Turkish Cuisine

We did not able to capture too many food photo in Turkey. When we realized to take photo the food almost finished le!

Since we don’t take beef, along our stay in Turkey we only eat chicken or fish. Actually pork is not illegal in Turkey but is still very hard to find.

Basically our breakfast was taken in the hotel with western buffet style. There were various types of cheese, bread and salad. Bread is omnipresent in Turkey. Any given meal would be presents with a basket of bread and soup followed by salad and finally main course. As if we were in Europe taking meal, haha!


Various types of cheese



Previously I thought kebab was only referred to meat shaved from a rotating spit as what we always see in pasar malam. After few days in Turkey, I asked our tour guide why we never had the chance to eat kebab, he laughed and explained to me that there are many types of kebab. Kebab is a general term for the grilled meat in various forms, including the famous one, grilled meat which is shaved from a rotating spit, skewered meat and some other forms of grilled meat. I see! All the way I thought only 1 type of kebab!

To me, majority desserts in Turkey are too sweet! Famous dishes such as Baklava (a layered pastry of finely ground nuts soaked in honey and spice, Lokum (gummy delight of rosewater and sugar) and many others which I couldn’t recall their names.

Flight to Bali

Last 2 days Hooi received a sms from Airasia that our flight to Bali on 25 Aug 09 depart at 10am has been postponed to 4pm while our flight back from Bali has been changed too without any notice to us. We were so disappointed that we lost almost 1 day in Bali. Meaning that we go to bali 5 days, stay there 4 night but only travel there 3 full days. After telling my friend, Adeline about our case, she told me must call and clarify with Airasia what is the reason of the changes in flight time and told me whether can get anything from Airasia to pacify us. No harm give a try! At first i was thinking that budget airline sure will just ignore us!I agree with her too we should at least give a call to Airasia to clarify.

I told Hooi we should call Airasia. He did call and is really work! He told the Airasia's operator that the changes of time to and fro has caused inconvenient to us. To our surprise, we never thought that they are willing to change the flight back to 10am again and back from Bali at 1pm in the afternoon.

We are quite satified. However, is it that easy that change the time without any additional charge? Will it be the case where we reach to the airport that time but no seat for us? I am still a bit puzzle! Is it the process too smooth until unbelievable?

Bosphorus River Cruise - Day 9

We used ferryboat as the Bosphorus River Cruise . I had to say that the scenery along Bosphorus River was fantastic! It was an approximately 1 1/2 hours cruise.

Initially we still hesitated whether to take the Cruise because it was an optional tour. Kun used to recommended the cruise is a must-go spot in my blog. So we finally decided to go for the Cruise and it wasn't disappointed us!

Along the shoreline, we are able to see the beautiful mosque included Tokapi Palace, decadent villas which are now become the most expensive villa in Turkey, the suspended Bosporus Bridge, some fishing boats, yachts, huge cargo ships and tankers.