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Local Customs: wine and water
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  • T'bilisi - ok (bottled) wine and salty water
  • ok (bottled) wine and salty water
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  • It's hard to overstate the importance of wine to the Georgians. That, or beer, (and sometimes, vodka) seem to be drunk at lunch sometimes, and dinner (almost always).

    Despite wine being important, it's hard to BUY a decent glass of bottle of wine in a restaurant. Most people make and bring their own.

    In addition, people seem fond of Borjormi water, the sparkling kind. It's salty, and a bit of an aquired taste. The 'mineral' water variation, though, is just fine.

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    Local Customs: sunflower seeds
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  • T'bilisi - selling sunflower seeds (try saying that 3X fast!)
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  • People eat these all the time. There are people along the streets, almost always women, who sell sunflower seeds, and peanuts from little makeshift desks. They are everywhere. They have a little glass, measure out the seeds, and provide you your snack in a little rolled up piece of newspaper, or from the pages of a book.

    Not a bit deal local custom tip, but just seems to be a part of the fiber of Tbilisi.

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    jojopisek Thu Feb 28, 2008 17:42 UTC
     Very good but very touristic... It is a good place to taste your first kachapurri...
    Basaic Thu Jan 17, 2008 23:05 UTC
     Really enjoyed your T'bilisi Pages and Tips.
    GyuriFT Wed Jan 2, 2008 02:30 UTC
     Great pages about Georgia! - According my mom: "Georgian food is the best". I won't object it! - LP has also constantly poor advices regarding trains in Europe and CIS. - McDonalds is/was in many countries of ex-YU and we know the sad past.
    matt10gonzalez Mon Oct 22, 2007 08:27 UTC
     Oh yes! I love to go to Georgia one day! In fact, I'm enticing my mom if ever we go to Turkey if maybe we can detour a bit to Georgia! I'll show your page to her!
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