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[Tim Drayton]

I lived in Qatar for two years and local people there always used to praise a dish called 'falafel'. I tried it there a few times but never really liked it. However, in the two rather scary days that I spent in Cairo a couple of years ago I went to a small restaurant close to the museum where the mummies are kept and ordered falafel there. It was wonderful, and very different from anything I had tried in Qatar bearing that name.

[fig head]

I lived in Qatar for two years and local people there always used to praise a dish called 'falafel'. I tried it there a few times but never really liked it. However, in the two rather scary days that I spent in Cairo a couple of years ago I went to a small restaurant close to the museum where the mummies are kept and ordered falafel there. It was wonderful, and very different from anything I had tried in Qatar bearing that name.

those bloody Arabs cant do proper falafel .. i tried it in Dubai , Syria and Qattar also and it taste completely different as i know it, in Egypt its sooo yummy )

[Tim Drayton]

I lived in Qatar for two years and local people there always used to praise a dish called 'falafel'. I tried it there a few times but never really liked it. However, in the two rather scary days that I spent in Cairo a couple of years ago I went to a small restaurant close to the museum where the mummies are kept and ordered falafel there. It was wonderful, and very different from anything I had tried in Qatar bearing that name.

those bloody Arabs cant do proper falafel .. i tried it in Dubai , Syria and Qattar also and it taste completely different as i know it, in Egypt its sooo yummy )

Don't you consider Egyptians to be Arabs? (The falafel in Qatar tends to be made in restaurants run by Turks!).

[halil]

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this is how molohia looks like where i come from, cant say i like it.. i think its one of the most disgusting things ever tho its a traditional food in Egypt as in most of the middle east!! i wonder why i never liked it!! everyone does like it a lot..

If it is cooked from fresh molohia u may not like it try the dried one ... it has such a flavour that makes the people to love it .(dried one)

yes plants are molohia in your picture.(why it is in pots ? )

[halil]

here is the how dried one looks .

[fig head]

I lived in Qatar for two years and local people there always used to praise a dish called 'falafel'. I tried it there a few times but never really liked it. However, in the two rather scary days that I spent in Cairo a couple of years ago I went to a small restaurant close to the museum where the mummies are kept and ordered falafel there. It was wonderful, and very different from anything I had tried in Qatar bearing that name.

those bloody Arabs cant do proper falafel .. i tried it in Dubai , Syria and Qattar also and it taste completely different as i know it, in Egypt its sooo yummy )

Don't you consider Egyptians to be Arabs? (The falafel in Qatar tends to be made in restaurants run by Turks!).

we speak arabic in egypt but we not considerd arabs, Arabs call us the nation that doesnt deserve to be Arabic !! we speak completly different accent and we wear normal clothes, its more liberal in egypt and lebanon than any other arabic speaking country.. "thanks god for that"

and felafel is a tradtional egyptian food, most of egypt have it in breakfast with foul. very tasty food but other arabs try to make it they add different weird stuff to it that change the taste of it.. there is an arabic restaurent here in paphos , when ever i fancy felafel i ask the guy that works there to do it in the egyptian way and mmmm its frikin good

[fig head]

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this is how molohia looks like where i come from, cant say i like it.. i think its one of the most disgusting things ever tho its a traditional food in Egypt as in most of the middle east!! i wonder why i never liked it!! everyone does like it a lot..

If it is cooked from fresh molohia u may not like it try the dried one ... it has such a flavour that makes the people to love it .(dried one)

yes plants are molohia in your picture.(why it is in pots ? )

i dont know, i didnt try to eat molohia after my 1st try.. may be it taste good and my mom cooking is just bad "thanks god for my nanny without her we would be starvin as kids or end up eatin burgers and chips every day )

[Tim Drayton]

I lived in Qatar for two years and local people there always used to praise a dish called 'falafel'. I tried it there a few times but never really liked it. However, in the two rather scary days that I spent in Cairo a couple of years ago I went to a small restaurant close to the museum where the mummies are kept and ordered falafel there. It was wonderful, and very different from anything I had tried in Qatar bearing that name.

those bloody Arabs cant do proper falafel .. i tried it in Dubai , Syria and Qattar also and it taste completely different as i know it, in Egypt its sooo yummy )

Don't you consider Egyptians to be Arabs? (The falafel in Qatar tends to be made in restaurants run by Turks!).

we speak arabic in egypt but we not considerd arabs, Arabs call us the nation that doesnt deserve to be Arabic !! we speak completly different accent and we wear normal clothes, its more liberal in egypt and lebanon than any other arabic speaking country.. "thanks god for that"

and felafel is a tradtional egyptian food, most of egypt have it in breakfast with foul. very tasty food but other arabs try to make it they add different weird stuff to it that change the taste of it.. there is an arabic restaurent here in paphos , when ever i fancy felafel i ask the guy that works there to do it in the egyptian way and mmmm its frikin good

I hear that Tunisia is very liberal, too.

[fig head]

I lived in Qatar for two years and local people there always used to praise a dish called 'falafel'. I tried it there a few times but never really liked it. However, in the two rather scary days that I spent in Cairo a couple of years ago I went to a small restaurant close to the museum where the mummies are kept and ordered falafel there. It was wonderful, and very different from anything I had tried in Qatar bearing that name.

those bloody Arabs cant do proper falafel .. i tried it in Dubai , Syria and Qattar also and it taste completely different as i know it, in Egypt its sooo yummy )

Don't you consider Egyptians to be Arabs? (The falafel in Qatar tends to be made in restaurants run by Turks!).

we speak arabic in egypt but we not considerd arabs, Arabs call us the nation that doesnt deserve to be Arabic !! we speak completly different accent and we wear normal clothes, its more liberal in egypt and lebanon than any other arabic speaking country.. "thanks god for that"

and felafel is a tradtional egyptian food, most of egypt have it in breakfast with foul. very tasty food but other arabs try to make it they add different weird stuff to it that change the taste of it.. there is an arabic restaurent here in paphos , when ever i fancy felafel i ask the guy that works there to do it in the egyptian way and mmmm its frikin good

I hear that Tunisia is very liberal, too.

it is indeed. but they dont speak arabic lol, well they do as a second language, 1st language is French bless them lol.

[journo]

Tim, Fig Head, there are loads of places in Qatar that produce absolutely brilliant falafel.

And yes, Tim, there are loads of Greek Cypriots I know who eat molokhiya - but why would anyone buy it in the market when it grows profusely on waste land/open land/ car parks/along the side of the road? Everyone picks it for free!

But the ways people use it (large leaves or just the top shoots) varies....

We make our own falafel by the way!