Lokum Turkish Delight appears as a signature dish in 1 Turkey cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Lokum (Turkish delight) · Istanbul
Soft cubes of rose, mastic or pistachio-set sugar gel, dusted in powdered sugar or starch. Cut from large slabs at counter, sold by weight, eaten with Turkish coffee.
Ali Muhiddin Haci Bekir set up his confectionery on Hamidiye Caddesi in 1777 and is credited with refining the soft cornstarch-and-sugar gel known internationally as Turkish delight. The shop, still in the family, fixed the canonical Istanbul versions: gul (rose), sakizli (mastic), fistikli (pistachio).
Where to eat in Istanbul:
- Ali Muhiddin Hacı Bekir
- Hafız Mustafa 1864
- Karaköy Güllüoğlu