food

Shawarma – Arabic street food with a sense

September 29, 2010

When night falls in this Middle Eastern city of Dubai, expat workers turn on their car engines and ready themselves to face the traffic. The shawarma chefs don their aprons and turn on the fire. When we first arrived here in 2007, we were immediately intrigued by this exotic street food. After more than 10 [...]

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Glorious figs

May 11, 2010

If someone would ask me what is good about living in Dubai or in the Middle East, one of my answers would probably be: Figs. I accidentally discovered figs when I was supposed to buy prunes and grabbed the wrong package at the supermarket three years ago, on our first month in Dubai. I was hesistant [...]

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Dubai bans cooking with alcohol…for some minutes

March 24, 2010

News broke out a couple of days ago about Dubai government banning the use of alcohol in cooking in hotels and restaurants. The municipality said it had sent a circular to all food establishments in Dubai last week ordering them to stop the sale of any dishes containing alcohol. That’s bye bye to juicy steaks, Ciao [...]

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yes, there is such thing as free lunch

April 15, 2008

I already got the replacement card from the bank today. It’s nice to know that since M ‘lost’ the card, our only worry was to memorize a new PIN number thanks to the honest stranger. Now that we have our card back, M treated me for lunch. He knows he didn’t have to but I’m [...]

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