1. Date palm, a gourmet specialty.

Date palm can be seen everywhere in the daily life of Sudanese people. In addition to using it as a cash crop, there are also gardens on both sides of the street. It is a perfect place for greening. As long as there is water, you can see green date palm trees. In the eyes of the Sudanese people, the date palm tree is tall, upright, beautiful, generous, and selfless, and contains almost all the virtues expected by humans.

Both rich people and poor families with financial constraints can afford dates. Moreover, they are durable in storage and very nutritious. People like to soak them in water and ferment them into edible drinks. .

2. Frankincense

For a long 4,000 years, the frankincense trade has been the economic pillar of Sudan, directly or indirectly affecting the lives of all southern residents. The Dhofar people of Sudan, Oman, have long used frankincense to purify drinking water. The locals also like to chew frankincense as chewing gum in their mouths to freshen their breath.

The fragrance of frankincense still lingers in every household in Oman's urban and rural areas, giving Oman the reputation of "the land of frankincense". It adds a bit of elegance to the simple Omani people.

3. Art specialty - small black wood root carving art

Sudan’s root carving art is very famous. Root carving is made using tree roots through a series of manual processes. completed artwork. Not all finished root carvings can become works of art, and the selection is very particular. The flowers and colors of root carvings are also the best evidence of the location of the root material. This is precisely the part of the root material that is most difficult to imitate.

The root carving artwork should reflect the "exquisite humanities" to the greatest extent. The root carving shape should reflect the beauty of the material, respect the material structure of the root material, and use the reduction and time of chiseling to create a pure and enlightened image. The work must be unique and complete, with raw material color, fine polishing, and appropriate arrangements.

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Sudanese food culture

As it is located in the north of the Red Sea and close to Kenya and other African countries, Sudanese cuisine is deeply influenced by its geographical location. In Sudanese cooking, the most popular are sesame nuts, rice, wheat meat and fish. In general, the necessary ingredients are obviously meat, vegetables and spices.

To make Sudanese food, you need to know how to add the right amount of spices to the food and the combination of various spices to achieve the authentic flavor. The spices in Sudanese food are similar to other spices in the world. The secret is that you have to use specific spices with specific foods. This is how to identify Sudanese food from other different food cultures.

In Sudan, hospitality is a local tradition. Because the locals are educated in the religion, the tradition of hospitality is real. So it is very common for Sudanese people, as hosts, to hold large banquets with delicious food. It is tradition for locals to place dishes on huge silver platters for guests to taste.

In order to let the guests experience the warm Sudanese hospitality, they will fill their plates with delicious food. It's part of Sudanese culture that you have to sit with your family but not eat alone, so the feast only happens when the whole family arrives. Sudanese people usually eat around 2 p.m., from about 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

So the locals make sure that everyone will be at the table at this time, and no one can say that I don’t want to eat, or that I will eat it later, or that I am not hungry. At 2:30, everyone will return home, dinner is ready, and everyone enjoys dinner together.

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