Trying OMANI FOOD for the First Time - SHUWA in FORTRESS RESTAURANT in Muscat, Oman!!
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As my adventures in Oman officially kicked off, I set out to a local mosque and tried Omani food for the very first time in Muscat, Oman!
Muscat is the capital of Oman and dates back roughly 900 years, though its roots go back even further. We started our day at Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque.
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The mosque was built in 2001. It’s made of Italian marble and features Islamic architecture. Our first stop was the main prayer hall, which is where you’ll find the giant chandelier and the carpet, which lost the title of the largest carpet and chandelier in the world to the mosque in Abu Dhabi.
I loved the intricate white detailing. Then, we took off our shoes to go inside. The chandelier was massive (it’s also the second largest in the world due to the mosque in Abu Dhabi), and the carpet is hand-woven!
I saw where the imam stands and leads the prayers. The walls there are very colorful and has scripture from the Koran. I suggest coming early, around 9 a.m., as they close before noon.
Next, we saw where worshippers wash their hands and feet before going in to pray.
Then, we headed to Rozna to have some traditional Omani food. The restaurant was built like a mud fortress. There were antique cars outside, and inside it was beautiful. There’s a big dining hall in the middle and 30 private, traditional dining rooms where you eat on the floor.
I watched a woman make rakhal, a thin, traditional bread made from wheat flour, on a griddle. You can fill it with eggs, chocolate, and more. You can even add chips!
I got one with eggs, cream cheese, and chips. I loved the crispiness of the bread and chips, and the creaminess of the cream cheese.
Then, we headed into a private dining room with Afghan carpets and pillows. After some fresh water, we had some camel bones soup. I loved the fatty, greenish broth. The tender camel almost reminded me of lamb.
Next was a Rocca salad, which contained arugula, pomegranates, and cheese. We used our hands to eat it. I loved the refreshing pomegranate and olive oil dressing.
We also had a pastry containing shuwa, which is a lamb leg that has been cooked with spices for roughly 24 hours. You dip it into pomegranate sauce. We also had a dry shark salad with onion, cilantro, tomatoes, and vinegar.
We also had chicken dum biryani, qabuli lamb (rice with lamb cooked underground inside a banana leaf), and a dish made of beef cooked in its own fat.
The lamb fritter with pomegranate sauce was amazing! I loved the savory and sweet combination. The dry shark salad with rice refreshing and flavorful.
Next was the meat qalya, which was like the beef fry I ate in Kerala. It was lean and tender, and great with the crispy, paper-like flatbread. Adding honey made it even better!
The ice-cold coconut water was super refreshing. Next was the qabooli shuwa (slow-cooked lamb with rice), the #1 dish in Oman. We added a tomato salsa. It was a blast of flavor! I loved the fat, salsa, chickpeas, potatoes, caramelized onions, and rice together!
It was so good, it might be my favorite rice dish of all time! Next was sweet, tender coconut. I was loving the Arabian and African influences in the food!
Finally, the chicken biryani was moist anf flavorful even with minimal spices. Then, we had dessert (luqaimat, khabeesa, date balls, and coffee) in another room, which is traditional.
The luqaimat was like a donut with sesame seeds and sugar syrup, the date balls were like a nutty date biscuit, and the khabeesa was a crumbly cake with rose water and saffron. We washed them down with iced Omani coffee (karak) with halwa, cardamom, and saffron.
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I’m not at all surprised with the hospitality of your hosts. Lived in Muscat for 21 years and all Omanis are like that. They make you feel like family. I’ve lived in 2 other Arab countries and Omanis are outstanding 👍by far the best
@mohammedalmahruqi294
Жыл бұрын
Thank Suzi
I was born in Oman.. Its like my home country... Im so blessed that i could live in this country for 32 years 🙏🙏🙏. Its very beautiful country ❤️❤️
Wow I’ve heard a lot of good things about Oman and based on this video, it certainly is worth a visit. Such a beautiful country.
I lived in muscat for 10 years one of the must friendliest countries in the world.
@nampijjanazifah6358
2 жыл бұрын
May be. If you are a white.
@bobnwa5978
2 жыл бұрын
حبيب
@zad.21
2 жыл бұрын
We appreciate you dear thank you so much I hope you enjoy in Oman ❤️❤️🇴🇲🇴🇲🇴🇲
@alizonda3891
2 жыл бұрын
Do you perhaps drive a hyundai elantra
I work in oman for 7years now and oman is a good &safe country I'm near in sultan qaboos mosque
This is absolutely the most beautiful place, country and food..i have to admit i could see myself dwelling there for a longtime.
You’re in my adopted country! Rozna is one of our favorite restaurants and Oman is the one of the most beautiful countries in the world!
Incredibly beautiful! Middle Eastern architecture and design always leaves me awe stricken! The food looks incredible! I would eat absolutely everything there! Great video! 🌟🌟🌟❤️❤️❤️
@theressamurphy2996
2 жыл бұрын
Oh my 🎉 yummy...learn to eat with my hands🤗
You will never taste anything like Omani Shuwa. It’s the most memorable dish I’ve eaten ever. And I’ve had the privilege of seeing it being prepared.
love Oman God bless u and bless ur ruler..nice place man..thank u for this
Props to the amazing hosts on this video, really good vibe and that food looked top tier.
Ahmed is my friend happy to see him here 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Oman is lovely country
Food 'made with love' really is more delicious,
Thank you for your wonderful visit. We hope that you will visit us again, but this time we invite you to the Governorate of Dhofar, Salalah, in the Khareef season, specifically between June and September. You will enjoy the beautiful green landscapes and waterfalls.
You just blown my thoughts away of this place with such delicious food. You just got me hungry and while you where eating my senses told me i am overeating😵💫🤤. This goes on my bucket list a place must vist. You changed my perspective of this place, just beautiful and this may be an understatement. Cheers from the tiny island Sint Maarten 🇸🇽
I must say the different meats with lots of different spices and rice makes me very hungry. Your taste buds are very happy. Thank you so much
I enjoyed this episode so much. The food looks amazing and I definitely loved the Islamic architecture 👍👍👍
Simply next level eating experience! ! Thanks for sharing with all! ! 👋
🙏 thanks again David for taking me to this place...wow have you ever thought of going to Papua New Guinea?
اذا جاي ف الشتاء افضل لك الجو جميل
nice country and friendly people
Wow! Looks delicious! So informative ✔️😊
You are welcome.. You are amazing man
I live in oman, and I love this place and it's people.
Beautiful video david
Loved the vibe ✨️
Been watching a handful of his videos and gonna start taking a shot everytime he says "right"
@Davidsbeenhere
2 жыл бұрын
Right? 😅😂
Camel meat is highly nutritional but with less bad cholesterol but not cholesterol-free. Nice cooking and meal there!
I am Omani and let me tell you when I am not in oman I get very home sick and the nature and the food and everything in oman love u oman
Congratulations on 1million subscribers. Wish you the best.
Such beauty everywhere!! And lovely people also. Its spotless everywhere.
david is one good looking man wow the world deserves many David's i love his humility
Thanks for sharing
Awesome food. I love Biryani & my mouth was watering when you were having them. What kind of eating style is that David? Lying & eating 😃
Amazing good food videos 🥰
Wow Amazing the video
omg sooooo delicious food😍
you should visit Salalah in oman
Welcome to muscat am from Oman, hope u loved oman
I like your video first time seeing channel you come off as a very intelligent well cultured person and humble as well definitely subscribe
So yummy food... Super tastey
Feeling great to watch our Rozna.. without any doubt very excellent and learning experience i have in rozna specially learn how to prepare shuwa at Rozna ... thanks David for remembering my special memories..love from india
Yummy this menu! Also love the salad reminds me of Zanzibar shark kachumbari salad
David, you’ve done it again. I’m starving. I can’t wait to try Indian food I have to do some research in Fort Myers
very interesting,like this
Some spices were grown in Zanzibar too
I haven't been to Oman..... Can't wait to go
We enjoy all you video's
Filmed on 2/2２/2２pretty awesome‼︎!👏
Great video.food looks amazing!!!
I ❤ Oman 🇴🇲👍
the best!!
that coconut are from salalah
Silk road and we see some similarities in food from India
Following u since u have been in Hangzhou
27:34 I had eaten shuwa 3-4 times in Muscat, Oman in 2009. It's wonderful! Even I tried shuwa just before leaving Oman knowing it's not going to be available anywhere else 😁😁😁
The new style of eating, on your stomach 😂😂😂😂. OMG David, love from INDIA 🇮🇳
The problem is Davidsbeenthere!! He knows and can see the familiarities of food and cultures.
Hope u like our country 💙💙🤍
It looks delicious and the way you eat makes me drooling🤤, though you won't get alcohol 😀
@bobnwa5978
2 жыл бұрын
🤣
@Deira854
2 жыл бұрын
He can in hotels
Love from India
Go iran my guy lmk if you need suggestions there
I was there from 10 years. It was so waram like 50 d. In day so hot. But cool land .
You should visit Egypt
I love camel soup, which contains gelatin, which is very useful😋😋😋😋😋
@bobnwa5978
2 жыл бұрын
يعجبش🤣
Is that Persian carpet in a beautiful Mosque?!
When we enter the mosque, we enter with the right foot and say “Allah hummaf tehli abwaabi rehamtik” and when we leave, we leave with the left foot saying, “Allah humma inni as alooka min fadhlik”.
2nd comment man😁
10:52 you're a beast 😆 🤣
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David, you are not fair to us chubby people. Always make me hungry watching your video. Enjoyed your every video. Big thumbs up to those hosts.
Why are you using plastic straw?
Food looks great, but not sure I could sit in that position to eat....
Are you sure this is not India ?
Bro I loved this series. The only thing I really dont like is when he starts to compare it to other food, other contries. It's vulgar enough to not even try to keep the food around the plate. He just shoves it relentlessly but besides that, it was a great series.
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this is the place I was born and brought up. But the food likes like a rip off Indian food.
@Deira854
2 жыл бұрын
So? Oman, Gulf region are neighbours of India and there is cultural connection between the two for 5000 years
@Da_Truth
2 жыл бұрын
Majority North Indian Mughal food comes from Muslims. Learn history.
@Deira854
2 жыл бұрын
@@Da_Truth True, but Muslim used spices found in India, which indians were already using, so it goes both ways
hindu or Christian they never clean hands after urine, or before eat, so it is haram to mess with them sharing any foods if it is in one cup to share.
@amreshr4254
2 жыл бұрын
who told you that? don't be a fool
@seabridgee
2 жыл бұрын
@@amreshr4254 i have seen my with own eyes even my hindu friends does, many times i told them to wash, they clean before food only when i am present. even many Sardaar Jis and christian does, not only in particular country, but every where you can sense bad smell from their outfits because not clean after urine, i am sure 101 % , but few jews i saw washing 50 - 50 on jews, even one drop of urine anywhere in body settles or evaporated it is haraam to touch that person anywhere on their body, we are not blind followers, we are proven followers with every thing proved on hygiene when you offer prayers to god. so, you should be clean always....because there is no time between prayers to check whom you met or whom you touched, should maintain clean always. these two haramis doing nonsense because to sell video on youtube, having cap on your head does not mean you are clean ! freaks
@alpha34098
2 жыл бұрын
Did you forget that Oman is a Muslim Country
Hahaha he thinks dosa fillings are not unique in India, so cute
I think the coconuts and banana leaves come by airloads from Kerala too !! quite surprised to see fresh banana leaves. im sure you are relishing the food but for your health please dont lie downand eat. you are blocking the gravity of the food to pass thru your digestive system. Always please sit upright while eating and drinking.
@humaidr
2 жыл бұрын
Coconut & Banana are grown by the south of Oman. Actually you can see Banana everywhere, I have one tree in my yard.
@buddhapiyao1315
2 жыл бұрын
@@humaidr wow thats nice. being a desert country I did not know bananas could grow there.
@humaidr
2 жыл бұрын
@@buddhapiyao1315 Oman has a diversity. You get the sea, mountains, wadis (valleys) and desert. It's mostly warm to hot all over the year. However, during the monsoon season, the south gets really green, where you can find some tropical trees there. Some parts especially mountains get really cold in winter, where they will grow some specific trees that suitable for that period of the year.
Pure H2O 😂😂
Bro .please don't try Indian food over there😁✌
@Deira854
2 жыл бұрын
That is Omani food
@samialsinani
2 жыл бұрын
I went to India, but unfortunately there is no cleanliness. Most places are not clean at all. Oman is a clean, beautiful and calm country from my point of view.
Good thing is most of asian countries eat food with hands 👌🏻 don’t understand why people say indian people eat with hands..eating with hands is best Only 6k views in 10hrs ..it could have been 100k plus views in 10hrs if you make indian video 😬
@Deira854
2 жыл бұрын
Arabs and Indians eat with hand. Not all asians
@Davidsbeenhere
2 жыл бұрын
Yea staying away from indian food for a while. I am diversifying more!
Sebef use chop sticks. Arabs eat with hands.
Omani don’t do fasting
@mohamednamani3320
2 жыл бұрын
That filmed before Ramadan was February
اللي لابس دشداشه بيضاء ياريتك ما تتكلم ،، واجد كلام ومعلومات شوي ،، the one with white dress should be more quiet,, I’m Omani don’t eat me
كان من المفروض من الاخوة العمانيين يقولو حق الضيف عيب مايصير تاكل وانت نايم على بطنك
@aymanalghafri1
2 жыл бұрын
صحيح
@Sara-ov4um
2 жыл бұрын
للاسف فيه فعمان عمانيين متجنسين من اصول غير عربية وما يندلون العادات العربية الاصيلة والتقاليد المتعارف عليها
@Almeerhamad
2 жыл бұрын
@@Sara-ov4um الله يحفظكم يا اهل عمان الكرام …. سلامي لكم من قطر
@Sara-ov4um
2 жыл бұрын
@@Almeerhamad شكرا فديتكم اخوي حمد وسلامي لاهل قطر الجميلة والله اشتقنا سوق واقف ومول الحزم
@Almeerhamad
2 жыл бұрын
@@Sara-ov4um يامرحبا والله فيكم في اي وقت وحاضرين لكم يا اهل الكرم والأخلاق …. انتو في القلب دائما
Sebef on Pefeneli wear Mongolian robes. Arabs are not like Sebef clothes.
U have to sit properly when u eat
It was disgusting while you were eating and I was sleeping on your stomach... I blame the Omani brothers
Omanis didn't have a cuisine until recently. They got the cuisine from South India because of huge number of South Indians working there
@Deira854
2 жыл бұрын
Are u kidding? Oman is a 5000 year old civilization. Yes Indian influence is there, because they are neighbours
@sumanmahesh85
2 жыл бұрын
Not entirely true. It definitely has a heavy influence in terms of the spices and ways of cooking. But Oman cuisine has its own standalone list of amazing unique dishes
@saliSali-bf4ri
2 жыл бұрын
💪🇴🇲🇴🇲🇴🇲🇴🇲🥇
@sumanmahesh85
2 жыл бұрын
If anything, here in South India, the current cuisine is completely adopted from Arab countries. All we see nowadays is Shawarma, Al Faham and Mandi. The people here need at least one of these everyday. And the people love it so much that probably 85%+ restaurants here serve just that.
@vj_great551
2 жыл бұрын
@@sumanmahesh85 yes agree but these adoptions are recent. Spices from india were exported since from Roman times