Sarma at the Pudding Shop

Dolmades? Sarma? - Greek? Turkish?
Ottoman!
Dolma is a family of stuffed vegetable dishes, originating in the former Ottoman Empire and the surrounding regions (Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, the Balkans, the Middle East and some Asian countries).
These were served at The Pudding Shop, the nickname for the "Lale Restaurant" in the Sultanahmet neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. It became popular in the 1960s as a meeting place for hippies and other travelers on overland routes between Europe and India, Nepal, and elsewhere in Asia - the 'hippie trail'.
The restaurant got its colloquial name as a result of "word-of mouth" from numerous foreign travelers that could not remember the name of the eatery but did remember the wide and popular selection of puddings sold there and thus referred to it as the "pudding shop".

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