Çiğ Köfte Cooking Class/Night with Traditional Music At Home
Learning to make anything with new people creates a unique bond between people. Instead of only the feeling of just travelling in a city, you get to feel to be a part of the city and culture at its highest.
We try to make people have these feelings through creative at-home experiences. Because we believe that feeling at home and being made feel at home creates a very genuine bond.
Çiğ köfte, a very traditional Southeastern Turkish dish, fits to what we try at LokalBond. Çiğ köfte got popular as being a Turkish vegeterian street food. However, in reality, it is a home food where a lot of people gathers and watches it being prepared. At this experience, you will be a part of the cooking team and knead Çiğ Köfte with locals. Then throw it to the ceilings to see if it sticks to see its stiffness. This is also a part of the tradition, but of course we won't do it due to hygiene reasons.
Come, join us at our home for an original Çiğ Köfte session. Come as a guest, leave as a friend!
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Çiğ Köfte Cooking Class/Dinner
Dinner: You will learn how to cook Çiğköfte and why Çiğköfte has an important place in traditions. It will be a traditional dinner.
What's included in Çiğ Köfte Cooking Class/Night with Traditional Music At Home
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Çiğ Köfte is one of the most popular street food in Turkey. However, originally, Çiğ Köfte has a very authentic and traditional concept of cooking. As a southeastern dish from the city Urfa, Çiğ Köfte kneading is organised with big groups of people where some of the people would knead the Çiğ Köfte and the rest would play and sing music behind. At this experience, you will come visit us at our home. We will start with describing the ingredients and special spices of Çiğ Köfte. Although we aim to teach you how to prepare Çiğköfte, the better thing we aim is to teach you the concept, the tradition and culture of Çiğköfte. After warming up and making you actually feel at home, we will sit together and start kneading Çiğköfte together, as much as you wish to participate. There is various jokes and ways of testing the taste and the intensity of Çiğköfte. Of course, we will keep them to tell during our time together.
Food Menu
MAIN - Çiğ Köfte
Most popular Turkish Street food which was originally way far from being a Street Food :)
Inclusions
- Traditional Dinner Night
- Coffee and/or Tea
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
Meet
Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting / End Points
- Istanbul has traffic issue. I suggest you use metro, ferry as much as you can. Instructions to the address for public transportation is written on tickets
Redeem
Ticket Redemption
1- Please notify any dietary restrictions after booking. 2- Istanbul is a city with a big traffic issue. Usually, there are decent public transportation ways to arrive at any location. Here is instructions to arrive at the address by public transportation: - If you are coming from the old town (Sultanahmet, Hagiasophia, Grandbazaar, Eminönü); You can take Marmaray (metro that goes under the bosphorus) from Sirkeci (It is a stop on the same Tram line that goes between Eminönü and Sultanahmet) to Erenköy station. Then have a 5-10 minutes walk. - If you are coming from Taksim area; You can take a metro to Yenikapı where you can connect to Marmaray (metro that goes under the bosphorus) and then take Marmaray from Yenikapı to Erenköy station. Then have a 5-10 minutes walk. Once you are at the address, press 45 and . Then, go to A Blok and take elevator to 15th floor. We will welcome you at number 45 :). Please reach me if any assistance needed.