Coffee
For the first couple of weeks, we learned that Nescafe's instant coffee wasn't really that bad. You could "doctor it up" with an additional spoonful if you wanted. The overwhelming number of coffee bars in town made us believe that they were the only places to go for "real coffee". Every kind of coffee type you could want and people will stay and drink coffee there for hours: Turkish, cappuccino (with foam), mateoto (like a latte), expresso.
But we want to make real coffee at home. Hobo coffee will work fine. That's the kind we make while camping. Just boil some coffee in a pot and after a bit let the coffee grinds settle (maybe even pour a little cold water over them to make them drop to the bottom) and drink. Its good!
We eventually started to tune-into the kiosks (little enclosed booths on the street-mini-specialty stores) in the city with coffee beans. They smell really good. And, they have grinders! OK, now we get it! You see the only coffee in the stores are instant. The real beans are in the kiosks.
So, we bought our first kilo of coffee at a kiosk and had it ground up. 4 euros (= approx. $4.40). We took it home and made hobo coffee. However, now we call it Jim & Fuji Turkish! The coffee basically melts into the water almost like hot chocolate mix would. There are no grinds to drop to the bottom; it just blends in. Its thick and rich. Ahhhhhh, coffee Balkan (Turkish?) style.