Review - Watan Kabob (Afghani restaurant)

If you used to eat Meditterranean food, you will appreciate the meal I'm about to review. It's an Afghani dish called Chaplee kabob from Watan Kabob. An aromatic and hot (spicy) beef patty, grilled to perfection. Served with seasoned rice and salad,  Afghani style spicy salsa and naad bread on the side. A full meal that can make you skip your dinner. I don't recommend this meal for dinner as it will be too heavy to have before you go to bed. Ironically, the combo which I just described called Chaplee kabob dinner meal :) The lunch version is only served with salad and naan bread.

The restaurant have other kabob options, but I found that Chaplee in particular tasted the best because of the spices it used and mixed into the beef patty.

To cool down the spicy meal, this place only has one, yes, one offering of dessert on their dessert menu. But it won't dissapoint you, if you enjoy eating custard. The dessert called Firnee. It's a milk custard topped with crushed pistachio nuts. Taste was not too sweet, with subtle flavour of milk. 

It was the perfect ending to the meal. Price for Chaplee kabob dinner mean is $9.49 and Firnee is $1.99. Well worth the price!

Royal Dansk Danish butter cookies - blast from the past!

Few weeks ago I was suddenly thinking of butter cookies I used to eat when I was at my early teens. The cookies came in a blue coloured round shape tin. It had small paper cups in it with each cup had about 3 to 4 cookies. Taste was nothing amazing, but it was tasty. After the thought of it, I found myself in a quest to find it :P So, I did found it at one of the local supermarket (Fresh Co.) thankfully it was the holiday seasons so it was available. It was not the same brand that I used to it, nor the taste was as good as I rememberred. But at least I found it.

Then one afternoon we went to an Afghani restaurant, located not far from it was a supermarket which sell lots of European items, Kosher items and freshly baked Challah bread. Supermarket is called Highland Farms. As we walked in the door, there were shelves of chocolates and biscuits displayed everywhere. As I walked around the shelf, there it was....the Royal Dansk Danish butter cookies I knew! What a blast from the past! :D And yes, it tasted exatly how I always knew and liked it. Too bad Highland farms didn't carry the bigger tin which has the cookie with raisins but, hey, I didn't complain. Enjoy!

Review - Qoola (Frozen yogurt)

The first frozen yogurt "ice cream" I tried from a stall (not the one you can buy in a tub at a supermarket) was Yogen Fruz, which I think was the first of it's kind. Then, I tried Pinkberry in MOE (Dubai) and Tutti Frutti in Ibn Battutta mall (Dubai). The recent new frozen yogurt shop I encountered was Qoola.

The difference between Qoola and the other two shops I've mentioned was that it's a self service from the time you pull down that lever of the ice cream machine, to put as much yogurt as you'd like to the paper cup, to the varities of toppings which you can put on top of your piling up yogurt, including three types of popping boba, which was like little tapioca pearls but instead of the texture being chewy, it bursts as soon as you bite into it! Too bad that the shell/ lining was made out of seaweed (I assume agar agar), because I don't eat seaweed. Taste of the yogurt was similar if it's not the same with the rest of its competitors. However, Qoola offers more varities especially the fruity flavoured yogurt.

I contacted Qoola Management and asked if the yogurt contains carrageenan (by product of seaweed) or cream (which contains carrageenan), and he confirmed that some of the non-organic yogurt contains carrageenan but non of their product contains cream. This is good news for me & my husband!

The picture shown here was a mixed of passion fruit and peach yogurt with popping boba (strawberry, lychee & mango). This was before I knew it used agar agar to made the popping boba :(

Below is an example of popping boba ingredients with passion fruit flavoring which I got from here.