On Turkey-Syria Border, Despair Over War
By: Tulin Daloglu for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on September 16.
ANTAKYA, Turkey — It would have been unthinkable to visit Antakya without stopping at Çınaraltı Künefe shop. So I did make the time to treat myself last week during my travel to the Hatay region. I discovered Yusuf Usta’s place in my previous travels there. It’s a tiny little shop at the old bazaar, where two or three people run the whole show. They make their own shredded phyllo dough and the fresh cheese, which are künefe's main ingredients, besides sugar for its syrup. What makes Usta's also special is that it’s cooked over charcoal, which easily makes it a winner for all those künefe lovers.
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