Breakfast food, fast food, and street food in Turkey

All of the hotels on this tour offered buffet breakfast, some were pretty simple but most had a wide variety of food. A couple of hotels offered omelettes made to order (photo below), to which I added fresh cucumber, tomatoes and olives, garnished with some microgreens.

There is also a choice of hard boiled or soft boiled eggs; we loved the taste of the fresh eggs. There were a variety of bread and pastries, plus preserves with a lot of fruit in them. I particularly liked the apricot preserves, especially with plain yoghurt.

There is always a variety of olives at the breakfast buffet, as well as salad. The tomatoes and cucumber were usually very good, we loved the juicy oranges, pears and kiwi fruit, as well as the dried figs and dried apricot.

An usual "dish" is honeycomb, a knife is provided to cut out pieces to put into small wafe bowls.

Some of the breakfast food that I did not care for were frankfurters, usually cooked in a red sauce, and sliced sausages that were slightly vinegary. There were also street vendors selling roasted chestnuts, corn on the cobb and simit (Turkish bagels) crusted with sesame seeds.

We also tasted pide, i.e. Turkish pizza, topped with lamb (rather greasy), mashed potatoes (very good) and cheese (excellent). The pide is nothing like Italian or American pizza! At a food court in a mall in Ankara, I had a very cheap but satisfying lunch of lentil soup, adana kebab durum (a tortilla-like wrap of adana kebab and salad) with a side of pickles and very hot pickled pepper.

Subway, MacDonald's, Burger King and KFC were also present in the mall's food court!