Street Food…Finally!

   After watching street food be prepared all over the world, we finally felt comfortable with the cleanliness to try some in Turkey.  Bagel-like bread with sesame seeds came first.  

Then fresh squeezed pomegranate juice (very, very sour!) whose season we had just hit and would be all gone in two weeks.  

We bought fresh squeezed orange juice and candy that was made by wrapping a gooey corn syrup in multiple flavors around a stick.  We had corn that was boiled and grilled.  Instead of eating roasted chestnuts (the most popular street food) we opted to buy lots and lots of baklava, fortunately we could order it by the kilogram. 

   We found a restaurant with the best rice in the world and, as in all restaurants, unlimited free amazing bread.  The waiter was so happy to see us come back (all the waiters get customers by wooing them off the street in the first place) that he chatted at great length with us each time we stopped by even though it was busy.  There were stores with a dozen types of eggs, there were bakeries that only made bread, there were meat stores with hearts hanging in the window, and there were Turkish Delight joints on each corner.