Eat.2 Lunch & Dinner

Lunch at Culinary Institute
In Turkey we had a lunch at the Culinary Institute. That's a awesome experience. There are five dishes for the whole lunch:

 First dish--Yogurt soup. It seems that Turkish people love yogurt soup and yogurt souce very much. They serve it at almost every restaurants I went to. Yogurt soup is sour, but the taste is different from the yogurt.

 Second dish--mashed potatoes with some vegetables.

 Third dish--nang with meat balls and yogurt sauce. Nang is a special food in Turkey.

 Forth dish--dessert. The dessert is made of rice.

Fifth--Turkish tea. Turkish tea is bitter, so I have to add much sugars to make the taste better.

Lunch at University

This is a lunch at a Turkish university. It cost about 5 liras, served with rice, meat and potatoes, salad, and apricots. Having lunch at Humboldt University, Berlin with student card is also very cheap. Each meal costs about 2-3 euros.

Dinner at Fish Market

Near the Bosporus there is a fish market. They sell fresh fish and other sea food. We have a dinner in the fish market.

Dinner in Berlin

 I found a KFC and a Chinese restaurant never the Berlin Zoo. I think KFC is an american restaurant, but I never seen it before in US. On the contrast, there are many KFCs in China, and now I found one in Berlin.

This pizza is my last dinner in Berlin with my group.

I enjoyed all these food in Istanbul and Berlin. And I always feel food can also show a country's identity. Cooking, eating and serving are all showing the features of a city. Chinese love abundance and diversity, so we love to have many dishes in one meal together with family members or friends. And we take having dinner as a good way to deepen friendship , so the noisy of eating, drinking and chatting is already been a characteristic. European people are more elegant in eating. They prefer to have dishes one by one instead of having many dishes together. And most time one dish only belongs to one person, but not eat together. I never been to Latin America, but I try mexican food in US before. I my mind, Latin Americans like to put food together and sometimes eat with hand. And they have many yummy fruit juice. Like the multi-culture in US, they also have multi-food in US. I can try food from any different country all over the world in US. But the flavors are already changed. Even though I my mind hamburger is the symbol of American food, but I have to mention that they have very good beef steak.

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It's an interesting experience to try food in different countries. Although my favorite food is Chinese food, some Turkish and German special delicious food are also leave me very deep impression.

Fruits

Turkey has lots of delicious and fresh fruits. The above picture shows a kind of pear which I never seen before in other countries. There are many fruits shops along the streets at Galata, they sell fresh food and fruit juice. On the below picture it's apple juice. Fruit juice is cheap and soooo tasty.

The above picture shows the mango I bought in Germany. In Berlin, you can also find cheap and great fruits in Turkish market. Turkish market is only open on Tuesday and Friday. In the market Turkish people sell many cheap things, especially lots of cheap fruits, such as cherry, mango, peach, melon, grape and so on.

Delights

 They are sooo sweet that I have to drink lots of water after eating it. But I begin to miss them now...

They are made of honeys instead of sugar.

The sugar sells in front of the Blue Masque. It's interesting to see the man making it, but it's boring to eat all of it up.

I heard that Germany if famous for its wurst and pork knuckle, so I bought one knuckle in the U-bahn station.

"Adventure"

I broke my toe nail at Berlin airport by my heavy bag. Even though my toe nail is dead and looks ugly, and I still can't walk normally, I am much better now, no more pain. I just need to wait until the new nail grow out.

Thanks for the help of Andrew, Elizabeth, Noelle and Janelle. And the doctor at the airport is very nice. He is kind and skilled. If you get hurt at Tegel airport, you can go to first-aid room of the airport which is on the -1 floor.