a Sunny Istanbul Day with Kuru Fasulye&Boza

Yesterday my long 9 days holiday started and the weather was luckily better than i could wish..

I had chance to walk the places i have never been in my city, walked all the ways around 15 km.. WOW.. i cant believe myself walked all the way; we just stopped every store ,every places, kissed every children and interracted with people as much as we can.

Our walking group was 8 people, enjoyed with the day a lot.

We stopped by a restaurant for lunch and ate Kuru Fasulye ( Haricor beans) with pastirma (beef that has been smoked or dried in the sun after being treated with spic) , pilaf (rice), pickle and for the dessert ; semolina dessert. All was soo delicious, i reccomend you to stop by there and taste kuru fasulye.

The other stop was Vefa Bozacisi which is here from 1876.

Boza is a drink made by a kinda semolina, water and sugar; it is known as winter drink, served with cinnamon on it.

also roasted chickpeas inside inseperable from boza.





Mustafa Kemal Ataturk has drunk Boza there and they still keep the glass there ..

Assaha Hotel&Restaurant-Beirut

Assaha is the maybe nicest hotel i have ever seen, it has unique design, it looks like a castle, very authentic, fully stone . I felt so great there. I had chance to see the rooms as well..

All the rooms has different country concept; Morocco , Egypt, Lubenon,Africa, America and more ... and all were perfect, and i can say also prices are so reasonable.

It is near Beirut airport which is around 10-15 min away from city centre. 1st day i went there and saw rooms but didnt has chance to taste delicious foods , 2nd day i felt to eat there and went again. Good i did it.. The food was perfect. After the meal , they give you around 10 type of dessert as courtesy, and with it; very nice old man who has long mustache threat you tasty arabic coffee..

People are so nice, smiley and helpful .

Also the hotel has a museum which i loved. It has very nice concept which shows the traditional Lubenon jobs, people, lifestyle.. I enjoyed there alot. The pics i publish here ,all taken by me; if you wanna see more see the website; http://www.assaha.info/en/musuem.php

If you got a chance to go Beirut , i highly reccomend this hotel to stay or at least to have a meal at the restaurant.

Trust me , you will never regret..

Enjoy!!