Bakdash (ice Cream Parlor)
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Bakdash ( ar, بَكْدَاش, Bakdāš), alternatively romanised as Bakdach, is a landmark
ice cream parlor Ice cream parlors (American English) or ice cream parlours (British English) are places that sell ice cream, gelato, sorbet, and/or frozen yogurt to consumers. Ice cream is typically sold as regular ice cream (also called hard-packed or hard s ...
in the
Al-Hamidiyah Souq The Al-Hamidiyah Souq () is the largest and the central souk in Syria, located inside the old walled city of Damascus next to the Citadel. The souq is about long and wide, and is covered by a tall metal arch. The souq starts at Al-Thawra street ...
in the
ancient city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
of
Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...
. Established in 1895, it is famous for its traditional Middle Eastern ''
booza ''Booza'' ( ar, بُوظَة, Būẓah, lit=ice cream) is an Eastern Levant frozen dairy dessert made with milk, cream, sugar, mastic and ''sahlab'' (orchid flour), giving it its distinguished stretchy and chewy texture—much like dondurma. B ...
''—a mastic frozen dairy dessert. It is noted around the
Arab world The Arab world ( ar, اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ '), formally the Arab homeland ( '), also known as the Arab nation ( '), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, refers to a vast group of countries, mainly located in Western A ...
and has become a popular tourist attraction.Malouf, 2007, p.225 A second branch opened in
Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...
, Jordan in 2013 to cater to a growing Syrian diaspora there—amidst the Syrian civil war, slowing economic activity, and supply chain problems at the main Damascene branch.


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Dondurma Dondurma is the common word in Turkish for all kinds of ice cream that is often used to refer to Turkish mastic ice cream in English. It typically includes the ingredients cream, whipped cream, salep (ground-up tuber of an orchid), mastic (plant ...


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* Mastic ice creams Restaurants in Damascus Ice cream parlors 1895 establishments in the Ottoman Empire Restaurants established in 1895 Buildings and structures inside the walled city of Damascus {{Restaurant-stub