Traditional EMIRATI FOOD TOUR with Peymal Al Awadhi in DUBAI, UAE!!

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Of course, there was no way I could visit Dubai and not link up with the undisputed food king of the UAE for some traditional local food! Join me as I go on a traditional Emirati food tour with my friend Peyman Al Awash in Dubai, UAE!

Peyman is an incredible food and travel content creator based in the UAE. He and I have been in contact for years but this was our first time actually meeting in person!

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We’d be hitting up three authentic Emirati spots in the Jumeirah area. They’re rare, so I was excited. Our food adventure began at Nahash Restaurant. Inside is a huge dining hall, and they also have som private dining rooms lined with pillows and cushions.

It was super comfortable! Rooms like this are rare now. The pillows are traditionally hand-embroidered. A lot of people build tents with rooms like this in the desert!

Nahash offers Emirati, Yemeni, and Persian dishes, but we’d only be going with Emirati. I couldn’t wait to try the hobool (deep-fried fish roe sacks) and jasheed (fried minced reef shark)!

We started with some dark and thick Turkish coffee, followed by a simple salad with lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers. It came with some chicken stock with cumin!

Next, the rice with caramelized onions, jasheed, hobool, yogurt, and machboos arrived. The hobool was almost like fish fingers and went well with the tzatziki-like yogurt. It was a nice, oily appetizer.

The jasheed looked almost like scrambled eggs. The cilantro and lemon zest on top really made it! Adding it to the white rice and drizzling a bit of animal fat on top made it really delicious! Even though it’s shark, you an only have it here and only in-season to prevent over-fishing.

Adding a tomato gravy to the rice gave it another burst of flavor! The machboos laham was very fragrant. I loved the smoky, fatty lamb. It felt very similar to biryani. The yogurt helped glue it together. It’s the ultimate Emirati dish!

Back out in the restaurant, I tried some fresh bread and then we drove through Dubai to Al-Jalboot Restaurant right on the sea. It had a very Greek feel.

We started with Arabic coffee, which was tasty and aromatic. The cardamom flavor was amazing. Next were sukkari dates, which were extremely sugary and went very well with the coffee.

Next, we had chili potatoes from Lebanon and Jordan, chicken thareed (a thick stew with bread, carrots, and potatoes), and kingfish salona with tomatoes and carrots.

The potatoes had lots of garlic and had a heat that sneaks up on you. Jarjeera, or arugula served as a palate cleanser. I loved the chicken thareed was a nice, stew-like curry with soggy bread inside.

The kingfish salona with rice was really great. It wasn’t too fishy or salty because it was super fresh! I loved the tomato-based gravy.

Finally, we headed to Arabian Tea House Restaurant & Cafe near the Burj Khalifa. There, we finished our tour with Emirati tea and esserts. We could see guys in the kitchen making bread and kebabs.

Suleimani tea, karak chai, luqeimat (donut holes with date syrup, walnuts, and sesame seeds), and more. The chai was a little sweet, and the luqeimat was crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. I loved them with the Suleimani tea.

Finally was khabisah, a crumbly, pasty dough dish with cardamom, rose water, and saffron. It was sweet but not too sweet. I loved it!

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My name is David Hoffmann. For the last 13 years, I have traveled the world in search of unique destinations and cuisines. Since starting David’s Been Here in 2008, I have explored over 1,200 destinations in 84 countries, while documenting them on my YouTube channels, travel blog, and social media sites.

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