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Abroad, cooking, food, foodie

Kitchen Inspirations #3. Chinese Edition

Milena Alien

Vegetarian restaurant at the Buddhist temple

Microwave breakfast cooking at home

Family style fine dining at the mall

First time hot pot experience with coworkers

Lunch at a school cafeteria, great food at a great price

Cafeteria meat heavy meal

Fast food fatty meal

Bento Box takeaway with duck and watermelon

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Kitchen Inspirations #2.

Milena Alien

Today I’m making lentil soup with red lentils. This reminds me of Istanbul and the food we ate there last year. Turkish food is something absolutely amazing for so many reasons. Let me share a few dishes with you and then you will let me know if you agree or disagree with this opinion.

Tea in Grand Bazaar
Fish Sandwich with Pickle Juice
Lentil Soup
Late Night Kebab
Pide (pizza)

Pickle juice is something I have never seen sold any other place, I loved it with fish sandwich. Kebab is very common so you can get it anywhere really. Pide is a kind of pie I have never seen anywhere else , it’s essentially pizza without tomato sauce. Lentil soup is easy to make at home, you need red lentils and a bit of red pepper on top. Tea is easily made at home, feel free to add milk and sugar. I can’t find a picture of durum, goat milk ice cream, it’s absolutely delicious even though it looks like typical ice cream.

Turkey has its own version of a loaded baked potato, it’s called kumpir. You choose the toppings and this is what makes it exactly what you need and want – perfection. I hope you inspired by now to go cook something for yourself, it’s easy if you have the right ingredients. And if you don’t, grocery shopping is what you need to do first.

My soup is ready, but all I want is to have access to all the variety of street food that you can get on every corner. We spent there 3 weeks and didn’t get food poisoned once. It was a really friendly place with great customer service – foodie’s paradise.