Our friends are playful, the Turkish taqueros! All right, you can play with it as long as
they don't steal it from me, all cool [Music] Hello friends. One more day in Turkey, I am starting my day having breakfast at a buffet that does not is not westernized at all. Most of the things here reflect how they eat breakfast on this side of the world, so I thought it would be a good idea to start this video by showing you what an ordinary buffet looks like in Turkey. Point number one, olives are a must in every good Turkish breakfast and they come in different presentations. Potatoes with peppers, it really looks weird, like watery. This here, I really don't know what it is. These here are balls of potatoes with many, many spices. The Turkish eats everything very concentrated. Look at these eggs, as well with lots and lots of spices and it's not the usual scrambled egg, but it's like boiled, then all mixed in here with the yolks.
It seems important to mention that I've observed that turkish people does not eat fruit for breakfast, at least not fruit as is normally eaten for breakfast. I've noticed that they have breakfast with cucumber and tomato. Yoghurt that's a must and of course, tea. Tea 24/7. The Turkish doesn't miss a single opportunity to have a good cup of tea. I know it doesn't look appetizing, especially for those who come from the west, but the truth is that it's not so bad. Enjoy, my friends.
Now let's get this day started, that promises to be a cold day, Ali is with us. - How are you Ali? - Hey, great. - The Master guide
- Let's go for it! [Music] A funny thing that's happening is
the birds are chasing us. People throw bread at them, so the birds catch it in the air. Let's try if a bird catches my food! Let's see bird!
He got it wow! They're skillfull! This is crazy, I've never seen anything like this before. [Music] Back on the land and I'm just
noticing that there's a lot of tents here, a lot of food stalls and the question came up, how is the street food in this country? Is it exquisite, is it exotic, is it very expensive?
Oh yes! Luisito eats is back, Luisillo the fatty, your trusted gluttonous friend.
Join me my friends, let's find out how's the street food in Turkey. (Music) Something I'm noticing is that here as well as in many parts of the world, they sell corn. Elotes, choclos, I don't know how they call it in your countries. These from here they sell them cooked, on coal. Look how delicious, and these ones here are completely boiled. I asked for one boiled and they serve it to you only with salt. I'm from Mexico and in Mexico
they serve it with mayonnaise, with cheese, with chili. How do you eat them in your country? Let me know. It costs the amount of two lire and fifty cents, which is about 80 cents of dollar. What can I tell you, a corn is always great, in Turkey and the rest of the planet. From what I see, it's also very common for them to sell chestnuts, this is seen in many, many countries in Europe.
Let's remember that at this moment we are in the European part of Istanbul. In the same way they cook them on charcoal for you. It costs 7 lire for 100 grams, a little bit more than 2 dollars.
These are a little bit expensive. We have the chestnut, we take all the shell off. It's tasty.
I'm not really that big a fan of it but it's acceptable. Of course in street food stalls we found Turkish coffee stalls Közde kahve. Turkish coffee has something very peculiar because it is kind of muddy, it's very thick underneath and it's always served it in little cups, it's very peculiar.
It costs six lire which is about a dollar, a very reasonable price. Apparently it's quite an experience. I tried to drink it outside in the street and the gentleman looked at us like no, no, sit down. With the six lire you pay, it does not include just your coffee. They also bring you small dishes that look like a treasure, one includes sugar and the other one includes something like gummies, that you can use to take off the strong taste of the coffee. It also always includes a glass of water. This is like a yogurt but it has water in it, this is because the coffee is very, it's like you get the grains, as such, they get stuck between your teeth, it's an uncomfortable feeling, you pour your cup of water, you rinse it out and let's move to the next thing. I'm gonna have it without sugar to really test it out how strong it is. Şerefe my friends, that is "cheers" in turkish. Oops it's super hot, it tastes strong obviously and it's super tasty.
I really did love it, to go with it let's have some of the gummies here. Super yummy, they are very sweet gummies but they are with pistachios inside, here they put pistachio nuts
to everything. I like that, I like that. And look, once you're finishing it, as it begins to be very thick down, then in your teeth it begins to get stuck. You grab your cup of water, you uncover it, like the yogurt that your aunt Chenchis sends you in your lunch box. Don't let the bad kids of the school steal it. Something that is very interesting is that
when you finish your coffee with your "mud" that's all the way down, they can read your fortune,
there are people who read your coffee. Well, pretty good, quite tasty, more than the coffee itself the whole experience, highly recommended, the Turkish coffee. [Music] Something that I found fascinating from the moment I arrived, everywhere you go you can find them too kebab stalls. It's meat placed
in a spinning top, just like we see it in all of the corners of Mexico. It is obvious that from here comes the influence of the "trompo" on tacos. I have read information about this but I have never gotten to the root of the situation. Supposedly the spinning top of meat, comes from here, from all over this region of the world. In the second world war a lot of people had to flee these countries,
they didn't feel safe, and they took refuge in pacifist countries such as Mexico. Many arab people came and from this area of the world to prepare the meat as they do it here, putting it in spinning top and that is why nowadays in Mexico a lot of the meat that is used for tacos is cooked and cut this way. Who would think that tacos, super mexican, super representative, have a strong influence from this part of the world. We're going to ask for one of these, dürüm et döner which is like the closest thing to a taco. Twelve lire for my dürüm et döner. They give you a ticket, for you to give it to this man, to our Turkish taquero friend and you're done. They give it to you out here. Our friends the Turkish taqueros are also heroes without a cape. It's tricky here. Enjoy, my friends.
Our friends are playful, the Turkish taqueros! and a lot of people are fascinated
with the little baby camera. All good, they can play with it as long as they don't steal it from me. All cool. Ok, so let's try how our Turkish taquito is. Wow, what a tremendous little gem. Yeah, this is totally an Arabian taco, the flour tortilla, the sliced meat
exactly like this. We came all the way to Turkey, we traveled all the way to the other side to get to know the roots of the Arabian taco. [Music] And since we're talking about street food, this has already been shown but we have to do it again. Order
an ice cream in Turkey is a whole experience, quite a trick.
Check here. That also goes into Turkish street food,
ordering an ice cream is a thing of pillos. Also they sell in many places, simits. Simits are these breads like extra large donuts, i'm told this bread is the most traditional in Turkey. It has
a price of one lire and 25 cents, which are about 40 cents. The man tells me
that the typical one is eaten just like that without anything. Let's try. Well, it tastes exactly
what you expect to, a sesame seed bread. Forgive me if there is anyone turkish watching this and love it. I don't find it peculiar, it's like eating a torta of water, a bolillo. Recreating a classic meme from your trusted Luisito Comunica. Pretty normal, I'm not surprised. And if we're talking about
street food at night time, what I've noticed is that clams are
popular, they sell you clams in the street and each one of them costs one lire. A lira is like 15 cents, wow. It's the calm with rice, very strong flavor
but it's good and I don't like sea food. In fact a turkish friend of mine told me
that it's like the food when you're partying. You're drinking alcohol, you're going from one bar to another and on the way you get your little clams. [Music] And this way my friends is how we conclude with this video. A day full of laughter, of learning, of gluttonous food and good, good times.
My friends, thank you very much for joining me in one more adventure. I really hope you liked it, you enjoyed it, and we'll meet, as you know it, in a few days with a new video. Saol, turkish pimpollo. [Music]
