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Heil & Zafa’aran Eid Breakfast Basket

Just before the start of the Eid holiday Heil & Zafa’arn, a local bakery selling traditional Kuwaiti desserts and sweets, sent me a big basket filled with their goodies. The basket had a greeting card attached to it with the words “Eid Breakfast” printed on it in Arabic, and a lavish Eid breakfast basket it was indeed!

Personally I’ve always been a fan of Heil & Zafa’aran ever since they’ve opened around a decade ago. They specialise in taking the traditional Kuwaiti desserts and modernising them by making them bite sized or dipping them in chocolate. Their presentation of individually wrapped bite sized goodies and the ready-to-sell tin boxes with different combination are a hit. I always make sure I grab some tins with me for friends abroad when I travel, they have a kiosk in Kuwait Airport departures. Now let’s see what’s inside, shall we?

The most popular Kuwaiti desserts were there, all arranged in traditional wicker baskets and wrapped up nicely! Let’s see, there were a basket of ghuraiba, the equivalent of a Kuwaiti cookie made with cardamom and a type of flour I can’t recall now. Also, packets of mini darabeel, which are like round Kuwaiti crepes, dry and filled with saffron, cinnamon, and powder sugar.

What to do with darabeel? You dunk them in a cup of hot milk infused with cardamom and they will instantly become soft and insanely delicious, a favourite breakfast item of mine especially in the cold winter mornings.

Also, there were samsamiya which are little balls of sweet and chewy sesame and molasses.

Baqsam, long dry bidscuits with sesame that people dunk in tea with milk for breakfast or dinner. I’m not a fan of baqsam but everyone I know is crazy about it.

Bars of rahash -thick sesame paste- and halwa -sugary and sweet concoction with nuts- were there as well. I’m not a fan of rahash but Kuwaitis are of course, they wrap it with pieces of hot tanoor bread or use it as a dip with pieces of dates. I’m -sadly- a very big fan of halwa and I wouldn’t mind eating 3 bars of it on my own.

Lesan el thoor, dry biscuits with saffron, and baith el qe9a were there as well.

Last but not least, an insanely aromatic, lip-smacking delicious, super moist qers oqaily cake!

Qers Oqaily is the number one traditional cake in Kuwait. Unparalleled, and prepared with lots of eggs and plenty of ground cardamom, saffron, and sesame. The result is a dense yellow cake that is spectacular especially with a cup of tea with milk. Heil & Zafa’aran’s qers oqaily cake is one of my favourites especially the tiny bite-sized individually wrapped ones. They even have a version of them dunked in chocolate!

Quite an eid basket indeed! All you’d need is a cup of tea and some hot cardamom infused milk and you are ready to go! I’d totally recommend this basket as a gift or as something to bring along with you if you are invited to someone’s house for a gathering, especially if it was a breakfast gathering.

Heil and Zafa’aran have recently changed their management and are now owned by MMC group, the same owner of Lenotre and Cafe Meem. I can only begin to imagine the potential of Heil and Zafa’aran under the new management! Thank you Heil & Zafa’aran, MMC Group, and Ansam Al-Radwan for sending this lovely Eid breakfast basket my way. Wishing you the best of luck and can’t wait to see what you come up with next.

Heil & Zafa’aran are located in Jabriya right beside McDonald’s and in the departures hall of Kuwait International Airport. For more information you can call them on +(965)-25329232 or follow them on instagram (@HeilWZaafaran).

The Moons of Forgiveness Display in Dubai Mall

There is something magical about Arabian calligraphy, I’ve always stopped and admired a beautifully written letter in Arabic for as long as I could remember, and there are many different fonts, each spectacular in it’s own way. When I was last in Dubai I was walking around in Dubai Mall when I saw a spectacular sight that made me stop and pay attention.

Big round discs, all shining and engraved, connected to one another but what seems to be melting metal. On closer inspection, you realise that the melting metal is actually Arabic letters, moving from one disc to another and taking the other letters with them. They didn’t seem like random collection of letters either, it’s like they are telling some sort of story or text. So beautiful, so creative, and very different indeed!

I got closer to the panel where the story of those discs was engraved. The artistic display was labelled “Moons of Forgiveness” by a talented Emarati artist and sculptor Mattar Bin Lahej. The discs are supposed to represent the moon in the different phases of the lunar month, 9 in total, specifically the month of Ramadan which is the month of forgiveness, hence the moons of forgiveness. The letters are those from Surat Al-Ikhlas in the Holy Quran.

It took me about an hour, standing in the waterfall atrium of Dubai’s mall, admiring the different moons and the beautiful calligraphy while taking pictures. There were so many details to take note of, wherever you look there is a new beautiful angel to admire. Many people were around the moons taking pictures even though they’ve been there for over almost the entire month of Ramadan.

I’m not sure if the Moons of Forgiveness are still on display in Dubai Mall but if they are and you happen to be in Dubai you must go check them out. They are more beautiful in real life. How beautiful masha2 Allah, the moons were spectacular!

Summer in Kuwait Means: Khallal Dates Time!

Driving through the streets of Kuwait, you notice the fruit bearing branches of palm trees covered in green mesh and waiting. Inside the green mesh, the millions of date fruit are slowly ripening. These days, the time has come to take the dates out and see how they’ve turned out.

Usually the people of Kuwait would distribute the dates from their palm trees to family members and friends. I’m not a date eater, and can’t tell which kind of date or what phase is it in exactly, but my grandmother always insists I get my yearly share of her palm tree’s dates. I think she used the words Khallal or Retab but I’m not sure which is which so I’m going to stick with khallal. Big branches of khallal dates that made my husband happy.

Those big branches with the yellow fruits on them are what people send out. The dates at this stage are still not entirely ripe and when you bite into them they have a bit of crunch to them. According to my husband, they were unbelievably sweet and really good. Usually consumed with a glass of thick cold buttermilk, they have excellent nutritional properties and would make a meal entirely out of themselves.

The kind of dates they’ll turn out to be once they are fully ripened an transformed depends on the kind of tree they came from. Sukkary, berhi, or ekhlas if again I’m not mistaken. This is what I’ve heard from my father and husband anyway. How do people know the difference is beyond me, I guess from the taste or colour/shape?

I doubt you could use those dates in any recipe at this stage, not that I’m a fan of dates in food either. I’m going to set aside my husband’s share and then distribute the rest, want some, or do you already have too many at home?

Sifting through the golden fruits of the dessert, I found some half and half fruits like the one above. They have a name in Arabic that means half and half, nesafi or metnasef or something similar and I know many people who prefer this half sugary sweet half crunchy dates.

There were a handful of fully ripened dates but they were a bit squished and sticky, the dates at that stage are most likely called rotab and once they dry up a bit and lose some of their sticky moisture they become the dates everyone knows.

Many people around Kuwait are now making use of the dates they have on hand and are making different local desserts like tamreya or rangina which is a desserts of cooked dates with sugar, butter, and flour. Yes, not a fan but if they little golden fruits cooperate well and are all ripe and sticky I might make some for my husband and if I do I’ll be sharing on my blog.

Do you like khallal or retab? What do you usually do with them during this time of year? I wonder what happens to all the dates hanging from the palm trees in the highways and streets in Kuwait though?

The Nurseries Invasion on our Neighbourhood

There was a block of houses, all white and modern and lovely, being built in our neighbourhood close to our apartment. I passed by everyday, thinking to myself how beautiful they were and how, if one day I ever get to build a house of my own, I’d love to have one just like those. The construction on the houses was finally complete a few months back, a ‘for rent’ sign was put over them for a few days, and then the tragic transformation began.

Apparently some new “nursery” decided to rent the entire block of houses except one. They have surrounded the multiple parking of the houses with a high fence, grey bars dotted with colourful circles, put up a metal canopy to shade the surrounded area transforming it from a parking space to a play area, less than a meter away from the road where the cars and the fumes are. The facade of the lovely modern buildings is of course obstructed by the make-shift play area and now there is a huge glowing sign announcing that it’s a big nursery. The fifth nursery to open up right next door to the house where my rented apartment is in the past year.

Why do we need so many nurseries in such little space? Do we really have that many children that need to go to nurseries and there aren’t enough space? Is there any justification why, in one block of houses, there are five nurseries each within a five-minute walk from each other? What’s my take? Those nurseries cause traffic, the one right next door to me is very noisy, people dropping and picking up their children always block my path and sometimes take my own precious shaded parking. Not only they operate in the morning till afternoon, they are used in the evening as classrooms for anything and everything: religious teachings, arts and crafts, school subject revisions, etc. which means the crowds, of the five different nurseries, are always there blocking entrance and causing noise and unwanted traffic. Most importantly, they look ugly!

How ugly? Some nurseries are so ugly you feel your eyes hurt and you cringe as you look at the once beautiful house wrecked into a childish. A child wouldn’t care if the building he went into was painted flubber-green with fluorescent yellow polka dots and electric blue stripes. Passers by, people who built houses and paid fortunes to make them look presentable, people who look out their window day and night, people who sit in gardens to enjoy a cup of tea in the peace and quite care.

The picture at the very top of this post is a picture of a nursery in Brighton, UK. Do you see anything remotely resembling a circus? No. Do the children of Brighton feel less happy than the children of Kuwait because their nursery is not painted like a rainbow with barn animals drawn all over it? No. Had we not been standing at a stop sign and I was gazing at the house I wouldn’t have noticed it was a nursery, or a day care at all. Plus, there was only one in many, many blocks and streets I’ve passed by. Even in Dubai, the nurseries look presentable and are distributed logically.

I’ve long given up on nurseries that don’t scare people off, I can look away and live with that. I cannot live with five nurseries crowding the street surrounding where I live, five that I can see in one single block with an actual government kindergarten in the middle. There should be some law limiting the number of nurseries to at most one per block in one area, two at most if the block is really large. This is ridiculous and like everything around here, seems to be getting out of hand since there is no guarantee a sixth, seventh, even a tenth nursery would open up soon to join the neighbourhood of nurseries in the area.

What do you think? How many nurseries are in your area and surrounding where you live?

Dinner at Eight Restaurant

A couple of weeks ago users on instagram began sharing the account and pictures of a new restaurant in Kuwait City that goes by the name of Eight. I saw the pictures and the bio of the restaurant promised an exclusive, luxury, dining experience and I knew I wanted to try it at once.

Located at Al-Ghawali mall right opposite Al-Raya mall and across the intersection of Al-Hamra Tower, the location is lively and happening. Eight opens from 6 P.M. to 11 P.M. since they are still in their soft opening phase and a reservation is required. With my travelling for Eid and coming back exhausted, I finally had the chance to try it last Thursday night for dinner after I called in and reserved a table.

There was no trouble locating Eight, it’s right there on the street and Al-Ghawali mall have a multi-storey parking. From the outside it looked so quite and for a moment we suspected it wasn’t really opened, then we opened the big charcoal-grey doors and we were inside a lovely dining area, softly lit with a dark and broody feel. We were greeted promptly by the friendly waiters and asked if we had a reservation and when we did confirm, we were led to our table at once.

I loved the interior of Eight, all grey, copper & brass chains, and cement walls, quite modern with an industrial feel. It felt luxurious without resorting to stiff white cloth tables. The chairs were comfortable, with a little discreet hook you can use to hang your handbag on the side. I loved Eight’s attention to detail.

The big windows of Eight were covered with curtains, sheer enough to let the light from the street in yet still not ruining the cosey move of the diners. The idea is to engage with your fellow diners, which were all dressed up and bubbly. The ambiance is amazing, relaxed and quite yet lively.

The menu was big, album-like, and shiny. Inside though there were only two pages. A handful of salads, a handful of appetizers, and a handful of main dishes with three desserts. The drinks section only had soft drinks, no fresh juices or hot beverages. Most of the salads and appetizers were vegetarian friendly but for a main dish you only have the pink parpadalle option.

My diet coke, with ice and lemon.

Our first course, the Brie Cheese and Arugula Salad over Apricot Jam. How good does that look?

I’m a big fan of cheese with fruits, and brie cheese, and sweet with savoury. The brie was breaded and fried but it didn’t feel heavy. However, the apricot jam was too sweet. So sweet in fact, the whole dish felt like I was eating Qatayef and it did need a sour edge to it, like a squeeze of lime or less sugar in the apricot jam. My husband disagrees with me and thinks the dish is brilliant. Needless to say he finished it all. It’s a must try.

The second course, Grilled Eggplant in tomato sauce & cream on bruschetta. I loved this dish, the flavours complemented each other perfectly and the drizzle of balsamic glaze on top was the perfect touch.

I do have one warning though, don’t attempt to bite into the loaded bruschetta and try to cut it into little pieces with your knife though, otherwise it would be very messy.

My husband ordered the fried sweet potato with cola-braised ribs. He enjoyed this dish a lot.

I stole a couple of potatoes and I thought it was good. A tad spicy but not too spicy.

Next came the main dish, parpadalle pasta with pink sauce.

I’m not usually a fan of pink pasta but this parpadalle was really, really, really good. I enjoyed every bite indeed and I would recommended it for anyone who loves pink pasta. The only thing I didn’t like about it is that it was a tad spicy, like a pink arabiatta. It was OK and luckily I had my gaviscon with me in case my stomach was upset with the heat.

I had to try their desserts and there were only three to try from. We ordered the vanilla bean ice cream over tortilla chips topped with toffee and pecans.

The dessert was ok. Not bad really, but it was quite messy and there was nothing much to it really. This was our least favourite dish of the night and we wished we had gone with the Swiss chocolate shots instead.

Our total came to about 16 or 18 KD. Not bad at all for a lovely quite dinner on a Thursday night in a trendy new restaurant.

All in all, I had a fabulous dinner experience at Eight, so lovely I didn’t want to leave! Lots of people, all dressed up and ready to enjoy the weekend came and went through the big doors asking for tables. The delightful ambiance lasted until a couple came in with a cute toddler who decided to walk between the tables and squeal too loudly from time to time, breaking the spell and finally getting us out of our seats. I’d definitely go back again and wish when they open full-time that they’d include more of the trendy food concoctions on their menu, the likes of the brie cheese and apricot jam salad and braised cola ribs with sweet potatoes. Perhaps more vegetarian-friendly mains as well. Great job Eight, keep up the good work.

Eight Restaurant is located in Kuwait City, in Al-Ghawali Mall right across from Al-Raya mall. They are open from 6 P.M. until 11 P.M. and a reservation is required. For reservations and more information you can call them on +(965)-22320606 or follow them on instagram (@EightKw).

Movie Review: Elysium

I was looking at cinema listings for Jobs movies in both cinescape and grand cinema in Kuwait when I noticed a movie listing with an “exclusive” written next to it. I did a little research and realised that a movie that it was called Elysium that it starred Matt Damon and Jodi Foster, and that it resides 3rd on the US Movie Box Office list, and that it was indeed showing exclusively on grand cinema’s screens and not cinescape’s.

It’s about time we saw some difference in the movies shown in the two cinema companies in Kuwait. I only wish they’d raise the bar on the VIP movie service and try to match that of the platinums vip in Dubai’s cinemas. Back to the movie: it’s about a point in Earth’s future where the privileged and wealthy leave planet Earth and live in their own space colony named Elysium. Those less fortunate people left on earth are scrambling for food and healthcare and when one of them, Matt Damon, get very ill and has only days to live he decides he must get up there -which is not allowed- and try to heal himself with health repair pods available in every home for the people of Elysium. His journey of course is not easy and it coincides with a time of political turmoil at Elysium.

The movie is good and I was at the edge of my seat while watching it. It’s not the most amazing movie out there but it’s not a total waste of time either. A bit depressing though, the pollution, the poverty, the despair. But all in all it’s worth watching and I sure would love to watch it again and add it to my DVD collection.

Lovely French Chocolates from The City Magazine

How often do you got a world champion fine chocolatier from France call up your phone asking for your address in Kuwait? Yes, calling from France. I was quite baffled, who on earth would give my number to a French chocolatier? Turns out The City Magazine had a nice surprise in store for me and decided to send me the chocolates, and I love nothing more than a box of fine chocolates as a gift.

DHL delivered the package a few days ago, a little silver box with plenty of padding and two ice box freezer bars -that’s their name, mo?- to keep the chocolates cool until they reached me. They weren’t in any old boring box, mind you, they had their own pouch with a little booklet and a personalised note.

Very elegant indeed, the box was embossed with The City Magazine’s logo and however you looked at it, the patterns on the box glowed a bit differently with each move.

The note was personalised with my blog logo and it had a message from Khaled Alqahtani & Lana Alresheed, the minds behind The City Magazine and of course the chocolate gift. I loved the fact that I was an inspiration in any sort of way, thank you Khaled & Lana, I will cherish this note always and forever

Now for the chocolates, there came from zChocolate, France and were hand made by Pascal Caffet, world champion chocolatier and pastry chef 2013! Made no doubt from the highest quality ingredients, I loved each and every piece and needless to say they were gone within seconds.

Thank you Khaled Alqahtani, Lana Alresheed, and The City magazine for the lovely gesture! I loved the chocolates and I’m happy someone appreciates my humble work and thinks it’s inspiring. You really and truly made my weekend.

The City Magazine is a monthly magazine that focuses on events, fashion, and lifestyle of the people in Kuwait. You can find it in many outlets around Kuwait, costa coffee and coffee republic for example. For more information and for the distribution points you can check their website (link) or follow them on Twitter (@TheCityMags), or on Instagram (@TheCityMagazine).

Movie Review: The Heat

One of two movies I really wanted to watch was The Heat, starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. It was out in June, and I waited for it to arrive to the cinemas in Kuwait all summer long but that didn’t happen because it was banned along with The Internship. Luckily both comedy movies weren’t banned in Dubai and after watching both of them I see absolutely nothing that would cause them to be banned. I deduct that comedy and laughter must be an cause for censorship these days. 

In any case, I’ve heard -and read- so many raving reviews about the heat. Everyone said that they movie was so hilarious and they couldn’t stop laughing. I like Sandra Bullock and I’ve been a fan of Melissa McCarthy ever since her role as Chef Suki in The Gilmore Girls. I wanted to see it so badly and had very high expectations when I saw it.

The movie is about a feisty foul mouthed cop and a preppy FBI agent who are forced to join forces to bring down a drug mob. The plot I suppose is OK, you can lose track of what’s happening sometimes, and there are a lot of swear words which might be funny to some but they don’t personally make me laugh. The ending, though expected, is lovely though.

I did laugh a handful of times but it wasn’t the comedy that causes tears to stream down your face I was promised and really needed to see. Would I watch it again? Not necessarily, perhaps if it was showing on TV I’d keep watching it but I wouldn’t really feel the need to buy the DVD and add it to my DVD collection.

Breakfast at The Farm Restaurant in Dubai

Each time I’m in Dubai there must be a list of newly opened places I’ve never been before to explore. On the top of my list was The Farm restaurant recommended by many people I know, doing so while gushing about the breathtaking scenery and the amazing food. Since I was there for the Eid holiday and the first breakfast after Ramadan is my number one breakfast of the year, I knew I it should be in The Farm.

The night before Eid I called up the farm and asked them if I needed to have reservations for the first day of Eid breakfast. They said yes, and told us they could fit us in a table by a window overlooking the gardens by 9 P.M. We tried to locate the farm on the GPS and we calculated the distance to be 27 minutes away from our hotel so we decided to leave early at 8 A.M. in case we get lost, and get lost we did!

We kept going in circles through most of Dubai’s major highways trying to locate Al Barari, the resort-like residence where the farm restaurant is located. Once we did locate the Barari, we went back and forth on the highway, twice, trying to find the entrance which is a little almost hidden drive way with no sign into the green bushes. It goes on and on and on until we finally arrived, sweating and almost out of breath, at 10:00 A.M. We were lost for two hours! If you haven’t been before, I recommend you go by Taxi the first time.

Now the Barari residence is breathtaking indeed! The green scenery is impossible, how can such a little haven be located in the gulf and not be burned down by the sun? It’s very quite and serene, almost like stepping into the legendary secret garden. There was so much green around me my eyes began to hurt.

Spectacular, no? The place is like a little peace of heaven in the middle of the dessert! The air smelled so clean and pure, and I loved the smell of freshly cut grass tickling my nostrils. The farm main restaurant is located at the entrance with a few scattered tables here and there and it was almost empty when we arrived. The sell fresh produce and a lot of different food items.

We didn’t tell the waitress we had a reservation at 9, we simply asked for a table for two and we were seated right away. The waitress led us through another door from the main restaurant to a glass walled hut that looked like a glass room dining area, one of many scattered around the main building. Inside, you are surrounded by floor to ceiling windows all around, providing gorgeous views of the gardens outside.

There were also outdoors seating areas, right after placing my order I went outside to take a few pictures and I almost fainted from the scorching heat mixed with the high level of humidity. If only I was there during the winter season, I would have dined outside.

We were handed iPads for menus and it didn’t take long to make our selection. We were famished from the series of fights we had on the way and quite thirsty from the heat. Not long afterwards, our Eid breakfast was on the table, with a gorgeous view, ready to be devoured. The service was polite, efficient, and very fast.

Coffee, the most important breakfast item. It was good.

Juices: pineapple for me and apple for my husband.

My breakfast, I ordered the cheese croissant.

My husband had an omelette with vegetables with a side of British sausages and baked beans.

The finale, the pistachio, raspberry, and cream cheese waffle. It looked so good I didn’t want to eat it, sadly there were no raspberries on the dish. Didn’t stop me from having a good time with the chocolate sauce though.

How was the food? I’m sorry to say this, but the food was just OK. It wasn’t bad per say but it wasn’t extremely delicious either, it lacked the oomph factor that induces cravings. We were imagining lip-smacking farmers food: baskets of rustic bubbling hot bread and heaping platters of different cheese, fresh cream, golden honey, and old fashioned fruit jam made that very morning. Frankly I was very disappointed, perhaps I should have gone there for lunch or dinner instead.

Plus, the glass room like huts we were seated in were air conditioned by AC units that could barely keep up with the heat, so we were sweating. The floor was creaky parquet that squealed loudly with the slightest move, and there was a little girl running the length of the glass hut over and over. Another child on the table next to us was screaming his head off asking his parents to take him home beacuse he was bored, his voice reverberating in the tiny closed seating area, and his parents didn’t even bother shushing him. My dining experience was anything but serene, which is what you’d be after when driving to an oaisis in the middle of no where for two hours.

Would I go back again? Definitely. How to enjoy the farm? Take a taxi, go in the good weather season, and make sure you sit outside or in the main restaurant area -bigger, floors didn’t creak as much-. I would certainely go back, for some coffee and dessert and sit outside in the serene quite surrounded by chirping birds and enjoying the lovely breeze. Perhaps whith a new book I just bought from Kinokuniya. I was told that their lemon tart was excellent by the way.

The Farm is located in Al Barari residence. For more information and directions you can give them a call at +(971)-4 392 5660 or check their website (link).

Obsessed with Labna Sandwiches for Breakfast

Ever since we began having breakfast again I’ve been crazy about having Labna sandwiches for some reason. I used to think I like labna just fine, but I’ve come to the realisation that I adore labna and actually prefer it more than cheese for breakfast. Funny how you can still discover things you’ve never known about yourself. If you don’t know what labna is, it’s more a dairy product that tastes as tangy as Greek yoghurt and has the consistency of spreadable cheese, a tad runnier though.

How obsessed am I? I crave those labna sandwiches and look forward to my morning breakfast the way people obsess about sliders and cheeseburgers and cannot get enough of them. My favourite all time labna meal would include lots and lots of extra virgin olive oil, the one that’s a bit cloudy and sold from market vendors and not bottled commercially, with a few chopped mint leaves on top. I’d eat that by dunking hot thick slices of white pita bread.

Now that I’m trying to lose the Ramadan weight I omit the olive oil and have different kinds of brown bread with it. A few days ago it was whole grain white toast, yesterday it was miniature pita bread, this morning rye and dates pita bread for Al-Raha and it was spectacular. I always choose the tangiest Labnas available, must be low fat, with slices of green olives and chopped mint leaves. Never black olives, black ones belong on pizzas in my book. If I’m in the mood I’d add a few pomegranates on top or pomegranate molasses to the mix, perhaps a bit of walnuts as well.

And since one delicious labna sandwich in the morning is not enough and dieticians say you need your greens all the time, I always add slices of tomatoes and cucumbers. Makes the sandwich chunkier, more filling, and takes longer to chew.

I’m not really a fan of Labna with Za’atar ( a paste that’s a mix of thyme, sesame, and olive oil) but my husband, who loves labna ever more than I do, thinks it’s unnatural to eat one without the other. He loves his labna sandwiches drenched in olive oil and his fingers all covered up in Za’atar. To each his own I guess.

I almost always make my own sandwich in the morning and take it to work with me. However, if I don’t have enough time and need to dash to work, I’d order in the Labna sandwich from Casper & Gambinis in their fresh white baguette without the olive oil -amazing labna!- or the Labna wrap from Zaatar w Zeit which is wrapped with their sundried tomato bread, it’s simply addictive.

Are you a fan of Labna? If so, how do you like you eat your Labna?