Best Qatari food brands
Hi!
Any ideas on which Qatari snacks I can give to family and friends on my first time coming home? I'd like to avoid highly perishable foods like baqlava. I'm more interested in commercially available packaged snacks. I'm looking to purchase locally manufactured snacks similar to Cheetos and Doritos, but I am not sure which products are actually homegrown/Qatari. The Lulu brand, I think, is from India. It's the Qatari equivalent that's what I'm after.
No, I don't plan to buy the stereotypical Filipino gifts (e.g. chocolates and dates) since these are common brands back home that are available in the imported goods section of virtually every supermarket. Don't get me wrong, I'm not being a cheapskate. I just want friends and family to experience local Qatari commercial foodstuff like corn snacks.
Thanks!
Also, if possible take some of the arabic coffee, ask the coffee grinders here for some of the powder to take home to make yourself and serve, just a thought.
Next option, Halwa or Halawa, yummy
Most likely as Brit said at Souq waqif or some of the arabic inclined sweet shops.
* The reason that I'm avoiding these now is that I want to give them something new.
@Angelo Thanks, but I have been sending them dates and the regular pasalubong (I'm presuming that you're Filipino by your username) stuff way before. The reason that I'm avoiding these now is that I want them something new. Chocolates and dates are all too common already. Additionally, gadgets, jewelry and perfumes can get clichéd and overrated at times.
PM, sorry, know you are not interested in chocolates and dates. however, try dates as a snack to carry home. The inch and half long, they are expensive but limited to this area of the gulf. All the best in your choice.
A "typical" Qatari snack are dates and camel milk. Something some people will never forget in their lives because it can have some funny effects on the digestion system of those who aren't used to it.
@britexpat Thank you for the suggestion! I'll try the souq you suggested.
AmAm, In some of the cases people do take advantage .
People won't remember u even how much u feed them.
I doubt whether there are many "local" snacks.. however, take a trip to Souq waqif and look at the shops there .. you will find something