If you have to try one dish in Hatay, you might as well make it the region's most famous dessert.
Künefe is one of the richest of all the Turkish desserts, with a crispy, buttery kadayıf shell packed with oozing hot cheese and topped with clotted cream and syrup and sprinkled with ground pistachios.
It's usually cooked in round, shallow pans that are specially designed just for künefe, and it's comparatively difficult to make.
The best künefe makers tend to be well known and in the southeast in Turkey you'll see people making künefe one the streets by stretching out the cheese as they prepare to put it in its kadayıf shell.
Church of Saint Peter
This church is one of the world's oldest, and it's believed that it's mentioned in the Bible itself and Paul passed through here.
Now, this cave church plays host to pilgrims who pass through. Some mosaics remain from its earlier days, though its current form was rebuilt in the 19th century.
