West Asia FOOD

Yum 



Khachapuri!  Bread, butter and cheese baked real hot, with a raw egg dumped on top to cook when you mix it all up.



Eggplant and walnut salad.



Cheesy shrooms.



Taters!



A different kind of Khatchapuri.  This time the cheese is on the INSIDE.



Armenian coffee.  Same as Turkish and Georgian coffee.

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Sneak peak at Pide, the quintessential Turkish cuisine.


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After two years on the bike, I’d produced enough nut cream to fill a jar, so I put it on a  supermarket shelf.


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Homemade fruit rollups!!!!!

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Azerbaijani style tea.  like Turkish tea, but in a slightly bigger cup, and with lemon.


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I have no idea what this is, but it was pretty good.  I literally couldn’t identify the chunks of meat-ish stuff in there with the potatoes.
 
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Stay away from the tarragon-flavored soda.

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But say yes to the fermented and smoked medusa cheese.  It comes in the package like this, then you squirt it with lemon and unravel it while you eat it.

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And finally, the obligatory crappy pizza.  I stopped here mostly because the menu was so awesome.  The pizza actually wasn’t half bad.
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