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In Turkey Ice Cream vending is an art to serve the taste and with some special pranks. They perform several prank and make there customer happy. With the frozen desert they play several street tricks to entertain the visitors and tourists who used to buy their tasty ice cream.
Using a metal bar, they start by scooping out a dollop of ice cream onto which they sticks a cone. After a few twizzles, they slips it into the customer's pocket, cleverly leaving the cone behind.
Then, having added another scoop of ice cream to the end of the pole, they uses that to fish the cone back out of the customer`s pocket.
During a few more spins, the vendor slyly removes the cone before offering it to the customer who grabs at thin air not realising it has disappeared.
More high jinx ensue until the client finally gets his treat - but not before a quick kiss and a splodge of ice cream on his cheek, much to everyone's amusement.
The secret of their success lies in large part thanks to mastic gum, an ingredient widely used in Turkish desserts that gives the ice cream its elasticity and prevents it from falling apart.
The vendor is believed to have a stall opposite the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul's Old City.
Imagine a world where buying ice cream isn’t just about preparing to eat a delicious frozen treat, but also about the ice cream man pulling entertaining pranks at your expense. Well, that world exists in Istanbul’s Old City. Watch as a Turkish street vendor serves up an impressive array of sleight of hand tricks and other lighthearted torments before finally handing his customer his treat.
Ice cream is everybody’s favorite summer refreshment. It can be prepared in many different ways with various flavors and is equally appreciated on all continents. However, authentic Turkish ice cream “dondurma” is one and only, unlike any other ice cream in the world. The Turkish add “secret” ingredients to the traditional recipe: salep powder and aromatic resin which give it a special flavor and make it flexible.
Turkish ice cream is unique in two aspects: ingredients and resistance to melting. Dondurma (Turkish for “frozen”) is most often made of milk, sugar, salep and aromatic resin. It is said to originate from the region Karamanmaras and it is known as Maras ice cream. The salep powder, a type of flour obtained from early purple orchids, and the aromatic resin make this ice cream quite chewy.
