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🇦🇺 Ultimate Australian Food Tour: https://youtu.be/3xAG5f5waDw
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Welcome to Sydney, Australia! Today we’re going on a cheap eats tour of Sydney to eat 5 of the most iconic and affordable meals that you have to try. From charcoal chicken to Halal snack pack, it’s going to be a delicious day of food in Australia!

1. Marrickville Pork Roll - https://goo.gl/maps/Fu6oDvRozM6nLGgX6 Price - $8 AUD (5.37 USD) per roll - Sydney has a large Vietnamese population and banh mi are extremely popular and affordable.

2. Metro One Kebab Ashfield - https://goo.gl/maps/dBs51Jbw4TaQCqyg9 Price - $20 AUD (13.42 USD) for Large - One of the most famous Sydney foods is a Halal snack pack, HSP for short - and it’s one of the greatest Australian cheap eats.

3. El Jannah Granville - https://goo.gl/maps/wVL84F87ME3eAe4r6 Price - $15.90 AUD (10.67 USD) for ½ chicken plate - El Jannah Granville serves Lebanese charcoal roasted chicken.

4. Chinese Noodle Restaurant - https://goo.gl/maps/FuR3yokWEuLsFnzu9 Price - $15.80 AUD (10.58 USD) - This noodle restaurant is known for their northern Chinese fried noodles and dumplings.

5. Indian Home Diner - https://goo.gl/maps/gudGiYZp3G5RiaC26 Price - $15 AUD (10.06 USD) for Double Chicken Tikka Kebab, which was tasty and convenient.

Of course this only scratches the surface of the diversity and the quantity of what you can eat in Sydney - there’s so much delicious food to discover!

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🇲🇦 Morocco Street Food in Rabat: https://youtu.be/Xcc6VMuROx0
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MOROCCO - Welcome to Morocco, a paradise if you love street food! In this full documentary I’ll be taking you on the ultimate Moroccan food tour, we’ll eat everything from street food in Marrakesh to seafood in Casablanca. Get ready for the Moroccan food trip of a lifetime!

A huge thank you to Moroccan Food Tour (https://moroccanfoodtour.com/) for arranging my trip to Morocco!

Over the course of 12 days we’ll be traveling across the beautiful Kingdom of Morocco to eat the best Moroccan food. This video includes all 41 meals, plus some behind the scenes and some extra meals that weren’t included in the other separate videos. Here’s the route and itinerary we took, and you can watch each separate video for more in depth details.

Morocco food tour: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeoy0zUu6bqnr9xmiuCJRr60wBzQ8ANUH&si=6mdHBvmR35VIdijs

Casablanca - We started in Casablanca with breakfast, sightseeing the incredible Hassan II Mosque, and we continued with a huge camel feast for lunch, and a seafood feast - including a Moroccan spider crab.

Rabat - Rabat is the capital city of Morocco and home to some delicious food. Don’t miss steamed cows head, delicious sandwiches, and the highlight was an incredible homecooked meal my Mohammed's Mother!

Fez - Fez is one of the most historically fascinating cities in all of Morocco, and you can get lost in the narrow alleys while eating delicious Moroccan street food. This is a city where everything is fascinating everywhere you look.

Rissani - We continued on with this ultimate Moroccan food tour to the Sahara desert where an adventure awaited us. We visited the local bazaar and ate Berber food including a flatbread stuffed with meat, nuts, and spices. One of the highlight meals for me was stuffed pigeons.

Marrakesh - Marrakesh is the most famous city in Morocco, and it’s a food paradise. From the thrilling UNESCO Jema El Fnaa Square to roasted lamb that will make you cry tears of joy, you’re in for some of the best Moroccan street food in the country.

Essaouira - Finally, we continue this tour in Essaouira, a peaceful town on the Atlantic ocean and home to some incredible seafood. We had delicious Moroccan sardines and a seafood bastilla for dinner!

Thank you to everyone who made this ultimate Moroccan food tour possible, it was the food trip of a lifetime!

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Today we're going into the mountains to eat a Taiwanese country style roasted chicken in a barrel with a huge fire. Surprisingly the chicken came out perfectly cooked, with extra crispy skin, and juicy meat. Must eat food in Taiwan!

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Istanbul, Türkiye - Welcome to Istanbul, one of the most fascinating, historical, and delicious cities in the world. Today I’ll be taking you on an ultimate Turkish street food tour in Istanbul - you can expect some iconic street foods and some unseen surprises!

Here are the places we ate in this tour:

📍Galata Simitçisi (https://maps.app.goo.gl/21CJNCCZZ4FMSB9YA) - You can’t come to Istanbul without trying simit, a common ring shaped bread that you’ll find at bakeries and street food carts throughout the city.

📍Çiğ Köfteci Seyfettin Usta (https://maps.app.goo.gl/u6i4Fj4LEpNRhZSJA) - One of my absolute favorite Turkish foods is Çiğ Köfte, that includes raw meat, bulgur, and lots of spices.

📍Dürümcü Raif Usta (https://maps.app.goo.gl/xkrWpGzZeSoByJQCA) - Turkey is the king of kebabs and a durum is a grilled kebab served wrapped in bread so it’s often fast and on the go.

📍Tarihi Eminönü Derya Balıkçısı 1945 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/qq2h2opz347XSv3v8) - Probably the most iconic of all Turkish street foods in Istanbul is the balik ekmek, a grilled fish sandwich still served on a boat on the Golden Horn.

📍Beşaltı Kirvem Tantuni (https://maps.app.goo.gl/Sbf1E4iCwXEg1wB97) - It’s hard to find anything tastier than tantuni!

📍Tekrartekrarr Bay Köfte (https://maps.app.goo.gl/GkhSxeCbeQyJWP6z6) - This was something totally unique and that I’d never seen before, an ultimate cheese overdose, and so good!

📍Sokak pilavcısı (https://maps.app.goo.gl/sKCn3GwgLJFa72q2A) - Another popular Istanbul street food is rice and chickpeas with shredded chicken, and you’ll find it all over the city.

📍Midyeci Erkan (https://maps.app.goo.gl/bfvrVjSiiwJdkAne8) - If you love mussels, midye dolma are a dream come true. They go down so easily and are so addictive!

Istanbul is a street food paradise, and I hope this video will give you some ideas for what to eat when you’re there!

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🇹🇷 Istanbul Street Food Tour: https://youtu.be/QoG1-v1xagU?si=gbLYq3q9cz8jiMC6

Gaziantep, Türkiye - Welcome to Gaziantep, the Turkish food capital of the country - this really is the ultimate food paradise! Today we’ll be going around the city and eating some of the most delicious dishes you have to try!

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📍 Ciğerci Ali Haydar (https://maps.app.goo.gl/HHx9w3h4og5TthX36) - One of the best ways to start your day is with fresh grilled lamb liver. Choose your own skewer and they grill it up fresh, season with cumin, chili, onions, and parsley. didn’t charge us . After breakfast we then walked around the main market, the Coppersmith Bazaar.

📍 Beyoğlu Katmercim (https://maps.app.goo.gl/oWCN6NTD6wjP8YaX7) - For something sweet for breakfast, you have to try katmer, a Gaziantep pastry made with thin dough, lots of butter and cream, and a mountain of pistachios. Price - 500 TRY ($15.54) for everything

📍 Metanet lokantası (https://maps.app.goo.gl/e7JYZ6UhQorpzxHJ8) - Easily one of the best foods I ate in Turkey is beyran, a traditional soup made with sheep fat, rice, sheep neck meat, and chili. They boil it up and it’s pure meaty goodness. Price - 200 TRY ($6.21) per bowl

📍 Dürümcü Recep Usta (https://maps.app.goo.gl/gqNe6bWBv6tGsBAv7) - When it comes to delicious Turkish fast food, it doesn’t get better than Nohut Dürümü, a super loaded chickpea wrap! It’s one of the most affordable meals you can eat in Turkey. Price - 55 TRY ($1.71)

📍 Kebapçı Halil Usta (https://maps.app.goo.gl/k5M2xz5u5Jyrus4T7) - Gaziantep is known for its meat, and for kebabs it doesn’t get more legendary than Kebapçı Halil Usta. Their most famous kebab is Küşleme - lamb backstrap loin. Price - 450 TRY ($13.98) per mixed portion (but they didn’t charge us)

📍 İmam Çağdaş Kebap ve Baklava Salonu (https://maps.app.goo.gl/h1T56uSJiBQy9kAb6) - Another famous Turkish food in Gaziantep is Alinazik kebab - roasted eggplant, yogurt, lamb kebabs - and this restaurant is an institution. Price - 200 - 400 TRY (but they didn’t charge us)

📍 Yesmek Gaziantep Mutfagi (https://maps.app.goo.gl/urYFFhh8f2mZr4Yo6) - For homestyle Gaziantep dishes, Yesmek Gaziantep Mutfagi is a fantastic restaurant to try. They didn’t charge us.

📍 Şeker Han Cafe - Finally, something unique to try in Gaziantep is their pistachio coffee - which is not coffee at all - but made from pistachio paste. It’s amazing!

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🇹🇷 Street Food in Gaziantep: https://youtu.be/hs9GqAkBecI

Gaziantep, Türkiye - Gaziantep is the food capital of Turkey and today we’ll be having a huge breakfast, and going to a baklava factory to see the entire baklava making process!

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📍 Udma Peynir Müzesi & Restoran (https://maps.app.goo.gl/4c16viefxSBGdU9r6) - For a huge Turkish breakfast, where you can taste a massive variety of Gaziantep local dishes, Udma Peynir Müzesi & Restoran is the place. It’s a higher end restaurant, but great quality. Price - About 1,200 TRY ($37.28) for everything

📍 Güllüoğlu - Ömer Güllü Baklava (https://maps.app.goo.gl/FMgxZLA2X6wBf1HB6) - Gaziantep is known for making some of the best baklava in the world, and it was an honor to have a tour of this generations old baklava factory. The process is absolutely fascinating!

📍 Ali Usta Gurme (https://maps.app.goo.gl/7aUjWAY8kv37TomYA) - This kebab shop is famous for their lamb kebabs, and for their eggplant kebabs. They didn’t charge us.

📍 Paçacı Şahin Usta (https://maps.app.goo.gl/DDCyK2Lb5bZfqEgU6) - Along with serving beyran, one of the best dishes in all of Turkey, this soup restaurant specializes in all sorts of lamb soups and stews.

📍 Efe kasap kebap (https://maps.app.goo.gl/J3PWXTnoroqZreJc7) - Although they mainly serve kebabs, we came here specifically to eat lahmacun, flatbread topped with meat and chopped peppers, tomatoes, and onions.

📍 Yasayan Muze Tarihi Gumruk Hani (https://maps.app.goo.gl/9LXNRfZVBoDLwHzn6)

Another amazing day in Gaziantep exploring the delicious local food!
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ADANA, TURKEY - Today we’re going for a full Turkish street food tour in Adana, Türkiye - one of the food capitals in the country. We’ll eat everything from breakfast and spicy pickle juice to one of the ultimate Adana kebabs, and one of my favorite Turkish foods of all time!

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📍 Levent Börekçilik (https://maps.app.goo.gl/MiHj4L7cp7SC2s2c7) - This famous borek was started right here from this humble food stall and now has spread all over Turkey. Their borek is fantastic.

📍 Hacının Şalgamı (https://maps.app.goo.gl/aGQEon5BNPjNwRfW9) - One of the most famous beverages in Adana is a pickled fermented juice that includes carrots and beets.

📍 iştah kebap 1950 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZevXEBqfvGTo2qqDA) - Next up, one of the most world famous Turkish foods of Adana are kebabs - called Adana Kebabs throughout Turkey. The lamb is loaded with seasoning and spices before being skewered and grilled.

📍 Tarihi Şampiyon Ocakbaşı Seyfo Usta (https://maps.app.goo.gl/x3iSuXAXxQbBoWjK8) - Adana is also known for their excellent liver kebabs, and they didn't disappoint!

📍 Meşhur Bicici Abuzer Kadayıf (https://maps.app.goo.gl/D1AroJNTwhUrBNpz5) - In the afternoon, one of the great Turkish summer sweet snacks is bicibici, their version of a shaved ic.
📍 Meşhur Ayranci - Additionally down the road you will find spicy ayran to wash it all down.

📍 No 12 Lokanta (https://maps.app.goo.gl/sYoP3RaSA8CNccR16) - Along with Gem who we hung out with today, he’s the co-owner of No 12 Lokanta, a Turkish restaurant serving classic home-style Adana dishes.

📍 Tatli Gonul Kardesler (https://maps.app.goo.gl/ohjLLAKtEGkbzBi17) - Adana is also famous for sweets, so Ugur and I tried some local sweets in the evening.

📍 Şırdancı Naci Dayı (https://maps.app.goo.gl/JXjRddAAx8CPStkL9) - All the food I tried in Adana was fantastic, but if I had to pick one dish, it was the peculiar looking Shirdan - stuffed sheep abomasum with rice and lots of spices. All jokes aside, it was probably one of my favorite foods in all of Turkey.

Adana has some of the best food in Turkey!
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Episode 22 of Monday Diaries aka me documenting my life & work to look back on in years to come.

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0:00 Intro
0:58 Meet the founders i'm living with
2:11 Beach hangs
2:38 Truth behind living on the road
4:11 Intervals at the track
4:42 More of the founders
6:10 Picking up the crew from home
6:25 Cliff jumping at Sarakiniko Beach
7:18 Going backwards to go forwards
8:28 Honest energy update
9:19 What's coming next