Owned and operated by 19 year old Ali Yeysides, the Tulip Hookah Café has been providing the Langhorne, PA area with a taste of one of the most popular past times of the Middle Eastern world, smoking hookah. Though it has been only open for about nine months, Yeysides' café has had a lot of success and a lot of pleased customers.
Yeysides, a young former history student at Seton Hall, was born in Turkey and raised in Pennsylvania. He has lived in Langhorne, PA for six years. He says he began smoking hookah only a year ago with close friend, Stas Zharko, a twenty-year-old Business Administration major at Drexel, and now an employee of the Tulip Hookah Café. It was Zharko who introduced him to hookah. The reasons Yeysides gives for opening his café in Langhorne were two things he says he kept hearing while living there, "Damn I wish there was something to do," and "Damn I wish there was a hookah bar."
Hookahs, also known as water pipes, are intricately designed smoking instruments. The hookahs cool and filter tobacco smoke through water located at the pipe's base. Smoke is then inhaled through a hose. The tobacco used for hookahs come in many different flavors like pina colada, grape and mango as well as other combinations.
Lenny Taylor, a Special Education Major at University Maryland named a few of his favorites while sitting down for a smoke session. "Sex on the Beach and Pirates Cove are my favorites, I like the citrusy and berry flavors," Taylor said.
Concerning the health effects of smoking from a hookah pipe, Yeysides claims that "Smoking hookah is a lot safer then most other ways of smoking. Hookahs are 0 percent tar and .05 percent nicotine compared to 13 percent in a single cigarette."
The Tulip Hookah Café has many different hookahs. Each one is unique, hand crafted and imported from Egypt according to Yeysides. These unique hookahs and the café's handcrafted furniture give it the authentic vibe it needs to draw customers.
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