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| Basketful of wholesome fresh fruits @ Colossae Thermal Hotel, Pamukkalle |
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| Pamukalle "A" soup @ Colossae Thermal Hotel, Pamukkalle |
The last thing I expected to eat in Turkey was Chinese food. Yet we were served Chinese food for lunch on our very first day in a restaurant just a walking distant from Topkapi Palace. Welcome to the land of east meet west! Thick tofu soup with some pieces of tofu and corns. Not as expected, a bit bland of no particular taste or significant. I had few spoon. Period.
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| Tofu soup @ Chang Cheng Chinese Restaurant, Istanbul |
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| Lentil/Tomato soup @ Taksim Gonen, Istanbul |
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| Spinach soup @ Tatlises Hotel, Kusadasi |
Dinner at the Taksim Gonen Hotel with a hearty thick lentil/tomato soup with its natural accompanying thick bread is a welcoming to my earlier shock. Indeed, it must be a real Turkish style, complete with the spicy aromatic smell to boost! In Kusadasi, we were greeted with spinach soup with a strong aroma of "photosynthesis" process! Very transgressing to my senses, taste and smell, notwithstanding that I love spinach, especially stir fried.
In Silene Cave Restaurant in Cappodocia, where the fruits and overall serving were nominal, even the taste and texture of the soup were negligible! But the soup serving in my "hometown" of Pamukkalle were scrumptious, a bit savory, pleasurable to my palate with generous amount of floating spaghetti. Of course, I went for seconds.
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| Silene minimal soup |
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| XXL size green chillies |
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| colorful raw veggies |
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| glistening olives |
The Turkish and the middle eastern countries I think eat their greens raw. At all buffet table or ala carte setting, their green salad, shoots and leaves adorn on both side of the long buffet counter. And across the green salad counter will be bowl upon bowl of preserved, pickled or fresh olives along with bottles of various kind of virgin olive oil. Not to mention different kinds of yogurt, honey and cheese. Blessed the country which situated on two continents. Overall the soup story is Pamukkalle is deserved a nice 9 on Acepaizah's scale, while Chang Cheng's slipped of the scale altogether. Fullstop.
soupy greeny foodie encounter
~Acepaizah~
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| after thought salad @ sardined packed belly dancing restaurant! |
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