I once heard that Iran was ranked last in online reviews of various countries’ cuisine, so before I went there I was thinking, well, I don’t expect to find anything delicious when I go to most countries, so I’ll just try to lose weight this time.

After three weeks, I found that it was not that scary. In fact, there were still many delicious things - indeed, as LP said, Iranian food is not just kabab.

Did you know that Iran has a food culture as long as China's, and it also pays attention to the "coolness" and "hotness" of food, as well as the balance of combinations.

This impression may be due to the fact that I am often invited by locals to their homes to eat home-cooked food and taken to famous restaurants that they are familiar with.

(The photos in this article were all taken with mobile phones, so let’s just take a look at them) Let’s start with sweets!

This is sold in the market, their tea companion candy bar.

If you have watched "Little Shoes", you will know their invincible and huge sugar pillars. If you are drinking tea at home, it is the sugar cubes knocked off the sugar pillars, or the thin sugar slices with saffron in them.

, when Iranians drink tea, they like to hold a piece of sugar in their mouth first, and then drink the tea.

Every time I hurriedly explain "no sugar" when drinking tea, I think they look at me with almost sympathy: "Drinking tea without sugar, what a pitiful habit!"

Iranian desserts usually contain dried fruits such as pistachios, almonds, and walnuts. The quality of the desserts is very good, but they are just too sweet!

This kind of pastry is filled with dried fruits, so every dessert is a full energy bomb!

Is it true that for Muslims, the only solution to their worries is honey?

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There is a famous dessert shop, Haj Khalifeh Ali Rahbar, in Yazd. The desserts in it are of various varieties and shapes. The only thing they have in common is that they are all super sweet!

As a person with sweet teeth like me, I can’t eat it without drinking black tea.

This kind of dessert shop is located on the street every three steps and one post and five steps away.

The staple food of Iranians is flatbread.

Especially breakfast is nothing more than flatbread with various cheeses, various jams, and various honeyed dates.

There are four kinds of flatbread in Iran. The one in the photo is lavash, the thinnest one. It is crispy, fragrant and delicious when it is freshly baked!

In fact, all flatbreads are delicious when they are freshly baked, but after they cool down, they are like thick newspapers and must be added with something before they can be eaten.

This kind of flatbread is a special kind of Barbari. It is baked with whole wheat flour and wheat flour plus minced vegetables, and sprinkled with sesame seeds on the surface.

This kind of flatbread should be chewed carefully, and you will taste the fragrance of the original grain, which will make you full.

A typical Iranian meal is actually similar to Western food, including various vegetable soups (vegetables cut into almost powder form), bean soup (very delicious, a bit like salty eight-treasure porridge), main dishes such as kabab, grilled fish,

There will be some French fries, salad, and sauerkraut next to the grilled chicken and meat (Iranian sour sauerkraut is very good for appetizing and relieving fatigue).

You can order all main dishes served with rice.

What I hate is, why are good fish only grilled?

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Many restaurants will have self-service salads, and you can choose them at a special counter.

The drink next to it is dugh, which Iranians like very much. It is yogurt, mint and water. When you drink it for the first time, you will feel that it is just like mouthwash!

The strange thing is that I got used to drinking this later. It seems to help digest meat.

This is a takeaway soup from a restaurant on the street. In addition to chopped vegetables, beans, and rotten noodles, plus cheese, it’s a very boring soup that I don’t like.

The ancient Persians believed that red meat, starchy foods, and alcohol turned men into selfish burtes, while fruits, vegetables, chicken, and fish were mild foods that made men more respectable.

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The Iranians' distinction between the coolness and hotness of food is also a Chinese concept and has nothing to do with temperature. Generally speaking, animal meat (but not beef), wheat, sugar, desserts, wine, dried fruits, saffron, etc. are all hot.

Fish, yogurt, watermelon, rice and fresh vegetables are cooling.

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They pay great attention to the balance of cool and hot. For example, some walnut kernels are often added to pomegranate juice, because pomegranate juice is cool and walnuts are hot.

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This is their famous kabab. It is different from our barbecue. They first chop the mutton, beef or chicken into minced meat and then put it on a long iron grill. In addition to salad, sauerkraut, and lemon, there will definitely be other dishes beside the barbecue.

There are roasted tomatoes. When eating, you have to peel away the charred skin of the tomatoes. The hot flesh inside is actually quite delicious, with the strong taste of tomatoes that you have not seen for a long time.

Such a portion of grilled meat is quite large, and the meat is usually a bit salty.

The meat cooked in some stores is tender and delicious, while others are dry and hard to chew.

The most delicious dish I have ever eaten was in Mashhad. The three sisters I just met spent most of the day preparing the meal, and then drove me to a small mountain village in the suburbs for a picnic. The one with a little potato on it

The strips of roasted mutton, I think it is the best roasted mutton I have ever eaten in my life!

And that dish that doesn’t look very good is actually braised beef with vegetables and beans in sauce. What a rich flavor!

There are also saffron rice and homemade kimchi. Haha, I feel hungry now just thinking about it.

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Also, I miss those lovely three sisters.

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