During the Turkish class, I had Turkish coffee and desserts, which Ğökhan brought, with other Turkish learner, Manya. The Turkish desserts looked similar to those of traditional Korean. They were fruits or nuts based. I really enjoyed the taste of them because they were like jello, which is my favorite. Ğökhan told me these are good and common gifts when you visit people's houses in Turkey. They are a bit expensive, but Ğökhan brought the brand with highest quality, because he wanted us to experience the best Turkish desserts. While we are eating the desserts, we had coffee as well. It was really thick and heavy, although the coffee glass was really small. Turkish people drink the same kind of coffee everyday several times. People "must" drink coffee in the morning culturally. It is shown in the ward breakfast (kahvaltı) which means "before coffee (kahve)". It was interesting to see how the language implies the culture and people still follow the tradition of drinking coffee after breakfast. We also tried a fortune telling on our phones by using application called Kaave. I have tried this before with Sezqi, who was my previous Turkish language partner. It was interesting to do it again. I got a good luck for this time and the fortune teller was telling me hopeful messages that everything will go well (attached below). I heard if there are lumps of coffee left in the cup, it means that I have a lots of worries stuck in my mind. I thought it was interesting to study how interpret the coffee stained in the cup. I also remembered that I have to say "Neyse halım, çıksın falım", which means "whatever my destiny is, should it be revealed in my fortune." when you flip the cup. Here are some ways to interpret the coffee cup.
- If a big chunk of grounds falls on the saucer it’s the first positive sign of your reading. “Trouble and worries are leaving you”.
- If the fallen ground forms a pile means “Money will come to you”.
- If cup-saucer are tight and the reader can lift them up as one unit, it’s a“Prophet’s cup”. (Meaning: You don’t need to proceed with reading. “All your wishes will come true!” Most of the readers though will proceed with the reading regardless of that…).
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Wow Joora! I really enjoyed reading this post, its so interesting seeing how similar desserts are from countries across the world, it really shows you how small the world really is. I always wondered why Turkish coffee is so different from that of American, Vietnamese, and Thai coffee, its so bitter and thick in nature, opposite of what we know coffee to be, but after reading your post, I can see that this also allows coffee to be used for fortune telling purposes. I hope to use this app to tell my future too!