MASSIVE Turkish Breakfast in Istanbul + Turkish Delight Factory!! (SUPER SATISFYING)

foreign [Music] travel I'm Luke Martin and today I'm in Istanbul Turkey in today's episode I'm going to be taking you for a unique food tour of Istanbul we're going to be popping into a factory to see how traditional Turkish Delights are made and tasting some authentic Istanbul street food I'm partnering up with Buy in turkey.com to show you some of the foods that you can actually buy on their website to have shipped to your house and taste the foods that you're seeing me eat in this video so if you see something in this video you can actually taste it for the first time so it's super exciting it's going to be a great episode so make sure you stay tuned Until the End let's go eat some Turkish food [Music] first stop today here in Istanbul is at Ethan offendy so they are serving cavalti which is a traditional Turkish breakfast and they actually make most of their products that they serve with breakfast so I'm gonna go inside have a traditional Turkish breakfast today [Music] [Music] beautiful restaurants really big there's a lot of different areas to sit and really nice decorations and this woman right here is just preparing Gosling which is like a Turkish flat bread sometimes you can get stuff with different things I think we're gonna try out one of the guzame but as you may or may not know Turkish breakfast comes with an array a plethora of different things to try [Music] Turkish breakfast is not complete without at least a cup of chai tea or a cup of Turkish coffee I went with both today actually [Music] wow look at this this is just the beginning this is what I love about turkeys you want it yeah yeah that's right [Music] [Music] I'm sorry [Music] foreign wow guys this is absolutely insane I have an incredible spread of breakfast here Turkish breakfast and I'm so excited to share this with you because a lot of these things you can actually buy for yourself and taste for yourself for the first time on Chopstick travel uh you can actually taste the foods that I'm tasting on buying turkey.com but let me introduce everything I've got here I don't even know where to start let's start right here this is the famous menimon so it's like a scrambled eggs with tomatoes and this is vacuum sealed and shipped to your home on buying turkey.com then we have tons of different little things here in the middle there's this milk Jam dried mulberries butter from trabs on the north of turkey this is a sour cherry jam a pumpkin jam over here I've got a tahini like a sesame paste this is yogurt with some nice olive oil there ball kaimak the kaimek cream my favorite honey and then some black olives back here and I've got this which I've actually never tried before this is a famous dish in the north of turkey this one unfortunately is not available because they need to cook it so you'd have to come to Turkey to try it but basically it's cornmeal and cheese and just look at that look at this look at that absolutely crazy there's no way I'm gonna be able to eat that much cheese another beautiful cheese with mulberry jam on top this is another cheese I think this is an unsalted cheese with some herbs in it back here is like a tomato and pepper paste with some crushed walnuts on top we've got two more jams back here all available for purchase this is a chili jam which is really unique and then a spiced cinnamon carrot Jam fruit here oranges and also some vegetables some cucumbers all these cheeses which you can get vacuum sealed shipped to you and then look at the size of that tomato that's the biggest tomato I've ever seen hands down for sure organic tomatoes and then some green peppers on top let's dig in let me just start with the cheese here remove this dill and this cheese underneath is my favorite it's like a string cheese thank you very mild not a strong cheese at all and very fresh tasting some fresh bread kind of shaped like a donut here but it's not sweet oh very very hot feels like it's been fried too and I'm gonna try this with some of this beautiful cheese and mulberry look at that such an amazing spread [Music] so cheese has a nice tartness and then it's balanced with that sweet mulberry jam it goes really good with that bread too oh man that cheese is incredible it's like a cottage cheese but a little bit thicker and creamier Turkish olives in my opinion best olives in the world and I love these green olives get them shipped right to your house and have fresh olives with your breakfast even this bread you can get ordered to your house and this chili jam is something really unique that I've never tried before this bread is called basilamas a nice thick bread let me try some of this I don't know if it's gonna be spicy or what [Music] there's no spice but it's got that really strong chili Smoky flavor to it not bread it's so fresh and good [Music] I could eat that by itself okay this tomato is absolutely massive look at the size of that compared to my head it's almost the size of my face it's the biggest tomato I've ever seen and I don't know if this is the right way of doing this but I'm gonna take a little bit of yogurt and put it on my tomato like a hamburger patty wow that is a juicy tomato nice sour yogurt too look at that huge biggest tomato I've ever seen so they've reheated up the cheese from the northern part of turkey traps on cheese and like I said mixed with cornmeal so you get this crazy texture they reheated it for me thank you so much let's try this famous cheese out I don't even know how am I only gonna try a little bit of this how do you put a little bit of this on it's so stringy okay there we go oh I think it's gonna be hot it's actually not overpowering it's not like a super salty cheese it actually tastes really light somehow but the texture is like every cheese Lover's Dream It's So stringy look at this I love it all about that texture oh man that is insane you can't have only a little bit of this you have to have a lot there is just too many things to introduce everything here is the gospel maybe it's cheese and spinach inside of this one the flat bread just wow so many different things a little dried Mulberry you can just sit here and Munch all day long it's unlimited so they'll keep bringing it [Music] wow what a breakfast that was seriously one of the best Turkish breakfasts I've ever had really high quality organic ingredients finish off with breakfast and I've come to check out one of the partners of buying turkey that supplies them with fresh organic honey some of the best honey in the world here in Turkey so I'm gonna go inside check out this honey shop and uh probably taste them to them so they have all kinds of different Honeys you can just see the different colors and consistencies of the honey and they come from all across turkey but they also have different products too like facial cream soap even I saw some honey vinegar which I've never heard of before and they've just given me this one here to try I think I'm going to do a little bit of a honey tasting this is called the black edition black honey [Music] it almost has like a licoricey flavor really really rich thick honey so this is another one of their award-winning Honeys completely different color than that black honey this is the golden honey and it feels like the consistency looks uh a lot thinner than the last one try that that one's brewed here completely different flavor that's insane Chinese can taste so much different next one is uh castane which is chestnut so Chestnut honey uh never tried that before let me try it out a little bit it's kind of like in between [Music] two colors wow it's totally different we've still got that sweetness that thick richness but that one's almost got like a slight bitterness super friendly folks here and such a unique set of products that you can make using just honey and Bee products so now I'm heading to a factory to see how they make uh some of turkey's most famous sweets [Music] I'm here at Jaffer Arrow Factory where they're producing all kinds of different Turkish sweets but in particular Locum or Turkish delight one of the most famous besides bakalava one of the most famous desserts of all the Turkish desserts and Jaffer arrow is a very famous brand that goes back many many years and we're seeing how they make the Locum so here they've got a huge machine that's a churning cornstarch and sugar it's basically just a syrupy mixture sweet mixture and then he takes a huge couple bucketfuls of pistachio and then pours it right in there and mix it as it with a pistachio there's all kinds of different flavors of local like hundreds of different flavors but we're seeing how they make the pistachio filled ones and really cool to be inside the factory here and see how it's done here at Chaparral this flavor here is pistachios and pomegranate so it has this really rich red color from the pomegranate you can smell the fruity flavor [Music] thank you so the pomegranate pistachio Locum is finished he's just poured it into this tray that's got a bunch of powdered sugar to help it not really stick to the tray and then this is just sat in the room for 24 hours until it's kind of solidified and hardened and then it'll be cut into individual little pieces of Locum so a pretty easy process but really cool and really unique to see how it's done here in the factory foreign [Music] they have around 30 different flavors here at Shopper arrow and this is holding all the Locum that's been cooled for 24 hours so you can see a couple different flavors this one here is orange uh this one is just plain Locum this is the pomegranate red color and then down the bottom of the green that is mint foreign [Music] [Music] the final step before packaging it up to be sold in the shops or scent around the world or sent to your home if you buy it on buyinturkey.com is to cut the Locum into a tiny little square so we just watched them cut it up he's offered me a taste so you can see this beautiful red color this is Rose flavor I think this is about as fresh as Locum gets [Music] there you can see that bouncy texture that's sweet a nice floral Rose like rose water flavor yeah that's better when it's fresh like that it's so good they give me another flavor to try this is a pistachio plain pistachio there's full pistachios in there oh that's completely different crunchy pistachio flavor pistachios here in Turkey are just extremely high quality it's interesting because it's like gummy and chewy and then crunchy pistachio at the same time [Music] so these are their exclusive Locum the final product in this beautiful packaging there's all kinds of different flavors with pistachios cranberries Rose mint all kinds of different things it's just such a beautiful presentation what a opportunity to try the fresh Locum like that besides the Locum Chopper era also produces all kinds of different Turkish Delicacies one of the things they're making here today is hard candy they're making it the traditional way it's cooked in these copper pots so sugar boiling away we're waiting for it to get exactly 165 degrees and then they're gonna pour it onto these marble countertops so this is a really ancient Turkish suite and it's still done here at Chopper arrow in the traditional way with the copper and the marble but in a modern factory setting foreign [Music] [Music] so after the sugar mixture cools on the marble countertop it gets this really unique texture like a Taffy like texture and they transferred it over to this other marble table and then they add the flavor for this one they're doing a lemon flavor so they actually add a bunch of salt lemon salt and then natural lemon concentrate and then now he's kind of kneading it and working it getting all that flavor mixed in and it's slowly starting to cool on this marble countertop at the same time foreign so they just started pulling and stretching that sugar mixture and you can see it right away starting to change color getting a lot whiter and I could smell that lemon I don't know how this always happens but anytime I'm in this kind of setting they always think it would be funny to see me fail basically at it myself so they just gave me some gloves I'm gonna apparently work a little bit here at zapper Arrow [Music] there's no guidebook on how to make this it's all about experience 30 years he's been doing this really like art so it's kind of cool down now we've got one that's the plain sugar on the bottom and then this is the Lemon on the top they're gonna mix them together here lemon flavor in the middle and then just plain on the outside look at that that's beautiful it's starting to look like some kind of a Christmas present or something they're wrapping it up with that lemon flavor candy oh wow look at this so it's carrying a spiral around it's really unique so he just cut me a little piece of the candy you can see this is the final product but it's still soft because it's hot still so he told me to suck on it because it's too hot oh yeah all right that's awesome lemon flavor nice and sour they're starting to get harder in my mouth because it's cooling down am I trying to thin it out I'm gonna really feel them starting to harden I'm still chewing on this candy how am I doing okay very well all right what time tomorrow they're really starting to harden up now like candy canes I think if I hit this on the ground oh no it's actually still a little bit uh bendable I thought it was going to crack because it's starting to feel like glassy on the outside and look at all these over here wow oh cool it's really satisfying to play with this stuff I honestly would work here [Music] super fast so now that they've cooled down enough he can chop them into small pieces and just look at the speed this is seriously the most satisfying thing to watch candy making here in turkey and that's the final product the lemon flavor anyway very good all right thank you so this is the final uh product you can see a little M there for Martin or Mustafa the fifth boss here so this is nice and cool down up yeah now you can't chew it at all because it's nice and hard so that's it for Jeffer Arrow Factory such a cool place really friendly people and delicious candy I'm still sucking all one now we're gonna go check out their shop here in karakoi Istanbul show you guys all the different things that you can buy for yourself on buying turkey on the Asian side of Istanbul and this is where you can find Jafar Arrow's main branch there's many stores around Istanbul but this is their main shop right in the heart of cabacoy [Music] a thank you so much so we've made it to Jaffer arrow and I've only been in the shop for one minute and I've already got some more Locum so this one is with cranberry and this shop is just packed full of all the different things that Jeffrey arrow is famous for let's give this a try um [Music] now this one isn't as fresh as the other so it's got more of a chewy texture some nuts in there really really good actually check this out over here so these are all the different types of Mars upon which is like a almond paste and then it's shaped with you know all these different fruits and then over here we've got these huge jugs full of all those hard candies that we just watched him make so there's the lemon one right there this is like a Willy Wonka Factory Here Candyland yum all right another sweet I am starting at the uh sugar high this is their almond cookie they strongly recommended it wow there must be some mastic in there it's really chewy and gummy it's a little bit like toffee like all right guys that is just a sneak peek of some of the things you can buy on buying turkey.com uh Jaffer arrow is a really famous brand as I mentioned since we're here in katakoy we're gonna take you for a little bit of a street food tour because I've had too many sweets I need something salty so let's go get some real food so this is a midi Doma it's stuffed mussels you can see they're stuffed with rice so there's this like spiced rice on the inside Masa on the outside squeezes a little bit of lemon served right on the streets here that's right no that was juicy really juicy really fresh and that rice spiced up nicely put it right here like that yum as the original flavor but they also have spicy ones let's try this one thank you so this is the spicy version oh man oh that's wonderful the rice is spiced up nicely a little bit of heat there oh man so fresh and good you just stand here and eat it kind of reminds me of Pani Peru in India you just stand and they keep serving you until you're done okay okay thank you oh this one is super stuffed look at that bunch of rice in there perfect one biter midi Doma are always one of my favorite little Street snacks especially here in katakole they're so fresh and I want something a little bit more filling though that was just an appetizer so I'm going to get some Monty or Turkish dumplings this shop is called salamanti here in katakoi they have been around since 1969 I ordered up a big plate of the mantiso some people like to call it Turkish ravioli or Turkish dumplings and you can see it's covered in a yogurt sauce with a little bit of a nice looking chili oil um wow there's a ton of those dumplings and I also ordered a side of pickles pickled beets cucumbers and chilies there and this is just one of my favorite comfort Foods here in Turkey Mountain tea let's try these guys out it's so comforting those little dumplings just burst in your mouth with a little piece of meat in there there's not much to them about the texture of the wrapper is awesome and yogurt sauce and dumplings might sound a little bit odd especially if you're used to Asian dumplings but let me tell you it works and the yogurt is served warm and it's got a little bit of a heat from that chili oil on top too just goes really well with the dumplings I know it is a little bit of a strange combination yogurt with dumplings but I think it works really well pickle chili Chase it with one of these guys [Music] wow guys those were some great Monty to end my day here in Istanbul I want to say a huge thank you to buy in Turkey for uh bringing me here to Istanbul and I'm super excited for this collaboration because for the first time you can actually taste the foods you saw me tasting here in the videos on buying turkey.com so definitely check it out you can taste all the amazing things I tried today in Istanbul make sure to subscribe if you haven't already and hit the Bell icon so you're notified and I'll see you guys on the next episode Chopstick Joe bye

Channel: Luke Martin

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Length: 26min 56sec (1616 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 07 2022