Persepolis

I love this shop. Ever since we moved to the Netherlands and my father found the Kanaalstraat, he’s been dragging me there. Yes, dragging, I don’t really find Kanaalstraat all too interesting.
We used to have a few shops that we frequented that have now gone that I didn’t mind going to. But this shop, this one I even volunteer to go to!
My dad loves to find some of the stuff that we buy in Israel and can’t usually get here and quite frankly, I do too! I must say that the shop has lost a little bit of it’s charm with the redecorating they did last year, but it does look a lot neater and it means more room for the gigantic assortment of nuts they added, including chocolate covered nuts. Mmm…
Other than that, the shop has a nice array of cheeses, high quality fresh produce, lovely snacks and ingredients that you just can’t get at a Dutch store and also a lot of different pasta’s, pulses and sweets.
The only thing I can’t quite figure out is why the store is called Perse Polis and it says to be a Persian grocery store. My dad being a chatty Cathy of course knows his vendors and these guys are Iranian! Oh well, I’m not sure it’s even a mystery that I want to solve. ;)

A Turkish grocery store in Lombok? Wat leuk!
I come here a couple times per week and I really like this place. It must have the best selection of spices and grocery type stuff on Kanaalstraat. They have an extremely large deli area where you can buy dolmas, hummus, olives and other stuff by weight — and it’s excellent.
They always seem to have a good variety of produce and prices are reasonable. It’s not the cheapest on the street, but it’s worth it. They do NOT have a butcher counter like most other stores, and they are not open as late as the other vendors.