Olivia and Nathan here! First impressions of Istanbul Turkey have been amazing!
Welcome to Istanbul [Laughter] Ance Istanbul Turkey with a population of roughly 20 million people you can most definitely expect an intense pace of life but it is also a place to make many Dreams Come True full package Turkish Barber yeah buddy Turkish bath and a 300 year old her mom yes sir need a last-minute hair
Transplant surgery lava heads everywhere it is a city run by a feline Mafia cats have taken over this city and with a short ferry ride that costs less than a cup of coffee you get the two for one continent special to see Asia and Europe
It is indeed the best place to get lost and we’re here for a month That’s right we’ve made it to Turkey the country that straddles Asia and Europe that’s crazy that’s crazy crazy we’re actually walking isi Street right now which is their main shopping street on the European side a lot of modern newer shops we’re staying only a couple blocks from here
Not too far from taksim Square which is a great launch off point to see other parts of the city this neighborhood is called biolu or biolu or something like that I’m going to be butchering a lot of these names so far my first impressions of the Turkish language are it’s quite
Difficult yeah thank you is so hard yeah the word thank you is like the hardest thank you I’ve ever had to try and pronounce I figured on one of our first days here you gotta start the morning off right with a good old circus coffee So we’re at this place called mandavarmas I don’t even know if I’m saying that probably either but I picked this place because highly rated and a lot of locals come here and first impressions all by me all locals a lot of people like smoke cigarettes and turkey I’ve noticed that they always
Have these little ashtrays yeah I’m tempted to have a couple just but uh this will be our very first Turkish coffee experience wow look at that it’s dense and the one thing I learned from the little bit of research I did online was don’t start am I gonna
Burn my lip oh I think I’m gonna burn my mouth all right patience is a virtue oh my goodness is it super strong that is a treat yeah it’s strong but it’s just rich and dense and it’s definitely it’s like a thicker textured espresso yeah nope I got Grady try to get that
Extra sip and our homeboy oseman gave us a rundown of how they make it first put coffee inside and scents like this sound very hot yeah it’s hot hot yes because mechanism wow very hot you wanna touch this is named Jesuit Foreign Resisting the temptation to hop on the back of the tram pet every street cat and try baklava and Turkish Delights on every corner until we notice something strange there are so many people walking around with recent hair transplant surgery done is Well now I’m calling a bobber head there’s Helen bobber heads running around here getting swarmed by bubbles right now so we’re gonna walk okay there we go we’re gonna walk istick loud streets uh downwards heading towards Galata and Galata Tower that’s where we’re going to now I heard it’s a
Really Charming neighborhood lots of coffee shops lots of places to just lounge and that’s the direction we’re going now we’re in Galata now about to get run over by a bike and uh yeah lots of boutiques lots of cool shops all Cobblestone very busy as well a lot of
Juice stands fresh pomegranate juice orange juice pineapple juice all the juices yes and we’re going to be walking towards Galata Tower I think it’s down there to the right though yeah right there but yeah this is just a good vibe place whoa whoa this place is crazy oh my God world needs now And then we made it I took a lot of town it took me a little bit by surprise I thought it was a couple more blocks down but I think we should go to the top to get the view Galata Tower was built in 1348 and has
Served as a watchtower a prison and now it’s an exhibition space and Museum most people pay to take the elevator up for the Epic view oh my gosh that’s the Rooftop it’s the Instagram rooftop oh I didn’t mention this either Istanbul is a very hilly City yes so you
Got to be strategic on which ways you go to avoid the least amount of you want the least amount of uphill that’s the goal those glutes would be fired baby yeah looking for the gym here just walk yeah oh yeah this guy hello later it’s all the bay here no
Wait this is this restaurant I think so hashtag South Bay stop oh what’s this guy selling what is that I think they’re like chestnuts like chestnuts yeah this is my childhood man in Paris I used to get those as a kid you know what I’m saying
Hey look at this coffee shop though this is the vibe here this is where you want to hang out with the view right here you can get a Turkish Bagel you can go over there get some nuts and some ice cream sea meat I think it’s both
Still working on that I’m most excited about the food here in Turkey because I feel like there’s so much treat food this is a sesame Bagel their version yeah actually I think this is the most popular street food here it’s really nice in this with coffee it will be great no thank you
Trying to get me something no thank you no thank you you smell good we’re getting hungry and I think it’s time for a kebab I’d be lying if I told you it was our first Kebab we’ve had a few over the last two days that we were
Settling in here Nathan said that he thinks he found one of the best ones that’s one of a local spot and we’re on our way there now we just ducked into this hip-hop place I couldn’t resist I know we’re only a couple hours in today
I had to get one this place is highly rated and I’m looking around I asked I asked our neighbors next to us what they recommended I’m going with that thank you so much all right so Olivia and I we ordered the same thing but I ordered the uh the
Loaded up version with extra meat because you know it’s me I gotta do it and I I just gotta say that the wrap itself is the best looking rap I’ve seen so far in Istanbul I’m going in Wow that is amazing you got Tomatoes herbs spices the meat is so tender so rich in flavor and then the the wrap is like perfectly toasted let me let me undress it for you I mean look at that wow it looks like a leopard I want to feel like an African
Leopard we’re a trolls this drink iron actually pairs really well with it and salt a bit sweeter yeah no this is great this is so good I’m digging it we’ll be back for sure Okay seagulls have entered the chat like hardcore look at this oh my God it’s beautiful I’m not gonna lie though definitely feeling a little bit like please don’t poop on me what do you think I wonder how many people get shot on every day maybe 200 at least All right we’re now crossing the bridge to an area called Emmy nonu is that how you say it maybe lots of fish are in on this bridge like literally there couldn’t be more fishermen on this bridge or so many fighting for Spirit yeah definitely itching I’m guess
Ing but uh we’re heading now to the old part of the city on the European side and uh truthfully I don’t really know what we’re doing besides that so we’ll just see where that takes us thank you and then by the grace of God we got sucked into the street food scene we’re
Trying the Turkish Donuts The artery these are so fried they look golden crispy delicious that’s dripping with freaking oil y sugar that’s not oil that is pure sugar syrup all right Olivia downplayed it a lot because these are actually amazing they’re fluffy the outside edge is super crispy yes they’re sweet but I mean it’s
The freaking donut the other day Nathan and the inside like just like melts in your mouth basically okay it’s good but it’s not that good in my opinion I love it all right explosion hey I’m always explode yeah well you don’t it’s okay you don’t have to like it Olivia track down a much healthier snack so cabbage pickles I think there could be carrots as well this is a fermented drink this is not pomegranate juice it looks like a fruit drink so much I see everybody walking around like oh that sounds so good this is the salty one
They say I think you eat all the things on the inside and then you drink the juice in the end okay so we’re gonna eat the pickles and drink the juice here we go it just tastes like good quality fresh fermentation if that’s even a freaking
Thing I don’t know excited will you like it you like it I like a lot it’s starting to rain fell in the vibe all right let’s get a drink cheers we venture to completely new world oh We’ve made it to the Messier Char sisi I think I said that we tried we tried we’re trying but this is awesome the spice bizarre yeah hello this is so cool wow greeted instantly as we came in no leave my friend my friend here’s a tip if you’re ever in a deal
Situation with a middle easterner if they say my friend you’re about to get screwed let me have my first impression before trying to sell me some some local you know some turkey to like yeah so exactly thinking about this because like there’s a lot of competition I mean the
Competition here must be so Fierce yeah because virtually every vendor is selling like very similar yeah or at least you know what I mean yeah so it’s really who’s got the most char M yeah it was honestly whose level of English is yeah talk with the church bye you’re
Ready to set up is very aesthetic it looks good hi and you got teased you want that Gucci bags okay I’ll try I don’t have Gallery uh yeah no calorie I think I tried this one oh hello hello yeah looking for something here like if
You want to see if you want four three just got here we’re walking no we are here for a while for a couple weeks at least I give you one thing for your way oh it’s okay it’s okay thank you so much they got us on the damn tea dude
I’m sorry to give me free minty I was like wow this is so nice Okay we got all these different chocolates here all these different Turkish Delights different roasted nuts and fruits everything is so aesthetic and beautiful and colorful some peppers spices after being sucked into buying four kilos of
Saffron we didn’t need we decided to keep the spontaneity going all right so I just booked an impromptu spontaneous whirling dervish show what the heck is a dervish so we’re about to find out all right let’s go hey oh we need to go this way open screen okay hurry oh dervish just texted
Us and told us a Turkish poet and philosopher he lived in uh 13th century as a philosopher he was searching like a meaning to a life and obviously in Optimum times Islam was a big influence so he read Kura and inside Quran it says that wherever you
Turn you may find God and he loved that face took that idea and he started like whirling yeah that’s where there’s coming from one of the movements that they do is they were like one of their fingers will point up and other will Point down it’s like they see themselves as a
Bridge between like God and Humanity it’s like a branch of Islam it’s called Sufism more than being religious it’s actually more philosophical so it’s more spiritual and after the show our transfer will take us to one of the oldest restaurants in Istanbul and we’ll try some different uh Turkish foods
Eating as much as an elephant eats a burger and tomato paste and some pomegranate serve Burger is made from wheat and what’s green say the name of it again the food yeah means raw meatball but now because of Regulation no longer wrong it’s not meat it’s Burger boogers yeah not booger booger Okay is this is this food or is it not no it’s not okay okay but this is one of the things Russo’s try anyways the man he put lettuce in her hands then the meat and then a big thing of lemon pretty good they showered us with lemon yeah half of
It landed on my wrist not gonna lie and about very tasty but it’s freaking me out that it’s not raw meat yeah no no right now you can take but after the show starts no dramas we’ll make our own dervish montage Wow This thing is like a party busy [Laughter] foreign And it’s a special food from the town seared city in Turkey it’s made from lamb in the kitchen they have this well it’s like three meters deep and at the bottom there will be fire and they lower the lamb into the well and close it up
With mud and it stays like that for three hours oh my God so which means they can only cook this three times in a day and it’s really crisp it’s really tender you’ll see and the fat will drip from the lamb and they collect it and
Later make soup out of it oh he’s talking about lamb drippings yeah there it is selling it very good you’re selling it very good I hope you like it I just had my first bite of lamb and I just gotta say slams insane it melts in your mouth incredible delicious so
