The Chef · Azra · Istanbul
Kapalıçarşı (Grand Bazaar)
Tourists get lost buying carpets; I know where the shopkeepers eat lunch. The bazaar is worth it if you treat it as a hungry person's maze, not a mall.
The vast 15th-century covered bazaar. I don't come to shop — I come to eat the hidden lokantas the sellers use and drink tea in the back hans.
— Azra, The Chef
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