Cuisine the United Arab Emirates
Cuisine the United Arab Emirates
There is no person to whom, it would not be desirable to try any interesting, original dish, especially being in issue. Here even the ladies keeping to numerous diets dare to relax, the benefit in the Emirates for this purpose is all conditions.
Restaurants in the United Arab Emirates there is a huge set and for every taste, smart and simple. The most part is constituted of course by the Arab food though there are both Russian and Italian restaurants and even the Irish pubs. Product quality is magnificent as here the most strict supervision of sanitary and epidemiological service which in this country really works comes into force. What mysterious Arabian cuisine is? It and humus - paste from peas and sesame seeds and to the tabbula - small cut mint, parsley and pounded wheat and guz - a lamb with rice and nuts, the most tasty cookings наб and Kusa makhsh - the grape leaves stuffed with rice and the stuffed small vegetable marrows (kurzhet). If you want to taste the meat of a lamb so popular in the United Arab Emirates - safely order that at restaurants makbus or Haris - just in the first case meat will be served with spices and rice, and in the second - with specially prepared wheat.
Of course, such sea faring country as Arab Emirates offers except meat exotic dishes - the food cooked from seafood. Lobsters, crabs, a tuna and shrimps - often give them with rice and special seasonings.
The traditional Arab snack - a shaverma (the meat of a lamb or chicken with salad wrapped in the Arab flat cake) - is on sale in tents on all city.
In addition to exotic meat dishes of special attention seafood deserves. At some fish restaurants directly various fish and other seafood lies in the hall on trays in ice. Once you specify something, in ten-fifteen minutes it will be given on a little table. At tourists fresh fish and sea products from the Arab gulf and the Indian Ocean enjoys wide popularity: lobsters, crabs, shrimps, tuna. Products of the sea move with specially seasoned rice.
Local desserts - Ali's mind (a kind of a grain pudding), эш asay (sweet cheese pie with a cream top), a mekhalabiya are very tasty (a pudding, obryzganny pink water and sprinkled with pistachios). And coffee!!! Coffee which preparation is built in art. The most popular - Arabian light - it is prepared from hardly fried thoroughly grains. Also it is worth trying it in some real Arab cafe which great variety.
Now about the prices. As well as everywhere they are very various. In cafe of budget hotel the usual lunch costs 8-10 dollars and about 4 dollars a glass of "home-made" wine or a big glass of beer, in five-stars hotel - a lunch with wine - about 50 dollars. At the restaurants and cafes located at every turn - the prices, certainly below. If to you bothered to go to numerous restaurants and cafe and there is a wish to be alone that food it is possible to order in number by phone from any restaurant, not only hotel. Delivery always free of charge.
Now several words about alcohol. As the United Arab Emirates the country Muslim, alcohol moves only in bars and restaurants of hotels, except for the emirate of Sharjah where alcohol is forbidden everywhere. The most democratic city in this regard Dubai. In bars it is possible to order very fresh fruit cocktail or milkshake with mango.
Important: It is impossible to take alcohol in public places, on streets on beaches, it is impossible to take the drunk wheel at all. It can bring to a heavy fine, and even to imprisonment.
It is safe to drink water from under the crane. But in the majority of hotels and restaurants mineral water of local flood is pumped.