Kahramanmaraş · south-eastern Turkey
Not just ice cream. This is dondurma.
Dondurma has its roots in Kahramanmaraş, a city in south-eastern Turkey, and looks back on centuries of tradition. Salep – flour milled from wild orchid tubers – makes the ice cream stretchy, chewy and slow to melt. You pull it, twist it, cut it with a knife. No freezer aisle in Europe has this texture yet.
In Maraş, dondurma has been beaten with long paddles for generations until it turns chewy and glossy. Salep from orchid tubers gives the ice cream its structure, milk from the region its flavour. Orient Taste brings exactly this ice cream to Germany – in the recipe of the maker from Maraş, frozen and portioned.
“One tradition. A taste like no other.”
- 1850
The craft is born in Maraş: milk, sugar and salep, beaten in a copper kettle and chilled in mountain snow.
- 1900
Dondurma becomes the city’s trademark. The vendors with the long paddle become an institution.
- 2015
The paddle game goes viral. Dondurma is the best-known Turkish street-food moment worldwide.
- 2026
Orient Taste Maraş Dondurma – the original in a 100 g cup with spoon for the German freezer aisle.






