| A locally famous drink is the anise seed based raki, and brandy sour is another favorite with the Turkish Cypriots. |
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| Meals for guests or for ceremonial occasions such as weddings usually involve copious amounts of meat, washed down with Albanian raki, an alcoholic beverage. |
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| Glass thimbles of home-distilled raki were raised and clinked. |
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| However, Mr Ash, who likes to sip aniseed-flavoured raki instead of absinthe, rejects the comparison. |
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| Kinzer also logged plenty of evenings in the Turkish bistros called meyhanes eating meze, or small plates of appetizers, and consuming raki, the Turkish national beverage. |
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| Dinner ended with ouzo, or more commonly raki, the Greek version of white lightning. |
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| On February 21st the company announced the takeover of Mey Icki, Turkey's largest maker of raki, an aniseed drink. |
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| Anise essences have always been used to make liqueurs, for example French pastis, Turkish raki and Greek ouzo. |
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| Afterwards we were treated to free samples of Helen's strudel and a tot of the local hooch, raki, a colourless liquid drunk like schnapps which is not for the faint-hearted. |
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| Popular drinks that use anise flavoring are French pastis, Pernod and Ricard, a liqueur called anisette, Spanish ojen, Turkish raki, Greek ouzo and Arab arrack. |
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| An uphill walk brings you to streets of music shops and the super-cool Tunel, where everyone sits outside, drinks raki, chats and smokes half the night. |
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| Tamils brew it from sugarcane, Indonesians from rice wine, thirsty Iranians from anything they can lay hands on, and get away with. The national drinks of Turkey, Albania and Bulgaria are all known as raki. |
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| What a joy to discover together the small hamlets, the tavernas with the perfume of fresh octopus, the olive presses, the shepards sharing their cheese and raki or the distillary lost in the country side. |
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| Agrotourism activities should also be on your agenda, including visits to centres where the famous organic olive oil and raki, Crete's national spirit, are produced. |
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| Crossing the bridge and the raki boiler of the village a sign that shows us the right uphill, where we can see tracks from cobbles from the heyday of ancient Lyktos. |
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| Some years ago I sat drinking raki with several locals in the kentriki platia in the old part of Aghios Nikolaos. |
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| We adults cook chicken in thyme from the hills and sample the local hooch – a bottle of ice-cold raki, left in our fridge by the owners, who make it themselves. |
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| And don't forget to bring back a bottle of the local firewater, raki. |
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| The recent hike in Special Consumption Tax has badly hit Raki consumption in Turkey. |
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| Winger Austin Morgan grabbed a couple while Joe Campbell, Shannon Raki, Tony Edwards and Daniel Morris also crossed. |
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| The Raki is like Ouzo or Ricard and goes well with the food. |
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| Raki, a stronger version of Greek ouzo, is the national aperitif. |
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| She was very pleased with her reading and told me that she's done Raki and has been searching around spiritualist churches for help and guidance with her gift. |
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| New Zealand opening batsman Raki Weerasundara who was born in Sri Lanka has the support of his father Asoka Weerasundara and his mother Rangika as well as his sister and aunt. |
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