Kadikoy Moda Neighborhood and Food Tour: Checking Out Our Area in Istanbul

Good morning! We are going to show you around our neighborhood here in Kadikoy a little bit today so let's get going. This morning we're at a place called Mesur Menemenzi and we're trying a traditional Turkish breakfast dish. It's called menemen and it's a scrambled egg. It's made with tomatoes, peppers, onions and we got the mixed version which is called and it also has cheese and sausage in it so let's give it a try and see how it is. Oh it's a lot more meaty than I thought it would be. I was assuming it would be more eggy. It's really hot. It comes in this little pan right out of the oven. Yeah so it's really tomato heavy. You get a lot of the scents of the tomatoes a little bit from the peppers. It's quite cheesy, meaty. It's it's less eggy than I thought it would be. It's really delicious. So one of the advantages of staying in Kadikoy here on the Asian side is that it has a much more local feel. We're not getting sucked into all of the tourist trap restaurants and we're getting a feel for how the native Istanbulis live. On the negative side we're a little bit further away from all the major tourist attractions so they're either like a 20 to 40 minute subway or ferry ride away. Another drawback is that we're not finding a lot of English speakers so we're struggling a little bit to communicate with the people but we're making it. Fun fact, the area of Kadikoy we're presently staying in is the ancient city of Chalcedon. Chalcedon was actually settled before the European side of Istanbul. When a 6th century BCE Persian general came and saw this city here Chalcedon he referred to it as the city of the blind. He said that because the European side has very obvious strategic and geographical advantages so anyone who chose to settle this side must have been blind. We're here at Kadikoy Tanduni. We got really traditional street food around here. We got a beef version and we got a chicken version and they were, the staff here is awesome. They cooked it up right in front of us. They have these big grills, one for the beef, one for the chicken. They add onions, tomatoes, parsley, wrap it all up. It looks delicious. Can't wait to dig in. We also got it with the traditional Turkish yogurt drink. It's called Paryan and we're looking forward to trying it. Okay I'm going to start with one of these little peppers. I love these little spicy pickled peppers they have here. And then try out the chicken here. See how this goes. I'm going to start with the beef one because I think it's the more classic version of the wrap. Oh it's nice and hot. It's excellent. Oh wow that is delicious. You get nice seared meat, you really get like a freshness from the vegetables and the parsley. It's a super delicious lunch food. Okay that's one of the best parts about eating out in Istanbul at all. So the tantunis we just had and yogurt drink that we just had, total of about six Canadian dollars. And delicious. We'll definitely go back there. Okay gonna fully admit here, it's 33 degrees Celsius outside right now which translates out to about 91 degrees Fahrenheit. Having grown up in Florida and lived in the Bahamas for so many years, I wouldn't think this would be an issue. But apparently six and a half years in Canada has screwed me all up because it's hot as balls out here. All right so we're currently walking through Katakoyimoda Coast Park and the sun's beginning to set. We're gonna walk through here a little bit and show you around. All right we're gonna end this one right here for today. Hope you enjoyed Katakoy. Leave any comments down below if you have any suggestions or tips and don't forget to like and subscribe to see what happens next.