Greece - Eating In Athens/Chania, Crete (Part 1)

Lots of lessons learned here. I guess this applies mainly to the town of Hania where we were staying:

1. Do _NOT_ under any circumstances, eat at the port. It is a drab, sub-par, bland and overpriced version of the wonderful food you can experience in the outer regions of the town. Do yourself, your wallet and your stomach a favour and walk the 10 minutes to the main parts of town... or if you have a car better yet, drive yourself up to Tavern Leventis in Stalos and have Andreas take care of you :).
2. Greek portions are HUGE. Unless you're a hearty fellow and can tackle the most oversized of dishes, you can seriously get away with sharing a main course entree and a salad as your entire meal. If doing only appetizers, 3 is enough... unless you are REALLY hungry then maybe 4. It took us a while to learn this lesson. We'd stare at the tempting meals around us and think "Man, we're certainly hungry enough to eat all of this" then at the end stare guiltily at the leftovers.
3. Restaurant touts can be very overbearing and convincing. If one manages to lure you into a restaurant, and you find that you don't like the menu or that it is more expensive than you thought, WALK AWAY!
4. Raki is dangerous stuff. When they first bring it out to you, sip carefully.
5. If you're looking for tea, it's going to be at least E$2 for a plain Lipton... they don't have much else. Teas and coffees are WAY more expensive than the pastries. It boggles the mind...
6. Greek pies are heavenly... I could eat them all day.
7. Pita bread is NOT part of Greek cuisine... anywhere... it's either an American thing or a middle eastern thing that Americans somehow associated with Greek food. Don't come here hoping for good pita bread... you won't find it. And if you DO find it, you're probably in a tourist trap restaurant.
8. Eating sauted goat meat and feta cheese in a town where goats and sheep are running wild, is a VERY good idea (specifically, the town of Omalos... best feta EVER).
9. Find yourself a baklava source quickly. Go there often (May we suggest the one on Skydorf street). It will be your path to happiness.
10. If you ask a market vendor to purchase 10 olives, you will be scorned and ridiculed with a simple incredulous stare. In his disgust, he may just give you the olives for free.
11. The oranges here are fabulous (there... I just wanted to say fabulous).
12. For the other trinis abroad who may happen to find themselves in this part of the world... they eat saltfish here!!!
13. The central market is a source of much MUCH good food, use it often (we had WAY better seafood there than we did at the awful tourist trap harbour-front restaurant... which I now spit upon).