Kadıköy Bazaar: The Heart of Anatolian Side

Kadıköy Bazaar has just about everything you could need and want in your pantry. All kinds of food and beverages as well as examples of Turkish cuisine suitable for anyone's taste are possible to find at the Kadıköy Bazaar. 

Each of the fresh fruits and vegetables that come to Kadıköy shops in the very early hours of the morning are carefully placed on the stands. Gastronomy and Culinary Arts students of Yeditepe University visit to study the wide range of ingredients, their varieties and different methods applied in their presentations.

Favorite seasonal vegetables are displayed in bags and sell out quickly. Stands are quite crowded every hour of the day. Everything needed for a fresh and nutritious salad can be found from Kadıköy Bazaar stands.

Although new technology is all around us, traditional methods are goldies. These are used to weigh the vegetables.

Pumpkin allows cooking a variety of recipes from soup to dessert. Turkish people generally prefer to cook the pumpkin with syrup and walnuts in the wintertime. Therefore it is possible to see the pumpkin on almost all the stands of Kadıköy Bazaar.

Pumpkins might be carved not as Halloween decorations, but for rice stuffing. 

The famous fish markets are located in Kadıköy with their variety of choices. Fish in these stands can be enjoyed in restaurants, taken home or eaten as a street food, in the form of a fish sandwich. Gastronomy and Culinary Arts students of Yeditepe have the chance to see different types of fish very early in the morning.

Turkey is quite productive in terms of olives and it is possible to see a variety of olives on Kadıköy Bazaar stands. Either as a breakfast menu item or as oil, olives are one of the leading actors of a delicious meal or a nice breakfast.

Pickles have an important place in Turkish culture which has become indispensable for Kadıköy stands. There are different varieties and assortments of pickles on Kadıköy stands.

A tradition from the past to the present. Kadıköy is a center for traditional candy shops. Here are a selection of glazed apples. 

Kadıköy Bazaar stands are famous with legumes, spices, dried fruits and vegetables that come from different areas of Turkey. These products come from different cities of Turkey and put on the Kadıköy stands. Many restaurants of Kadıköy serve the dishes that are cooked by sun dried vegetables with filling herbed, spiced rice and meat which are traditional in Turkey.

With the arrival of cold weather, chestnut vendors take their places with their carts on the streets of Kadıköy. These chestnuts are indispensable for locals.

Simit is cooked in stone ovens with wood fire; It is covered with molasses and sesame seeds and is sold on almost every corner of the streets in Kadıköy with simit carts. It is possible to see people enjoying one and even sharing their simit with seagulls.