Sydney Mak Restaurant

[Onur]

Anyways, heres a pic of the 'dolmada soup' -



Another question if I may, do you guys combine egg and lemon often for sauces and broths?

Hehe mate, we got this soup in Turkey. We call it like "Terbiyeli sulu Kofte". I think i can translate in English like "Seasoned meatball soup".

Btw, We got two different way to prepare soups here. We either combine tomatoes, herbs and maybe some tiny chopped vegetables into water and make the soup OR we prepare the soup with egg, lemon juice and maybe one table of spoon of yogurt into the water. We call this 2nd way as "Terbiyeli(I guess "seasoned" in English, not sure). Seasoned soups goes nice if you gonna add meat in it. If its only vegetable soup without any meat, then we prefer the 1st way with tomatoes

Onur, My favorite Turkish dish has to be Iskender, its beautiful i used to eat it all the time at the Turkish Restaurant in Stara Charshija in Skopje.

Yeah Iskender is one of best. My favorite I wonder if they can make Iskender doner in Macedonia as good as in Turkey.

Btw, your tulumbi in the picture, is exact same size and shape like in Turkey. Looks like we never changed its form and look for at least 100 years

I found it incredibly hard to find Turkish coffee in Turkey. I had to specifically ask for it at the hotel I was staying. The manager was floored when I complained about the American style coffee and so he sat down and had a Turkish one with me nice guy

Seems most Turks have given up the Tursko Kafe and have moved on to chaj because that is all I saw them drinking anywhere.

Actually yes, everywhere is filled with starbucks and shit in Turkey, serving coffee in paper cups duh...

but its not hard to find Turkish coffee. For non-fastfood restaurants, its a must have. Did you specifically ask for Turkish coffee first? cuz since they will understand that you are a tourist and if you say only "coffee", they will serve you an american style cofee, not Turkish one since it tastes bitter for untrained ones

We usually drink Turkish coffee only after meals, especially after dinner, other than that, cay(tea) is our favorite.

[Bij]

Nope ... leaving this one alone.
And it is killing me.

good to see your mind and mine are in the same place; the gutter.

prolet - what is the difference between two deep fried pieces of dough covered in syrup besides the shape?

[Risto the Great]

I have vague memories of them from when I dated the greek guy but they were good. damn good but they were like little balls (hehe) rather than our tulumbi which are much bigger and fatter (hehehehe)

Nope ... leaving this one alone.
And it is killing me.

[Prolet]

Bij, Lokumades are doughnuts/krofni i remember when i was a kid and we'd go letovanje in Parajlija and Halkidiki we used to get them all the time on the beach, a guy would walk around and yell out Lokumades and we'd get some.

Tulumbi are totally different, they are made differently and are harder to make too.

Look i'll even show you the difference

[Bij]

Are loukoumades the same as tulumbi? I have vague memories of them from when I dated the greek guy but they were good. damn good but they were like little balls (hehe) rather than our tulumbi which are much bigger and fatter (hehehehe)

[Bij]

I hate Boza gross

I found it incredibly hard to find Turkish coffee in Turkey. I had to specifically ask for it at the hotel I was staying. The manager was floored when I complained about the American style coffee and so he sat down and had a Turkish one with me nice guy

Seems most Turks have given up the Tursko Kafe and have moved on to chaj because that is all I saw them drinking anywhere.

[Makedonetz]

I love Graf ;D

Dolmades are allright if you put ALOT of lemon juice on them.

[Prolet]

Bij, The Turkish baklava is the same but its got different ingredients in it, the lokum is first class and its very hard to beat the Turkish in that department.

Have you tried Boza at Apche? Its bloody brilliant, i prefer it much more in Apche rather then Sheherezada.

[Bij]

I did try the lokumi in istanbul and they are amaaaazing. like nothing i've ever tried before. didn't feel the same way about the baklava though

[Risto the Great]

I know you didn't say that Prolet. I am saying they did not receive the Ottoman food influence. So perhaps it did come from our neck of the woods first. But I also accept that influence in Croatia could have come from migrating Serbs etc. per Onur's suggestion.

[Prolet]

Risto, I never said Sarma is Croatian i just said that many Croats believe it is, its their specialty too. We make alot of posni sarmi too especially for Slavi and so forth.

Onur, My favorite Turkish dish has to be Iskender, its beautiful i used to eat it all the time at the Turkish Restaurant in Stara Charshija in Skopje.

[Spartan]

^^I agree about the fast foods, I keep away as best i can.
My wife bombards me with Pasta on a daily basis (shes Sicilian), but has picked up some recipes from my mother. We've got to keep at them Onur, slowly slowly they'll learn....or else we move back home

Anyways, heres a pic of the 'dolmada soup' -



Another question if I may, do you guys combine egg and lemon often for sauces and broths?

[Onur]

^^Cool, same with us.
We also eat Dolmades in a soup form, without the leaf wrapping.
We call it Uverelakia, the islanders Yapraikia.

Its Dolma, minus the leaf, in a broth consisting of milk, water, lemon and egg.
Topped with pepper.
My favorite dish actually.

It was in fact this dish that tore me in 2 pieces when I got married and left home.
My woman doesnt make it

Hmmm, never heard this kind of soup. Gotta try to prepare it then



Maaan, we got same problem here. Most of girls of my generation cant prepare our good old foods properly. They prefer stupid fast foods or they are only successful on putting frozen food in microwave. Damn, i hate stupid and unhealthy fast food style of Americans.

[El Bre]

Looks like veefki to me. Never heard of sarma personally.

[aleksandrov]

Wherever it originally came from, Sarma's current presence is predominantly Eastern:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarma_(food)