Butter and cheese are preferred both for dining and as gifts.

Herbal cheese, produced with a mixture of endemic plants in Van and among the indispensable flavors of breakfast tables, is sent as a gift to all corners of Turkey during the winter months. The city's registered product, herbal cheese made with endemic plants of Van, continues to be an indispensable part of the tables with its centuries-old unchanged flavor. Herbal cheese, which is made by combining milk with various herbs collected in the high sections of the mountains in May, is offered for sale in cubes during the winter months. Those who come to Van for vacation prefer to take herbal cheese as a gift to their relatives outside the city. "Herbal cheese has become a preferred gift product" Speaking to an IHA reporter, 27-year-old cheese shop craftsman Mehmet Nar stated that they have been doing this business for about three generations and that herbal cheese has started to receive intense interest from outside Van in recent years. Nar said, "Herbal cheese was previously consumed ...