Turkish Food

Hello, I’m back!

This week our language learning topic is Turkish food, each one in our group went online before class to do some research about the types of Turkish food that we’re interested in. I like sweet dessert very much, which I know happened to be one of the most famous delicacy in Turkey. For instance, the one that I had tried before in a Turkish restaurant is called sütlaç, which has a sweet and very tender texture that melts gradually in the mouth; only a spoon of taste can make one never forget the happiness sütlaç brings. Can you guess what it is? It’s 米布丁 in Chinese. Although rice and pudding sounds like a weird combination, they’re very common in Turkish, and most importantly, they’re very delicious. I personally think it’s much more delicate than the pudding we have in Taiwan, and I strongly recommend everyone to give it a try.

sütlaç

Another kind of Turkish food that I think quite a lot of Taiwanese would know is Pide. It’s like a Turkish style pizza with a shape like a boat. I never taste it before, but I saw this cuisine during the International food affair in 政大 this year, so I guess it’s quite popular here as well.

 Pide

However, the one that I really want to try is kahvaltı, which simply means breakfast in Turkey. What makes breakfast special in Turkey is its variety of nutritious ingredients and its large amount. You may wonder why Turkish people eat this much in one meal. Last year in my Turkish culture class, I remembered our teacher told us a story about this. Back to Ottoman Empire when Turkish people were not rich, people usually had only two meals at a day; hence, they tend to eat full in the morning so that they could endure the whole day’s work. Even in modern Turkey, people may not have so much time to savor the rich breakfast every morning, and they have three meals a day now; Turkish people still like to have the enjoyable kahvaltı with their family or friends on Saturday or Sunday morning. It’s very important for them to spend some precious time with close family or friends, which I think it’s something very valuable and worthy to learn from Turkish people. In this hustle and bustle Taipei where everyone’s pace is very rapid, we are sometimes so self-absorbed that we don’t have time to pay attention on the important people in our life. Therefore, we miss the opportunity to spend time together. Although kahvaltı is a little bit too much for me, I still really want to have it with my family or friends together. However, I don’t think we have it in Taiwan now, so I could enjoy only if I have a chance to go to Turkey in the future. So sad.

kahvaltı