TOP 21 TURKISH FOODS | Istanbul Food Guide
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- What is food in Turkey like? This is by all means, not a cumulative list of Turkish cuisine. I recommend all travelers to explore Turkish food on their own-- Turkey has a fascinating Ottoman history and culture of farming, fishing and livestock and you will find this reflected in their food as well.
Note: My diet was limited to Turkish vegetarian foods . I didn't document my experiences with mezzes (side dishes, which occasionally can be vegetable based)
Read more at: 21 Flavors of Turkish Food | Food Culture in Turkey & Food Wars : wp.me/pNFhP-c7K
Street Food in Istanbul | Istanbul Food Guide
1. Doner Kebabs
2. Simit
3. Pomegranate Juice
4. Pide
5. Midye Dolma (Stuffed Mussels)
Traditional Markets of Turkey
6. Olives
7. Nuts & Grains
8. Cheeses
9. Dried Fruits & Vegetables (hanging)
10. Spices
11. Honey(comb)
12 Homemade Jams, Preserves & Syrups
13. Carob (from Locust Tree Seed Pods)
14. Dolma (Stuffed Grape Leaves)
15. Sigara | Borek
16. Chorba (Lentil Soup)
Turkish Sweets
17. Baklava
18. Turkish Delight
19. Halva
Turkish Drinks
20. Turkish Coffee
21. Turkish Tea
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I want it so badly , I love Turkey more than I love the world
Butters Stotch
well done
Butters Stotch but tere is more food
@@kadir0037 iyi misin sen kardes
eyvallah kardeş
woww it so pleasant comment Butters Stotch. Greetings from İstanbul to your country ✋☺
Türkiye'yi çok seviyorum!
There is this small Turkish restaurant near my place in Toronto and I feel in love with their food. It's amazing! Their pide is my new obsession!
where is lahmacun, şalgam, ayran, köfte, kerebiç, ali nazik, adana kebap, iskender, kandil çöreği, maraş dondurması, çorum leblebisi, karadeniz sütlaç, hamsi tava, boyoz, edirne ciğer, şırdan, poğaça, cevizli sucuk, pestil, afyon kaymağı, pastırma, sucuk, etc... :)
+gazisemerkant aynen de yalnız onları yese ölürdü (arka arkaya yeseydi)
:D
sus sus allani seversen sus. klavyeye akti salayalarim.
gazisemerkant lahmacun turk yemegi degildir kebabta turk yemegi degildir sadece biz arappardan daha iyi yapiyoz
gazisemerkant bunu yazmıcaktın 😶😶
I so love Turkish cuisine , been there done that so yummmmmm
i love my country a lot
+Ece Ersavaş Turkey is a wonderful country!
And i Love you
I want to visit turkey 🇵🇰♥️🇹🇷
@@grrrltraveler bide ekonomi olsa
I love your country as well❤️❤️❤️
I loved watching this again and again. Amazing video wondering food . Thanks for showing all the Turkish delicacies.
actually this is just the little part of our cousine, you can not find all types of turkish food in all cities most of them uniqe I mean just making in own city. So if you try all dishes you should travel all around the Turkey. :)
I ' m From Turkey It's a nice video, I hope you've had a nice holiday :)
Ahmet Berk Koca Thanks, I loved Turkey! My holiday definitely felt way too short; I totally want to come back again.
GRRRLTRAVELER | Christine Kaaloa Thanks for the video it's nicely made we hope you'll visit again especially Turkish coast July and August would be too hot but June would be a good month if you ever visit south of Turkey the coastal areas
I love how you show so much in bits and pieces in such short time! Love from NJ
Turkish coffee from Mutlu. Best in the world! :-) I also like Lokum. Ayran wery good!! Kebab is sometimes eaten in the Czech Republic if something healthy is not available. I love lamb and mutton, but it is relatively rare in our country. I practically can't get goat meat. I only ate once in my life. Lamb eat it once a year.
*Turkish food is one of the best in Middle East*
Turkey is not Middle East.
You mean world i think :)
Silky Cherry it is
Turkey has one of the world's most choice for food because of ottoman empire we learned from different countries combined with our culture 🇹🇷🇹🇷❤❤🇹🇷🇹🇷
Wow 😮 Turkey 🦃 s food 🥘 markit is awesome 👏🏻 so many sweet dishes 🥰looks so yummy 😋 I love ❤️ sweets 🍫 🍬
Vidio shumë e bukur🌹🌹🌹🌹💞💞💞🌹🌹🌹🌹
All hail for the heaven of good food, my beloved country and this is only a small part of it!
Turkuye is so amazing.
may it be peaceful forever.
Everything so healthy and freshly self made 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
Thanks for this informative video! I really didn't know what kind of foods to expect from Turkey and this gives me an idea.
+MikeDiamond You're welcome Mike! I appreciate all your comments and hope this gives you something to look forward to in your trip!
i love pomegranate fruit and juice, i should visit when i graduate high school.
A quick roundup for people want to visit. Good video.
Thank you for making such a wonderful video, best food video I have seen awhile.
Come again whenever :) - a viewer from Turkey
+NoTimes I really hope to stay longer next time! Loved Turkey!
Makes me wanna go to Turkey everytime I need to eat
Hope you will come one day ☺🙏
Can't wait to go there
Thanks again for the informative video Christine! Very helpful for my upcoming trip.
+AlyssaB You're welcome! Enjoy eating Istanbul =D
Thanks for sharing. Everything looked delicious!
Gurlhmong Thanks for watching! =D
you should try pishmaniye, its a cotton candy like sweet and drinks called salep and boza.
ye
Pişmaniye
very interesting about your channel
Thats very cool video. I'm from Turkey and i dont wanna see my country looking bad... So thats a nice video to tutorial :)
And one thing that the last one -tea- isnt our "Turkish Tea" :))
Pilofetto There's no way your country could look bad. I met so many hospitable people there.
Another amazing and delicious video Chris, have you tried the simit with Nutella? Now I'm a huge fan of turkish food, I'll try to find a turkish restaurant down here in Brazil.
Wow the best place to live in
4:15 deki nasıl bir çay? Beyaz çaymı yoksa imamın abdest suyu mu?
Aynen ya adamlar çayın deminden koymamış
*Greetings from Turkey*
+Mert Yaldızlı Aloha from Hawaii!
Hey! Merhaba! I'm Queen from Philippines. I always wanted to go to Turkey. It's my dream. To eat Turkish food and go to different cities! I love this country, super!
Excellent and informative video.
Man I looove Turkish food
I am from Turkey. Turkey is a very different country...💎
Thanks for the Awesome video, such delightful food and the city is magestic 💕💕💕💕
Ardil Arslangedikli Agreed!
I am. Pakistani
But
Ilove
Turkish
Dishes
This Video make me Hungry :'(
Im frem terkey C:
Love Turkey
awesome ..full mouthwatring yrrr so yammy
Cool video!!👏👏 I see you included some footage from a previous vlog!! The breakfast one 😉
Moh Amed Yes! The previous one is when I knew absolutely nothing about Turkish food. This one... i know a little more. ;) Thanks for watching!
Great video! Yummy
Amazing food....luv turkey
hi, I watched your 11 top greek foods video too. I think there is some mistakes because dolma and turkish coffe scenes are the same in two videos. and thanks for sharing foods from my country.
this 2 things are from greece:)
Emm Chatz, No they are not stop spreading lies. There is no such thing as Greek Coffee. They named it Greek coffee, because they dont want to call it Turkish coffee. Please wiki is and find out for your self . In Greece, Turkish coffee was formerly referred to simply as 'Turkish' (τούρκικος). But political tensions with Turkey in the 1960s (Istanbul pogrom) led to the political euphemism 'Greek coffee'
Food heaven. I hope you get to travel to Iran, Wonderful people and superb food too.
Awesome! I will try to eat all 21 and more since i'm a meat eater :)
+The Travel Vlogger The world is ruled by meat eaters, so you should find an abundance! =)
Hi Christine, Nice videos, i really like your work. I a planning to go to Istanbul next month, any advice on good hotels??? Not looking for anything fancy, just a decent hotel will do. Waiting for your reply. Thanks.
am indian but my forefathers are from turkey.
shakeel ahmed turkish love indian peoples
Pesevenk Türk and most of Indians love Turkish people..
bless you
Merhaba ben türküm ahahah aglayııın
Awesome video..
thanks....
Thanks for the info
harika bir video :) çok beğendim :)
delicious street food trip👍😋💯💖😍
oh god i miss turkey.
this video make me....yummy.greeting from indonesia
Hi Christine! I have an upcoming trip to Paris and was wondering if you have any tips for sightseeing, places to eat,transportation,etc.
thanks
If you go to Turkey, you must try the tulumba dessert and a milky drink known as salep.
Türkiye’ye gidele çok uzun zaman oldu ya. Özlüyorum orayı 🤧
Yummy yummy food
Wow, GRRRLTRAVELER | Christine Kaaloa , what a delicious video. I *salivate* throughout this widely ranging fast-paced, and highly flavorful *smorgasbord*. Some of that street food I can smell, the experience is so vivid. I love *pomegranates* and their juice, so I really envy your fresh-squeezed juice, but I suspect the pomegranates must be a *trifle tarter in Turkey* (repeat rapidly 3X).
I love markets where the stalls are populated with the *local olive man with his most olivey tasting olive*, the nut man, the fruit & vegetable man, *the poultry man (poetry man?)*. The market in your video looks fancier than the market I know, Santiago's *La Vega Central*, a few acres of stalls covered with a roof of corrugated metal.
*Honeycomb* is considered a treat in a lot of cultures, and I've tried it again recently myself. As you say, it's basically *honey-dipped wax*. I want to say I have tried it, and *a few seconds later I nod* and say, Yep, tried that.
*Simit* looks & sounds really good. Are they *bagel-like* ? Did you have an impulse to reach for the lox & cream cheese?
And for dessert: *baklava, Turkish delight, and halva*! How nice to try them so close to the point of origin (baklava originated in nearby Greece? and what about dolmas?). You show us so many wonderful sweets that through my eyes my blood sugar soared to *300 mg / dL*. Yum.
What is that at the bottom of the coffee cup? I wondered last time. It looks like chocolate that settles out while you sip. Or are they coffee grounds?
At one cafe table we see a tiny Sony camera next to your pastry saucer. My first impulse was brain fart: ah, she brings us these big videos through that little camera (I'll leave the Gödel, Escher, & Bach logical loop as an exericse to the reader). But even still, a glimpse of the apparatus in the middle of your film was so wonderfully *Bergmanesque*. ( _Persona_, opening sequence, Ingmar Bergman, watch out for that projector, the apparatus in that movie.)
I also really loved the music in here: we sort of *dance* through all those food stalls. Anyway, great video. I enjoyed it. Thanks.
Mason West As always, thank you for your nice comment Mason! Some of the foods between Greece and Turkey are similar- I learned that through my Greek foods video, where there's a nice competing controversy. Without digging into history books, the fact they're neighboring, has something to do with it. But I think Baklava, the Turks claim, albeit the origin is a little vague. I'm not sure about dolmas; both countries have it as a dish or appetizer but it's shared through the middle east.
Very interesting what you said about the honeycomb. This was my first time experiencing it in that manner, but I've been to a store in Istanbul that sells and showcases various grades of honeycombs. Of course, to buy from that store is like buying jewelry.
GRRRLTRAVELER | Christine Kaaloa it's the proximity thing, and cultural memes like recipes or more specifically dolmas or baklava spread according to people's tastes without respect for borders or political enmity.
I wrote that honeycomb was "honey-dipped wax," but, more accurately it's a chunk of the hive (the matrix of hexagonal cells) where the honey is made with the honey still in it, so no dipping is necessary. It was more common in the US than it is now (manufactured candies are just as sweet but lack the waxiness), but the neighborhood grocery a few blocks from here carries it.
I don't know if they still use it, but you used to be able to buy bees' wax, which was a great way to hang posters on a wall without damaging paint. I wonder if the bees' wax didn't also come out of honeycomb. People these days probably use some chemical putty in its place.
Mason West I got that you were being writerly with the honey-dpped wax term. What I tried was the traditional sense of the word honeycomb as I showed it.
GRRRLTRAVELER | Christine Kaaloa Yes, I think we're on the same page. What I bought at the store was essentially a honey rich part of the physical structure of the hive lopped off and plopped into a jar, then filled the rest of the way up with honey as well. I tend to double-check for bee larvae before I eat it....
Hello :)
Baklava and Dolma is originally Turkish foods . Us neighbour(Greece) learn than Turkish people baklava and dolma and a lot food :)
Tasty! keep making great content. MashaAllah👍 from Pakistan
RICH CULTURE WITH RICH FOODS
IYI All stolen from culture to food
@@ΕυάγγελοςΚαραμπιτσάρης you are stole thats all Turkish
the tea ist to bright for a turkish tea, normally it is red and very dark :))
+Külyutmaz maybe she asked to add more water because it's hard to drink it... ;)
+Yusuf Ismail (Koca Yusuf) içtiği şey ıhlamur :)
esin naki olabilir, ama adam diyor ki, normalin cok kara ve kirmizi almali.
Bu video bu kadının Turkiye'de çektiği videoların bir arajmanı.Daha önce Kapadokya videosunu izlemiştim.Bu çay içtiği kare oradan.Ozaman o çayın ıhlamur olduğunu söylemişti.Ondan dedim :)
where did you get the tea, except from it they all seem right. But classic Turkish tea looks darker and more red
Adaçayı içiyor büyük ihtimal.
I agree with you. It's not turkish tea.
They always serve elma çayı to tourists for some reason
Who else loves Christine? That's why I included the video in my PLAYLIST of the BEST TURKEY TRAVEL VIDEOS! ua-cam.com/play/PL-QFeeX74IS-mnU9Ef4WSvWeIo6Y3eO9T.html
Hatun kilo aldı ülkede:D
+Erdi Evren ahahaha :D
+Erdi Evren u from Pakistan?
+Jay Khan no from Turkey
I went to turkey in Mark, I love the country. I visited turkey, im from Pakistan but live in the united states , Houston .
Turkish hospitality: Armenian genocide, Istanbul pogrom 1955, persecution of Kurds. Fuck Turkey !
Örnek alın işte. Ne temiz güzel yemek
AMAZING *-*
Awesome :D :D :D
Nice Video Christine, i'm from Saudi Arabia
most of the food in the Video is common in the Middle east, So it's not Specifically turkish, but more middle eastern, i hope you enjoyed your stay, What do you think about the (Stuffed Olive leaves) ? most of the girls like it :)
Mouath Al Showaiman Thanks, I love the stuffed olive leaves! I can't wait to visit the Middle East, because then there'll be hummus too. =D
That's not correct you definitely say that because most middle eastern people are jealous of Turkey and its various food smh.
i'm not jealous from anything, we all brothers and it's just a traditions and cultural thing that we share together.
Moath Al Showaiman We are not brothers ..Azerbaycan,Türkmenistan Uygurs etc.. are our brothers, You are just neighbores that's all ..
***** all humans are brothers :p
cool video good editing beautiful lady. awesome!
that tea at the end was very light. was it black tea or apple tea?
We want more video about Turkey
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Mix pomegranate and orange juice its great if you have cold.
+antimatterguy I wish I knew that. Lots of pomegranate juice in Istanbul =D
GRRRLTRAVELER | Christine Kaaloa My dad gives me whiskey If I get cold.
Simit+butter =delicious 👍🏻
I was already hungry before watching this video and now im dying...midye dolma T-T i neeeeeed to eat!
It's beyaz peynir (white cheese), not feta cheese D:
Thanks😉👏👏
#GRRRLTRAVELER | Christine Kaaloa helloooooo .. i hope u enjoyed in istanbul ...i just wonder 1st tea in the glass turkish tea .. and then ur drinking. why its color is like that ?? actually it must to be dark red a litt. :)
kalimnrcn It's my bad. Every meal or Turk I met served me pretty near THIS tea and then I learned that Turks have a special fondness for tea over coffee (the latter is more for special occasions). So my idea with this video was that "Everyone should have tea in Turkey as the the more local thing to do". I didn't know there was a special tea that was specifically called Turkish tea, ... which I'm discovering thru some of the comments.
GRRRLTRAVELER | Christine Kaaloa Tea is a inseperable thing from our lives, for sure. Wikipedia says everyday for per capita, 10 cups of tea is consumed at turkey :) And i'm considering it, and yes i guess i drink 10 or more everyday :) kalimnrcn is right the tea should've been much more darker. My guess is they give lighter tea to tourists, cause it can be too intense for new tea drinkers :)) But even the lightest tea is not in that light. You should give one more shot to it. Cause you didn't tasted tea yet not with that color :) :) Btw if you want to ask anything about turkey. About how you go anywhere to anywhere or an advice for food,place,drink i guess i can help u here :) Sorry for the long post :))
Ahmet Burak Kamanlı Thank you for that insight into Turkish culture and no apologies. WOW, 10 cups/day, really?! That's like a religion. lol. Interestingly, your coffee seems one of the strongest I've had too. Makes me think that the Turkish palate is really close to their herbs and spices... an earthier sensibility than its neighbors? Maybe that has to do with their nomadism and farming history?
Thanks for answering me :) Actually the coffee is older from tea at Turkey. It was an Ottoman thing. It has a special place too, but u don't consume too much cause u can't :)) it's really strong so we drink it like with deserts or at night chats. Ofc there is some addicted people around me :)) But personally i can't drink more than one at a day cause it makes my heart flap like a hummingbird :) At Ottoman times coffee cups was too small like only one sip big :)
The nomadism is too old for us i can barely see any effect of a nomadism's effect on our lives. Since 1300's we didn't move too much i guess :) But you're right about farming. The farming history and culture is so close to us. Still on the villages most of us has a relative that has farm. And we value the foods come from villages.
Because of the place our country exists, there is toooo much species of a spices and herbs. We have 81 cities and i think all of them has a special herbs and spices they admire. Istanbul is the place where all 81 cities culture's get mixed. So it's kinda right place to get a one sip of a culture mix :)
👍 Thanks
.@GRRRLTRAVELER| Christine Kaaloa Simit is actually a breakfast item or we eat as afternoon fast food snack with tea ,cheese , domatoes etc..i strongly recommend with ezine or tulum cheese . Dairy products actually because we were nomadic people originally that's why our dairy products and meat dishes are truly worth trying .Lol i think you already noticed ,we put yogurt almost on top of everything , if not we have ayran or cacık beside it
sigara böreği : spring roll Turkish style
Have fun here :)
***** I haven't gotten to experience the yogurt in Turkey; only as a side, but with all the spices it would make sense. Thanks for sharing information about simit-- I noticed they sell some with chocolate and cheese and found it fascinating. Also, why would nomadism affect your dairy and meat? Is it because the livestock would feed on different terrain,.. kinda like growing grapevines on different soil?
GRRRLTRAVELER | Christine Kaaloa
these ones with chocolate and cheese are new ..Nomadic people's crops were products of their livestock thats why our food were heavily based on dairy products and meat later some of us started sedatery life and started to grow vegetables and crops .Still we have a great variety of dairy products and kebaps ofcourse :)
Bu video seviyorum.
Hi my friend I wish you continued success see you're shooting great videos Where Are you from
Bravooo 👏👏👏👏👏👏
I want to try baklava, borek( I think I wrote it right)and dolma.
Dede Luv all delicious
good
2:59 don't Dolma
Name is Sarma
Can I share you video on my channel
This doesn't count, and please come again
guldurdun lol
Morning Morning where are you going ?
İngilizce seviyem ahakslşsif
Ethan Robin hahahaha
Count dedi ya hahah
ayın türkçe düşünüp inlizceye çevirmişsin bire bir bunu saymayız bi daha gel :)
1:08 its less than one dolar today but still expensive for even today.
This video could be for Greece too except the aple tea that we don't have here.
Where exactly did you get the honey comb ?
super...
1:49 da koptum ya abilerle poza😀
dünyanın en iyi türk yemekler!
dünyanın en iyi türk doktor!
dünyanın en gücü insan türkler!
dünyanın en iyi savaşcıları
türk askeri!
dünyanın en gücü türk devleti!
türkleri bir insandır..
A love turki
love from India
Guys I am going on a 7 day trip to Turkey. Can anybody please suggest the best traditional food items available in Turkey????
Baklava (Diabetes to go)
Im no even joking, on ramadan month i ate a lot of them and i was diagnosed with diabetes, got rid of it in 2 months but i had it :D
Wtf... Diabetes is curable?
Typ 2, yes.
1:10 5 liraya 2,5 dolar diyor. 1$ = 2 Tl imiş 2015te. şuan 4,7.
Mmm quanto buon cibo voglio vivere liiiii 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌹🌹🌷
ROSe LYNd because turkey don' sell date fruit 🤔🤔
TÜRKLEY HER YERDE
TURKS EVERYWHERE
the turkish delight is not made with gelatin( animal)?
***** so glad, i always wanted to try them but i am a vegetarian, so when i fund out they had gelatin i was so sad.