For part one of this post see here.
Efes is the national beer. Everybody drinks Efes. It is light and delicious.
Corn sold on the street corner is the norm. It's steamed then coated in salt.
Shelley and I tried some in Kaş. It sadly has nothing on our succulent sweet northwest corn. We didn't even finish it.
Cherry, Peach, and Apricot juice are everywhere. Everywhere and delicious. 
A traditional Turkish breakfast:
Turkish tea (more on that in the next post), cucumbers, olives, bread, and jam. Not pictured: tomatoes, which I had already ate, and it usually also comes with a hard boiled egg and a piece of cheese. Variations of this were for breakfast every single day in Turkey. I would make a sandwich out of cucumber and tomato, throwing an olive or two on there if they were included that day, then have a few slices of bread with cherry or apricot jam. So simple, but so good!
Water in Turkey is unsanitary to drink. Unfortunately, when there traveler's have to purchase bottle after bottle of water. This was a delivery outside a shop in Kaş.
In addition to Pistachio trees, Turkey also has olive trees. Random fact: olives are not good to eat right off the tree. You must soak them in a salty brine first, sometimes for months, before they're ready to eat.
Random fact: Knowing this did NOT stop me from trying one.
It was disgusting.
One of the best meals I had. The setting could have had something to do with it. Eating a vegan lunch after a quick swim in the salty Mediterranean and a quick climb over centuries-old ruins will really work up a girl's appetite.
Salad, cooked green beans and tomatoes, and rice with garbonzo beans. Again, simple yet delicious. Sense a theme here?
This guy is awesome. Those are sesame bagels on top of his head. He offered to let us take a picture, then made us buy two of his stupid stale bagels. Typical. :)
Shelley and I were starving and so tired of everyone yelling at us and following us down the street to come into their restaurant. All the restaurants in the strip served pretty much exactly the same thing. We stopped here, and actually met 2 really nice guys--our waiter and the host. They wanted to take us out dancing, but I think they misjudged these 2 Americans.
Rather than go dance in a club, we went back to our hotel and played cards and drank wine. :P
Our 20 dolla bloody marys at Istanbul Airport. Well, they were 20 lira, but that's like 17 dollars. We each had 2 then bolted for the plane, hoping they would help us sleep. (They didn't.)
Stay tuned for the 3rd and final installment!
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5 comments:
Looks like so much fun! Funny fact about the olives.
What the heck is wrong with us? I did the same thing with a raw peanut in a shell at the Asian market. Gross is an understatement.
There's no way olives are more gross without the brine than they are after the brine.
@ A.S.B. Raw peanuts are gross? I wouldn't have thought!
@ Joker: Olives are lip-smackingly good, when not eaten off a tree. You don't like mushrooms, either, so I'll take your comment with a grain of (Mediterranian)salt.
i loved those simple breakfasts! also, i enjoyed the Efes beer i had. they serve the same one, i believe, at Ya Hala's. however i don't know for sure since the girl brought the beer to me already poured into a glass with no bottle...
for some reason, i never drank any of those juices...perhaps i was too enamored with the apple tea?
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