Aussie Diggers will be dining on Turkish food tonight as war veterans join Paddington’s Harem Turkish Restaurant owner Michael Icer in remembering the ANZAC’s landing at Gallipoli.
Contrary to what many people believe, belly dancing did not originate as a dance of seduction done by concubines to titillate the Sultan.
For centuries, the role of Oriental dance in Middle Eastern society has been that of a folk dance that people would do at joyous occasions such as weddings, the birth of a child, community festivals, and other events that bring people together to party. It was a dance that men, women, and children did for fun, not a "performance" done to entertain an audience.
Nerissa, a dynamic and vibrant professional belly dancer with 11 years of dance training in Australia and the Middle East regularly performs at Harem Turkish Restaurant. Nerissa mesmerizes our guests with her dance flair.
Turkish cuisine
Similar to other grand cuisines of the world, it is a result of the comoination of three key elements. A nurturing environment is irreplaceable. Turkey is known for the diversity of food stuff due to its rich flora, fauna and regional differentiation.
Turkey is pretty much synonymous with Turkish Delight. Turks in Australia, brought many things with them but real "lokum"; the lokum that you can buy in different colors, flavours, shapes, textures back home is still a dream in Down Under.
