Ramazan is over and life is good! Today while walking to the university, we chanced to walk by Dilan restaurant just as the owner was exiting the wide-open front doors. He stopped to chat with one of our group and invited us all in for gâteau - beautifully-fluffy chocolate-adorned caramel-scented creamy cake! Since Dilan has opened in Hawler (can't remember there being cake at Dilan in Shaklawa), there is no more need to go all the way to Diyarbakir's patisseries just for coffee and cake (not that anyone would chance crossing by land this week in any case). AND... one of the best parts of our little decadency is that there was no real need to feel guilty about this sugary pleasure as Ramazan ended Friday night and the curtains have come down from in front of Dilan's windows (see photo). No need to worry about us infidels taunting and flaunting our consumption in front of those fasting.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Discreet Dining at Dilan
Ramazan is over and life is good! Today while walking to the university, we chanced to walk by Dilan restaurant just as the owner was exiting the wide-open front doors. He stopped to chat with one of our group and invited us all in for gâteau - beautifully-fluffy chocolate-adorned caramel-scented creamy cake! Since Dilan has opened in Hawler (can't remember there being cake at Dilan in Shaklawa), there is no more need to go all the way to Diyarbakir's patisseries just for coffee and cake (not that anyone would chance crossing by land this week in any case). AND... one of the best parts of our little decadency is that there was no real need to feel guilty about this sugary pleasure as Ramazan ended Friday night and the curtains have come down from in front of Dilan's windows (see photo). No need to worry about us infidels taunting and flaunting our consumption in front of those fasting.
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'Raaay, you're back!!
It's always a bit of a worry when you go dark just when things get a bit hot politically. Good to know that life goes on, regardless.
It is already too cool to sit on the balcony of an evening here in Tokyo. As usual, it was summer one day and autumn the next.
Not that the view of the next door apartments is anything to write home about anyway (g). And none of us have to shut off 5 rooms in order to feel snug at home, either (g).
W in Tokyo
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