Legendary LEBANESE STREET FOOD in Western Beirut - Lahmadjun, Sambousek & Saj | Lebanon
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
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After arriving back in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, I set out to explore the western part of the city. Come with me as I try some insane Lebanon street food in western Beirut, Lebanon!
My friend and guide Nico and I started at Ichkhanian Bakery, one of the oldest bakeries in the country!
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At Ichkhanian Bakery, they make lots of amazing dishes, including lahmadjun, subberek, and manti. Lahmadjun is a baked flatbread topped with minced lamb, vegetables, spices, and other ingredients.
The lahmadjun is super crispy. It’s so savory and the lemon juice adds a zestiness! The Syrian style adds pomegranate molasses. It’s sweeter and juicier!
Then, I watched them roll out some dough to make manti. The Syrian-style one was so good, I took one to go.
As we walked through the neighborhood, we saw some old, abandoned palaces, including ones that had been hit with gunfire. We arrived at The Mansion, an old mansion where artists can work for free and exchange ideas.
It’s a 19th-century mansion with high ceilings and free WiFi. It’s a great place for Lebanese artists to get work done. There are more derelict 18th and 19th century mansions here alongside modern skyscrapers.
Then, we went to get some coffee from a stand on the street. got a double espresso for about $0.20 USD. It was very aromatic and tasty!
From there, we walked to Hamra Street, which used to be a very touristic street with cafes, theaters, and bars. Now, it’s full of commercial stores. We stopped by an open-air bakery selling snacks with lamb, cheese, chives, za’atar, and more.
I loved the spinach fatayer, which came stuffed with spinach and a bit of lime juice.
The fatayer bi jibneh was a soft, fluffy open pie stuffed with cheese and parsley. I loved it! And the sfeeha, or Baalbek-style meat pie, was unreal. It was both crispy and doughy and contained minced lamb.
The cheese sambousek reminded me of a cheese empanada and contained a nice, fluffy cheese. Finally, we had a little Lebanese-style pizza with cheese and an olive on top.
The lamb sambousek was tasty and crispy. What a great street food snack! It was my first time seeing a street food window like that in Lebanon!
Further on, we stopped at University Sage in front of the American University of Beirut. There, they make thin saj bread with fillings like tomatoes, cucumber, olive, lettuce, chicken, corn, and more. They cook it on a giant, dome-shaped griddle!
We ordered one with chicken, lettuce, pickles, corn, chips, barbecue sauce, mayo, and mustard. It was like a Lebanese burrito and was really delicious. I loved the bread and the mix of sauces.
Then, we stopped at Tonino Crepes and Waffles. They started off as a bakery but became famous for their crepes. Their crepes are thicker and softer than French crepes. We ordered one with white chocolate and strawberries.
I loved the white chocolate and strawberries! It was so different from a French crepe. It was so good and only cost $2 USD.
Then, we came across a vendor selling grilled ka’ak bread stuffed with cream cheese and za’atar for only $0.80 USD!
Then, we took a break from food and drove to Raouche Rock, which lies just off the coast. It reminded me of the Blue Grotto in Malta!
Our final stop was Barbar, a famous snack and pizza shop that sells famous sandwiches. They have chicken, fish, shrimp, crab, and more, but we went with the shrimp.
They pressed it. I liked the mayo, tartar sauce, pickle, and shrimp! The toasted bread was also amazing!
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Just another day in food paradise 😉😇🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🥂
Our house is close to the lahmadjun bakery (Ichkhanian Bakery), and the DC place (Discotheque Spears) is where I used to buy cassette tapes back in the 1980s.
I used to walk that road on my way back home from the American University of Beirut to Zkak El Blat.
Places and memories that have been carved for ever in my heart.
Great job David love every blog off Lebanon just Beautiful 🇱🇧🇱🇧♥️
I am always amazed at the volume of food you can consume., lol. Loved the video.
Your videos became a daily routine, love from Lebanon 🇱🇧
I grew up eating them, my Armenian little grandmother would make them for us at least twice a month, we ate them with a dill pickle in the middle
Wow, fills me with nostalgia for my native Beirut
I am a foodie… I enjoy cooking,travel and these travel food vlogs are my joys.
Very interesting foods. I’m a chef and a teacher. I found it very exciting to watch. Thank you for making such educational wonderful videos.
Jenn.Jones in Connecticut 😁
David is so American. All the excitement and the chit chat without any warmth or genuineness….
i had the opportunity of visiting family in the late 60s . Beirut was a beautiful place back then , the Paris of the Middle east. it was enchanting
I used to live in the hotel facing Barbar. At the end of the street facing it.... I loved his food, absolutely miss it !
Wow... the sounds he makes eating make me want some too.
Ok. He sold me! Anyone know where I can find a good Lebanese food place in the Boston area?!?!
For a restaurant I recommend Al-Wadi in west Roxbury and for a bakery Michaels in Methuen.
If you're in Boston then there all over but this dish is usually found in a bakery that i dont know if you'll find to many of
Move to L.A.
Arax market and eastern lahmejun in Watertown and Belmont
This is it. So good . Full support here 🇵🇭🇰🇼
nice food trip video David, Im here in lebanon and its good you are enjoying your travel vlogging here,
Everything looked DELICIOUS!
Safe Journey!
CHOLULA!!!
Oh thoese pie's look sooo good! Would love to try them.
I am surprised they eat lahmadjun alone. It goes best with sumac, parsley and onion and of course lemon and red pepper.
Yes. Those a lovely in a lahmadjun. But they’re not Turkish
Depends which type like mostly in Lebanon we eat them with lemon juice on the top and Lebanese yaourt
lahmadjun must be eating well cripsy with lemon juice and tomatoes 👌🏼
my best bro David awesome share lot of love from your cousin viki 💙🐥
The best lahmi bajen
The lebanese guy you have in the video definitely graduated from aub
Great video david
i wish taste it🥺🥺🥺
yuuumyyyyy 😋😋😋😋
it loooks tasty bro😋😋😋😋
wish to try it 😋😋😋😋😋😋😋
Yyyyuuuuummmmiiii☺️
Hi David I am not really a fan of sweets but when I craving for some love a little of white chocolate
Wow grt food.. expression look yummy😋
So David, how are you? put the values of the dishes you ate. Hug from Brazil.🇧🇷🇧🇷👏👏 Sorry my English is not the best.🤣🤣😭😭
Everything is cheaper than before the Chrisis and the same dish if you eat it in tripoli it's cheaper than Beirut depends where
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Sahtein david
But how can you eat all of these in such a time haha
Had hubby to substitute for your channel
Armenian foods😋
Love Armenian food ,they are really amazing 😘🇦🇲
Yummy food
You should go iran
Great
They eat a lot of dough based food. Bread, pastries, etc
We do but its not as much as you think for example it is unhealthy to eat a lot of these two or three days in a row
Good❤💚❤💚❤💚❤💚❤
Can someone tell me the name of the bakery
Big French influence in the Lebanese food
Literally no. Anything French influence is French like baguettes
there is zero influence of France in the Lebanese kitchen.
you eating paper too 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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David when will you come in Italy 😭😭😭😭😭🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
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Best videos ever
delicious ever dear friend 😋😋😋
Stop saying pizza 😂🤦 stop comparing our culture !! We didn't just stole the idea from the Italians! Manouches have been here forever and they don't even taste like pizza and we get them for breakfast by the way
How many times can you say "right"!!!!!!
I think he takes the blue ribbon for saying "Right?" more often than any other food and travel UA-camr if not any other UA-camr period. Also don't you hate all the uptalking so many people do in America these days? Nobody can seem to make a statement anymore that sounds like one. David doesn't do that much uptalking. He generally sounds confident when he speaks. But so many make statements which sound like they are asking a question (as if they aren't very sure of what they are saying) and asking for confirmation from the audience or listener(s) by rasing their voice at the end of what they are stating. Such as, "It is raining today (?)" but they raise their voice as if they are asking and not telling..
Another annoying thing is the 'over-use/incorrect use of the word "for" (that actually changes the meaning of the sentence that the speaker doesn't even realize he's done unintentionally) when the word "about" should be really used. Such as ,"I'm excited for trying that" when what is really meant is "I'm excited about trying that". Then there is the overuse of the word "on". "I'm waiting on a package to arrive." should be, "I'm waiting for a package to arrive". You never use "on" with "waiting" unless you are literally sitting or standing "on" something while waiting for something. Such as,"When you finish your errand, I'll be waiting for you on this bench" You also never use "for with "excited" unless you are excited about what is happening to another person in which case you are excited for someone who should also be excited because they deserve to be excited. For example, I'm excited for my sister because she placed first in the race and will take the grand prize..
Lahmadjun is not even a Lebanese word, and most Lebanese and non Lebanese familiar with the food will say huh?? What? You butchered the word man!
Lahma-b-Ajeen ...litterally meat on dough
Those are armenians lebanese (they still speak armenian even after more than a century since migration)
28min nothing but pastries.. what’ve you added beside your likes and $ from UA-cam
In Lebanon there are Loads of Armenian people
Yep and we do Love them
They are the only pple who too refuge in Lebanon and respected the Lebanese law and lived with Lebanese pple without trying to take the country and lived and proud to say they are Lebanese Armenian
Compared to the Palestinians who tried to take Lebanon when Israel took their land and now because of their stupid act they are in a camp and blaming Lebanese why they dont allow them to work
@@28Justchecking you want go gossip and chatter politics!?...here are some truths that most Lebanese dont know and dont like to admit... back long long time ago Beirut was empty and bland and not thriving... then some westerners came, mostly religious missionaries who set up schooling structures, orphanages, hospital...etc... also there came Armenians who were refugee survivors of the Turkish genocide on Armenia...
the Armenians were more enterprising, open to vocational education and welcoming traditional change than the majority Lebanese, who were still set in traditional village clan mindset and lifestyle ...
Armenisns became the nurses, teachers, jewellers, accountants, photographers, musicians, laundretts etc...etc.. they uplifted and brought Beirut into modern times of that day, this started to modernise this new country called lebanon... it took a few decades before majority Lebanese were willingly involved as a work force or educationaly on par.
The term 'Lebanon was the Paris of the middle east' was just a "1 liner" from the major advertising marketing campaign to promote Lebanon in the 1960's as a new "everything goes" tourism playground for the World 2come and enjoy. The line did pick up slighty abroad but succeeded far more with the Lebanese than internationaly.
If it wasn't for all the foreigners stepping in to Lebanon from end 19th century to early 20th century 2set up a modern infastructure and community, then perhaps? or not? Lebanon may not be the bubbling place it is today.
They came escaping from the Turks and Lebanon was christian at that time and they pretty like it here and we liked them you know
@@elaceaceak2357 Lebanon was Never Christian...it was and is only partly Christian and partly Muslim, Drouz and Jewish. It has never been 1 religion country. Armenians fled and settled in many countries both in the whole region from Jordan to Syria and beyond...to Europe and the Americas.
@@greenleaf8226 you sure ? I thought that Lebanon was christian a long time ago
Hahahaha "Armenian Lahmacun"??? The entire menu for that Armenian bakery is in Turkish, its listed right there in Turkish words.."Su Borek" they even have "Manti" 100% Turkish Central Asian food thats interesting... they didnt serve the lahmacun with suman onion, parsley and tomatos? They are definitely Turkish Armenians...Usually the Arab world doesnt have Lahmacun or they serve something different for it.. but this is exactly like Turkish lahmacun but without the vegetable sides.
I'm loosing "my confidence " mai itni mehnat krti hu pr lekin koi chote UA-camr ko support ni karta sb stars ko karte h bs 🙏🙏😪😪😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Hey Brother did you get a divorce? Only asking cause I've noticed most of your videos lately you aren't wearing your wedding band.
wth is "western beirut"
Lahmacun is Turkish not armenian my friend!
It is Arabic in origin, not Armenian or Turkish. It literally means meat with dough
@@allalone393
It is Turkish, Turks have patent on it
@@samil041205 What do lahmacun mean in turkish ? 🤣🤣 Her real name is lahm (meat) b ajin (dough)
Lech lahem b3ajoun ma fhemet😂😂🤦♂️🤦♂️esma lahem b3ajin madel ma n3alim l ajenib leghetna serna nehna mnet3alam menoun kif mnolfouz
երբ տեսնում եք նման մարդկանց, խնդրում եմ, մի խառնվեք նրանց հետ կամ թույլ տվեք նկարել ձեր խանութը, այդ մարդկանց մեծ մասը Մուսադի գաղտնի գործակալներ են: արթնացրեք
ժոգովուրտ 🙄🤔😡
Stop calling lemon lime
face diapers are so 2020
Herşeyi çalıyorsunuz. Birde bizim diyorsunuz. Bu nasıl bir saygısızlık
It’s not Lebanese, just like pizza isn’t Lebanese!
It's manouches we have it in the shape of a tacos usually for breakfast and there is more than 60 variations most of them are vegan
Yeah and by the way they are better with vegetables specially the zaatar one
Not tomato saus nothing like this and even the bread isn't like the pizza bread (depends where you are eating it )
Bruhh these food not belong lebonese its turkish foods
David not good vedio