BALIK EKMEK / ISTANBUL STREET FLAVOR, FISH SANDWICH

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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My post today is about one of the street food in Istanbul - Balık ekmek, literally means fish bread.

This fish sandwich is one of the traditional street flavors of Turkish cuisine, is identified with Eminönü in particular. When you walk along the Galata bridge and Eminönü port area, you will find many fisherman boats decorated in such colorful and beautiful ornaments with Turkish red flags selling this popular Istanbul street food.

People queue up in a long line at a certain boat that is believed "the best" among others. Last summer, I was among that crowded. But since I was with my girl, I was just looking for a less queuing seller not to make my kid suffer for boring 😊 

This fish sandwich prepared with typical Turkish sandwich bread, pan-grilled fish, mostly mackerel (turk; uskumru) or bonito (turk; palamut),with various vegetables and pickles. I saw some served with onion/ red onion sliced some didn't. No fancy plate, fork, and knife nor whatsoever, it's just wrapped with a piece of paper and you are good to go. We can sit down to enjoy our fish sandwich at some stools and bench prepared by the seller near their boat. Don't forget to order şalgam suyu or a turnip juice drink to enjoy with this dish.

This street food is prepared and sold on (fisherman) boats, sold on the coastal shores which are also of great interest to tourists. 

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Perfect Peach syrup for iced tea

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Drinking tea is an old tradition of the human race. China might be the first country that drinks tea. But Turkey is the number one country that consumes more tea in the world. According to statista.com and theatlanthic.com, Turkey consumed almost 7 pounds per person per year, followed by Ireland and United Kingdom.

Turkish people love their tea hot. Not only in wintertime, the same in the summertime. 

Not commonly like other countries that enjoy their tea in a mug or a cup, Turkish tea served in a small Turkish tea glass. The glass' shape is known as "ince belli" or literally mean slim-waisted or people call it Tulip-shape glass. The glass has about 125 ml capacity.

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Strawberry Popsicles / Strawberry Ice pops

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Hey.... August.. is summer still with you?

Cause the day slowly make a way to be short, coolness slowly hug the night. 

Can we have this summer longer?

Cause I am still in longing

Yes, summer still around, even the weather forecast said the heat will be increase to around 39℃ this week in my area. Nothing tastes better on a hot summer day than fresh-from-the-freezer ice pops. I know, we can get any kind of ice pops at any market around the corners, easy and "no pain" at all. Unfortunately, many store-bought ice pop varieties contain artificial ingredients, high fructose corn syrup, and food dyes 😣

So why don't we make our own? We can control the ingredients we use. There are so many different combinations and flavors we can make, just be creative 😊

Like these healthy yet refreshing strawberry popsicles is the best-frozen treat for the whole family.

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Turkish Food Recipe; Lamb /veal steak with garlic yogurt sauce (Çökertme Kebabı)and how to make yogurt garlic sauce

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Çökertme kebabı (pronounced 'Ch'kertme kebab') is a type of kebab from Anatolia. It's a lamb or veal or beef steak served with fried potatoes, garlic yogurt and tomato sauce. Grilled tomato and banana chili pepper also served as a side.

This dish is famous from Bodrum and Muğla province area of South West Turkey.

The dish's name derived from a village's name in the Milas district of Muğla province, Çökertme köyu.

This dish is a restaurant-style that now people choose to make it at home. 

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Indonesian beverage; Synthetic young coconut flesh from agar-agar in cocopandan syrup / Es kopyor sintetis

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Summer still in the air, and I am still looking for a way to beat the heat with something fresh and icy.

I remember back when I was in my homeland, Indonesia, we love to enjoy fresh young coconut water right from the fruit. It was so refreshing sweet. And we can scoop the coconut flesh after finish the water. 

Young coconut flesh is so white- almost transparent. Soft-jelly like and very light sweet in taste. The older coconut, the flesh will become thicker and harder and we can make coconut milk from an old coconut. The older coconut, the more coconut milk we can get.

The water is sweet but not like sugary sweet. The older coconut, the slightly tangi the water will be and getting less.

In bahasa Indonesia, coconut we call it "kelapa". While young coconut called  "degan". 

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KOREAN CREAM CHEESE GARLIC BREAD (육쪽마늘빵). With video

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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This bread is amazingly gone viral across the internet, especially on Instagram.

After "dalgona" coffee, now another viral dish from South Korean, it's Korean cream cheese garlic bread (육쪽마늘빵). It is one of-you can say-Hasselback bread but in Asian style.

Never think that this garlic bread is the same as European-style garlic bread. This Korean-style is absolutely different. Korean garlic bread has a soft and creamy texture while European garlic bread has a crispy-chewy texture with a savory palate.

With slightly sweet savory with cream cheese filling, this Korean style garlic bread is favorite street food in Korea.

Some sources say this famous bread originated from Gangneung City in Gangwon Province. This food was actually a Korean street food.

Pain Famille's bakery makes garlic-like loaves of six cloves, also known as six-sided garlic. There are also those who slice transversely like sausages using rather long bread. But what is popular today is round bread with star-shaped slices.

You may want to try BAKERY STYLE SAUSAGE ROLL BREAD also

From Gangneung City, the garlic cheese cream bread was brought to the culinary center of Gangnam, a hype and famous district in Seoul. From there cheese garlic bread is increasingly in demand by Koreans and is included in the new menu list in many cafes.

Cream cheese garlic bread is processed bread, like burger buns, but cut six sides that cross each other to resemble garlic cloves that are given cheese and seasoned and baked. Melted cream cheese with a savory garlic flavor sensation gives a different sensation to other types of bread.

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Kekiklim Tavuk menüsü / Creamy Penne Pasta with Thyme Chicken, restaurant copycat recipe

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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What is I am going to share today is one franchise chicken restaurants' popular menu.  This restaurant is famous here in Turkey and has many branches in many cities across Turkey called "Tavuk Dunyası" or in English, you can say Chicken world. 

This restaurant is relatively new, according to some sources, this franchise restaurant was established in 2011, and up to 2020, they already have more than 200 branches across Turkey.

Their menus generally consist of pasta as a carbohydrate--some menus serve fries instead of pasta, chicken-in many variants, and a simple salad. And of course, bread is also served on those menus. 

kekiklim menüsü

One of people's choice and popular menu from this restaurant is "Kekiklim", or Chicken thyme. Serve with creamy penne pasta and salad.

We order this menu a few times before I decide to copy the taste and make it at home. It is actually amazingly simple dish to make. 

There are three components we should prepare, marinate the chicken, cook the pasta and simplest thing is to prepare the salad.

This is an absolutely perfect dish and your family would love it.

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