Good morning, guys from another day here in Faraya, I am here with my buddy Fuad.
Good morning. And we are starting the day off to go
find if you followed along all of the Lebanon journeys, we are going to find
some Manoushes, one of my favorite foods here in Lebanon. It's basically pizza for
breakfast in the Lebanese form. So, one thing I want to mention though is right
now during the economic crisis the- a lot of the crisis is going on, not having
power for certain periods of the day. Something that happened to me the other
day, I don't know if I mentioned much in my last video but I got food poisoning,
and the hard part is you know some restaurants aren't necessarily able to
tell when their you know food might go under temp for a certain period of time.
And so, you never really know if you're gonna get sick or not right now.
Luckily, I didn't for three full weeks I was here so
it's not super- super common but Fuad is telling me that he did see in the news
that more and more people have been getting sick. So, you want to be a little
bit more safe, so we're gonna chase down some Manoushe. We're gonna find
some Manoushe that has thyme in it not as much like cheese or some of the usual
stuff, we get just to reduce any chance of gonna get sick because I only
have about eight days left in Lebanon before I’m gonna leave for a week, and
then I’ll come back. So, I want to make sure every day can count we can do as
much as possible, and we can show you guys so much of this amazing country. So
we're right now driving through like the would you call this like the downtown
area of Faraya? Yeah You can call it-
It’s like yeah- That's like a place where everybody like meets over there.
It’s like the center of the village. The center where everything's happening. Yeah
sweet, sweet. Yeah so, we're gonna go through this area, find a little Manoushe
spot. I think Fuad's got one in mind for us, and get some breakfast, get some
coffee, and we'll be sharing with you guys a lot of Faraya today, and in
tomorrow's videos it's like around the corner if you don't know just like less
than western minutes. Yeah, couple western minutes from where
we're staying. There it is we found it already it
literally took us like 30 seconds to get there.
No parking right in front, so we got to find another parking spot,
right on the side here. Alright, we have found a parking spot,
it is time to go get some Manoushe. Let’s go.
So, they've got what like a bunch of shop-- like bunch of restaurants here? I mean
like I know this is like it's called Top Saj yeah, the place to have a Manoushe,
Top Saj. Yeah, this is the one. Yeah, Top Saj right here,
and like have a coffee, and breakfast- Manoushe for breakfast or Manoushe
for brunch or dinner maybe. Yeah, you can have it at any time of the day. Whenever
you feel like. Yallah, bro let's go. Bonjour, Kifak [How are you?].
Hungry for some delicious Manoushe.
Oh yeah, this is where the freshly brewed coffee is made, yeah. Oh that's perfect,
two please. Two please brother. You feel like
espresso? What do you feel? Yeah something to really get us going boss. So
they're gonna hook us up with some very strong coffees here. Something- something
to wake us up in the morning. That’s gonna be good.
Got the- the fresh nestle machine there, see they're making it the Lebanese way.
They do the small cups of coffee, load it
up with caffeine. You’re calling it an espresso right?
That’s an espresso, yeah, yeah. So, I guess it's probably similar to like
an espresso you might see in the United States or some other place. You want
sugar with your espresso? Ah yes, please. Yeah.
Yeah, there we go. Oh yeah, there's two fresh coffees, ready to go. I’m gonna
load them up with sugar, get them- get them going.
Perfect. Merci, merci.
Get that sugar all stirred up in there. Feel like having vegetables with your
Manoushe? Yeah, you think it's- It'll be good for your
digestive system, and like vegetable is delicious with thyme.
Yeah perfect, that's- that's gonna be delicious right there. That's called the saj.
So, this is how it's made, yeah?
So, you toss it up on top. Oh yeah,
that's how you get it going. You can smell that thyme on there, cooking right
in there. It's gonna be delicious. Oh yeah, see that you can see it.
You can smell it in there.
That is good, that is delicious. That is going to be fresh, good to go.
No, no, food poisoning there, that's for sure. Alright, step two here, we're
moving over. So, we've got this thing cooked up.
Now we're gonna be-- What are we gonna be doing to this thing? Oh, we're going
to be tossing on some veggies out there. With vegetables it's called
za’atar.
Oh yeah, there we go, getting some tomatoes loaded up on that.
Oh yeah, it's getting that thing rolled up
that is Sammy style. This is almost gonna you know be like kind of rolled up
like a shawarma then.
Merci Habibi, look at that thing. Yeah oh yeah, that's gonna be good bro.
So, we've got the Manoushe here which I’m super, super excited to try out,
and then how do I even open this thing? So, this is-
so you don't have to open it. Yeah, there's a straw for this.
Oh, you put it inside the hole. So, it looks like there's a little hole up top.
So, let's try this out, it's like a this is a Lebanese juice box we call them.
Yeah, everybody loves them. Oh yeah, look at that hey that's- that's got a nice
little design to it.
Oh, that's good. That is good. Alright, let's go ahead
and dig right in yeah.
Fuad was right. Basically, with the veggies in there, it adds like this kind
of fresh cold texture in the middle while you have the warm Manoushe
surrounding it, so good.
I really like the way the flavor is in these compared to the other way the
Manoushes are cooked. And maybe, it's because it's also being eaten like a-
like a burrito style or a shawarma style. I like that you know, they're easier to
eat, and you don't feel like you're eating an
entire like pizza as I like to call them but an entire Manoushe. When it's wrapped
up like this it feels like a smaller wrap.
Fuad how's that thing tasting?
I’m almost finished, man.
So, that means he likes it. That means he loves it.
Habibi, one of my favorite Manoushes. Yeah, very good.
Delicious. Merci. Guys, I’m pretty sure you missed me having my last bite, and kind
of given my last words about the Manoushe. But basically
it was so good, so filling. Breakfasts here are pretty heavy in a good way but
that gets you ready for the rest of the day, and I have me fueled up,
and I think it's time to finish it off with a coffee. I haven't even had any f
the coffee yet, got the espresso. We're gonna take it as a shot though today.
Coffee is medicine. Oh, the medicine.
All gone, took it like a shot. We’re back in business.
Okay.
Merci The best Manoushe here habibi, merci.
So, from Manoushe here, it's about 40k for two Manoushes, water bottle, and two juices.
So, that comes out to about one dollar per person to have a delicious breakfast
at an amazing Manoushe place. So, definitely a place you want to come
check out, super nice people. They hooked us up with some great recommendations in
this area. So, really appreciate it. Merci Habibi.
So, we just got back into the car guys. We’re heading back to our apartment. So,
to put in perspective those six packs of water bottles are 20k per six-pack, yeah?
Yeah. So, about one dollar per six, 1.5 liter is it 1.5 one liter? One liter. One
liter water. So, six liters for one dollar so if you're coming here with
dollars, obviously your money goes pretty far. So, now we're
gonna be heading back like I said to our place, and in a little bit
this afternoon we're gonna go, and show you guys a little bit more of Faraya,
and we will see you then.
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