Yummy Arabs

Arab experience #1

 A platter of baba ganoush and vege. With nan bread (not in the picture).

Arab experience #2

Hummus, nan bread and tomato salad.

Bila MG memula dapat kerja kat company sekarang, bukan main teruja lagi dia. Almaklumlah...ramai espeks kat 'bandar' tu gittew. So, he said, i'm going 'international' sesambil fluffed up (tepuk2 dada cam KingKong - btw, ni i yg tambah). Laa ni, bandar tu dah semakin membangun, and banyaklah restoran2 yg berselera 'international'. And the best thing is, sepelaung je dari rumah we all. Tapi...pakcik ni kan...bila dia tanya i weekend2 nak makan apa? So i said, Korean. Argh! Taknaklah, katanya. Japang? Tanya i lagi.... Tak best katanya..pulak! Kata 'international'....! Balik2 fusion, matsaleh, fusion, matsaleh! Kalau budak2 dengar soklan nak makan mana, depa pulak lagi..MekD, Cili, MekD, Cili.. Cemana i nak fefeeling international ni? Sesudahnya, i pi makan Betnam ke, Korean ke, Japang ke, dgn office colleagues or sensorang.

A few weeks ago, i discovered this blog.This lady (no no no, bukan Mak Piah ye..walaupun i tengah nak menceritakan pasal Arab experience ni..kalau cerita Arab stallion baru you tanya dia, kay?) menceritakan her experience being in Turkey, married to a Turk and the cuisine..thing is, i was in Istanbul many years ago..although i love the place and appreciate their many good looking people, i just couldn't find anything special with their food. Breakfast setiap hari at the hotel was flat bread, white cheese, olives, tomatoes, butter, yoghurt. Itulah hari2...But i must say that i wasn't adventurous then. Bila makan, pi MekD, boleh? Tak berani nak nerai 'pretzels' tepi jalan or masuk restoran2 depa. So, while reading this akak's blog, i couldn't get their food out of my mind (or Arablah, hopefully similar to theirs). I merengek kat MG jom la pi makan arab..the weekend that we went to have it, what i didn't tell him was, i already went for Arab food twice that week with my colleagues. Pastu, one more time before pose. 4X in the short span of 1.5 weeks! When i want to eat something, bila dah macam terasa2 kat tekak, i really cannot get it out of my mind. The time yg i really nak makan Arab sesangat tu, told MG, pastu he said, jom pi KayhelCC. I ingat2 lupa whether ada ke restoran arab kat situ...rhope2nya takde and main objective dia pulak pasal nak bershopping, boleh?? Dan budak2 tu bila dah terlepaih ke KeyhelCC, of courselah bila pak tanya, nak makan mana? Cili! Kata depa. Tension maknya tau!

Pastu i was itching to create the experience at home....dok google recipe flat bread and baba ganoush. So we had that as accompaniment for buka pose...jenuh nguli doh roti. My kids, maid and MG are not really into 'strange' food (MG makan buat cukup syarat je..arabian experience yg dia nak is belly dancing je katanya..buat berlambak...so, kena le bagi kat orang yg makan segala mak nenek 'international' dak? Which happened to be in the form of maid rumah depan dgn majikannya Pak U. Dua kali buat, dua kali diaorg merasa...hopefully takdalah depa kata dlm hati, dah dah la tu oi! I've satisfied my curiosity (if i had MIL arab, she would have been proud of me!)..tahun depan baru buat lagi kut..unless i get myself a breadmaker (yooohooooo Esah laling...i nak breadmaker on top of Kitchenaid ye...while you are at it, air fryer would be nice too..)