SnapBite: Sukij (Coconut) Ice Cream

Sukij (Coconut) Ice Cream
Hatyai, Thailand | 24 Sept 2012

Have you wonder what’s the taste of Thailand’s Sukij or Coconut Ice Cream? Hmmmm... Me neither! This is the best part of traveling, to experience everything you can take. So to kill my curiosity, I grabbed a cap and sensationally savored the distinction of its taste from any other dirty ice cream on the streets.

Sukij or Coconut Ice Cream is just a typical sorbet (of course coconut flavored) topped with kaong (sugar palm), a dried sugary-brown coconut fruit, shredded and sweetened young coconut meat, crouton (small cubed of toasted or fried bread), peanuts and concentrated coconut milk.

Its taste didn’t bring me to the seventh heavens but I liked it, nevertheless. Trying out local foods when traveling, it’s not always about the taste but the experience. 

SnapBite: Turkish Delight

Turkish Delight
Istanbul, Turkey | 04 Nov 2011

Turkish Delight or Lokum is a sweet delicacy known to Turkey, it has lots of varieties to choose from. This world-famous confectionery is a gel-based comfit which is made from a mixture of starch and sugar that gives its gummy texture. Turkish Delight is either plain (traditional fruit-flavored) or stuffed with nuts like pistachio, almond, walnut, date fruit, hazelnut, etc. It is usually cut in small cubes or pieces and sprinkled with confectioners' sugar or desiccated coconut.

At Spice Bazaar in Istanbul (where this photo has taken), you will see this huge countertop of Turkish Delight varieties in small cubed pieces and elongated forms.

They are selling it by grams, buy them either in elongated or in small pieces, it’s your choice anyway. You can also mix all the varieties in one box as you like. For tourists, it’s best as “pasalubong” or gifts to your friends and families back home.

It is certainly a tasty, chewy, gummy, nutty and flavorful dessert for you to enjoy.