Turkish Dining: A Courtship Delight(?)

[Abishai100]

Turkish cuisine is colourful Central Asian, Ottoman, and Middle Eastern fused cuisine and presents various breads, meats, stuffed eggplants, and even special pizzas. Eating Turkish cuisine can be fun and romantic and very sensual and may involve eating with your fingers/hands (for which waiters will give you special rose-water to clean your hands before dining!).

It might be cool/stylish for you to take your spouse/partner to a high-quality Turkish restaurant for Valentine's Day or on New Year's Day. I thought I'd present some thoughts on the fun of Turkish dining, so you can prepare for such a nice experience. While I'm Asian (Indian) American, I'm familiar with the spice-flavors of Middle Eastern cuisine and find parallels between Indian, Turkish, African, Vietnamese, Thai, and even Korean cuisine.

To enjoy a Turkish dining experience at a praised restaurant in NYC (e.g., Agora), LA (e.g., Spireworks), or DC (Ankara), you might want to consider why Turkish cuisine is both inviting, exotic, sensual, imaginative, and generally fun. Turkish dining is the right choice for a date night in the city!





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You want your date/spouse to have a good time dining with you and the food to be tasty, the service to be adequate, and atmosphere to feel nice, and the presentation of food and aesthetics to be right(!). Turkish dining will offer all these if you go to the right place (e.g., Ankara in D.C.). Be prepared to eat with your hands/fingers and honestly tell your date this is your first time experimenting with Mediterranean, Turkish, or Middle Eastern cuisine!



You'll immediately be taken by the variety and color of hands-friendly dishes and breads and sauces and meats and pastes and veggies and spice(!) at a Turkish restaurant such as Spireworks in L.A. You'll want to dig in with your date/spouse and converse with each other (e.g., on Valentine's Day) regarding what makes the dining so fun and offbeat(!). Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty and the experience will feel like a pageant. Yes...

Turkish people are proud of their culture/cuisine, so you'll not be surprised by the nice presentation and colors in the foods at Ankara or Agora (in NYC!). The chefs preparing the dishes are perhaps of Turkish origin and are familiar with what makes Turkish cuisine very exotic and memorable to Americans looking for an unusual dining experience. Take in the flavors and the atmosphere, and you'll generally feel giddy about why cuisine variegation in today's U.S. cities makes you feel good about multiculturalism, consumerism, and hospitality.



Finally, don't feel you have to be too experimental or sophisticated to absorb the experience at a place like Agora in NYC. The key is to enjoy eating and learn about the colors and flavors of Turkey and why Turkish dining can feel both romantic and fun(!). If you keep all this in mind, a Turkish restaurant visit in LA, DC, or NY will make you feel very good about 'American delight' in consumerism. Take this sound advice from an ethnic-minority U.S. citizen who definitely appreciates American deals...

Happy dining!

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[Abishai100]

Culture Schizophrenia


Doesn't it feel like sometimes we American diners/consumers and food fans find ourselves arguing about the ironies of consumerism decision-making?

Is that a 'boon' of TrumpUSA (or what)?

Consumerism is truly 'simplified' by the harmless good humour of eateries/dining advertisements, no?



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"Well, after reading your cute post about the delights and romance of Turkish dining, I have to confess I'd rather opt for a normal/standard Friday night dinner (even if on Valentine's Day!) at a local Applebee's where I can order a sufficiently fancy alcoholic beverage such as their newest White Peach Sangria and revel in adequate romance. In other words, I fail to see the lure/appeal of exotic cuisine when there are numerous 'normal' dining options in this great nation we call the grand USA."

"In fact, I make liberal posts on the Internet about the controversies surrounding pornography/censorship in this modern age of media, and my cool girlfriend helps provide some of the create content, so I create comic book avatars for her to enhance my posts(!). In other words, I'm sufficiently 'worldly' making my cool liberal blogs and then enjoying Sangrias at Applebee's with my patriotic girlfriend (Samantha!)."

"Well, despite the angry tone of your passionate response, I have to tell you my liberal friend that my express purpose of making this post about exotic/Turkish cuisine was simply to encourage Americans to consider 'alternative' forms of hospitality. I'm not suggesting dude that modern consumerism should be 'extra-exotic,' so don't take my post for anything than what it seems at face-value --- a gentle and creative(!) nod to the exotic amenities of modern American diarism. Happy Turkish dining, my enraged but consumerism-patriotic friend! Remember my foodie advice --- never shun a perfect kebab that your date might find really dollar-worthy (haha)."

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[koshergrl]

"I make liberal posts on the Internet about the controversies surrounding pornography/censorship in this modern age of media..."

wth wth wth.

So what sort of posts do you make?