Travel note in Persia 12 Pleasure in Iran

Travel note in Persia 12, Pleasure in Iran

The Iranian has a few amusement because of religious precepts.

There is no bar because alchol is prohibited. There are neither a club nor a disco because it is prohibited that a man and a woman have a date before they marry.

There is no Karaoke because they are not interested in singing. There is no habit that stays long in the restaurant, and they only have meals there.

But the Iranians are good at enjoying their lives. Their amusement is summarized for the chattering and the dance.

And they often go shopping and a walk with the family. Whichever park we go to any time, it is strange to be crowded.

There are more adults in the park than children because there are more placed like a garden with the walk way than parks with playing.

The children do not go for play with the friends very much because they are busy with the relatives association even if they are children.

They go to park with the family and the relatives. I went out many times, too. We enjoyed chattering with taking a walk.

We went out to the uptown which the stand like the one in Japanese festival stood in a line many times at night.

The other stands were a little different though the one of the roasted corns looks like a Japanese one.

I saw many stands of hanging very sour dark red dry cherry. It seems to be good to eat them with walking.

The fortune teller with Chador called the people to make a bird quote a sacred fortune-telling.

It was good to take a rest in Chaikhane stand. It is pleasant to take a walk in crawded in the uptown which it is cool.

It is common to go out with all of the family to such places with the little children though they come home 1 or 2 o'clock late at night.

Shopping

We need one day to search one thing in shopping.

They can find surely Nan shop wherever they go so they have to go to buy anything by cars. Because there were not many shops of vegetables or fruits. we had to look for the good shop around the city.

We went out to buy the shoes in the other day. We were looking for them in many stores of a street standing only shoe stores.

It is difficult even if we find the goods we want. We must surely beat down in the Iranian stores. It is presumed to put the price.

They fight thoroughly even for small money. They sticks to buying it by the correct value.

When Chai was served for us while negotiating price, I was waiting with having it.

My husband said to me not to come with him when we had to buy something expensive. If I were with him, it would be difficult to beat down and he would get high price because they think all Japanese are rich.

We thought pitiful of the children to have a little amusement, so we bought a tricycle for them on that way home. The children drove around noisily in the big living room every day.

We went out to look for the books in another day. Ther are many places in Iran many stores to handle the same goods join in one place like a Japanese wholesale district. You can go near Tehran university for the books.

We ate out for the first time at that night. We ate the sausage sandwich in the restaurant. Because pork is prohibited in Islam, both sausage and salami are made by beef.

There were chicken and sheep meat in the show case. I was surprised that the brain of sheep was too real. It will be sliced and make a sandwich.

The beef sausage had smoked smell and it was delicious. When we came home, we were comparatively scolded by Mother if there was no food like the sandwich. She does not trust any meal of outside.

Pleasure at home

As I say the pleasure at home, it is the home party. The relatives or the friends are gathered and have a party readily.

We were invited by the eldest brother's, Sister's, and the relative's house like every day.

Party menu is very luxurious compared with the usual meal. The eldest brother liked a fish uncommonly to an Iranian, so he cooked Mahi-kebab (fish barbecue) for us many times.

We can not find the caviars in the city because they are for the export though Iran is famous for it.

They eat white fish like the stergeons , the parent fish of the caviar and so on. The salted dry fish is sold in Tehran, the inland areas.

Young family serve often western dishes like Lasagna and the Pizza. I remember the handmade tastes of Shish-kebab and Juje-kebab (chicken barbecue) roasted on chacoal at home.

The dishes made by Mother are all traditional dishes in Ardebil and Iran. It is such as Dormeh of the grape leaves (the stuffed meat), Kufte (boiled huge meat balls) and Ghorme-sabzi (the stew of herbs and beans).

When there were the dish which I can not eat, Mother cooked the different dish only for me like the meatballs with eggs or the hambergers boiled in tomato.

Women's kitchen

When the guests such as the relatives came home, all were pased through the living room, but many women gathered in the kitchen to help and talk with the housewife.

The aunt sat down on the floor of the kitchen, and she was making salad in this day.

The cutting board is seldom used for cooking. They move skillfully small knives on the big ball and the lettuce was cut. She quickly cut cucumbers and tomatos by corner.

I tried to help her. I can't catch up their speed at all because I am acustomed to use the cutting board in Japan.

The niece also cut the lettuce. arranged cucumbers and tomatos to make a line, and decorated salads like a cake. She gave play to her sense like making the handycrafts more than cooking.

They did not stop talking with moving her hands. Even the Islam women who care men's eyes can show themselves freely in this limited room.

I heard about the quilting bee that the housewives gatherd for patchwork quilt in USA. They enjoy conversation with sewing quilt all together. I think the kitchen of the Iranian women look like it.

Nan of every morning

Though householding is women's work, shopping is men's work in Iran. The father went to buy Nan every morning though he said that his body was painful.

My husband and the nephew went to buy Nan if they could. Every day they buy Nan only for the same day if any one goes.

There are some kinds of breakfast Nan. One is Barbari that is thick and has a wavy shape. It is a little hard and tastes good.

The other is Sangyak that is roasted on stones paved in the oven. It smells burned and is very delicious.