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MALATYA
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WHAT
TO BUY ?
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There
is a great variety of Malatya’s original souvenirs.
Among these are textile products like table-cloths,
curtains and hand-painted handkerchiefs; brightly coloured
carpets, kilims and light rugs, traditionally crafted
copper kitchenware; wooden spoons and gum gum (churns).
Apricots, the region’s most famous product, also offer
themselves in many varieties, and the streets are filled
with apricots which have been desiccated, frozen, made
into preserves and jams, marmalade and cream, pickled
and pulped.
The city’s main shopping
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areas are Kapali
Bazaar, Copper artisans Bazaar, Desiccated Apricot Bazaar, Atatürk
and Inönü Caddesi. |
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WHAT
TO EAT ?
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The
variety of food in Malatya is rich, with the main dish
of a meal composing of meat cooked with bulgur (cracked
wheat), with around 70 different varieties of these
rissoles. Bulgur is also cooked with the leaves of cherries,
quince, grapes and mulberries. The apricot is the local
produce for which Malatya is famous throughout Turkey,
and its delicate flavour is used in numerous ways in
food, like kebaps and deserts. The local speciality
is kagit kebap (paper covered kebab) and içli köfte
(meat balls) and there are numerous ways of preparing
the
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area’s most
popular fruit.
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