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[iswriting]

Hi!!!!! Nice to meet you!! I'm a Japanese girl

I have concern about foreign countries food

So,I want to know your country's food!!

So,please write here↓↓↓

What food do your country have?

[galanoss]

Nice to meet you too Japanese girl! I'm from Turkey. My name is murat.
As I understand, you mean traditional dishes. Turkish Cuisine has a wide range of tastes. Thus, the list will be long!

TRADITIONAL DISHES:
Dolma: any filled or stuffed vegetable. The term means to stuff, the most famous filled grape leaves
Sarma: any dish of wrapped leaves of grape, or cabbage; fillings are either minced meat or rice.
Manti: small pastries filled with minced meat, similar to ravioli, but very small.
Kofte: any dish made with ground meats, or bulgar and rice meat mixture; skewered, baked, and fried versions exist.
Cacik: grated cucumber with diluted yogurt, garlic, salt, sprinkled with dill and olive oil.
Pilaki: a bean dish cooked in olive oil, served cold with lemon.
Borek: filled pastries in various shapes, baked, fried, or grilled

TURKISH KEBABS:
D�ner kebab: D�ner kebab, is a sliced lamb or chicken loaf slowly roasted on a vertical rotating spit. D�ner kebab is popularly best known served in pita bread with salad but is also served on a dish with a salad and bread. D�ner Kebab is said to be the best-selling fast food in Germany
Shish kebab: Shish kebab is a wooden or metal stick (a skewer) with small cubes of any kind of meat, fowl, fish, fruit, or vegetable (usually a combination) that is roasted on a grill.
Tandir Kebab: Tandir kebab simply is lamb pieces(sometimes whole lamb) cooked in a pit.

TRADITIONAL DESSERTS:
Turkish delight: Lokum, made of sugar, cornstarch, gelatin, grape juice and flavoring agents.
Baklava: This sweet dessert consists of many layers of butter-drenched phyllo pastry, spices and chopped nuts. A spiced honey-lemon syrup is poured over the warm pastry after it`s baked and allowed to soak into the layers. Before serving, the dessert is cut into triangles and sometimes sprinkled with coarsely ground nuts
Kadayif: finely shredded pastry used to make a dessert. It looks like shredded wheat cereal.
Ashure: a pudding made of cereals, dried and fresh fruits, nuts, sugar and spices, referred to as "Noah's pudding."
Halvah: a sweetmeat dessert of flour, semolina, butter, sugar, milk, and nuts.

TRADITIONAL DRINKS:
Turkish Coffee: A strong coffee brewed from finely ground beans and spices, and boiled three times in a special container
Raki: Raki is a distilled alcoholic beverage strongly aromatized with anise-seed.
Boza: Boza is a fermented beverage or beer, made from fermented maize.
Sahlep: The hot drink of cold winter days made from the dried powdered roots of a mountain orchid. Sahlep powder is mixed with milk and sugar and boiled.
Ayran: a drink of beaten yogurt, cold water and salt.

[galanoss]

If you want to learn more about Turkish Cuisine, you can visit these sites:

http://www.allaboutturkey.com/mutfak.htm
http://www.sallys-place.com/food/ethnic_cusine/turkey.htm
http://www.mymerhaba.com/en/main/content.asp_Q_id_E_169
http://www.tulumba.com/store.asp?tag=r02
http://www.turizm.net/turkey/tips/storyfood.html
http://www.turkeytravelplanner.com/details/Food/FoodDrinkMain.html

Or, you can also ask me by e-mail!

[email protected]

[iswriting]

Thank you!!!!!murat!!!!

You are very kind!!!!!

Your reply is very benefit to me and,You introduced to me these sites

is very good and interesting

So, I'm glad and enjoyed,because I could know your many country food.

Moreover Turkish Cuisine is very appetizing

Thanks a lot

[dorami03]

Hi!! I'm　Japanese　girl

My country's popular food is "sushi"

Most foreigner are eat sushi,and it is popular with them.

Would you like to eat "sushi" when you come to Japan