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Blogosphere: June 26
A peek into the daily lives of bloggers in the Middle East and beyond today.
- Gulf News Web Report
- Published: 10:00 June 26, 2007
- Faloda is a Persian sorbet made of thin frozen noodles.
- Image Credit: 248.am.com
What is our Middle East bloggers up to today and what are they thinking of? Here's a peek into the daily lives.
Faloda
The best thing about summer is KDD Silver ice cream. The second best thing about summer is faloda sorbet.
Faloda, also spelt Faloodeh or Faludeh and is a Persian sorbet made of thin frozen noodles. It is pretty strange but tastes amazing. It is also really refreshing, plus you can add either lemon or rose water to it for extra flavour.
The place I get my faloda from is located in Kuwait City, opposite Al Rayya mall and under the Baba Taher Iranian restaurant. I think the place that sells it is called Marafie. A small-sized portion will cost you 250fils, which is the same cost as regular ice cream. According to Wikipedia, faloda is one of the earliest forms of frozen desserts, existing as early as 400 BC.
248.am.com
Sea shells, sea shells on the sea shore
One of the things I love about Bermuda is the wonderful scent of the ocean. One whiff takes me back to my pre school years in Dubai where we would spend evenings at the corniche or the boardwalk; driving our little motorized Beetle car and motorbike. Another whiff takes me back to the hot days we would spend at the beach, barbecuing all day, along with clam digging for us kids following an all night crab catching session for the adults while we kids warily watched.
The onset of construction in the past 10 to 15 years has minimized and in some cases, eliminated some beaches in Dubai (apparently the city now houses 23 per cent of the world's cranes). The crabs and clams are not as plentiful like they were 25 years ago. (Sigh! I am getting to the point where I now use the phrase '25 years ago').
I remember how my mother would teach us to look for the bright green tuffs sporadically sprouting from the sand, revealed during the low tide of the day. Digging these tuffs of green and then some sand would yield us a clam. By the end of the day there would be enough to fill about two to three medium sized buckets. Multitudes of clams, I tell you and oh so delicious once mom cooked them Indian style!
underthebermudasun.blogspot.com
Dubai to build city in the sky?
Now this is what makes Dubai so great. Absolutely wonderful, stupendous, extravagant mind blowing ideas like this.
Lebanese architect Nadim Karam wants to create a resort that is suspended 300 metres in the sky and will look as if the resort is a cloud floating in the air. He presented this resort-in-the-sky concept at the International Design Forum in Dubai last month. While this is all pie in the sky at the moment, if anyone anywhere can make this fantasy a reality then you betcha bottom dirham, Dubai will be the place for it!
thedubailife.com/index.php/main/blog
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