INSANE Street Food in Istanbul, Turkey
this video is sponsored by AO Turkish kebab is famous 1970 years this year wow this prodct won first okay let me do one beef one beef to go to go yeah please thank you bro oh you got me are these very popular in Turkey nice oh oh you feed it to her like that man that is cool what does it have rice mus what's up everybody Welcome to a beautiful day here in Istanbul Turkey actually it's a bit of a moody day but anytime you're in Istanbul it's a beautiful time and today well I only have a short 24 hours here in the city but I decided why not tune on in and share with you guys some of the street food scene that can be found here in Istanbul Istanbul is one of the food C hital in the world and there is food absolutely everywhere some of the most iconic dishes such as well the kebabs the sea Meats the corn the chestnuts on the streets all of that is incredibly popular and today I'm going to be sharing that with you guys now right now I'm in the middle of taum square this here is taum square it's one of the most Centric locations in the city there's the Metro System they actually have a direct route from the airport all the way to texum Square so if you're coming to istanb for the first time this is definitely where you want to be situated around here or um near the Hagia Sophia both locations are very popular and I've stayed in both areas but honestly I prefer uh the tum square area so it's very active right now it's actually 2: in the afternoon now it's a Saturday so there's a lot of movements on the streets right in front of me is this beautiful Moss that was actually under construction When I Was Here 3 years ago but it looks like it is uh completed now you also notice that there are a lot of Turkish Flags everywhere man it is beautiful I'm really upset that I'm only here for 24 hours but it's okay we'll be back pretty soon now right now I'm actually using Google Maps thanks to uh AO AO is a eim company that I'll tell you a little bit more about here in a minute but uh thanks to them I've been connected since the moments I've arrived to istanb airport so according to Google Maps we have about a 25 minute walk to the Galata Tower which is located straight down East Street which is this shopping Boulevard right here in front of me so that's the direction we're going to head in in today's video but yeah let me show you guys The Vibes before we dive on into the food so right here is the um tram station there's actually a tram that I believe is free that runs up this Boulevard that is very popular and yeah right away you're starting to notice all these little stands and these stands actually saw chestnuts corn we got the cement guy over here there's actually all kinds of Turkish delight and Bak laava being sold around the streets as well but I think today we're actually going to kick off our food tour with a kebab and right here on this corner you find some pretty incredible kebabs I actually ate here several times last year and the food is unbelievable 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always wanted to be here because it's one of the few direct flights we have in my country caras Istanbul so a lot of people from Venezuela come here especially because turkey and Venezuela are friends so we have that connection and I've never been here before it's crazy it's my first time so I'm very excited very excited but at the same time I'm I am quite upset because it's only like 8 hours hours left that we have right yeah well we had 24 hours but we slept about the first seven I'm not complaining like I am very happy to be here yeah it's going to be a good time we'll be back again pretty soon for a lot longer time you know what um let's actually come over here these guys seem like they're very active and loud and I think that would be a good vibe hello sir hello my friend you have the best Kebab everything's the best okay okay all right this the best one let give up all right he said everyone okay uh what do you have chicken chicken beef chicken and beef famous beef is the most famous most famous and this Turkish kebab is famous 1970 years this year wow this prod one first okay let me do one beef one beef to go go yeah please thank you thank you than k k yes six BR in wow so this the oldest the oldest restaurant here okay awesome thank you thank you thank you all right so please thank you so we're going to be eating um right here now these Burgers the East loock Burger is actually a very popular burger here in Istanbul as well but yeah here's the beef Kebab guys if you could smell what I'm smelling right now it smells incredible so they actually put beef inside of a wrap french fries tomato it is incredible such a big jam-packed meal and you got to love the energy of the vendors out here it's wet wet hamburger it's like Burger good yes this the famous oh thank you thank you bro oh you got me thank you thank you okay you know what um let me try one East like Burger as well I do one East like Burger one yeah one I guess we're going to be trying the uh famous wet burger from Turkey as well why not all right let's dive on into our beef Kebab oh man this is incredible so this is the ISAC Burger very delicious Turkish ISAC Burger English wet hamburger wet hamburger and H it's beef beef and special sausage inside okay thank you thank you too special sausage inside oh man let's dive on into this one so this is the East SL Burger it's a wet Burger because the bun is wet it's kind of dude it's soggy it's soggy it's like if you dip the burger into a bowl of water that's what it that's what it looks like and then it has all kinds of sauces inside all right let's dive on in wow that is good this is like one of those cheap guilty pleasures like it's very nice it's good to be honest the Soggy bun is a bit weird for me because come on I'm from the land of burgers man from America and usually when a bun is like this I would probably like walk away from the burger but man this year is really good it's a nice combination I like this I approve of this all right now let's dive on into the Kebab now inside right away oh no they put the devil inside of my wrap you know I don't like pickles but you know what for the sake of this Kebab we're not going to ruin gladus was already about to pull them out for oh she's so sweet she always pulls them out for me but um you know for the sake of the Kebab to keep it classy I'm going to go ahead and dive on into it and there's french fries in there Tomatoes I don't know if there's a sauce in there but let's try it oh man okay that is very good you got to love the energy too what can I say tastes like a beef Kebab man you can't go wrong the beef is incred incredibly seasoned very tender you can tell it's incredibly fresh to be fair never thought I'd say this in my life but the pickle is a nice touch it's a nice touch right it it's not super acidic it's um I mean not so vineger so I can deal with it and the crunch is actually quite nice damn is my life about to change now do I like pickles I don't know I've been pulling them out for so many years that I yeah I don't know that's pretty damn good to be fair all right guys well I'm going to enjoy the rest of my kebab and then we'll continue down easty CL and see what else we get our hands on but man the wet Burger the eock burger and the Kebab unbelievable man to be fair this one here I didn't imagine would like but it is nice it is very nice man surprisingly that wet's burger was quite nice anyways right now we're about to walk down the rest of East cloud Street like I said all the way to the Galata Tower and we're going to see what else we come across of course they got the Burger King all the big chains here on this street the McDonald's actually one thing I'm noticing a big difference of I was here during Co when I was here during Co man Turkish citizens weren't allowed to actually walk the streets only ious and you had to have your passports on you at all times but right now man the street is incredibly busy there are so many people here hello sir yes hello hello welcome are these chestnuts yes okay how much are the chestnuts there's a price sir oh here's the price okay 200 200 g for 200 300 300 oh it's basically 100 per 100 yes okay um let me do 200 please yes are these very popular in Turkey yes nice see we're we're together yes sorry thank you no problem they smell delicious delicious that's enough just a few just a few yeah thank you it's okay I still pay the same amount okay thank you bro I just want to try everything it's cuz turkeyy is so much amazing food I am here you're here okay thank you and how much are the corns 50 50 okay I'll come back thank you brother than you all right let's try some chestnuts so these here are incredibly popular um in turkey and you can tell man the Turkish people are man just incredible but um one thing that I got mistakenly wrong when I was here last time was that I assumed that everybody I was talking to was Turkey but no turkey and especially Istanbul man it's a huge Melting Pot it's a world city the whole world is here so a lot of the vendors you'll see working at the restaurants will be Syrian Lebanese from so many other countries and Nations and they call Istanbul home because well it's such a great place to be and like I said it's connected to the world so um you can come here and have a great time no matter where you're from all right so here's the chest nuts now I've had these plenty of times before in Europe they're very popular especially in the winter time and I know you guys are probably thinking like damn everybody's in a jacket and pants and then Chris is out here in some shorts what's going on well I thought it was going to be warm it's May 13th it's May 13th I thought it was going to be incredibly warm but no I guess I'm completely wrong to be fair I was here in January and it was a lot warmer than what it is now all right let's dive on in oh man you can't go wrong with a chestnut look wow to be honest I don't ever see these being sold anywhere in America but in Europe they're found everywhere and this is actually one of gl's favorite snacks do you want to try one yeah I grew up eating chestnuts and if you're wondering why gladus didn't try the Kebab or the burger guys we literally just got done smashing a Turkish breakfast but I I'm unlimited time so I have to come out and make a video for you guys and share all the good stuff for you but we literally smashed the Turkish breakfast I already stuck the kebab and the burger in my backpack for later but that's where these chestnuts are going to go that's where the cord will go as well oh sorry the chestnuts are going to go in my person really and your Pur she loves them I love them I grew up eating these because my dad was from Spain and a lot of ESP Spain people went to Venezuela during the 50s and the 60s and uh like POA Poco little by little they start taking their food and their tradition to my country and one of the foods is import yeah it's chestnuts chestnuts especially um during December so on December you can find chestnuts on the supermarkets and my dad bought them all the time and cook it for all of the families so this is a tradition in my house I love them and is that do they actually do it in Venezuela like they do here they cook them on the streets as well no they don't do it like that not on the streets because it's not a Venezuelan tradition okay I don't think venezuel s like chestnuts this is not for from Caribbean so this is something that you guys like the you guys like the plantain like planting yeah and this is something that only in European homes like with European parents you grew up with okay okay uh dress of the Venezuelans they don't they don't like tesas I don't think they like them but that explains why I I never had them growing up yeah exactly they're they're traditionally from here and yes you can cook them on the grill or on the oven oh okay yeah very nice well there you go a little bit more of History glattus um like I said is a huge fan of the chestnuts but yeah guys this here is East Street it's by far the most famous Boulevard in all of Istanbul it goes on for I would to say easily a mile maybe even a little bit longer and it takes you all the way to the Waterfront to the bridge that actually connects the Asian side and yeah look chestnuts are being sold everywhere and the smell is just unbelievable oh man you know what I can actually hear the um the tinging or the H the hitting of the pots from the Turkish ice cream you hear it you can hear it as you're walking around so you know what so we definitely got to got to stop at one I saw one right up the right where we had the kebabs but I figured why not let's walk a little bit let's enjoy man I'm stuffed right now guys but we're going to keep going hard we got to continue the first time wow that's impressive the first time that is impressive huh he has his wheelchair converted into a mini store the first time I ever tried a Turkish ice cream was in Japan really in Japan I guess well Turkish Turkish um ice cream is kind of like Turkish coffee it's in Turkish sweets it's super popular all around the world now I mean for a reason it's delicious um I don't know if Turkish ice cream it's actually something from from here or they just made it for tourist no I think it's something absolutely from here yeah and then um what actually makes Turkish ice cream very special you'll see what I'm talking about um once we find a guy but what makes Turkish ice cream incredibly special is that it's very very thick and it doesn't melt fast all because it's made with um uh with goat milk yeah so that's why it's very Pig wow that's interesting yeah okay well I'm curious to see this because there was a time when I was in Jamaica with glattus and we bought an ice cream cone and we literally as soon as deon's house and we got a cone and the moment she put it in our hands dude we couldn't eat the ice cream it's melted all over us and made the biggest mess I'm sorry for say this but Devon's ice cream it's one of the worst ice creams ever I always tried by far by far but you know what it's still a good time oh look here's the trim this is the East EAD trim takes you all the way down past the Galata Tower and yeah I'm not sure how much it cost to ride I think it was it's free I I I know it was free during the pandemic and it was only open to tourists because uh locals couldn't come on out but I'm not sure exactly how much it cost oh wow look there's a Turkish ice cream guy right here should we visit him yeah actually it's a bit loud it's a bit loud that the trash Guys here let's actually walk a little bit more like there's one right here we'll see exactly how much one of these cost right now and see if we can actually participate hello Hi how are you doing good how are you how are you how much is the ice cream which one you want um what flavor oh gum caramel mango blue caramel pistachio yeah one pistachia how much is it I got huh 250 250 okay oh oh I almost had it too much come on thank you [Music] oh thank you brother all right thank you all right know I don't thank you 400 for you thank you thank you brother right thank you guys have a nice day okay okay thank you wow how awesome was that right guys what a show you know what thank you you know what let me grab a picture real quick and then we'll continue seriously what an experience how much was 400 I don't know I think it was like 10 12 bucks right but the energy was good you know um it's cold as hell outside tonight there's probably not a lot of business with the ice cream so why not why not support those uh those good guys all right that I don't care how full I am I'm eating this look at this taste this I think we all need to copy um Turkish ice cream strategy they just don't give you the ice cream they made a yeah they make you work for it awesome that is Bomb huh wow you know what on the plane on the way here I was um looking watching some Vlog and one of them they said they didn't like the T the Turkish ice cream what the hell this is delicious guys yeah so I just did the math guys that's uh about $12 us I gave him but the price was was $7 I gave him uh the extra as a tip because man I respect the grind that's super cool huh isn't that awesome I think it's um a special joke and and it takes some skill to do that like I would have messed that up a million times to be honest with you but why not um that's what life is all about it's all about spreading love and look um that probably brighten up his day as well you know you got a nice tip that's good huh give me back that cone man of course no it's delicious huh babe yeah let's try I'm going to get one more and then I'll leave it to glad cuz it's really good yeah because I just areep I'm taking you photos if you guys want to uh want to check them on Instagram's Instagram it's going to be on Instagram so go check those out oh man all right you know what thank you let me check my map let's see how much further we got to walk guys seriously this aolo SIM card has been an absolute Game Changer the line when we arrived to Istanbul um airport to get a SIM card was incredibly long if we would have had to sit there and wait it would have easily been an hour and a half and we were exhausted when we arrived but according to the map we have oh man we still have like 25 minutes until we get to where we're going so yeah that the streets are incredibly long here in Istanbul all right let's keep walking I'm also noticing that there is a large police presence here as well there's a large police presence here as well making sure all the tourists are safe here on the streets it's really nice to see okay I think if there's any other food that I have to try in this video it's got to be a seat obviously there's way more dishes to try way more foods to eat but I have a feeling that that is simply just going to be impossible all in one video huh there's too much food but a sea meats you cannot complete a video in Istanbul without a seam Meats I am impressed with so many chops like there's so many shops huh there a lot I love to see I love to buy yeah there's so many it's crazy capitalism is is absolutely wild I mean look at this guys the same stores you find all around the world absolutely everywhere here on this street you got the Sketcher store this place right here is incredibly popular one of the most famous Turkish delight and baklava stores in the entire country and then right here look here we have a seit guy but you know what I actually don't want to film them right now because there's some police officers standing nearby and you know you got to respect the law enforcement and um they're out here doing their jobs and I don't want to show their faces so we'll continue walking until we find another a cement location but look at that guys beautiful Turkish flag oh man and look at this this is the Greece Embassy more kebabs donors and you know what you don't even have to come all the way to IST to find this stuff um one of the only other cities in the world that I see where there's donor kebabs absolutely everywhere is um well in Germany they're everywhere but you go to place like Berlin Frankfurt and man there are donor kebabs everywhere and they're incredible as well I know some people might get bothered by that statement but it's true they're pretty damn good but yes um East lot such a beautiful Street anyways guys I think I'm going to go ahead put the camera down for a second and I'll catch up with you guys once we find the the seam Meats I'm sure there I'm sure there's going to be so many more carts around here but right now all I'm seeing is um chestnuts and corn but it's okay we got a long a long while to walk around and enjoy this day here in Istanbul okay so I just spotted something super interesting right here in this corner there's actually a gentleman selling something that looks very local I haven't seen it anywhere else on the streets but um right now we're about to come over and see exactly what it is I only see local people walking up and purchasing it but I'm quite curious to see what this is it looks quite nice it looks like something something deep fried it says it's m Kash I'm not sure what that is maybe that's an advertisement hello sir hello what is this meat meat meat meat fried beef beef okay um how much 50 50 awesome thank you it's very famous in Turkey thank you what's the name in Turkish a name is thank you all right well we got some is he said it's beef it looks quite interesting you know what it looks like it looks like um in Venezuela and Colombia they're called like uh Bonos right no traditional from colia from colia okay yeah maybe but buo it's usually covered on a kind of Pony made out of vanilla and they sweets and they're sweets wow interesting here you know what maybe you can film me there course let's try this actually I want to open up the inside first and see exactly what's inside oh it is a lot of beef look so much beef man you know what it looks like in the inside looks like PKA brow inside Tha land all right let's try this man there's actually a lot of like seasoning inside of there m wow these are bomb those so good mhm I approved you want to try this of course they are stuffed super stuff like properly stuffed mhm let's see and it's not spicy at all it looks spicy but it's not spicy it's nice huh it's very tasty like you can tell it has a lot of spices a lot of spices a lot of beef 50 what is 50 I don't know I'm lost on the conversion guys I think 50 is like a dollar I think it's about a buck it Tes like two or three days for me to get used to the currency when I am traveling I same for me layovers like this one it's like I don't I don't even know I don't even know I don't even care wish I am speaking nothing we're just going to spend the money we pulled out the ATM and get on our flight later like that's just the way life Works our flight's at 2:00 in the morning so we got a we actually got like a lot of time left but we'll probably get to the airport and back to our Airbnb quite early it's cold guys it's cold for the being like middle of May to be honest beat it beats beats beats beats so we actually ended up walking back up East l stre because glattus is doing a little bit of shopping today as well but we just came across something that is very famous here in Turkey I don't know what it's called but I've seen it absolutely everywhere and I figure why not we can't complete a street food video without this glattus actually has the name written down I think I'm not sure I think the name is mediati mediati okay well there's these guys standing around everywhere with these um shells and lemons hello sir what is this m Stone muscles what's the name in Turkey name mid okay how much 20 20 L okay um how many do people eat One Piece One Piece yeah okay um one one okay two please okay oh you feed it to her like that man that is cool what does it have you want one more one more for me you don't like so much I don't eat seafood so much there's rice inside rice R good wow that's good um that's it that's it just one just one one more for me okay one more for her I like one more five pieces finish 100 five pieces 100 yeah okay okay you're you're a good salesman wow very nice yeah very fresh huh I love it so it's a stuff with rice Med thma wow that is nice I like it I've never tried a muscle like that before thank you sir thank you so much can I take a picture with you yeah ch ch all right that was surprisingly delicious man I'm not a big Seafood guy but it was a piece of must stuff with rice and what else is inside of it I don't know but these people live in the future that I've never seen that before that was unbelievable and did you see the juice of the lemon like how much juice man that was incredible I'm not even a fan of seafood but I could have ate probably a few more of those to be honest I was laughing because I know you don't like seafood and like come on come on yeah but I genuinely liked it I like it oh well that's it's weird I don't know what I don't know what's happening in this video I'm liking pickles and I'm stuff like that that's oh my God are you changing maybe I should go to the doctor are are you with fever I'm sick I'm sick I think there's something wrong with you this is what turkey does to you anyways you like everything here everything anyways um right now we're about to change some money and then we'll head towards the Galata Tower a 25-minute walk has brought us here to the Galata Tower now the Galata Tower is a very important landmark in the city you can actually go up to the top and get 360° panoramic views of Istanbul but it's under construction right now they're renovating it so it is temporarily closed I don't know exactly when they're going to be opening it but man it is beautiful now right here along the sides there are plenty of coffee shops places to sit down and have some tea a beer whatever you're craving looks like most people are having beers right around now but yeah very nice place to hang out and the tower is beautiful guys up in the inside it's like kind of like a museum they tell you everything you need to know about the history of the Tower and its importance but yeah right here there are a few more stands selling uh corn chestnuts and hopefully we can find the sea Meats I think we will this looks like a nice place where you would find a seam meat okay maybe we can get one here at this stand let's see oh yeah this is definitely the the seat hello how much is the SE meat 10 10 L um you you have change for this one one uh two two with Nutella please um okay then let's do one but she can keep 50 can you tell her cuz change is hard to find you want one or two just one with Nutella thank you this is very popular here huh yeah people eat it for breakfast or every time anytime it's a good idea okay they look different like do they have different seam meates one oh yeah some have seeds huh like some have seeds some have no seeds man the carts are incredibly beautiful as well do you know when the Galata Tower opens 10 more days 10 more days oh we just missed it another reason to come back to Istanbul there's a million reasons to come back but the Galata Tower being closed is another good reason to come back man it is beautiful look at the clouds how they just like pass through this like the bagel from Istanbul like New York has New York style bagel has what's the name seat seat yeah I guess you can compare it to a bagel it's kind of like a bagel and yeah it's incredibly fresh today it's nice to be honest um I think I take this over a hot summer day any day thank you so much thank you here I leave you that thank you so much thank you thank you and here we go we got our seam meat do you want to take a bite first I want to give you the honors glce is like stop feeding me already no well it's like it's your video it's always you first but thank you thank you I appreciate you that's what we say oh this looks promising it does huh can I take a picture first before I bite it all right all right look like this oh too bad there too bad the cranes there huh it would have been a nice one here let me take you one with the seam Meats yeah guys everybody that comes to Istanbul takes a picture with the seam meates like you look on on Instagram and everybody has a picture with the cements let's see oh that one came out good thank you all right time to try that thing man the Nutella is all over your hands O I love it's real Nutella M you see why people love that huh when I was here in istanb man I had one of those every single day I have to dance it's so good huh let me try that let me try that it's a it's essentially like kind of like a bagel huh with sesame seeds yeah almost like an everything bagel I love that combination salty with sweet M yeah it's nice it's fresh it's very fresh mhm look how many she has like what she SS everything I wonder the semi vendor s absolutely every one that they have you know what combination I would love jam and cream cheese jam and cream cheese on a cim that could be good well yeah guys this here is a cim not much to talk about when it comes to it I mean it tastes like a bagel Nutella is pretty damn good you can't go wrong with a cement 30 um Turkish L about a buck I keep saying that about everything it's about a buck but um definitely a good bang for your buck I mean you can imagine that if you eat one of these and a coffee in the morning you're going to be quite full and have the energy you need to get around the city and you're going to be happy because you ate something delicious exactly anyways guys with that being said I hope you enjoyed this video sorry that our Istanbul trip was short but sweet and we'll be back for a lot more thank you for joining me oh thank you so much for inviting me to this lay over here in it's beautiful right we'll be back yes a lot faster now than than waiting another 3 years to make it back we'll be back here soon later guys you always I was [Music] the I remember how we started
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