Turkish Delight To See, types To Try, Buy And Make, On Paddington Station, London and worldwide

Turkish Delight and other sweets at Taste the best, Paddington Station, London, England, UK. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Turkish Delight was made very popular in England with the brand Fry's Turkish Delight.

You will also find it in many other Mediterranean countries and Arabic countries under different names.  Most names are variations on Loukoumi, which comes from Arabic. In Greece the sweet is called Halloumi in Greek and in English Greek Delight and in Cyprus as Cyprus Delight which is a protected name and it must be made there to use the name.

I looked at the numerous confections on the huge oblong kiosk. As I loitered, without buying, the stall holder reached down and lifted a tray of tiny pieces for me to try. I tried one. It was pleasant enough. Not bad. Not so good that I just had to buy.

I did think that everything looked interesting. But I did not want to chat at length with no intention of buying. I was in a hurry to get home after several hours on a train from another country.

I found an online reference to TasteTheBest at Brent Cross Shopping centre with a photo. I could not find a website.

Whilst shops normally stock boxes with sweets cut in dice shape, this attractive display has them in long ropes, presumably cut up into pieces for the customer, as well as variations shaped like large Scotch Eggs ((boiled eggs covered in cooked meatball with a crust of oatmeal or toasted bread) halved to show the colours of the filling contrasting with the outside.

I looked on Wikipedia and found this Egyptian style bought in the USA.

Description	English: Turkish delight surrounded by layers of nougat and dried apricot, a confection from Egypt.
Date	21 June 2010
Source	Own work
Author	GrammarFascist

Imported candy purchased at a shop in Connecticut, USA.

My favourite flavours are lemon and rosewater. I shall definitely go back and try and buy.

Useful Websites
See lots of pictures on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lokum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_delight
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_delight

RECIPE
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Turkish_Delight

Travel
https://www.gwr.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Railway_(train_operating_company)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakerloo_line
https://tfl.gov.uk/tube/route/bakerloo/

https://www.visitlondon.com/london-app
singaporeair.com

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author, speaker, teacher of English and other languages.
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