7 MUST TRY FOOD IN ISTANBUL, TURKEY! 🇹🇷 | INSANE Street Food Tour 2022 | What to eat in İstanbul?

Welcome back to Istanbul Turkey and today is all about food. We want to show you the seven foods that you absolutely must try when you come to Istanbul. We are going to kick off the day with breakfast and to get it we have a 20-minute walk ahead of us via Galata Bridge. We were planning to just go for the menemen but we went for the whole Turkish breakfast instead. We grabbed a which was delicious but a tad strong. Let's list what we've got here so clotted cream and honey, butter, olives, peaches, cherries, a variety of different cheeses, parsley with dill and pomegranate seeds, a load of different jams, an incredible peanut butter, avocado smashed with some herbs and a tomato and pepper spread called muhammara. On top of all the cold bits we've got which is a spicy Turkish sausage, fried dough and gozleme and we tapped a menemen on top. Menemen by the way is a Turkish scrambled egg which in this case consists of egg, green peppers, tomato sauce, spices, dill and parsley and for us this was the main event. This was the first time we tried a combination of clotted cream and honey and oh my god it was delicious. This is gozleme, it's a flat bread stuffed with cheese, dill and parsley. That was incredible, we absolutely loved this breakfast. Probably not the cheapest one you'll find in Istanbul but the quality of food was just out of this world. It was so amazing and if that's a sign of how the rest of the day is going to go then we're in for a good day. By the way if you want to get the addresses of all the places where we tried our food check out our full free Istanbul guide, the link is down below. We're on our way to try Midi Dolma and we are going to this place which is supposed to be the best place in Istanbul for them. You can choose the classic ones, we went for them. You can choose the ones with shrimp or squid inside and also there are some in sauce. We got them takeaway so let's go around the corner and try them. So the lady was so kind to give us to try them with sauce and we know they taste absolutely delicious. Let's go for the classic one and see what they're like. Let me just grab one. So midi dolmas are basically stuffed mussels. See there is a mussel, there is rice and you can see there are some spices in there too. So let's try and scoop it out. It comes out easy and you're supposed to put some lemon on them as well. Let's do that. They put it everywhere. Okay let me just chew them and then explain to you how they taste. If you ever tasted mussels you know they're quite strong flavoured. See this is not that strong I wouldn't say and it's very creamy inside. This rice sort of got stuck all together. It's nice, it's not dry at all and it's full of flavour and spices. It has a bit of a kick to it as well and lemon juice just makes it nice and refreshing. So you definitely have to go and try them. So we're not full yet we're just getting started and we're off to our next destination to try Manti but let's get there first. So Manti is quite a famous dish throughout Central Asia and also really popular in Russian It's basically a meat dumpling. I think Manti itself is originally from Uzbekistan but Turkish Manti is mixed with yoghurt and lots of spices which hopefully should take it to that next level. So let's give it a go. It's so good. The yoghurt and the oil and the spices mixed together with meaty dumplings just works. It's so nice. Give it a go. Matt said that we're not full but after Manti we're definitely feeling it. Thankfully we've got a very nice walk ahead of us to get back to our side and we might try some ice cream there if we have some room. Oh hang on, that's soap. We decided to go for Kunafa instead of ice cream for now and I had a sneaky peek of what else they sold. So we got it takeaway because music was playing in there and we're afraid to be demonetized. So we're going to eat it in a park. Hopefully the ice cream doesn't melt. This is Kunafa. Usually it's shredded filo pastry or semolina then in the middle you should have cheese or cottage cheese sometimes and then it's all drenched in syrup and you should have some pistachios on top of it as well and usually it's served with cottage cream or ice cream. We went for the ice cream so let's dig in. So the Kunafa itself was made freshly for us and it's really nice and warm. As you can see the ice cream is melting pretty quickly. We only walked for like a couple of minutes. It's a beautiful combination of something really warm and cold ice cream as you might imagine. The ice cream is really tasty on itself but we're gonna try it a bit later as well with you. Our Kunafa is beautiful, it's really sweet, the pastry is a bit crunchy and you can taste the cheese. It's not very salty but it just gives you this creamy flavor and it combines with the whole thing just beautifully. I love it. Okay so we're tapping out for the day. We wanted to do it in one day, we thought we could but we've let ourselves down. And our battery has died as well. We're back out, we're feeling refreshed. It's day two, we're ready to go again. This morning we're off to a place called Imperator Kokorec and we're going to try something that's called kokorec but we will tell you what it is once we get it. Kokorec is basically lamb intestines. It's cooked on a spit sideways instead of upwards like a normal kebab is. It's cooked over the spit and it's really supposed to be, we don't know yet, it's supposed to be a really fatty and then crispy on the outside bit of meat. Would you call it meat? Yeah, meat. And then it's served with tomatoes and lots of spices. I think there's za'atar in there, sumac, some chili and we've got it in a pita bread. You can get it either in a normal like a carved out loaf or you can also get it separately on a plate just with the meat and just dig in and eat it that way. We went for the pita bread. It's spicy, it's fatty, you can taste all the spices, the refreshing tomato in there and then toasted bun just tops it off, just gives it that bit of crunch. Perfect street food, perfect. 10 out of 10. Come on, get into it. Fancy something sweet now? Let's go and get some baklava. Thank you. Bye. We are walking over there, just across the bridge to eat our baklava. We grabbed a few different types of baklava to try and some Turkish tea to wash it all down with. Let me show you what types we've got here. We've got this one full of pistachio paste inside. This one is with pistachios as well, just in a different shape and it's got some Korean pistachio on top. This one is chocolate and pistachio one and this one is with walnuts. Baklava is made out of filo pastry and nuts, then it's all covered in syrup. So let's dig in and try it. Let's try the walnut one first. This baklava is full of nuts and you can really taste them through. Maybe I haven't tried a proper baklava before but I remember just every time all you get is just this sweetness that hurts your mouth. I've got a very sweet tooth but I don't like things overly sweet when you can't taste anything apart from this sharp sweetness. So this one is really nice. It's sweet which is really nice with tea. It's very crunchy on top despite it being drenched in syrup and you can really really taste the nuts inside. So I say it's definitely a good start. I'm really interested to try a chocolate one first. I've never ever tried a chocolate baklava. Is there coconut? Look, I broke it and I think there is coconut inside. This is very interesting. Actually, it's only covered in pistachios. It's actually a chocolate baklava with coconut inside. Why I broke it? You can see the layer of coconut there. This is really beautiful as well. Very interesting. I would definitely advise you to try this one. Let me just have a sip of tea. Let's go for the next one and we already know that we adore this one. This one is hands down my favourite. It's full of flavour of pistachios, not overly sweet at all. You can even hardly taste the filo pastry. It's just sweet pistachios. It's amazing. You've got to try that one, 100%. Okay, let's try our next one. This looks like the previous one, just a bigger version. It's just a monster version of the last one. I mean, it's a brilliant thing. Yeah, it's not a bad thing at all. I'm slightly upset we didn't try a different flavour, but I mean, I say it's a win. I hope you enjoyed baklava tasting with us. Let's keep moving. God, I miss Mexico. Do you fancy a taco? Yeah. Let's go. We're off to get some tuna or a Turkish I don't need to say. It's really nicely spiced beef with vegetables rolled up in a lavash that's warmed up on top of the beef, rolled up and it's all cut. And then there's yoghurt and then some of the oil they were cooking in poured over top with some herbs and spices. It looks amazing, so let's give it a go. It's so nice. The onions and tomatoes are obviously raw, so they're nice and crunchy. And then the beef's really hot. It's got a nice spice to it. And then when it's covered in that yoghurt and the oil, it's just so creamy. And then the lavash has been soaked in the bread, so it's soaked up all that fat and meat. That is so nice. Such a nice combination. Another amazing meal here in Istanbul. So we've come to the last one. And to be honest, we've been dreading this one all day. You know that getting ice cream in Turkey can get into the whole palaver and entertainment and we both get quite awkward in situations like that. So we decided to flick a coin to decide which one of us is going to get it. Heads or tails? Tails. Come on. Heads. Can you do it? Please. Oh, my God. Well, to be quite honest with you, it was as bad as I imagined. And the worst thing about it all... Is it? Yeah, she will take it. That made me do it twice. I actually wonder if they enjoy teasing you or they're like, oh, another fool I have to entertain. Let's try it. We took the vanilla flavour. It's very sweet. And the ice cream itself, it's an interesting fact, actually, that they add flour to it. Hence why it's so thick and playable. That's why they do all this, you know, fancy things and take lumps out of the thingy. The flavour of it is actually really nice. It's not a very strong flavour of vanilla, but it's really nice and I would say thick. It's very thick and almost like a soft type of mozzarella. It's a really, really tasty ice cream. So make sure that you give it a go. As a Brucey bonus, we got some desserts from the supermarket. This is burnt milk one and this one is rice pudding. So let's give them a go. It looks like custard. I like many things I don't like to prepare. So let's try. It's actually really nice. It's like a combination between custard and condensed milk. It's like a thick condensed milk, I'd say. They should have done the same thing. It's rice pudding. Turkish rice pudding. It's my favourite. Right. I used to order it all the time. Every holiday. We used to go, we used to walk up to the cake shop. In Turkey? In Turkey, yeah, I used to order it all the time. They used to get cakes, like some sort of chocolate. We used to get chocolate cake and they'd get vanilla sponges. And I'm like, no, man, I'm cultured. I'm going for the Turkish rice pudding. It's actually really nice. It's very creamy. It's similar to this dessert, but not as thick, I'd say. And this is a bit more, it's thick and gooey, would you say? This is a bit more loose, if you like. And not as spongy, almost. Yes. Yes. You can almost chew on that one. But here it's more liquidy. It's more gentle, but it's super delicious. This you would have thought looks burnt, right? But this is like creme brulee. It adds to the flavour. So it's really, really tasty. I would recommend it 100%. Okay, thanks, bye. I hope we gave you the insight into some of the must-try foods in Istanbul. So we're here in Turkey for another month, at least, possibly more. And there's going to be plenty more food videos coming, where we try loads of Turkish food. So if that sounds like something you're into, hit that subscribe button, give this video a thumbs up. And thank you very much for watching this video. See you in the next one. Julia versus box 2021. It's so funny. I'm going with the box. You're my husband, you're supposed to support me. Okay, you open it. I'm going with Julia. Julia's going to win. You're terrible. If I managed to open them. But it would be nice with some brioche. Do you like it? That's actually really nice.