For those of you who know me, you know that I love to eat.  But I’ve always been able to manage my eating habit in NY by walking a lot, working out, and good old stress.  But as my mother-in-law so kindly pointed out the other day at dinner, I’ve gained a few kilos.  Yes, I will admit I’ve gained about 6lbs since getting married.  Maybe even 8, but since all scales here are in kilos, you know it gets lost in conversion.

But I only have my dear friends to blame.  You see, if it weren’t for the crazy number of going away dinners, parties, lunches, drinks, etc, before our departure then maybe I would be 6 (or 8…) lbs less than I currently am.  (Ok and the month of wedding celebrations may play a role here, too).  But the problem is I love to eat.  And it doesn’t help that I just discovered my new favorite chips here (or “jips” as I learned they are called from some little kid in the grocery store yesterday).  They are this great cross between mini bagel chips and sour cream and onion loveliness.  And the best (or worst) thing is that they are only 1.5 liras! (about one dollar).  Did I mention I’ve been going to the gym a lot?

I’m also on an official chicken wing hunt to find the city’s best hot wings.  It’s not so common here, but there’s gotta be a place that does it well… and I’m going to find it!  Unfortunately there is no Citysearch or Menu Pages, so we’re on our own.  

We went for mexican food last night (which was surprisingly really good) and got wings as an appetizer.  I know, weird that you can get wings at a mexican restaurant.  Equally as weird that you can get good mexican food in Turkey.  While the wings weren’t bad, they were small in size and rate a solid 5 on the Chicken Wing Scale of Loveliness.  And the blue cheese got a -5.  The search continues…