AMAZING Istanbul FOOD TOUR | First Impressions of Turkey
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Day 1
Turkish cuisine is known all over the world so we figured what better way to introduce ourselves to this amazing country than through the food! We booked a food tour which made dozens of stops on both the European and Asian sides of Istanbul. We tried pide, kebabs, lahmacun, ayran, doner kebabs, baklava, stuffed mussels, Turkish coffee and MORE!
Day 2
On our second day in Istanbul we got out and explored more of the city. We kicked things off with a HUGE traditional Turkish breakfast and then visited Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, Suleymaniye mosque and many more MUST SEE sights in Istanbul!
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I’m not even much of a city person and I fell in love with Istanbul. Such a sense of history and a meeting place of so many cultures. It would not be a bad place to end up at all!
It really is one of the coolest cities we have ever been too and honestly we’re not really city people either! Thanks so much for watching!
Love everything about Istanbul, the old world charm as well as the new. One of the most beautiful cities in the world. I can live with her, I've been to Athens, now I want to see Istanbul.🤩🤩🤩
Moss Architect
itself a miracle. Thanks for sharing this well done video.❤️❤️
Your vlog was amazing. Could you share details of your tour guide? I am traveling to Turkey in December, and would like to connect with him!
thanks!
Love everything about Istanbul, old world charm, as well as new. One of the most beutiful citys in the world. I can live her ive been to athens ,now i want to see Istanbul.🙂 The architect of the mosses is a wonder in itself.thanks for sharing this well made video.
Amazing food, great history and scenery and then, all of a sudden you have the dolphins in the middle of the city! What else can you expect as a tourist.. Istanbul is my destination..
Istanbul really is an amazing city, we loved our time there so much! And dolphins in the middle of the city were the icing on the cake!! 😍😍
Hej på dig Svart Skalle du är säkert Svensk .
Where was this viewpoint?
それは素晴らしくて壮大な街です。 イスタンブール
Two of my favorite drinks Ayran and Şalgam. I live in Texas, i just bought some over here.
Thank you for your sympathetic contribution to the promotion of my country and especially Istanbul. 🤗
Just stumbled on this video and subscribed! I love the calming vibes but also the eagerness of adventurous endeavors! Absolutely love this, will binge the channel on the weekend
That means so much to us, thank you and so glad you found us!! 😍
Istanbul is just mesmerizing amazing incredible landmarks😍👌🏻🇹🇷 awesome content 👍
Thanks for watching! Istanbul really is a wonderful city!!
Enjoyed this thoroughly. Please, please put names of where you ate. And prices. Your subscribers want to know. Watch Mark Wiens or Chopstick travel to see how to it works. I know it’s a lot more work…. But you’ll get more subscribers this way. Happy travelling.
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So beautiful İstanbul 🧡
please also share the list of places you visited. Thanks.
The video is as much fun as the rest of the videos. You are good at creating useful content. Really appreciated effort
I watched a lot of your videos and enjoyed everything, especially the countries I visited before. Such as Turkey, Georgia and Morocco.
That is so nice to hear, thank you!!
underrated channel
عجبني بشده❤
Wow looks amazing. Not sure how you managed to continue on. I’d look like that sleeping dog after all that food. Love when there are new videos when I get back home from work!
Thanks so much Noah!
Your total, "eat it today-wear it tomorrow", food cruise made me hungry! I'd trade a digit and definitely a thumb for the baklava and a cup of that coffee! I'm drooling! Time to go hiking! I have to burn off a few calories for you! Great experience! Loved this episode.
Haha we are STILL trying to burn off the baklava from Turkey but luckily here in Sri Lanka our daily vice is a coconut! 🤪🤣
Your channel is amazing and very helpful! I'm going to Istanbul next month! 😁🙌
Thank you so much!! That is sweet of you to say! We hope you have a great trip!! 🥰
What’s the name of the tour guide and how do you contact him?
Can we know the names of the restaurants you ate at???🙏🏼
Love the videos
Including the time of the year (dates) of your visits would be very helpful
Thanks for watching! This was in September - October. ☺️
Great video
Thanks so much!!
Cheers travelling in from turkey 🇹🇷
Amazing to see how u urself have become the experts since this video. Well done guys ❤
Thanks so much!!
Hi there,
We are an african restaurant located in the heart of Istanbul, in Cezayir Sokak (No.1). With senegalese and ivorian specialities such as mafé, thieb or bissap, you can't be desappointed if you come.
We would be glad to welcome you in our charming restaurant, so don't hesitate to come visit us !
See you !
Have a good one !
Love your videos , am visiting in a few months , was wondering who do you recommend to do the food tour with . Really looking forward to visiting Turkey .
Thanks
Great video, great music, great editing. I want to talk about smthg else. The dolphins. I ve lived in İstanbul for 32 years and never seen a dolphin that close to the land, especially a very sea trafficked area. You ve come here, smiling, appriciating and even saying that İstanbul is a city to be lived. That means how.you are overly enjoying yourselves. And your good vibes, karma, Light was appriciated by the universe or existance and that gifted you with those sights of dolphines in front on Old İstanbul. Maybe the universe works this way. It was seriously enlighting for me. Enligting, enlightining. Thanks
Wow thank you so much for these kind words, that really means so much to us!!
Hi. You should add the subtitles of the country you are going to your videos. You can easily do it from the settings section in TH-cam studio.
Great idea! Thanks!
Please do a Vegan/Vegetarian Food Tour of Istanbul ! I have not found a decent thing to eat in this place.
Loved the tour. Is this current times/DEC or if not, when were you there? I’m wondering about winter weather and also Covid situation - didn’t notice many masks. Thanks!
Thanks so much! This was actually in late September... we were back in Istanbul in late October and it had cooled down quite a bit by then...
How much did you spend for the kahvaltı breakvast at Seven Hills?
I don't remember exactly but it was pretty expensive, around $20USD pp..
where is the turkish delight shopl located??
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Why are you peeling the eggplant? That's the best part!
What was the exact name of this tour you did with Taste of Istanbul?
What is the name of the breakfast place you tried on day 2, please ? Love your videos. 😊
Thank you for sharing your experience!
Seven Hills :)
I loved your video. How much did you pay for the breakfast at seven hills? for two and what was the name of the breakfast option? We are going next month and would like to try this. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Do you have guide recommendations?
Guy's Your ur sound bit low I think not using mic.
Please do mansion where u went for food and prices
Dee o you have advice for people coming to turkey at the end of Ramadan time . ,??
There is a large festival holiday at the end of Ramadan. Typically for 2-3 days there are disruptions and businesses are closed. What days are you planning to be here?
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Thanks for watching!
Love your videos...We are looking forward to our 3-day Jan. Winter trip to Istanbul from Switzerland - how much CASH do you need if we eat like you on the "streets" :-P Assuming they don't take credit cards for street food really - then we need to multiply by 5'ish (we are 2 adults and 3 teens).
Thanks so much! That sounds like it is going to be a great trip! Some places take cards but it will be good to have some cash! We just use the ATMs to get cash out when we need it. Depending on the type of bank card you have, international ATM fees can really add up. The Zarat bank ATMs don’t charge a transaction fee on their end but your bank might still charge for the transaction. As far as how much cash you need... it is hard to say really… It all depends on what area of the city you are in and what you order… I tend to keep around $100usd worth of TL in my wallet and refill as I get low because it is hard to carry much more than that in my wallet.. ($100usd is almost 3,000TL) it is nice to have cash for food, souvenirs, and refilling the transit card.
@@WaypointofView Thanks for the reply! Will prob. only do 100CHF (we are from Switzerland, so no inflation : 1CHF=32.6TL today!) Knowing my French husband, he prob. prefers "fine" dining instead of many street foods 🙂 Can't wait to take my 3 daughters there too! For 3 full days, we'll prob. stay close to Sultanahmet instead.
I live istabul so delicious food and men do not drink beer...much As viet nam
Turkish food is SO delicious!!
4:14 its test like pickle juice
asian side is known for seafood? I have been living in İstanbul for 10 years I have never heard that maybe more like Marmaris?
hi looks great trip, I engoy watching,if we want to rent your tourgide servises for a trip can we have his contact information. thanks❤️
We booked through tasteof.istanbul... Enjoy your trip! ☺️
Pide is not Turkish pizza ,pizza is italian pide !
Nice Vlog but why every TH-camr wants to go to this worst and overrated place called „Seven Hills“ ? there are so many others with same view and much better breakfast and service and clean . I was so dissapointed from there but all other places are great and hope you enjoy your trip ;)
Haha fair enough!! We spent 12 days in Istanbul total and we would have to agree with you at this point! This breakfast was day 2 but still very fair point! 🤣
Please do not define pide as Turkish pizza. I am sure that it is not your intention, but when you define pide this way, it implies that pide is a copy of pizza, or pizza predates pide. I hope you can realize the phonetic similarities among the words pita, pide, and pizza. It is the rendering of the same word with minor (regional) differences. All three refers to the same thing: flat bread with or without toppings. Their ancestors originated from the Middle East, and both pide and pita predates pizza.
Similarly, many people define manti as Turkish ravioli. This is equally wrong as defining pide as Turkish pizza.
Wish you all the best and a great time in Turkey.
You are right.😉
Not true, Tomatoes and Peppers were introduced from the New World to the Old World that just make Pizza and Lahmacun quite new lahmacun is a late ottoman dish that could be initially etli ekmek
So, the first to taste the closest pizza were probably Amerindians...
@@Jamirio I thik you didn't read what I wrote above carefully. First, I never commented about tomatoes and peppers let alone where they originated from. I am quite aware that like corn, beans, and many other fruits and vegetables tomatoes and peppers came from Americas to Europe/Africa/Asia. The main point above is "ancestors or primitive forms of pide/pizza/pita originated from the Middle East, and both pide and pita predates pizza."
Second, I said nothing about lahmacun. Etymologically lahmacun (lahm is meat in Arabic, acun is the Turkish rendering of the Arabic word biajin which means dough) is an Arabic word. I am Turkish, and there is no point of denying this. However, lahmacun belongs to a region which includes Northern part of Syria and provinces of Antep, Maras, Urfa, Diyarbakir, Antakya. All that region constituted province of Halep during Ottoman Empire. Also, original lahmacun should be quite different from the lahmacun we eat today, because as you mentioned before there was no tomatoes and peppers back then.
Third, for many variants of pide you don't need to use tomatoes and peppers, and for pita you only need wheat flour/yeats/water. As for etli ekmek, it is a Turkish dish for sure, but it belongs to Seljuk Empire. Konya was capital of them, and that is why city of Konya is famous for its etli ekmek.
başka yokmuydu bu yur otur tamamını ye bu yur
That lady is very pretty.
Afiyet olsun 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
Thanks for watching!
I’m still trying to justify the $125 price per person. If it was $70 or $80 it would be a bit better.
Definitely understand. In a country where food is so inexpensive, it can be hard to justify the high price for a food tour. However, it is a full day (6-7 hours) with a licensed guide and you learn so much about the food and culture.
Anything will taste better than salt and pepper food LOL. Hope you get the joke hahaha
Didn’t convert to a mosque sadly many Christians were killed and forced out of their home land that being my family line. I have a love hate relationship with this country
i think the same thing about the americans, they killed millions of indians and settled in their country....
Good video but very irresponsible especially during Covid! Covid is not over yet!
only in turkiye you can go behind the kitchen LoL
Haha I love it!! Turkey is so amazing!!
Türk mutfağında binlerce yemek varken sadece döner yemeleri ne kadar saçma
It's Turkiye not Turkey. Thank you.