Galata's ice cream master, Erkan Gozal, specializes in the "ice cream show," flipping and swapping cones, toying with the customers and adding a sense of whimsy to the Long Beach scoop shop.

A cool scoop of Turkish culture has arrived in Long Beach with the opening of a new ice cream shop where authentic flavors meet a bit of showmanship. Galata Ice Cream and Desserts is a new Turkish ice ...

A video of a Turkish ice cream salesman performing a magic trick has resurfaced to delight the internet. Even Seth Rogen finds the classic Turkish prank “comedically genius.” The ice cream seller in ...

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The ice cream flips, twists and floats just out of reach, attached to one end of a long silver scooping staff being controlled by a professional trickster on the other side of the counter. The second ...