Thread 21488691

What's the best middle eastern food?
Arabic, turkish or Iranian?

>>21488691 (OP)
Syrian/Lebanese

>food
>the middle east
?

>>21488715
The middle east has high obesity rates

>>21488715
What do you mean?
Only Palestine is starving

Iranian but couscous is handy because it’s so fast to cook

All 3 have awesome shit
Fave is probly lebo coffee with arak or hommus with lamb in it

>>21488691 (OP)
>, turkish
this is just greek, turks are islamized and not mongolian, turco-mongolian or turkic. These foods are not from the steppe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex929t5CqIw

Best food in the middle east is lebanese/syria/persian/arabic in this order.

Tahdig persian rice is great.

>>21489010
>Best food in the middle east is lebanese/syria/persian/arabic in this order.
Why?

>>21488691 (OP)
For me it's lebanese baking

>>21488691 (OP)
Israel, it's a mixture of all of them.

>>21488724
Palestinians are among the most obese people on earth.

>>21488691 (OP)
Moroccan

>>21488691 (OP)
The meat tastes like perspiration.

>>21488691 (OP)
>What's the best middle eastern food?
Dog

>>21488691 (OP)
Persian cuisine, hands down. The subtlety of floral aromatics like rose water, saffron and cardamom, with the tangy pomegranate, sumac and dried barberries. Apricot, magnolia blossom, asafoetida resin and smoked caraway. So many unique and exotic flavors that aren't found anywhere else in the world.

Once again, Arabs mald & seethe at Indo-Aryan supremacy, their cuisines are only a bland facsimile of their neighboring superiors.

>>21489010
What the fuck causes the roach word to cause immense seething the same way someone wrote about russkies here
There's absolutely no fucking way these are real people

>>21490364
personal preferences, they are mostly good to excellent.

>>21490581
>What the fuck causes the roach word to cause immense seething
3 genocides, evil acts before them and evil acts after them.

Lacking something well-known to represent the region's cuisine

>>21490541
this indeed looks very appetizing. Any recipe book recommendations?

>>21488691 (OP)
They're all essentially the same but levantine

I know some already said Lebanese. I've had some food from an authentic Lebanese restaurant in France and it REALLY was quite good. Even just the tea they gave to me as I waited for the food made me happy. But why? I could've just gone to a Turkish kebap shop and gotten OK food. Does anyone want to take some wild stabs as to why just out of curiosity on this topic/thread? Anybody who knows they've also been to an authentic Lebanese restaurant (which I know is hard to tell because they're all Ay-rabs, right?)

>T. A Lebanese person

>>21490541
Glad you admit it's the same shit

>>21489010
>terx
I can't believe what they did to the Hagia Sophia. In many ways a standalone wonder of the ancient world and one of the few places in the modern world you can bask in absolute awe of ancient humanity and possibly even feel the weight of God touching your soul, and they vandalized or covered up all the priceless icons and turned it into a pen for shoeless monkeys

>>21490603
Not entirely sure what point you're even trying to make here exactly but I base my judgment of cuisines on regional cookbooks/recipes on which I do a fair bit of research, not restaurants.

>>21490379
Not right now
>>21490514
What does that mean?
>>21490588
Shawarma/kebab?
>>21490587
Ironic given that they used to be Armenian/Greek/Kurdish before Ataturk told them otherwise

>>21490734
Gaza isn't all of Palestine

>>21490750
That's because it's Israel

bymo

>>21490364
>turkish
>Iranian
>middle eastern
Someone failed elementary geography That said, probably Bahrain or Qatar? I like fish and while Lebanon has a coast, there's not much fish in the cuisine. I've never had Bahraini or Qatari food, though. : (
>>21488750
>north africa
>middle east
>>21489010
>this is just greek
Other way around.
>>21490365
Goodness, no. Nothing good comes from Middle Eastern, Persian, North Africa or Greek baking except bread. Yes, I've had tsoureki. Family used to get it every Easter.
Yes, I think it's shit.

>>21491524
>>turkish
> >Iranian
> >middle eastern
Those places are in the middle east
The Middle East cuts off at Iran/Turkey

>>21491534
lolno
Neither speak Arabic, neither are ethnically Arabs and most importantly, neither are geographically within the Middle East. Try again.

>>21491557
>Neither speak Arabic, neither are ethnically Arabs
That's not a prerequisite to being in the middle east
Israel is in the middle east too
>neither are geographically within the Middle East
The Middle East spans from Egypt to Iran in the east and Turkey to the north.

>>21491575
Apologies. I pull my claim. It seems that in English, you have a much more loosely defined term for it. I thought it was specifically anything south of Turkey and between the Med and the Gulfs IE Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, Kuwait, etc. I was wrong.
In English you include those but also Egypt, Turkey and Iran and sometimes North Africa and Central Asia. I know of Iran, Afghanistan, most of the other -istans (but not Pakistan) as Persia, Egypt and Turkey as their own things and Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya as North Africa, dividing what would be considered the Middle East in English along ethnic lines and natural borders.

>>21488691 (OP)
>Turkish

I really need to see the Mid East because all the food looks so amazing but as an American i always worry i'd be rude culturally

>>21491630
>Anon
Jej.
Fucking newfag.

Just didnt wanna typpe out the whole word :P

>>21491524
You're a very obnoxious person

>>21491717
You're a very feminine lady.

>>21491800
Thank you :3

>>21490603
i'd try lebanese if i could find a lebanese place. specific ethnic foods can be tricky to find, as in the US it falls under the catch all
"mediterranean" or "kebab" when you search it on google, at least in my area. there's ONE place with "Beirut" in the title, and its pretty fucking far away

but if i just want a gyro, i'm going to go to hairy greek man's mall gyro shop as opposed to an actual restaurant

one day i will try it though

>>21491962
>one day i will
Don't bother. It'll be moreorless the same but cost 3× more

>>21491976
i dont care because im not poor *dabs and overpays for slop*

>>21491994
u do u, boo

>>21488691 (OP)
This is all food from modern civilization

I am a huge fan of Israeli food, and not just because it is kosher and free from being touched by filthy muslim hands. I swear, they are worse than most goyim.

>>21491976
Hi. I'm that guy anon's responding to.
I don't know how it is now, especially since I visited that Lebanese restaurant in 2019 before Covid, but about 25€ covered for me tea, a big plate of couscous, salad with hummus and dressing, and a generous portion of chicken thigh meat, a cool drink for the actual dinner, and some baklava for dessert, plus tip.

It really wasn't a glamorous restaurant. I've seen a Turkish restaurant that looked far better. It had window side tables, was on the main street, and it was really fancy and overall better than the back alley, not super well ventilated, little Lebanese restaurant I visited. It's just that the owner was 100% certainly Lebanese and he cooked good food, even if it was the same slop for years on end. It was good and excellent slop and if you were "family"/just another Lebanese guy like me, you got it the first time totally scot free.

Anyway, that's just my experience. I think I just wanted to say that. Because I was never a regular at that restaurant, so it's not like I could consistently monitor the quality of the food. And it's not like even the standard Turkish kebab in my area is bad. If I'm plenty hungry, I'll engulf the whole thing. But if anyone lives there in Strasbourg, I would recommend visiting there maybe. I'll have to check some things.

>>21488691 (OP)
Greek

>>21490381
Fuck off

Afghan or Iranian, Lebanese is good.
Better use of herbs, baking, nuts and honey, spices not so overpowering.

>>21488691 (OP)
Turkish.
Iran has the highest highs and the Lowest lows.
Arab has too much obnoxiously heavy shit to be above okay and Egyptian and Lebanese does the heaviest lifting.

A cuisine is only as good as its soups and Turkish soups can easily keep up with Polish or Italian soups.

>>21491630
Just fly to Turkey, get a hair transplant and on the side you can try various foods.

>>21488691 (OP)
iranian is its own shit

turkish is best middle eastern, second best is israeli since they take inspo from arabs, italians, greeks, germans, japanese, vietnamese, americans, and the french

>>21488691 (OP)
>5 different but basically identical hummus

>>21492827
>Turkish.
so its Greek...

>>21493026
other way around lol
>>21492831
>Italian soups
Maybe it's because I'm from Italy so they seem so everyday but I'm not impressed with our soups at all. I fucks hard with Polish ones, though

>>21492046
>100% certainly Lebanese
>served couscous
I mean… there are Lebs who eat couscous but it's not a native food or even super common. It's available but it's not an everyday food. The French eat it more (and I think it was actually taken to Lebanon from North Africa during the French Mandate which was roughly equal to the interwar period + the entirely of WW2)

>>21493053
>I'm from Italy
so its all Greek.

>>21490603
I'm the guy who first said Syrian-Lebanese in this thread, and the reason for that is that we have a lot of good restaurants of this kind in Latin America. This is because many Lebanese and Syrians immigrated during the times of the Ottoman Empire and they brought their food with them, and many of them still keep their traditions alive to this day after 120 years. These places also tend to be mid-price to fancy there's no Arab slop places you go for a hangover like in Europe, so that also helps your reputation.

So yeah we are well-acquainted with your delicious food.