Has anyone been to Bizim Han's lately

hattikins


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Message Posted:
11/09/2009 19:10

Went there the other night really looking forward to a * special*, known in our house as cow pie, we've visited this restaurant for years and always had good value for money, what has happened.

There was always lovely bread and a small meze while waiting for your meal, the meal was always served with salad and chips, but now there is no bread or meze, the *special* came with a small plate of salad and , after asking, a very small plate of frozen chips, to be shared between four of us. The cost of this, without drinks, was 25TL each, hardly value for money, there are other places where you can get a really nice meal for less than that.

It's sad when this happens at a restaurant, people will just stop going, so if it's done to boost profits then I feel it's a backward step.

The owner of the place was there, as he usually is, so it was not just a case of an off night.

frontalman



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Message Posted:
11/09/2009 20:50

The owner and long time waiter Erdogan fell out earlier this year, and Erdogan left. The place seemed to lose its atmosphere after that. I always associated Bizim Hans with Erdogan. Seems the place has changed.

hattikins


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Message Posted:
11/09/2009 21:29

Frontalman

Yes it's changed, for the worse, such a shame. The long time waiter was always pleasant and helpful, the young lady in there the other night really didn't want to be bothered, she just wanted to sell us drinks. There were always local people in there but even they seem to have deserted the place, it will be a while before we go back.

dav88



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Message Posted:
12/09/2009 12:23

We ordered two pides from there last month, they said they could not deliver so I said I would go there and collect it. When I got back and opened the food and realized instead of the pides we ordered there were two pizzas. So we called and asked them to please prepare our pides and I would take the pizzas back. The woman I spoke to was exteremely rude telling me it is not possible unless we are willing to pay for the pides and when I pointed out to her that I have already paid and the fact that they gave us pizza was not our fault as we did not want pizza! She said I should have opened them and checked them before taking them away and said "and what do you expect me to do with those pizzas I can not sell them to anyone" We were very upset and told them we would not be buying from them ever again and would not recommend it to anyone and she simply said "suit yourself". We could not believe their behaviour and will certainly not be getting any food from them again!

rowan


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Message Posted:
12/09/2009 12:50

we had a meal there recently, most of which consisted of bread!! Service was poor but prive was not!!! Long time before we go again

dav88



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Message Posted:
12/09/2009 13:07

Dont know who it was I`m afraid, there was a woman inside when I went there probably her

daisy dukes


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Message Posted:
12/09/2009 13:26

Whats a Cow Pie?





DD

phylray



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Message Posted:
12/09/2009 16:38

My friend and her local husband took me there couple of years ago and have been there

several times since but am sorry to hear it has changed. Never had the cow pie thought

What's that?

minertor



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Message Posted:
12/09/2009 18:10

msg 9 & 10, Haven't you ever read the Beano?



or Dandy!

dizzycows


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Message Posted:
12/09/2009 18:21

Its like mud pie but different!! Usually a whole cow gets put into a pie and cooked in the oven with its horns poking out the top!!!

cronos


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Message Posted:
12/09/2009 18:37

That's right dizzycows....that is why you have to order it a day or so before so they know how many are coming...like with Kleftiko.



They then know whether to use a small cow or a large cow.

phylray



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Message Posted:
12/09/2009 20:36

Don't think I read the Beano or Dandy since I was a child and Desperate Dan used to eat them

Don't fancy it myself and can't imagine Bizim Han serving it. I have had meze and usual local dishes

there, but not aware they did such things as cow pie!

dizzycows


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Message Posted:
12/09/2009 20:49

Well desperate dan loved them, used to think how the heck did he eat it! how did his mum cook it! was only 4 or 5 at the time. lol x



Has any one had roast camel and all the trimmings? take one camel, stuff with a cow, stuff cow with sheep, or goat, stuff goat with dog, stuff dog with fowl and roast over a very large fire for 3 days, Egyption resp. lol x

hattikins


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Message Posted:
12/09/2009 21:22

Cow Pie is the name we use , as a joke in our family, to describe the Bizim Han special. What it actually is, or more to the point used to be, is a oval dish of sizzling chunks of chicken cooked in a tomato, onion and mushroom sauce and covered with a bread type topping.

What we were served the other night was a oval dish containing three rolls of chicken and very little else.

dizzycows


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Message Posted:
12/09/2009 21:41

Is that a NC resp? as we usually call cow pie, beef steak, onions done in short crust pastry? or old resp for cow meat, re cow pie, as cows are usually a lot older than the beef in the shops. Beef being usually under 3yrs of age, cows any thing up to 12/15 yrs age. Hence a lot of cooking!

frontalman



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Message Posted:
13/09/2009 08:59

I think the lady serving in Bizim Han is his daughter, who has a lovely name, which I can never remember, unfortunately.

hattikins


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Message Posted:
13/09/2009 10:36

Cow Pie is the name we use , as a joke in our family, to describe the Bizim Han special.

Personally I never eat beef, old or otherwise, too much danger of contracting CJD, otherwise known as Mad Cow Disease, one can never be too careful.

kaiserphil


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Message Posted:
13/09/2009 12:17

As I recall the pie was chicken and mushroom.

Does anyone else remember that Desperate Dan used to shave with an axe?

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
13/09/2009 12:21

hattkins



Too late for this forum, we're all mad as hatters!



Richard

dizzycows


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Message Posted:
13/09/2009 12:24

Yes he did shave with an axe, forgotten that, we have most of the Beano and Dandy annuals and the grandkids still love the old books the best. LOL

spangles


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Message Posted:
13/09/2009 12:28

I remember when I was small and my mother was ill in bed, so dad collected myself and sister from school.

All the way home we pestered him what was for dinner and he kept saying he had made us a cow pie like Desperate Dans. Sure enough out of the oven he produced a meat and potato pie complete with pastry horns coming from the crust. We thought it was brilliant (I still do!).

dizzycows


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Message Posted:
13/09/2009 12:33

spangles thats just lovely, its things like that , that really stick in the mind. My mum used to threaten me with cow pie if we ever had a cow die in the field, used to go and take a peek to see if she had sliced any off?? but glad to say she was just winding me up......

hattikins


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Message Posted:
13/09/2009 13:04

Many years ago when I was first starting my career I worked with a young boy who had profound learning disabilities, he also displayed extreme challenging behaviour at times. He was obsessed with Desperate Dan and one lunchtime he got it in his head that he wanted cow pie, he began to get more and more agitated and vocal so we knew we were heading for a full scale blow up. Thankfully lunch that day was sausage and mash, one of the staff very quickly put a pile of mash on a plate and stuck in two sausages like cow horns, she offered the " cow pie" to the youngsters and low and behold he sat down and tucked in without any further problems. Saved by the pie !!!!!!

dav88



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Message Posted:
14/09/2009 10:38

Msg 18



You probably mean Muyesser but it was not her or the other daughter, it was an elder lady (!) and I doubt shes a relative

hattikins


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Message Posted:
14/09/2009 10:54

It certainly wasn't the owners daughter when we were there, this young woman didn't really give two hoots about customer service.

dav88



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Message Posted:
14/09/2009 11:22

couldn`t agree more