Showing posts with label food review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food review. Show all posts

Friday, 18 March 2011

Food in Nepal


بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم...

I should write something on the two countries I visited, Makkah (Saudi Arabia) on February to perform the Umra for two nights and Kathmandu (Nepal) following my husband for a 30 hours work trip, arriving back to Bahrain yesterday :D, I would post pictures on these two in my English blog. Here though..I can mention something on food...:). I am careful about what I eat outside, as I have been so unlucky suffering from food poisoning many many times, from different food I had from restaurants I thought were clean and careful about what they serve. 

In Saudi Arabia, we had food at the hotel we stayed in. Loads of salads, breads, and of course rice. 




In Kathmandu on the other hand, I was shocked at how unclean the city was. I couldn't have anything outside the hotel. We had a wonderful dinner at the hotel, but for me it was too spicy to handle. So I asked the chief for the recipe, which he kindly shared with me, and I will attempt making the dishes. Of course with less chilly.

a crispy spicy bread (can't remember its name) dipped in achar (a spicy hot pickle) which were in different varieties

lamb cooked with herbs, wonderful
spicy dark lentil (dal), I loved it




A beautiful tradition that we in Oman have as well, a bowl of water that you are given to wash your hands in before and after food. The beautiful thing here it has a piece of lime, which leave your hands smelling fresh :)
 




We had a yogurt-based drink known as lassi, you can have it sweet or salty. I loved it. 


street food in Kathmandu




Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Turkish Cuisine

 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيــم

Iskender Kebab, famous from Bursa, a must when visiting Bursa

I am back, but not with a recipe this time, but with some photos of things I've enjoyed eating
 in my visit to Turkey...I wrote briefly about Turkey in my English blog. The food has been a wonderful whole experience in itself.


pickles



doner




pomegranate juice
In the Gulf region, we've been introduced to some dishes from Turkey, so it is not totally exotic to me. However, some dishes were not the real version at all. For example, shawarma is so popular in the gulf region and it is not even called shawarma anymore in Turkey, although it is a Turkish/Greek word meaning turning. Turkish diet is rich in vegetables fresh and cooked, dried fruits (figs, grapes, apricot etc), marmalade, honey, bread, diary products specilly yogurt and Ayran , and meet consumed as doner kebab, Sucuk (sausage) or kofte.

Sweets in Turkey are similar to sweets of the other Mediterranean Arabic countries (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine), such as baklava and kunefe.


Spices and herbs
Turkish tea is a must after any meal in Turkey, and there is the heavy dark sweet Turkish coffee that is served with sweets beside a glass of water.
olives


marmalades