{"id":325,"date":"2007-12-11T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T19:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/12\/11\/what-do-they-serve-for-dessert-in-istanbul-chinese-rsetaurants-fried-gelato\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T19:08:08","slug":"what-do-they-serve-for-dessert-in-istanbul-chinese-rsetaurants-fried-gelato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/what-do-they-serve-for-dessert-in-istanbul-chinese-rsetaurants-fried-gelato\/","title":{"rendered":"What do they serve for dessert in Istanbul Chinese restaurants &#8212; fried gelato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what they serve instead of fortune cookies in Istanbul Chinese restaurants: fried gelato (which is also apparently what all Chinese restaurants in Italy serve for dessert, according to my Italian downstairs neighbor).<\/p>\n<p>Because there are not a lot of Chinese immigrants in Turkey, Chinese food tends to be a bit upscale since you don&#8217;t have a non-local-language-speaking population driving down the quality. Here is a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guideistanbul.net\/chinese.htm\">some of the top Chinese restaurants in Istanbul.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/friedgelatoinistanbulchineseretaurant.JPG\" title=\"Fried gelato in Chinese restaurant at Great Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant in Istanbul\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/friedgelatoinistanbulchineseretaurant.JPG\" title=\"Fried gelato in Chinese restaurant at Great Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant in Istanbul\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/friedgelatoinistanbulchineseretaurant.JPG\" alt=\"Fried gelato in Chinese restaurant at Great Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant in Istanbul\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what they serve instead of fortune cookies in Istanbul Chinese restaurants: fried gelato (which is also apparently what all Chinese restaurants in Italy serve for dessert, according to my Italian downstairs neighbor). Because there are not a lot of Chinese immigrants in Turkey, Chinese food tends to be a bit upscale since you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-restaurants"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-5f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}