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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dj gamaya" data-source="post: 10847149" data-attributes="member: 61857">Avoiding the tourist crowds <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iTGXYFIkfkA/TEffPaTeVGI/AAAAAAAAanc/xJ24Ju5ENvE/s1600/Explored+On+Foot+-+004.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Tourist guides and hotel staff will recommend restaurants full of other  travelers, but I prefer to go and take a look at where the locals  assuage their hunger. I was richly rewarded for this in Kusadasi, a lovely Turkish port town  on the Aegean Sea. Discarding the more elegant places, I opted for a  small, half-open place called "Toro" where I saw a lot of Turkish  businessmen having their lunch. It had long communal tables and benches  and an open hot and cold buffet where you just pointed at what you  wanted. Or you could ask for fish and then sit down by the waterfront  and watch fisherman pulling out what you were about to eat a few minutes  later. The lamb shanks I had were so tender that I didn't need a knife  and a rich fruit platter came as free desert. The total bill was a lot  cheaper than anywhere else, because if not, the locals would have  protested. </blockquote>

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