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The Curious Case of Sogus

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Our search for locating the ultimate Turkish street food , söğüş (read soe -gh -ues) in Istanbul started online after reading this post on Istanbuleats . The address given there is Kalyoncu Kulluk caddesi. Don't start typing it in your GPS software now. Cause the municipalities in Istanbul change names of the streets faster than any software. The name of the street on which Muammer Usta's sogus stand  is located has a new name now. Don't ask me what the new name is, since it's relatively hard to find your way by looking at street names around Taksim. Best way to find it is to look for the entrance of the Balık Pazarı (Fishermans Market) on Istiklal caddesi. Then walk to the end of the end of the street, asking where Asmaaltı cafe is in case you -like us- are not able to follow a straight line. Left of the cafe, there is a very modest stand, which ,according to its owner Muammer Usta, is the mother of all sogus stands. Sogus is served on paper towels. Don't

From Queen to Japan

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This one goes out to all the Japanese people who've lost loved ones to the black daemon of the ocean, who are now shivering in the cold under radioactive clouds. And those around us who will take some lessons.. "Shizukana yo ini, Hikario tomoshi, Itoshiki oshieo idaki... In the quiet of the night Let our candles always burn, Let us never lose the lessons we have learned."