Three Burger King delivery motorcycles – everyone delivers in Dubai.
We ate lunch at the Automatic Restaurant and Cafe. It was passable, but higher priced than our favorite restaurant, the bread wasn’t freshly baked and the food was average.
You may have a little trouble seeing what is going on in this picture. On the right there is a window washer. On the left there are several guys holding onto two ropes attached to the window washers platform holding it out away from the building. Clearly, the architect who designed this building did not think about how the windows were going to get washed.
Archive for the ‘food’ Category
A Day in the Neighborhood
August 16, 2009New store
August 9, 2009We were pleased to discover that a Carrefour Express grocery store opened just a block away from our apartment while we were gone. Yeah!
What was in the “ethnic foods” section?
Why tomato paste, of course.
Indian desserts
June 20, 2009We met a new friend last night, Ambreen. An young Indian woman who was born here and lived here in Dubai all her life. After a full dinner at the Special Ostadi Iranian restaurant, she took us to the Bombay Chowpatty (pronounced more like cha-pah-dy) restaurant for our introduction to Indian desserts.
I couldn’t get the whole length of the restaurant in one picture. In the center (right side of the above picture) is the cashier. You pay there for what you want. You get a separate receipt for each item which you then take to the area at the left (entrees) or to the right (desserts and beverages). You can eat standing on the sidewalk or in the small seating area.
Below is Garam Jalebi (on the plate – curly sugary things) and Garam Gulab Jamun (dough balls that taste very similar to waffles or pancakes).
This is Falooda Ice Cream which is a scoop of ice cream on top of a pink sugary liquid (kinda like Nestle strawberry milk). It was the vermicelli noodles that I wasn’t too crazy about. I haven’t figured out the Asian desserts or drinks with gelatin or noodles in them. I’m just not crazy about drinking lumps.
After a full meal and three desserts we were about to burst.
Squeezier Chili
June 12, 2009Here’s what’s for dinner! Home made chili made with the Soya Food Cubes of “softer squeezier juicer” fame.
Bu Qtair Cafeteria
June 11, 2009The Burg Al Arab:
Two blocks away, our restaurant:
Three large fried fish, a plate of prawns and flat bread.Yummy.
Squeezier
June 6, 2009This looks kinda appetizing, right?
After all the chef thinks it’s great.
Softer, Squeezier, Juicer – that’s how I like my reconstituted soy meat replacement product, don’t you?
More food
June 4, 2009Small clarification on the last food post. We had slightly more than tomatoes, garlic and asparagus, although it was a meatless dinner. There was pasta and spaghetti sauce involved along with some canned peas. All cooked by my sweetie.
This is tonight’s complimentary salad. It also came with complimentary lentil soup and flat bread. Daddybird’s entree involved a lamb’s ribcage and I had arayes, which is like two tortillas with a thin meat filling between then grilled to perfection.
I’m getting sneakier with my candid camera.
More cheap food
June 4, 2009
Time to play the Price is Right! Come on down!
The six tomatoes above cost 4.10 AED total ($1.12, that’s $0.19 per tomato). The garlic cost 2.50 AED ($0.68). The asparagus was the expensive part of dinner at 7.95 AED ($2.17). That was last night’s dinner at home.
This is the complimentary veggie appetizer that one gets at most Syrian restaurants. Lettuce, rocket leaves, lemons, cucumber, tomato, radish, carrots, bell peppers, chili peppers, olives, and pickles. It took us a while to learn to order less than we thought we wanted, especially the first time at a restaurant, because you often get complimentary things you didn’t order. Local Arabic restaurant entrees are often meat and rice, period. We prefer Syrian restaurants because you get veggies like this, which makes it easier on the digestive system, plus they taste great.
The last time we ate at this restaurant it was a rather unpleasant experience. I ordered grilled shrimp, not knowing that they would come with their heads and feet still on. I have a very hard time dealing with this. It creeps me out. Also, the shrimp kinda smelled like poo. We were sitting outside and a horde of persistent flies wanted my shrimp. Needless to say we sat inside this time and I did not order the shrimp. Why did we go back at all, you ask? Because everything other than the shrimp was good and they can’t be blamed for flies outdoors.
Not Oregon Grown
May 25, 2009
What did we have for dinner last night? Why “superbly fresh poultry, from around the globe.” Maybe those Arkansas chickens should stop trying to get into Oregon pretending to be Foster Farms chickens and travel the globe.
Living the Travel Channel 