Chocolate in Istanbul

Istanbul has been a chocolate-lover's paradise.  They have GOOD chocolate that is extremely CHEAP.  I've been in a habit of picking up 2-3 new ones every time I visit a grocery store.

Pretty much everything I'm posting on here costs between .20-1.00TL ($0.55 or less).  I know I'm never going to bring as much home with me as I'd like, so I've decided to document some of the deliciousness here.  :-)

Dankek choco (above) - pretty much a sweet vanilla cake, filled with gooey chocolate, and covered on the top and bottom with a thin chocolate icing.

Eti Negro (right): imagine a chocolate covered oreo.

Biskrem Bistik: little biscuit sticks covered in milk chocolate, meant (I believe) to server with hot drinks.  Regardless, it tasted pretty good that way.  :-)

Eti Sticks: little individually wrapped sticks of dark chocolate.  Yum.  :-)

Rondo strawberry filled cookies (50 kuruş)

Hoşbeş strawberry wafers (50 kuruş)

Nestle bitter bar (50 kuruş)

Toto (knock off kinder-überaschung)

The red one is another little wafer like, milk chocolate bar - a household favorite because it costs 25 kuruş (just under 15 cents)



A close up of the cookie thing.  Caedmon loved it because it was covered with sprinkles, but I wasn't much of a fan of the filling.  It was kind of marshmallow/coconut-y.  These too are about 25 kuruş each though, so they make a nice snack for the boys.

Biscolata cream filled chocolate stars.  Not too shabby, though again I'd have to say the cream filling wasn't quite as good as I'd like.

 Close up of the Nestle bitter bar.

Çay Keyfi - a bag of little chocolate chip cookies. Compare to chips-a-hoy, only a little smaller.

Albeni tane tane - kind of like whoppers, only lined with carmel and filled with cookie.

Sarelle - probably the most interesting one, it's a candy bar filled with chocolate and chopped hazelnut, surrounded by wafer, covered in chocolate

The other is a little cupcake-like thing, covered in tiny candies, that the boys liked a lot

Choco lips - pretty much a chocolate coated and chocolate filled chocolate browny.  Did I say it had chocolate in it?  lol

Tadelle bitter - a kind of creamy dark chocolate and hazelnut filling covered in (you guessed it) more chocolate

Metro - imagine a Twix only instead of having cookie at the bottom, it had the filling of a Milky Way.

A household favorite, these (like the Toto) are cheap knock offs of the kinder eggs. They actually have several knock-off kinder egg brands here, and they run about 1TL per egg.  The name brand ones run about 2TL.  They also sell themed eggs, like Cars2, Mickey Mouse, Spiderman, etc.  It's really a pretty good idea.


I'm sure I could go on and on about the chocolate experiences here, but I'm going to go ahead and post this for now, and I may add more later as time permits.