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| dinner looking out on the Bosphorus |
A few years ago when I was about 8 years old or so, I was in the chorus of a local production of "Oliver". I still remember the fun melody's of all the songs and still today (now that I'm 10 yrs old) still find myself often singing a number from my days of stardom. Therefore I will sing you a few verses that sum up our eating experience in Istanbul Turkey...again...it aint' no gobble-gobble!
Food, glorious food!
Eat right through the menu.
Just loosen your belt
Two inches and then you
Work up a new appetite.
Magical food,
Wonderful food,
Marvelous food,
Fabulous food!
Enough of the singing....now for the drooling!
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| Large tray of mixed Kebabs |
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To start every meal a tray of "meze" was brought out for us to choose from. We almost always choses the dishes of hot pepper paste with walnuts, thick strained yoghurt with eggplant,
chopped eggplants and peppers served with garlic yogurt
, meatballs or fresh Bulgar Salad with Pomegranate and molasses dressing. I forgot these were all served with unlimited fresh brick oven baked Turkish bread?
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| Bulgar salad |
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| pepper paste and yogurt meze |
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| cutting up eggplant and tomato at table |
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| Meze |
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| bread |
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| Cooper not liking this "food" |
Then there was the "Grand Bazaar" that had all the local "staples" to make the glorious food....
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| sweats |
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| more sweets |
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| spices and tea |
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| Bakalava |
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| waffle stand |
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| Lokum sweets |
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| fresh prom juice everywhere |
And to finish it off as strongly as Oliver sings....Marvelous food AND Turkish Coffee and Turkish TEA (With a touch of Turkish Pistachio ice cream which has a very different texture than ours)
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