The Spice Bazaar is much smaller than the Grand Bazaar, and the salesmen are a little less aggressive... but only a little. It feels a bit more exotic, for lack of a better word, than the Grand Bazaar, as well. As someone who grew up driving to Safeway if I needed some vanilla extract to bake cookies, the concept of going to a special bazaar to pick up some saffron to make dinner is a bit wild. Of course, you can find more than just spices there. There's also dried fruit, baklava, Turkish delight (in every flavor from rose to pomegranate), sausages, mushrooms, and obviously, even more evil eye ornaments, just in case you didn't buy enough at the Grand Bazaar. There is also quite a range of teas, which are listed by the specific physical ailments they're intended to treat. There's Eczema Tea, Arthritis Tea, and the ever-popular Gynecological Diseases Tea (I made sure to bring back a lot of that one). But perhaps most delightful of all is the much-advertised Turkish Viagra, which, as far as I could tell, was just an "aphrodisiac" treat somewhat akin to baklava. It does, however, guarantee "5 TIMES IN THE NIGHT," so who am I to be skeptical. Alas, I bought nothing more exciting than a bag of dried apricots and a pepper grinder for McKenna. But the apricots were delicious.
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