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I'm headed back to the soup to enjoy some of its food offerings
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starting with a hearty breakfast at Shai al-Shimuz. Started by a Qatari mother of five, Shemz al-Kasabi
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a pioneer for female entrepreneurs in Qatar. Shems opened a spice shop at the marketplace in 2004
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and now also runs one of its most popular restaurants. I've read about you, and you're quite known around here
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restaurant and the shop, how did you get started and what was your inspiration
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I shan bade it. I want to be able to have a lot
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Basically, she loved trading ever since she was a little girl because her father was a big
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trader in this book. So she was accompanying him every time she comes here
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And then she learned how to do the spices and mixes and cooking also from her grandmother
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We come from very conservative family. Women weren't allowed to work. It's not like the country not allowing them, but us as a culture
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And it's not by force. It's because like you are the queen of your house
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You have to take care of yourself your kids then your house and then let us men do the hard work But for her she was a pioneer of her time So she is the first Qatari lady to enter the souk with all these men
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I know your family is very proud, as are many other people, many other women as well
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Yeah. She is our fight. Over at the restaurant, with photos of famous patrons lining the walls
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Shams cooks up Qatari breakfast foods, including eggs and tomato and saffron-infused vermicelli
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She lays out a feast for me and by production crew, including regog, traditional flatbread
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Apparently, she makes 25 different kinds of reggaug, so I can't wait to try that
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This is a match. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. More reggaat. I'm eating all of this, by the way
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Go bigger, go home and guitar. All right. I don't know what to try
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I'm just going to dig into this. This looks amazing. Mmm. Wow
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It's crispy with a little bit of sugar and this fresh saffron
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You guys got to come over to guitar and help me eat this. Because I'm not doing this alone
