I usually get disappointed when comparing different countries kitchens homeland states with their offshore presences. I mean until last week. At a Turkish restaurant named 101, newly opened in Manhattan, I experienced how a kitchen of a country could preserve its pure originality. Actually this originality is very important. The ones dealing with meals prefer to change the original recipes as to the place they are locating in. I do not think that they ask for the ideas of customers while making these changes. Obviously, eating these meals made of these clever (!) changes seems like watching a basketball game played with a soccer ball. The Turkish meals I ate at 101 were exactly the same with the meals I ate in Turkey, especially doner and adana kebap, besides in a way I have not seen in the Turkish restaurants I visited during my previous stays in NY.
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