Under the Galata bridge you find a handful of colourful boats that sell amazing fish sandwiches â balik ekmek. Basically, fresh mackerel is grilled on these boats, then stuffed with a bit of onion and salad into a roll and drizzled with lemon juice. Such a simple pleasure, yet amazing.
Ice cream is a colloid combining an emulsion and a foam, with milk fat, ice crystals and air (a liquid, a solid and a gas) spread throughout another liquid (the water from the milk). In traditional homemade ice cream, the lecithin in egg yolks acts as the emulsifier, keeping the colloid stable.
Gelato: Dense and Intense. Gelato is the Italian word for ice cream. It starts out with a similar custard base as ice cream, but has a higher proportion of milk and a lower proportion of cream and eggs (or no eggs at all). It is churned at a much slower rate, incorporating less air and leaving the gelato denser than ice cream.