The food from Aladdin’s magic lamp!

           The monsters from Aladdin’s magic lamp, the treasures hidden by the forty robbers, and various mysterious stories told in one thousand nights. To us, Arabia is too brilliant and unique. Not to mention the Arabic food, not only the salad with distinguished taste, but even the bread with the flavor of Middle East, all of which makes us hard to forget.

Arabian Image

Arabian Image

            Arabic people are good at cooking. Although they live in desert, their food is various. Especially, their food features sweet and greasy taste, good smell. Generally speaking, because of the religion, the Arabic doesn’t consume pork, creatures with bizarre appearance, such as turtles and crabs. Also, they don’t eat dead animal; as a result, hunters should cut off the prey’s throat before its blood was curdled, or it can’t be eat. Besides, they don’t drink; coffee and tea are the necessary beverages every day. Arabic food is famous for bread, rice, BBQ, and salad, and all of them have the distinctive flavors.

Arabian cuisine

Arabian cuisine

       The first dishes on the table are bread and hand-grilled rice. Arabic bread is baked by the special-designed stove. The bread is crispy outside and tender inside. Not only is it fresh and delicious, but it is cheap. The bread has become the Arabic’s staple, and the Egyptian calls it “the life” as well. It isn’t hard to tell that the Arabic bread plays an important place on the dining table. On the other hand, hand-grilled rice is to steam the rice to half mature, then stir it with spiced salt, butter and keep steaming. After the rice is ready, then put in some fired condiments like minced lamb, tomato sauce, carrots, raisins, almonds, onion, red rice and so on. Hand-grilled rice is neither too hard, nor too soft. It doesn’t too dry and looks “shiny” owing to the oil. Most important of all, it tastes awesome!

Arabic bread

Arabic bread

hand-grilled rice

hand-grilled rice

          Then, Arabic salad is also special and worth trying. Because of the weather, there are no too much choices for vegetable. Tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, potatoes are common ones. However, through the hands of Arabic cooks, tomato salad, eggplant salad, eggplant salad with tahini or oat salad become stunning and delicious. The cooks considerably use olive oil, fresh lemon and garlic to season the salad. Even we can consider the source is the base of most of the Arabic food. Especially, Arabic salad not only serves as the appetizer but is also eaten with BBQ or bread. The delicacy does really accompany you when you in Arabia.  

Arabic salad 

Arabic salad