec is such an underrated food. anyone goes turkey should try it in somewhere suggested.
Its a Turkish food but now greeks claim that and registered as a greek food , what ever belongs to Turks they keep claiming
I just found your channel? I don't know if you usually try only meat dishes but Turkey has so many amazing vegetable dishes. It's like a vegetarian heaven.
The historical turkish Seljuqs always enjoyed wine. Probably also as a spiritual beverage as sufism is all present in turkish culture.
Same for the Turkish huns.
I'm happy to see that you like it, we want to see more turkish food episodes!!!
best ever food show, great respect to u Sonny and the team.. one love Jamaica
I allready saw same types of food in food ranger's video....😅😅... But i feel so much fun in Sonny's video because of Sonny's humour and explanation 🤙🤙
Please upload more Turkish food videos. There are much more amazing foods and desserts in Istanbul. You must experience and show them 🙏✨
"I thought he was gonna eat it raw because then I would have too!" LOL 😆
Another great video. I've had thymus both grilled and in a cream sauce. Very hard to decide which is best. The raw meatballs sound like an advanced version of steak tartare, would like to try them.
I really love your videos. Your descriptions seem so accurate i can almost smell and taste the dish. And that's amazing. Good job !!
Kokorec is so delicious and healthy!!! Nice video👍👍👍
English man living in Turkey for 10 years. I have no desire to go back to the UK. Love it here.
29 year old Turkish guy here for some more information if anyone is interested.
- As far as i remember selling rawmeat with actual meat is forbidden by laws because raw meat has a potential to spoil and most of the smaller local restaurants will use them that way. Tho the restaurant in this video is a huge one in a very popular area so they may have got a permit idk. Also you don't use that bs mixing blade in traditional making of rawmeat. You just constantly knead everything with your hands for like 2 to 3 hours (you even add some ice cubes to the mixture) to catch the consistency of rawmeat and at the end, traditionally you throw some rawmeat to the ceiling. If it sticks there, it's ready to eat. If not, you gotta knead more.
- 6:10 You see the yellow line on the glass? That simply measures the "single" or "double" serving of "Rakı". Since it's a strong alcohol, drinking it straight is not so enjoyable so you have to balance the rakı/water balance according to your taste by trying. That much added water in the video is usually soooo little for a double rakı if you are drinking it for the first time. It should have been like single serving of rakı and water through the rest of the glass. You also add one or two big ice cubes in it to drink it cold. Even with these, it takes couple more feasts to start to enjoy rakı, it's a different alcohol.
- From 4:14 to 9:03, no one on earth can make me eat those things sir. Can try for once, but prolly won't eat them for the rest of my life. I have never understood why some of our people like to eat offal (we literally have a dish named Kelle Paça that roughly translates into Head and Trotter and it literally is a combination of these as a soup), but i believe huge majority of Turkish people don't like eating those but some freaks just eat them in a regular basis.
- Kokoreç is a whole different thing tho. Most people would like and eat it. They have a big history in the cuisine back to ottomans. As far as i remember it was started as a street food in common folk and later presented to the palace. Why you eat it with so much spice is as you can guess, because it's made of intestine.
Something to add. In çiğ köfte, even though that meat seems so much, in volume it is not the biggest component of the dish. One of the first steps of making bulgur is boiling the wheat for a couple of hours and then drying it up.
Thats why, from the minute the bulgur interacts with any liquid or any fat/oil, it starts to absorb it. And grow tremendously.
Also, the reason to use that much of salt and spices is to "cook" the meat while kneading. Sadly most food from İstanbul is far from the traditional stuff. Originially it is kneaded for a much longer time and with ice cubes. Which actually helps to keep the meat safe to eat since the heat of your hands keep warming it up. Also it changes the texture a lot.
Since this process takes so long, in the eastern parts of Turkey, people have gatherings occasionally and they sing songs and enjoy while one of them makes the çiğ köfte.
I wanted to talk about just one of the dishes because first of all, the dishes changes when they are served in İstanbul. I have a lot of friends and family who travels almost monthly to feast better to various cities.
I like this show because i feel like you guys really work hard to find hidden food and traditions around the world and i dont think you can do that by just traveling İstanbul.
Why tf did I become a freak for drinking kellepaça dlfjdpdkdğsnsğjs
7:38 he said: There are 7 thymus here. Thymus is an aphrodisiac
The turnip juice! It is the best company to Raki you had before. Also, no matter how salty it tastes for the first time, once you develop an appetite for it, it is a great drink for gamie (is that how you spell it?:) food.
Anyone else remember how he would always say he wouldn't get a girlfriend and now he give his wife a cute lil shout-out in his vids 🥺💖💖💖💖💖💖
You've grown my guy and I'm here for it
Sonny trying to say balls as many times as he can whilst eating balls is hilarious!
Hi, Sonny! I would like to correct something about Kokoreç. Its center is not fat at all. It is thymus (pancreas), actually the type of meat he ate right before kokoreç. In Turkey, we call this part 'uykuluk'.
I like this no filter version of Sonny here! Hahaha! Anyway, if you want to try thymus in the US, go to any Argentinian steak house then ask for sweetbread. I always ask for extra for when I order the steak platter!
I’ve always been amazed by the size of the bites Sonny takes. He should be eating with a shovel. 😂 But, all jokes aside, taking a big bite when trying new foods is the best compliment to the people making the foods. So many people barely hits the tip of the tongue when trying something new and never really getting the full taste of the dish before stating that the like or dislike a dish. Very entertaining and cultural educational food videos. Sonny seems so likeable and adventurous. A go-to channel for entertainment, culinary and cultural food show. I wish you all the best Sonny, and looking forward to follow your adventures in the future. 🫶🏼
Your Turkey adventures are hilarious 😂
Great video...i love turkish food..never get enough of istanbul
Sonny is the best food vlogger in the whole wide world! 🙏
Thanks for a very nice video of Istanbul's strange turkey meat 👍
U made me hungry when i seen the chicofte. The raw meat might put people off.but it technically cures with the chilli and the mixing. It is very light and it can be found in alot of countries. The vegetarian version is just as good. Glad you enjoyed it.
They don't put raw meat into it anymore. It was prohibited in Türkiye by sanitary regulations long ago. I think they made an exception for this guy only.
The only Channel about Food i watch ( and Gordon Ramsay :D ).
The Editing, how humble and interesting it is. just amazing
I was one of those who actually hated "kokorec" until I gave it a shot and fortunately I loved it. It is as he says, it's freaking delicious. I wish I ate more in my trip in istanbul.
As someone who lives in Istanbul, I can't like kokoreç
@@elifguney2362 çünkü ağız tadın yok knk
@@elifguney2362 depends if you marinate the livers and stuff. It depends on person. Underseasoned kokoretsi is bad. Not disgusting but still bad.
@@barbarhoroz6496 kokoreç yiyen birinin ağız tadından bahsetmesi de saçma aw
@@thesecretlibrary890 Beware of taxis and shops because they scam you. From İstanbul 🇹🇷
Çiğ (which means raw in English) köfte is actually forbidden in Türkiye now. They now make a pulse based version of it and give it the same name. It's delicious.
İn our turkish family there is a saying “ you are a real man if you eat a whole kokoreç in a bread“ also love your videos and thank you for showing our cuisine to the world. Lastly my god our economy is down bad, 1 dolar is 18 liras.
Ooh, than I am manly man, because I eat guts without spices.
There is not such a things nobody says this shit in Turkey i dont know where is from this mans family
@@Be4stMode174 ödödldldlld it was for a meme man don’t take it seriously
Olm nasil bir laf bu, Hangi aile öyle bir sey söyler 😂
@@mnts9101 Valla bende duymadım öle bir şey , sadece sünnet olurken söylemişlerdi 😂
thank you mate, i didnt know what to do with my domestic supportive lamb next to me, you gave me a huge idea 10/10, true masterpiece
pretty sure Sonny enjoyed doling out all those balls references lol
Got baited with the title, watched the whole thing and not disappointed. Nice and objective review on the cuisine. Well done!
In America we called those balls mountain oysters. It’s taste yummy. Just kidding never eat it before. But people in Texas love it. Thank you for sharing sonny. God bless you.🙏🙏❤️
finally the kokoreç episode. By the way when it comes to kokoreç there are 2 types, you tasted İstanbul style. with veggies and shit. But the other one is İzmir style which consists of only kokoreç meat and ground cumin. I really love İzmir style because oregano destroys the taste. Also some people like it on shish ( crunchy on the outside and soft and chewy in the inside or fully chopped and grilled for those people who can't stand eating chewy medium rare inside. And when it comes to Black carrot juice called şalgam, it goes so well with kokoreç and rice filled mussels called midye dolma. If you are still in here in Turkey, go for some Ottoman cuisine, try karnıyarık. keep up the good work Sonny. I love your videos
They have thymus gland in some restaurants in the U.S. but we call them sweetbreads...I have no idea why.
Turkish meat kitchen is the best in the world! By far! That's why me and my wife, we are in Turkey every second year. Not for the beaches, not for anything else but the delicious meat and overall food
Wow amazing food over there! Definitely will visit Turkey this Summer!
try the soups aswell they are brilliant. İşkembe çorba with lemon+garlic chefkiss
Im a Turk, and after seeing the title, I was kinda hoping you'd eat mumbar or işkembe, I recommend checking those out if you ever go back to Turkey. Great video, as always!
Here in Germany, there are lots of turkish shops that sell Cigkofte, but in the vegan version. It's really nice!
@@kayacenk4164 I as a Turk love the OG more but its expensive because you need good quality meat to make it
Actually in Turkey its illegal to sell cigkofte with meat since 2008 so nearly every place does it vegan too.
Meatless version is nothing new, we've been doing it for the past 30 years or so due to salmonella and much of the younger gen prefer it like this.
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All i heard was organ spice craddled under organ oil drippings on organ premium diamond grade organ beef organ with an extra side of gold karat organ with extra organ on top and the organ emergency has been called as no one has ever survived without it and you happen to be the organ king
It is not a precaution
We simply care
There are many more bizzare food to taste in Turkiye. I assure you most of them are unique.
10:47, The Best Ever Food Review FACE!🤣😂🤣
at 1:50 that is not raw, because you have to knead the mass for at least an hour so it becomes perfect. And since you knead the mass with the palm of your hands, the meat etc. are getting cooked slowly with the heat of your palms, that's why you should at least knead it for 30 minutes constantly ;)
so the food processor/blade part should speed it up because the machine is faster and hotter than human hands? or is it 30 min by hand then the machine is just to finish?
@@calamitysangfroid2407 it can be done both ways because that machine is also heating up a little bit, so all in all it makes the whole preparation for the dish easier and less exhausting
Hey Sonny Side should try to get the fans involved. We need recipes for these great looking foods!!!!!!!!!!!!