If you want something different for once
The question of what to eat tonight ends surprisingly often with the same five answers. Pizza, pasta, burger, döner, sushi. Not because there's nothing else, but because when you search, you have to know the name of what you're looking for.
That's the hurdle with Manti: if you don't know it, you don't search for it.
What it is, in three sentences
Manti: small filled dumplings from Turkish cuisine. They're cooked in water, served with cold yogurt on the hot dumplings, then warm tomato sauce and butter on top. You eat it with a spoon.
There's more under What Manti is. And how it relates to ravioli, gyoza or pierogi is under Manti and its relatives.
Why it works as a change and not as a dare
There's food that's different because it tastes foreign, and food that's different because it's built differently. Manti is the second.
The dough is flour, water, salt. The filling is minced meat or potato or cheese. Nothing about it takes getting used to. What's new is the combination: the cold acidity of the yogurt under the warm sauce, and eating the whole thing with a spoon.
Which means: you take no risk ordering it the first time. You just don't get what you've already had three times this week.
There's something here for everyone
Meat-eaters, vegetarians, vegans — and anyone who doesn't want dumplings at all tonight. Nobody has to go without so the others can order.
That's not an advertising line but a description of the menu. There are dumplings with minced beef, with potato, with shepherd's cheese. There are salads, lentil soup, finger food and desserts. If you eat vegan, you'll find a whole meal under vegan, not a side dish; if you eat vegetarian, under vegetarian.
And if someone at the table just wants fries and a salad tonight, that's fine too.
Where it comes from
We make it ourselves in Mannheim, in our own production. How that works is under Production, and who's behind it, under About us.