Balık

Balık = fish. And not any fish but a minute-fresh one that we ate at the Golden Horn overlooking the Bosporus in? Yes İstanbul. The İstanbuli fish burger is bought right off the boat where men in silly uniforms are grilling fish filet, sweating like hell and proving a marvelous sence of balance as the waves are more than meter high. You have to fight with the hungry crowds to get hold of the half baguette filled with onions and fish from which you usually have to pick out a big strap of bones. After the first one we had to share yet another one.