Mantı in Bodrum 🇹🇷

It is now a long time since I wrote an ‘on location’ article, but thank God finally I managed to travel again. Being now back to Turkey after 9 long months of waiting, it’s time to eat lots, and write about one more staple of Turkish cuisine, the mantı. They are often translated as ‘Turkish…

Midye dolma (not only) in Kadıköy 🇹🇷

Stuffed mussels, midye dolma, are a popular street food in İstanbul and all along the Aegean coast of Turkey. I have enjoyed lots of them in Bodrum and İzmir too, but my first midye dolma I had in Kadıköy (one of the parts of Istanbul on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, best known as…