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Good evening everybody, Mesel here and welcome back to beautiful Doha here in Qatar
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I'm now just about to enter one of my favourite spots in the whole of the city. I'm just about to enter Sut Wakhiv, which traditionally was an area used by Bedouins to trade animals and wool
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Let's head inside now. Now here in 2022, it's a cultural explosion where people from all over the world can experience firsthand a diversity of people
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especially food and the history here. In this area alone, there are a variety of restaurants from all over the Middle East, including Iraqi, Yemen, Syrian
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in front of me, Azerbaijan. Georgian just here, a beautiful area for everyone truly experienced the incredible food
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you can find here in the beautiful Middle East. Here inside the beautiful souk you have the iconic thumb statue which actually represents
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Qatar's biggest sporting success, the 2019 Asia Cup. Inside this market, as you can see behind me, they have so much street food where you
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can try different cuisines from all over the world. You have juices here, dates, sweets behind me, samosas, pukuras, there's so much here
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It's so incredible for everybody's taste buds. You get to sambal from all over the world, which for me is one of the best things about the World Cup
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You know, it's held people from all over the world get to experience different cultures from all around the world
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So one place I really had to show you guys here inside the beautiful Souq Waqib is Shai Shamus
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which is the place of Shams al-Kasabi, the first woman to ever open up a restaurant here in a beautiful Souq
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So here inside the restaurant you can find everything you can find in the Middle East from hummus balalit fava beans and everything else in between But one thing I had to try here in this restaurant was regag which is basically a bread with a lot of different fillings so i going to order now okay so i just got the regag originally i thought it would be triangle but they just served it like this it basically like a flat
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bread so crispy let's try it this minute wow it's really good served of course with a beautiful
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super sweet carrot tea this is basically milk tea one thing i love here in the middle east is the incredible souks and markets that you can find
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selling anything from spices to clothing to medicine everything else in between the food
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is incredible and the smells you guys i wish i could transport the smells through the screen to
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you it smells phenomenal one thing i love about exploring the world and going to different diverse
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countries is the traditional clothing and right here inside the souk they are creating thobes
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the traditional Qatari clothing from scratch. Right here, the guy's making a soap
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Right here, from beginning to end. In a future episode, I will also be styled
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measured and everything else in between, but right now. So my final stop for this evening inside the beautiful Sukhwakiv wakiv is the iraqi restaurant behind me iraqi food as you know is some of the best in the world and actually some of the most
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underrated so let's head inside and hopefully inshallah eat some good iraqi food firstly i've
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got muzella kibbeh muzella can't sound like no salah if you need to remember it the egyptian
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football play this is a beautiful mincemeat kibbeh and we've also got their chicken sheesh
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just here look at this and also we have the beautiful dolma this is um filled vegetables
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with rice and a lot of spices and of course no iraqi meal is not set without the beautiful
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hot fluffy iraqi bread this restaurant really is just reminding me of all the incredible memories
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i've had in iraq five trips in the past year and it just reminds me of all the incredibly friendly
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people not just in iraq but the entire middle east and right here in doha during the world cup
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It's really just reiterating that fact that everyone here in the Middle East is so friendly
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So far, my time here in Qatar has been just so phenomenal. I cannot wait to keep exploring
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I think I've got about nine or ten days left. So, inshallah, see you in the next video
