Adana kebab, the best in the world ? mE 17
morning my friends, i'm leaving mersin now, and i'm going to adana, continuing my journey eastward, i started from france, and i'm heading to eastern turkey now, it's beginning of february and let's go to adana i don't know if you know adana is famous for the adana kebab, so let's go to adana to have an adana kebab i'm arriving in adana, and one guy with his motorbike just gave me this it was this guy it was this guy who gave me the sweet oh okay so i've got two now okay so my hotel should be around here so now i've got some chestnuts so guys after a pretty um uneventful ride, except at the end, as you saw but before, not much happened about 60 kilometers i did today, and yeah i wanted you to stop here in adana, so that's why it's uh it was a short ride today, so let's just dive straight in the old city, here in adana in the busy streets of the old city quite a... it's quite a lively place, i'm surprised actually and i did not know also actually it's one of the... it looks like it's one of the biggest cities in turkey, it's the fifth biggest city in turkey in addition to being one of the biggest cities in turkey, it's also one of the oldest continually inhabited settlements ... human settlements in the world, so basically the name, the city, the name adana of the city the name is the same since 4 000 years basically, so it is... people think that the name dates... yeah people think that the name adana comes from indo-european language, so from like more than 4 000 years ago basically, uh like in the iliad of homer, this city is mentioned, and already as adana, so it was already called adana like 3 500 or 4 000 years ago, so basically it's one of the oldest cities in the world, and now it's famous for the adana kebab, so let's go look for an adana kebab here in this... in adana
maybe let's get a juice before getting a kebab how much is this cocktail... cocktail, okay big or small... okay, big he says it's good, so let's go for it where are you from, France how much is the cocktail... 10 camera you are from here do you know where i can eat adana kebab, just just this street okay okay, sherdan good head sheep okay so i think he is talking about... so that's the cocktail wow so cocktail, this and this, mix pomegranate, orange grapefruit carrot, apple this also all that in this juice oh beetroot okay okay oh yeah and beetroot so six ingredients to make a 70 cents giant juice, wonderful bye so let's go to walk around a little bit, look at those beautiful kebabs and giant potatoes well this city looks really interesting, so let's go walk around a little bit first i don't know, she made a weird scream after passing by me, so that's why... it's so great to be able to, to have a juice for less than 1 euro the guy wanted to be in the film, so he's in the film youtube yeah, how are you, fine okay what do we do oh yeah now i remember because... oh look at this shop for the lokums
so i thought... because remember i tried to show you some lokum, oh my god this shop is awesome yeah i tried to show you some lokums in uh afyonkarahisar, but but i ended up forgetting to switch on the camera when, actually when i filmed the lokums, so so i have to redo it, so, but i think i'm keeping it for um for gaziantep, i think i'm gonna do the lokum video in gaziantep, look at this beautiful place beautiful old mosque yeah i want you to tell you about the history of uh... the sun is not on the right side anyway about the history of hear, of adana, in the sumerian times, in the sumerian epics basically, in the epic of gilgamesh, there is also a city called adana, which is mentioned in the epic of gilgamesh so can you imagine, this city dates back from sumerian times and it was already called like that, it did not even change name it's really fascinating, and imagine that this city was called probably according to, uh some well people, the people who called this city adana were probably indo-europeans so the ancestors, the common ancestors between all the europeans and all the like indians and persians, because the indo-europeans were living somewhere in between, in between europe and persia let's say, between europe and india somewhere, maybe around here and, but we don't have traces of them, physical traces, only the link in the languages shows us that they existed, and basically at some point they split, some migrated eastwards to become persians, and uh indians, and others migrated westwards, to become the europeans, so that's the in the indo-europeans, probably these people lived a very long time ago, maybe five six thousand years ago, or seven maybe before even, well so they probably called... we forgot about them, but they call the city where i am now, adana, a city that is uh, that people think is about 8 000 years old yeah the city is 8 000 years old basically, let's go in this park something that is very good, in being back here is that uh, i don't have to fear... how are you, good good, yes good good yeah such a beautiful place, i really like this city so far all the people chilling enjoying the sun the sun of the beginning of the end of winter in one of the oldest cities in the world let's see if they have adana kebab, they should have, we are in adan after all i don't know how it works here beautiful you have adana kebab, yes turkish lokum, you give me turkish delight, okay why does she give me this gift okay she has a shop i don't understand what's going on so i have lokums now how do you say... beautiful, but for food beautiful, okay, beautiful look at this beautiful ayran in a glass, wonderful, yeah yeah very nice yeah let's have some ayran and let's keep the lokums for uh for after the adana kebab people are so friendly here thank you welcome to turkey, thank you people are so friendly here look at this, i love this glass you are handsome you eat this before, or you eat this.... i wait for the meat for.... okay
you are supposed to wait oh this is the ayran okay can i go film uh... i just got to film this, look at that my adana kebab, in adana is getting cooked okay guys actually so let's let's um let's try the side dishes before the meat comes, so you can have a taste of the side dishes first, look at that, onions and tomato with a beautiful sauce i'm used to this one, this one they give it everywhere that goes very well with the meat, this salad is very nice, and this salad, let's try this one also very good as well tomato full of tomatoes really nice also and this, i think it's a tomato i think it's a tomato as well, they cook it in so many different ways here it's warm, it's so good, wow fantastic, so i'm gonna eat a little bit of salad while i wait for the... for the adana kebab to arrive, and i have my ayran in the traditional glass, i love it so here is my my adana kebab, in adana it's been like uh three months i'm waiting to say that basically, wow the meat looks awesome so wow it looks so tender okay so let's try some, for you, of this wonderful adana kebab in adana a bit of parsley that's fantastic i think that's the best kebab i ever had, wow that's awesome, maybe i'll get another one that's absolutely insane honestly that's probably the best, that's surely the best kebab i ever had, that's really really fantastic she's... the girl for the lokums, she's giving lokums to everybody to make advertisement for her shop, anyway i'm going to eat my kebab without you now, see you see you after i'm done with this wonderful adana kebab, the best kebab in the world so i'm done with everything in turkey in the restaurants, they always give you those napkins, to clean your hands, because you eat with... partly with your hands so they always give you this, it's really great, and yeah i guess i'm gonna try the lokums now lokums are so good unbelievable i guess many people are waiting, i need to go i think that's going to be the end of this video so it's a beautiful place, beautiful street restaurant here in Adana i almost forgot to show you the bridge, so i went out again, because i thought, if i'm going tomorrow, and if i'm living already adana tomorrow, i need to show you the bridge look at this beautiful bridge, so that's a beautiful ottoman bridge, beautiful bridge guys but one thing, the bridge is nice, but you will see hopefully from the bridge we have a good view with the camera it's gonna be maybe a little bit far, but uh yeah look at this mosque, what a wonder, oh she has six minarets also, like the blue mosque in istanbul
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