| 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. |
| However, Mr Ash, who likes to sip aniseed-flavoured raki instead of absinthe, rejects the comparison. |
| Glass thimbles of home-distilled raki were raised and clinked. |
| 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. |
| Moreover, I had heard of this raki of theirs, which is so much fire-water, and I didn't take their temperance very seriously. |
| Anise essences have always been used to make liqueurs, for example French pastis, Turkish raki and Greek ouzo. |
