Saudi restaurant offers baby camel burgers
A fast food restaurant in Saudi Arabia is offering baby camel burgers as the latest way for the camel-crazed country to enjoy one of their favourite delicacies.
Specialities such as camel liver have long been on the menu of upmarket restaurants in the Gulf Arab state, but the experiment with baby camel burgers has met with enthusiasm in a country where the camel is a symbol of nomadic traditions.
"The idea...was to invent something new. It is about the love of Saudi people for camel meat," said Saleh Quwaisi, one of the owners of the Local Hashi Meals restaurant in the capital Riyadh which plans to open a second branch soon and considers to expand further.
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Walid Sanchez, managing director of sufraiti.com, a popular Saudi online dining directory, sees a huge market for camel burgers as Saudis like to try out new menus and appreciate the quality of locally made meat.
Some experts also say camel meat is healthy because it is low in fat.
"People like camel meat but no one experimented with camel burgers before...I think it will be a popular thing, it will definitely take off," said Sanchez.
Customers visiting the packed restaurant in Riyadh agreed.
"I'm frankly trying it for the first time and I really like it," said Mohammad Naghi.
"It doesn't have much fat, it's light and has a delicate taste," he said as he chewed away.
Ahmad al-Okaili, ordering "Hashi" burgers - Arabic for baby camel - for him and his children, agreed: "I like their idea and enthusiasm, they're the first to do this and they've become famous with it, which is well-deserved."
While tremendous oil wealth has brought rapid modernisation to the desert state of Saudi Arabia, the camel remains celebrated due to its connection with the traditional nomadic lifestyle of Bedouin Arabs.
Throughout history, the camel has served multiple purposes as food, friend, transport and war machine. It was key to the Arab conquests of the Middle East and North Africa nearly 1,400 years ago that brought Islam to the world.
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Hey johnpur... Tell us more about the pork!
I thought it was lighter than Lamb's?
Salam
little Heavy on the stomach at first time..
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Camel is made up of iron or what ?
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u need a strong stomach to eat camel meat :P
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I would love to see more of these local businesses, if this pilot picks up, it can become a chain, later. I'd be the first visitor with my large family, we can be regulars if the food is healthy, presentable and yummy.
Salam
Let it penetrate Gulf market first.
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I believe camel burgers are expected to penetrate the far east market soon.
damn .. camel meat is delicious ..
pork?! where?!!
'SO DARK THE CON OF MAN'
who ses pork is not possible here? I just ate pork the other day
Camel Meat ? Yummy !!
Love if they serve Camel Milk as well along with tat burger....Yummmmmyyyy
Draj
Sorry to tell u but it is NOT Possible here
not intrested on camel porducts but very much on pork.... wish i could get it here..
I hope this was not what DaRuDe fed us when the last time we went to his Camel Farm?..:)
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Which outlets selling Camel products in Qatar?
Burgers.. Camel or beef or chicken.. everything tastes the same !
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