The UAE is dominated by Arabs, good at cooking and rich in food. Its food is characterized by sweetness, fragrance and oil. Coffee and tea are essential drinks every day. Arabs believe in Islam and are forbidden to eat pork and ugly and unclean things, such as turtles, crabs and dead animals. When hunting game, after the hunter hits the prey, he quickly cuts his throat before the blood coagulates, otherwise he can't eat it.
Arabs used to eat tortillas, wheat cakes and beans, and poor families mainly ate tortillas. Because Arab countries earn a lot of dollars from exporting oil, the government subsidizes the prices of major foods. Cakes (fermented cakes) and flour cakes sold in shops are even cheaper than flour. Therefore, every family usually eats big cakes or flour cakes. With tomato salad, onion mixed with pepper, boiled beans, sauce and so on. The meat is mainly beef and mutton.
Arabs like coffee and tea. On the streets of the city, coffee stalls abound. A cup of coffee with several snacks is a cheap lunch.
Precious dishes include fried pigeons, grilled fish and roasted whole sheep. Roasting whole sheep means removing the head and feet of fat sheep, hollowing out the internal organs, filling them with dried fruits and seasonings such as rice, raisins, almonds, olives and pine nuts, and then roasting them on the fire. Its characteristic is tender, fragrant and delicious.
Arabs are very good at catching rice with their hands. First, they are not afraid of scalding. Second, they can quickly tear off a small piece of meat and put the food into their mouths with their fingers. They are not allowed to touch their mouths with their fingers.
The characteristics of UAE cuisine highlight the characteristics of Islamic catering culture. A is an Islamic country. Generally speaking, the food provided by catering enterprises to customers must conform to Islamic rules. Pork and liquor can only be operated with a business license, otherwise it is generally prohibited. Internationalization and diversification are distinctive. The diversified ethnic population has formed a local internationalized and diversified catering market. In the United Arab Emirates, you can eat western food, Indian and Pakistani food, oriental food and even some Latin American and African dishes. Therefore, the UAE is also known as the world food gathering place.
The UAE people's diet is mainly fermented flour cakes and tortillas, and the dishes they often eat are tomato salad, onion mixed with pepper, mutton kebabs, roast ham and so on. They like to eat Chinese food. They don't use chopsticks when eating, but they are used to grabbing food with their hands.
The eating habits of UAE people have the following characteristics:
1, pay attention to rich dishes and food quality.
2, the taste is generally not too salty, sweet and spicy.
3, the staple food is generally based on pasta, preferring to eat desserts.
4. Non-staple foods such as beef, mutton, chicken and eggs. Vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, onions, eggplants, cabbages and potatoes. Seasonings such as olive, lemon, clove, cardamom, osmanthus, coriander, ginger and gold powder.
This cooking method likes to use cooking methods such as frying, frying and baking to make dishes.
6. Chinese food loves authentic dishes from China.
7. The menu appreciates assorted dishes, stir-fried, beef stew, tomato and beef slices, hand-grabbed mutton, crispy duck, Canadian onion stewed chicken, fried chicken kebabs, fried eggplant, stewed corn, vermilion fried broad beans, barbecue and other flavor dishes.
8. Shuijiu generally likes to drink fruit juice, Coca-Cola, mineral water and cold boiled water, and must drink yogurt and espresso every meal.
9. Fruits like bananas, lychees, oranges, oranges, cantaloupes, watermelons, persimmons, etc. In fresh fruit; Dried fruits like almonds, walnuts, raisins and pine nuts.