Comments by "CuteCatFaith" (@CuteCatFaith) on "Persian Meatballs, Traditional Teahouses, and the Perfect Kebab: MUNCHIES Guide to Tehran (Part 2/3)" video.

  1. I really liked eating Middle Eastern foods in the Mid-East!  I am fairly adventurous (went all alone) but at first, I thought, I don't know ... but by Day Two, I found myself so attached to them, to so many things, and what music!  It's a bit hard to describe unless you know someone who has been at least somewhere there and avoided hotel food (I can't stand that!).  The climates, fresh products and methods really make sense to your senses.  Uprated.
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  2. I was pleased I got so quickly attached to Turkish foods.  You guys have amazing condiments, yogurts, too.  I really liked the basic salads with no vinegars and the red tea.  Wonderful pop music -- such fun surprises!!
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  3. The hammams are wonderful.  We do have them around where I live in France and the Pacha one near me is the largest in France and only for women, always.  It's a day of Paradise.  They are superb in Turkey and I loved my two hours in a mixed one there.  Even the little ones can be great, they don't mess around, you get looked after and all fixed up, you emerge good for weeks, just feeling refreshed.  :)
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  4. Hey, try Brussels, Belgium!  You can see a hot babe there from behind and when she turns around, you just about get a heart attack!  I dunno what's going on there, but I am not the only one who has noticed this!  Go figure.  If you want to see some gorgeous women, try Turkey.  Very sweet and graceful -- most of them, anyway.  I am female and not gay, not that it matters.  I run from Turkish men with moustaches, but they have some amazing females there.  yeow
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  5. DaemoniumCC No, but I have a pal in Istanbul, from the USA, who decided a decade ago to learn the language and go live and work there.  (He's in Uska Daar these days.)  I went alone to Ege and at first thougt, oh, no, what have I done?  But a couple of days I was getting more and more attached to stuff there.  I understand the East is different, it's an enormous country, and generally much misunderstood.  :) 
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  6. Is she a sporting girl, sporting girl, know what I mean, sporting girl, eh, eh?  :)
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  7. fmlAllthetime I'm in very poor health and the end is near.
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  8. fmlAllthetime You put a question mark, dear.  That indicates you were unsure about the response I gave you when you posted the question mark to me.  Did you forget, already?  Do you have a single-digit IQ?  Is having your questions answered hard for you? 
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  9. omegazthebadass It was kind of funny.  I had a short-term work assignment in The Netherlands, not far from Germany.  We were in an office complex, shared space.  It was nice, with bike paths and cows around.  It had a tidy, orderly parking lot.  In the center were some conveniences such as cash machines, some postal stuff, and a central subsidized cantine.  The Dutch were very pleasant, punctual, friendly and efficient at work.  They knocked off on time and rode away for their private lives but put in a full day's work!  Lunches were bad, however.  There were various gloops to choose from, often sweet and sour (which I like) and strangely shiny and non-descript.  There was no texture, no crunch.  I am an adventurous eater, or was, but there was no joy in this.  I really understand why this form of cooking existed and persists.  In the North of France, approaching Walloon and Flemish worlds, some traditional dishes are still gloopy and made with beer, et c.  It was nourishing, and only one hot meal per day was the norm in much of Europe and the UK throughout history.  Things had to be boiled for hours to be sanitary.  Babies, the infirm, people with no teeth, all had to be able to eat from one pot.  Dutch food tends to be too heavy for me.  :)
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  10. Fyer Western Turkey.  That's as far as I got.  Really, my stomach was not sure at first.  I thought, huh??  Quickly, I loved the spices, amazing yogurt and condiments, excellent grilled stuff, red tea, terrific breads and sweets, a lot.  :)
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  11. Fyer Yes, I know.  I was alone and am disabled so that was the best I could do four years ago.  I am getting old!  xo
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  12. Hey, even buffets in the Middle East really don't work for all dishes.  A lot of stuff you have to wait a few minutes for so it's freshly made.  But I know what you mean.  Most cuisines do not transport well.  There can be some wonderful good, close imitations, however!
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  13. zhengbq Yes, many foods do not hold well kept warm a long time.  Or even cold or cool -- some just are fragile. 
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  14. Justin Yau I'm not surprised.  I live in a highly mixed area just beyond the Paris, France border, and the ethnic buffet places get booked for an evening way in advance for annual events, such as a wedding, a retirement, a communion, et c.  As long as the place is good quality and some parking can be arranged nearby, I haven't seen many of these places actually fail.  Of course, most of them are open other times for walk-ins.  Dining out can be pretty costly in France, even at modest levels, but people have a really different attitude toward it.  A lot of people may only dine out once a month or once per season, even.  I think I'd be more than willing to shell out for this Persian buffet shown here.  This looks superb and I like to linger over special meals.
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  15. fmlAllthetime Death.
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  16. fmlAllthetime I am near death.  I did not say you were near death.
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  17. Ha ha ha!  You ought to see some Dutch foods!  (Some of the more traditional and mundane ones are downright ... weird.)
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  18. omegazthebadass Eh, well.  You'd be gagging living next door to my African neighbors when they make "smokies" in their kitchen with a window next to our main bedroom window!  I was fine in The Netherlands as long as I steered clear of the traditional Dutch food, hee hee hee!!  xo
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  19. omegazthebadass Yes, it smells as though they are frying or cooking chickens with the guts in and feathers on, on a burning tire, with hot peppers thrown over.  I just talked last Friday with my lady pal from the Ivory Coast and she chuckled and said yeah, it's disgusting, but they gotta have it and they chop it up and cook the heck out of it.  The next time the neighbors do this, after years of enduring it for a few days at a time, I will take over my big, good rotating fan and say, please leave your kitchen window closed, it's right next to our two bedrooms, borrow this super fan, pull the smoke and odor out into your living room and open THOSE WINDOWS or quit doing this!  I just can't take it anymore, and it takes days to air out and clean our rooms.  I prep, cook and eat all kinds of funky things so I'm not going to point a finger, but really, in an apartment building, hey!  :)
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