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[iceman]

If you are into Pasta and pizza then there is a place just off the roundabout to Girne that we discovered last night. Great food and price.

Hmmm! Hard food to digest, thanks anyway. I was hoping for more like 'When in Rome' etc so I want to try traditional Turkish food - washed down with oozes of Raki and Efes! (The latter I have tried and tested with great pleasure! )

Thats the problem...There is none that I could see. Plenty of Kebab types if thats what you mean. I am craving for some traditional TC food. Apart from bucket loads of fresh hellim and some fresh nor with sugar and karob juice on we have had none.

Have you been to the Büyük Han in Nicosia, which has been restored over the past few years? There is a restaurant in there which does traditional Cypriot food. I wasn't aware that there existed a distinct TC cuisine. I thought all Cypriots shared the same traditional food.

Although there there are little differences with GC cuisine,there is a TC cuisine which is different from mainland Turkish cuisine.But as the TC's are getting extinct in numbers,so is their cuisine.That's why the restaurants in the North are mainly doing variations of Turkish kebab like Adana/Antep etc...even fast food culture is Turkish nowadays...either lahmacun or Tantuni or some other spicy shit!!..
I have to drive from Kyrenia to Nicosia to get a decent pide of shish or sheftali kebab!! (cypriot style)

[zan]

If you are into Pasta and pizza then there is a place just off the roundabout to Girne that we discovered last night. Great food and price.

Hmmm! Hard food to digest, thanks anyway. I was hoping for more like 'When in Rome' etc so I want to try traditional Turkish food - washed down with oozes of Raki and Efes! (The latter I have tried and tested with great pleasure! )

Thats the problem...There is none that I could see. Plenty of Kebab types if thats what you mean. I am craving for some traditional TC food. Apart from bucket loads of fresh hellim and some fresh nor with sugar and karob juice on we have had none.

Have you been to the Büyük Han in Nicosia, which has been restored over the past few years? There is a restaurant in there which does traditional Cypriot food. I wasn't aware that there existed a distinct TC cuisine. I thought all Cypriots shared the same traditional food.

Thanks Tim

There is a small difference mate but you are generally right. One is that you will not find pork on the menu in traditional TC food. The other is some things like musaka is a whole different dish in the North. Maybe others can point to other differences.

Buyuk Han is somewhere I will definitely be visiting so thanks for the advise.

Halil is really the man to recommend places for traditional food.

Halil has shown us that he is a great cook and I felt that I could not ask because it would seem like I want an invite to eat. I don't like putting people out Tim. I hope he will recommend some now that you have broached the subject.

[halil]

To eat tradational food at Nicosia try Place called Magarına Bulli .

Place is just behind the Saray Hotel .

they have Magarına +Bulli (Cypriot stayle macaroni cooked in chicken broth toped with ground hellim and fried Chicken )

Molahiya , Kolakasi , fresh Börülce(kidney bean) with Fried patatoes Kofte and boiled zucchini .

Çiçek Dolması(Stuffed marrow flowers ) ,İmam bayıldı ,

Bamya (Okra) , Pilav's (pilaff)


Stuff marrow flowers and stuffed vine leaves .




Uncooked Börülce .

[zan]

Thanks Halil. That is exactly what I am after. They can expect me soon. i'll be the one that walks in salavating from the start!!!

See you all later. Off with my cousin now! ey vallah.

[halil]

Thanks Halil. That is exactly what I am after. They can expect me soon. i'll be the one that walks in salavating from the start!!!

See you all later. Off with my cousin now! ey vallah.

you will be my guest Zan . Wednesday i will be free

to eat best Kebab in Nicosia try Çağdaş Kebab which is around the Metropol Süpermarket .

İceman , best kebab is always home made ones gardaş . Özledinmi ?

[Tim Drayton]

If you are into Pasta and pizza then there is a place just off the roundabout to Girne that we discovered last night. Great food and price.

Hmmm! Hard food to digest, thanks anyway. I was hoping for more like 'When in Rome' etc so I want to try traditional Turkish food - washed down with oozes of Raki and Efes! (The latter I have tried and tested with great pleasure! )

Thats the problem...There is none that I could see. Plenty of Kebab types if thats what you mean. I am craving for some traditional TC food. Apart from bucket loads of fresh hellim and some fresh nor with sugar and karob juice on we have had none.

Have you been to the Büyük Han in Nicosia, which has been restored over the past few years? There is a restaurant in there which does traditional Cypriot food. I wasn't aware that there existed a distinct TC cuisine. I thought all Cypriots shared the same traditional food.

Although there there are little differences with GC cuisine,there is a TC cuisine which is different from mainland Turkish cuisine.But as the TC's are getting extinct in numbers,so is their cuisine.That's why the restaurants in the North are mainly doing variations of Turkish kebab like Adana/Antep etc...even fast food culture is Turkish nowadays...either lahmacun or Tantuni or some other spicy shit!!..
I have to drive from Kyrenia to Nicosia to get a decent pide of shish or sheftali kebab!! (cypriot style)

I absolutely love Adana kebab, but the odd thing is that they can only make it properly in Turkey. I don't know why. I have ordered what the menu claims is "Adana kebab" in the UK, Germany, France and Cyprus, and in every case it has turned out to be a travesty of the real thing.

[halil]

İceman ,
where do you go for eating in Nicosia ?

why don't you try the Kasap in Yılmazköy or Gara Ali in Dağyolu (Fota) .
to eat fresh cut meat directly from butcher stand and they can cook for you .Just salad , bread , onions with your kebab . OKKA İŞİ !

[iceman]

İceman , best kebab is always home made ones gardaş .

I know that too well Halil...my wife is an excellent cook and i am not ashamed to say she does the kebabs also..(mind you i light the charcoal ). but here are times when we come late from work and there is no time to cook so we like to order a take away if we can.

[halil]

İceman , best kebab is always home made ones gardaş .

I know that too well Halil...my wife is an excellent cook and i am not ashamed to say she does the kebabs also..(mind you i light the charcoal ). but here are times when we come late from work and there is no time to cook so we like to order a take away if we can.

we have no chance for take away ....nearest place is Gönyeli for us and it is 6-8 kilometers .
what i do ? bread +hellim +tomatoes and black coffee with 4 sugars

[iceman]

İceman , best kebab is always home made ones gardaş .

I know that too well Halil...my wife is an excellent cook and i am not ashamed to say she does the kebabs also..(mind you i light the charcoal ). but here are times when we come late from work and there is no time to cook so we like to order a take away if we can.

we have no chance for take away ....nearest place is Gönyeli for us and it is 6-8 kilometers .
what i do ? bread +hellim +tomatoes and black coffee with 4 sugars

If you fancy a lahmacun or Inegol kofte or Sultanahmet kofte try gurgura you never know....some of them might deliver to your village

http://www.gurgura.com/