Rose Turkish Gozleme House, Drummoyne

Cheese and spinach gozleme $7.00

Embracing life as a manic foodblogger has flow-on habits which are hard to break. My little digital camera gets carried around in my handbag everywhere. All handbag purchases are now carefully scrutinised to make sure it meets one major criteria--that it is big enough to fit wallet, phone, keys and camera.

As I raced out the door for a girlie day out of factory outlet shopping at Birkenhead Point, I did wonder whether to leave the camera at home. Shopping, trying on clothes, checking the sales racks... did I really need to bring the camera?

Thank goodness common sense prevailed... and into the handbag it went. After an intense morning of hardcore shopping we eased into the foodcourt for lunch. And there, in one corner, was a gozleme takeaway, just as Bex had mentioned in a previous comment.



I recognised the staff from a previous visit over a year ago, when the space seemed very makeshift and the menu was handwritten on sheets of paper. But now it appears a somewhat permanent feature, a novelty in itself given that I'd only ever seen gozleme stalls at festivals and fairs. Given their immense popularity, I'd always wondered why noone had ever set up a gozleme shop, problems of the labour intensive production process aside.



The folk here have an excellent system devised though. As we joined the constant queue of a dozen people, we soon realised that every gozleme was filled and cooked as a cheese and spinach version. When faced with a request for a beef, potato or chicken version, the pocket was carefully prised open, warm filling added, and then pressed onto the grill again for a quick reheat.

We stuck with our traditional cheese and spinach version, a crisp pocket of bright green spinach oozing with mild cheese and spritzed with a squeeze of fresh lemon. Gozleme on demand. It's a dream come true...


Rose Turkish Gozleme House
Level 1 (foodcourt)
Birkenhead Point
Roseby Street, Drummoyne, Sydney