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What to Eat and Drink in Mersin Turkey - Food in Mersin Türkiye

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Central Mersin, unlike Tarsus, has a lot of food options to offer in January, 2024. Here are only a few super delicious food options that you can try in one day:  1. Tantuni   Red meat version is around 3-4 usd, served with red cabbage salad and roasted green peppers as free sides. You can get chicken instead of red meat. You can also choose if you want your tantuni inside bread or lavaş. We preferred lavaş as eating tantuni inside bread tends to get too messy - tantuni is VERY oily. Also: tantuni portions can be small, be ready to order another one if you are really hungry. The tantuni in the photo is eaten at Memoş Tantuni in Turgutreis, Silifke Cad. Çavuşoğlu Apt D:154/A, 33010 Akdeniz/Mersin. 2. Findik Lahmacun /Fındık Lahmacun This is around 4-5 usd per portion (10 little lahmacuns served with a lot of delicious and free sides - with amazing humus! - as seen in the second photo.) "Fındık" means hazelnut in Turkish and these lahmacuns are a smaller version of the usual la...