They with all meats but lamb and chicken.

Felafel is delicious

awesome but you smell like a camel after it. every burp is a taste sensation out of hell, most of the time. but im german, i grew up with this kind of food through guest workers.

>>3429381

Should read "suck with all meats but lamb and chicken"

Oh jesus, yes.

I used to go to this little place that had an appetizer that was red and white sauced cabbage and two kinds of chickpea salads I couldn't identify for the life of me, meant to be pocketed into flatbread. Lamb shish tawouk! Rolled dates for dessert. Fuck and damn yes.

There was a seminar held by the local spice shop here that was a three day course on making middle eastern cuisine. Couldn't afford it. Still bitter.

shawarma <3

not food, but is great after a meal

>thoughts on middle eastern food?

I think that it's fucking delicious. My favorites being Persian and Lebanese. Surprisingly, the Afghan food I've had has been really good too.

hell yeah even though I just ate in one restaurant so far
I really would like to try more, what can I try?

looks like shit, tastes like god came into your mouth

>>3429554
lubia poloh

just go find a local mid eastern grocery store. theyre usually small shops so they are willing to cook you shit too

I used to hate it, but I'm slowly falling in love with it.

>>3429607
that shit looks amazing!
sadly this town doesn't have mideastern grocery store as I know... only indian places that sell asian stuff more than indian stuff

enjoy your dysentery

lahmacun, tavuk sis, halloumi and some houmous

oh god

فلافل <٤

My first job was working at a Lebanese cafe as a waitress. Still love the food there. Tabouli and meat pies and the best damn hummus ever.

Oh, and turkish coffee that stuck to the bottom of the little china cups we served it in. Yes.

>>3429651

*spoiler alert*

make it yourself with regular groceries

There aren't a whole lot of Middle Eastern restaurants in my area, but there IS a super surly Turkish man who sells baklava at the farmer's market. Dat honey and pistachio, mmmmmmmm.

i was working at this pretty good middle eastern take out place but i got fired after like 10 days

>>3430060
what'd you get fired for?

>>3430071

selling the hummus recipe to israel

>>3430040
fuck yes turkish coffee

>>3430071
i just never got a call back so i don't have an exact reason
i wasn't picking things up that fast because it was getting closer and closer to finals. it's not that i was lazy but my boss worked non stop while his family he employed took it pretty easy. the last day i was there i used the arabic mop/giant squeegee incorrectly. my boss was out sick so his mom was out back waiting for me to finish and his sister was sleeping on a couch inside. i thought i was using it correctly but when the mom came to lock up she saw that i did it wrong and started screaming (she doesn't speak english), not directly at me but it was embarrassing and humiliating none the less

and that's the story of how i was employed for 10 days

>>3430083
their hummus actually wasn't very good.

I've only had what I can buy in the United States, but I've liked it all.

I actually patronize a restaurant /every/ Tuesday. Baba ghanoush with pita, and a gyro with marinated onions and labneh. That's $40 of business every month, and Mahmoud loves me "so very much".

It's my favorite meal. I saw a thread on here earlier, but I was too lazy to contribute. The topic was "one meal for the rest of your life" or something. That's my answer!

i work at an Lebanese/american style restaurant. favorite thing to do is take a chicken tawook and make a sandwich on pita with french fries and garlic sauce(a shit ton), oh and also lettuce. trust me a life around arabic food, its my current favorite.

i love falafel

chicken tagine

Did anyone catch that Bizarre Foods last night of him in Detroit? What the fuck was that arabic dessert that looked so fucking good? It was a spatula full of melted cheese.

I really love that sauce they make. It is yoghurt based, and it's minty and garlicy and zesty from lemons. I buy it all the time from my local Turkish place, just tubs of the sauce. It's damn good. They just give it to me free half the time now

I'm Iranian.
While it may be slightly taboo to say it,
I truly like Lebanese/Turkish food better than the food I grew up with.

Fuck Arabs btw

Fattosh salads, spinach pies, vegetarian grape leaves, chicken tawook, these are a few of my favorite things...

>>3430269
How make?

I went to some Lebanese place last weekend with my friends. Had some spicy beef in a rolled pita, it was alright, not spicy enough.

dat garlic spread. don't even bother talking to anyone for the rest of the day.

>>3431141
Are you kidding? Get right up in people's grilles and tell them all about the lunch you just had.

Decent food, only way to do vegetarian is middle eastern.

Sickens me how they eat with their hands though.

>>3431438
Sickens me that you walk around with bits of TP on your hands, and how you extend out to me with the hand you wipe your ass with.

>>3431438
every middle eastern place ive been to gives you scented water before and after your meal. they are sticklers for cleanliness

>>3431598
>>3431446

The closer to the sea, and not the desert, and the more green herbs and fresh vegetables in something, the more I like it.

Yogurt not mayo, herbs versus too many dried spices, fresh breads,

Turkish coffee, greek coffee, it's alright, but with cardamom it's fabulous. Rose water in the custard, pomegranate with the tzatziki. I just dont like overcooked rice dishes. I could probably live on delicious Mediterranean food the rest of my life, though. Marinated eggplant and peppers, falafel, hummus. My only issue is the fish for breakfast thing.

>>3431598
They are into good or traditional service for the diners, but it speaks nothing about cleanliness, actually.

>>3431438
>implying you don't eat with your hands

>>3431628

I don't use my hand as a scoop to shovel food in my mouth, suck my fingers, and then reach into the dish for more.

>>3431629
>implying you don't do that

>>3431629
??? you use bread to pinch meat off

>>3431629
>>3431438

That's the point of pita bread. Works the same way with Indian naan and Ethiopian injera. It's kind of like using a tortilla chip to scoop up some salsa, except the bread isn't fried (though it can be, i.e. fried pita with hummus).

>>3431796
Except the guy on the left here has some of that sloppy food on his fingers and the guy on the right has his dirty fingernail touching the food.

It's unsanitary, and they do it in groups. I would not eat from a platter that had anyone other than myself eating from it and doing this shit.

>>3431800

Your example is in a home or family-style restaurant. It's analogous to getting a large plate to share with one or more friends. You can serve yourself on a smaller plate or just reach in and grab a bit. Different culture, different customs. You would still utilize the bread as an eating utensil even if you were eat from your own individual plate.

>>3431812
>>3431796
>>3431778

Even with bread its still disgusting and frankly, savage.

i still dont see why hes being a little bitch about it. peoples hands touch your food before its cooked as well

>>3431097
That's Moroccan not middle-eastern.

>>3431830
I bet you try to police the table when you eat with people too. It must be miserable to have a meal with you.

>>3431845
dont you have a meta ethics class to attend?

>>3431864

No, the people I eat with use utensils like civilized human beings.

>>3431872

>>3429363
mostly it's shit, I tried to like it but its all the worst parts of curry style foods. the only good thing they do is gyros bread and grilled meat. everything else (hummus, the various salads and leaf wrapped things, rice dishes etc) just tastes horrible to me.

>>3430055
baklava is porn pure porn

one of my favorite types of food, up there with indian and such

>>3429363
give me a pic of it if you can, i have an idea of what it is, did it have like a pink layer on top?

I love all of the kinds I've had.

My parents just moved to the Bay Area, so I have become acquainted with the Bolani company. They're awesome.

>Know I'm going to buy some at farmer's market.
>Go to Bolani stand.
>Pretend I am unaware about it.
>Get 5 delicious samples.
>Buy what I came for.
>Sleuth away chortling.

And my GF and I found this Lebanese place we both enjoy. Baklava was meh, but everything else brought us back for a second go. Best felafel I've ever had, and a tabbouleh with the actual right proportions (mostly parsley and lemon juice, NOT FUCKING BULGAR AND TOMATO).

>>3429363

dolma/sarma is pretty good.

source of gif images:
>redchillies.us/2010/09/08/vegetarian-dolma-stuffed-grape-leaves-with-rice/Vegetarian Dolma – Step by Step Recipe

Their kitchen is only nice thing muslims contributed to the world culture.

>>3432234
That looks like fried worms on a pile of gravel.

>>3435275

Muslims or Arabs/the Middle East? Because if you mean the latter, you should read up on civilizations like Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, for starters.

>>3431138
well a normal shish tawook with bell peppers, the marinade it soaks in is a family recipe that my father keeps secret

>>3435275
>Algebra
>useless
I love you /ck/ but you guys can be a tad dumb sometimes

>>3435672
>>3435275

Even though I'm an afghan Atheist, I have to admit that Islam has done a lot for the world...at least in the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

>philosophy
>science
>math
>medicine

Sadly, the crusades brought Islam into the dark ages. Also, we have the best meatballs.

Iranian here. This is Sabzi Khordan, which basically translates to "eating greens". A bunch of different herbs/vegetables mixed together and served alongside certain Iranian dishes. My mother likes to use basil, mint, terragon, dill, green onions, and radishes most of the time.