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Turkey Travel: Underground Cave Restaurant at Cappadocia

Okay, I just basically spent around 15 minutes to frantically looking at what happened to Picasa. Apparently Picasa and Web Picasa have been discontinued but no fret, Google does not totally abandon the ex-Picasa user. In facts, the features are usually done by Web Picasa last time has now been replaced by Google Photos. Looks wise, they are pretty similar. Well all works well as long as I can get back my pictures.

The funny thing is this makes me realise that I still have un-posted Turkey travel related blog posts. This blog has totally gone totally unorganised like its owner. LOL. Ok please don't mind me and let's all teleport together to a restaurant in Cappadocia which is situated at Hanem Art Center.

In order to enter the restaurant, you have to go down. Literally underground.

Welcome to Turkey's underground cave restaurant. This kind of restaurant setting is pretty common especially in Cappadocia area. Since the restaurant is usually pretty big, it can cater to a number of tour groups. And us is one of those tour groups that day.

Turkish in an underground restaurant in Cappadocia

Even though the restaurant is situated in an underground cave, the lightings are actually pretty good. It is quite cool in the summer too.

Inside an underground cave restaurant in Cappadocia

As usual, no meal is not started by Turkish bread which I don't think I can eat anymore at this juncture of the trip.

The salad, however, looks somewhat different this time. It's like a mixture of paste and yoghurt and greens and tomato thingy. Hahaha. I don't know how to explain but the taste is pretty much an acquired one.

Oh, normal mushroom cream soup. Yum.

Grilled fish. I wonder what kind of fish is this.

As usual, Indonesians always bring chili sauce everywhere and well, I don't mind it though. The grilled fish tastes better with chili sauce. Hahaha.

Turkish Dinner at Hamandali Restaurant, Cappadocia

After going through the process of carpet weaving in one of the weaving schools in Cappadocia, we were supposed to make our move to our dining venue, Hamandali Restaurant, which is located quite near to the school. However, we were still quite early and the restaurant is not ready for dinner yet. We had no choice but to linger around the yard for a while.

Thankfully, there are a lot of beautiful flowers to adore while waiting for the time to pass. And to take picture with.

The Turkish flowers look very beautiful from closer look too. I seldom see flowers in my daily life inside the concrete jungle and hence, the excessive adoring mood. Hahaha.

My brother had his silly and yet creative idea of making the flower fashionable. =P

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After half an hour, we finally boarded our bus and went to the restaurant. Hamandali restaurant is popular amongst tourists because it is actually a cave restaurant. Yes, you will have the experience of eating inside a cave. First, there is this potato souffle kind of pie.

Potato souffle at Hamandali Restaurant Cappadocia

And the spinach mushroom soup.

Spinach Mushroom Soup at Hamandali Restaurant

The main courses are then served together with rice because we, Indonesian, can't survive without rice somehow. Hahaha. There are pasta(s) too and all kind of grilled meats.

Turkish Dinner at Hamandali Restaurant, Cappadocia

The food served at Hamandali Restaurant is not bad and once you are full, you are not supposed to leave the restaurant immediately because Hamandali restaurant also offers Turkish performances such as belly dance and sufi dance.

Kofteci Ramiz, an outside grill restaurant in Turkey

A few days into our tour journey in Turkey, we were kinda craving for a kebab because we often identify Turkey with the yummy kebab. Turkish kebab, no? But our tour organiser had not fed us any kebab at all for at least, half the trip. At this point, I think I will be happy enough if they give me any grilled meat. Suddenly, in the middle of the road from Cappadocia to Konya (I think...I kinda forgot too because there are so many road trips we made in Turkey), we made a stop to eat.

During our pit stop, our tour guide brought us over to have meal at a restaurant called Kofteci Ramiz. Okay, based on this tissue box, we are somewhere in Akhisar, I guess.

Kofteci Ramiz, an outside grill restaurant in Turkey

As how our meal usually starts in Turkey, the waiters served us...greens. At this rate, I kinda lost appetite toward the salad. The salad made in Turkey is very healthy and by healthy I mean...bland. The only dressing they put on the salad is olive oil and my way of eating salad is by drenching those veggies under the caesar sauce. XD

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I love Turkish cream soup though. Kofteci Ramiz served us the chicken soup. Yum!

When the plate of the main course arrived in our table, everybody rejoiced. Finally, we were given a chance to try out the grilled meat in Turkey. The grilled beef is served on a pita bread with a slice of tomato. The meat tastes superb (although I suspect the effect is added by the fact we have gone into many days without grilled meats).

Turned out, Kofteci Ramiz is one of the well-known restaurant chains for grilled stuff in Turkey. Oh well, even though, it was only a pit stop, we were glad to finally able to taste Turkish grilled meat. LOL.

Taipei Eats: Egyption Dali Kebab, Gongguan

If you are wondering if you read the title right, yes, your eyes are still working properly. You can eat kebab in Taipei. Really.

When I was a student in Taipei, my daily activities involved evening stroll to either Shida Night Market, Gongguan, Ximending or Taipei Main Station. During those strolls to Gongguan, I always spotted this particular stall. Which just located along the pedestrian road (the left side if you are walking from Taipower Building MRT Station).

Egyption Dali Kebab Stall Gongguan Taipei

Ordering is easy cause they only have 2 types: Small one or big one. If you want to add cheese, you need to pay extra 10 dollars. But the cheese will make the kebab taste yummier. =)

Yum. Meat. Hmm, wait, now I started to wonder, what kind of meat is that? I should have asked the ladyboss last time what kind of meat do they use. XD

Turkey Travel: Local Turkish Food at Kervan Lokantasi Restaurant, Bursa

We are ready for another Turkey food post *drum rolls* *stomach growls*. (I become the most excited tourist when it comes to food).

Second day in our trip, we realised that whenever the local food are served, two type of food are always there on the table.

First, the bread (watch out for the flies, I'm serious!)

Second, salad. The one with the olive oil, not caesar dressing. Do you feel healthier now by watching this picture? Hahaha.

And then, I got bluffed by the tour guide. He said that the innards soup is the best soup served by this restaurant. Well, let's just say...I did not really like it and ended up eating my mum's tomato soup. =S

Turkish Innards Soup at Kervan Lokantasi Bursa

I like the meat though. Carnivore indeed.

Beef Stew Turkish at Kervan Lokantasi Bursa

More meat coming up! This time it's chicken.

Turkish Cooked Chicken at Kervan Lokantasi Bursa

There are other food served by the restaurant so if you do not come here by tour group, you may be able to choose what you'd like to order. The menu is in English. =)

Buhara 93 Restaurant, Istanbul

We reached Turkey pretty late, around dinner time. So our first activity in the Anatolian land is...EATING. Which I love very much. *glutton*

Our tour guide brought us to Buhara 93 Restaurant.

Love the homey decor of the place.

Inside Buhara 93 Restaurant Istanbul Turkey

The restaurant has a lot to offer however since we came with a tour, what we are having for that night are pretty much pre-determined.

We are in awe of what being served in front of us. Is that a bread?? So big! O_o!

I love eating tomato soup and so happy that this is not the first and last I eat this dish in Turkey.

The Turks don't really eat rice however since I came with tour group from Indonesia (we are a very avid rice-eater!!), the restaurant serves us grilled chicken with rice. Hahaha. I don't mind not eating rice but I suppose I appreciate this. =P

If you want more details on the restaurant, you can check out this link. I'd say the food are pretty good but I can't really comment on the price because this dinner is included in our tour package.

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