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tararu · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 494

I thought perhaps it would be good to have one thread for sharing info on where to buy things around Istanbul and other places in Turkey. Very Happy

Mmmmm......cant think of anything l need right now. Anyway, l am pretty good on anything to do with cooking/food if anyone needs anything.

howmucharefags · Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 299 Location: Eskisehir

Irn Bru and Buckfast

tararu · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 494

No bloody idea what that stuff is

Lewis Collins' tortoise · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject:

Rhubarb, Dandelion and Burdock, Mint flavoured chocolate or ice cream,
beer?

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Lewis Collins' tortoise · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

Rhubarb is originally form China.. but it was, for a long time, grown here in what is now Turkey...

But you try going up to any self respecting greengrocer and asking for some Ravent

After trying to explain it was a bit like a leak but a fruit and slghtly red I gave up..

I'd have had a better chance trying to explain to him what Rhubarb the dog was.

Ooh that fuzzy tv show will ruin your eyesight said me mum. Laughing

yaramaz · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 3:26 pm Post subject:

I miss rhubarb.

Sigh.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

I have custard Entrailicus. Lets get together and make a cumble. btw, how do you have rhubarb. how did you grow it?

yaramaz · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject:

It'd be far too cumbersome for a windowbox and the leaves would get snagged on the baskets-on-a-rope coming down.

Mmmmmmmmm custard. Dmb, will there be rhubarb n custard at the wedding?

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

yaramaz · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject:

Curses! Foiled again! Windowbox rhubarb plans for next year a-hatchin'....

molly farquharson · Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 839 Location: istanbul

i've bought rhubarb here. it grows in the east. it is thinner and hairier than what i am used to and kind of expensive (3TL for a very little bunch) but still a treat. i bought some last year from a guy on the street but my manav knew about it, since he is siirtli. i wish i had a place to grow it...

tararu · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 494

Nezih (stationary shop) in the Balık Pazar in Kadikoy sells after dinner mints. You could chop them up and mix them into soft vanilla icecream, freeze it again and wallah! minty chocolate icecream.
I have seen rhubarb around over the years. Is it in season yet? I will keep an eye out for it in the Uskudar markets. In what form do you need dandelion; dried or fresh?

There is a little shop on Moda.cd called Milka which sells everything foreign. They have big fat pork sausages and the like. They sell Oreos, too.

tararu · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 494

Just thinking...Perhaps try the Eminonu plant market next to the spice pazaar for the seeds for rhubarb. They have monkeys there, so perhaps they have rhubarb.

yaramaz · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:52 am Post subject:

I wonder if they have any monkeys that know how to grow rhubarb. That would be cool.