We'd add
Our runner-upÇiğ börek
Fried pastry filled with cheese
Thin, and fried to order. To share alongside.
- Cooked when you order
- Same address since 1969
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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstMantı
Tiny meat dumplings under garlic yogurt and pepper butter
Where it comes fromA Turkish classic
A Uyghur physician at the Chinese court wrote down recipes akin to it in 1330, and most etymologists trace its name to Chinese mantou. Istanbul's first printed cookbook gave it in 1844 as Tatar böreği.
Sources: Aylin Öney Tan, Hürriyet Daily News (2013); Özge Samancı, Dumpling Post (2022).
At Sayla Mantı
Dough made that day, filled with mince. The bowl we came for.
Also on our table
- Mantı, the tiny dumplings
Sayla Mantı
Turkish · mantı · handmade dumplings · Caferağa, Istanbul
Caferağa Mah., Nailbey Sk. No:32, 34710 Kadıköy/İstanbul
A mantı house on Bahariye at the same address since the late sixties, making only mantı, tiny dumplings, and çiğ börek, fried pastries. It has never made anything else.
The proof, in the house's own words
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