I think it's called Kabsa/Biryani/Mandi. Any of the three.

Those look like camel carcasses .

I love Biyani, what is this place?I wanna go

yeah, i have eaten kinda like this, not Biryani some Iraqi food but not in such huge dishes.

lol at skull buster

THATS biryani? Where is that place, i can finally label my holiday fund jar properly.,.. :D

Looks more like sand to be honest.

How the hell are they going to finish that. Must have ppl eating it day and night.
Seems very unhealthy, every body is putting their hand in.

the arabs have a tradition to eat food from the same dish. but this one is HUGE.

That's true. Even North Africans from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia etc. eat in a similar fashion. But yeah I have never seen a dish as huge as this before.

I once ate it that way, when I went for Hajj, it's a local Arab Dish.
Can't recall, whether it was in Mina or Arfaat, ofcourse the size was much smaller.

I didn't touch the camel, but did try the lamb, it wasn't so bad.

Oh looky here, Natasha baji is hajji

Haji baji Natasha baji! Haji baji Natasha baji

does anyone knows how the camel tastes like

it tastes like a camel!

I think thats mandi :)

LOL...

This is a huge dish.

Usually its in smaller in size, very popular dish, and taste good as well.

I ate it at Arab wedding. Most of the time its camel meat.

That's so ammusing to you, atleast I have performed a major religious feat.
And it's hajjan or Hajiani.

Paalak bhaji yourself, pea-brain (masala)!

This is off topic, but since we are talking about biryani I thought that I would ask it here.

How come most Hyderabadis (Indian) believe that their biryani is the BEST, by far. Like they are almost condescending about it. At first, I thought they were just talking in gest, but the more I kept hearing about it the more I saw that Hyderabadis actually believe that Hyderabadi Biryani is the best thing since sliced bread. I've actually had their biryani, and I don't see what is special about it. I like the Karachi Biryani that the local Pakistani restaurant makes over here much more than the Hyderabadi variants I have eaten (and no, I'm not being nationalistic about this! )

So, I was wondering if anybody here could tell me... what is so special about Hyderabadi biryani? Thanks for the info (no offense to any Hyderabadis on here).

Honestly, it's good they have something to eat, but that is just disgusting looking at the dish. Sorry, if I offend anyone but thats my opinion. I prefer how our desi people make it.

Look clearly in the this pic, they are having biryani with pepsi!!!

Why didn't they choose some traditional drink with such a traditional dish??????

I had camel and it was pretty ok. The flesh is orangish in color.

It tastes more like a pulao then a biryani.

personally, I am pulao fan and not biryani.



wash your hand and eat with your hands. its much more healthy that way(unless someone has contagious disease). It builds your immune stronger and secretion from your fingers help digest food (if i remember it correctly).


A rough estimate says that you need 30 people to move it around. Approximately 30 hooks on the dish. Damn i think they have a crane or something. hehehehehe

This is exectly how Baluch's in some parts of Baluchistand and DG Khan eat, all family members and guest's sit around the big tray like this and eat togather, there will be no discrimination the Chief's of tribe, their drivers, VIP guests, cooks and servents every one will eat togather.

And if some one of you ever have a chance to visit these Tribal Areas, you will be served with "Sijji" one of the most delicious dish I love to eat, it is made like this that a whole goat/sheep is cleaened from inside and outside, the stomach is filled with rice and spices and cook on burning wood while two persons keep the Bamboo moving constantly on which this goat is hanged.

Once ready they will put whole cooked goat in this big tray, and take out the rice from inside, everyone will sit around and eat. Sijji is a must serve when one has a guest in tribale areas.

And this is also sijji in picture infact.

these pictures are sad ones , i saw it before.

i don't remember where it was exactly but maybe Al-Qassim region or Riyadh Region

there is no generousity in this (if those who arranged that lunch think so) , its a waste of food while there are other people arround the world starving

i hope they gave away whats rest of that food to the starving African immigrants in here

Well, then in that case, this fits you real well!

"100 chuwa kha ker billi haj ko chali"

Now don't ask me to translate this for you. Ask your mom or dad. Damn ABCD's!

Natasha = Billi = Hajjan

same as lamb , you might not notice the difference if you weren't told earlier that its camel meat

both are the same

but the difference comes to "How They Cook It" <<< this is what affect the taste of any meat

just like how few incidents happened to some Muslims who went to the west and ate meat at some occasions and said it taste nice then they were told it was a ###### meat and then they felt disgusting

Yes Sauidi Arabian I second you in that, a lot of food is wasted, but I think this picture is of some marriege or function where some party was arranged. But still there are lot of people around world facing extreme shortage of food espacially in Sub Saharan Africa and India.

This will more generous if all of us develop a culture to send excessive foods to these people to get them put of starvation rather then wasting it in parties.

you mean BEBSI

I have attended lot of local parties but this dish is huge, though these have huge dishes as compared to our one but its really huge. I like camel meat it is very tender but darker in colour.

and to tell you honestly i think they would have easily finished that, coz local has huge appitite.

regards

I think camel and lamb are the best meat around! Have you tried camel milk?

I wouldn't mind trying it out.

They must have used one big cooker !

How did they get the masala right? How did the cook(s) do the tasting?

Decadence

I used to think Arabs since they know Arabic, knew the meaning of Israf in Quran. But I guess I am wrong.

I know exactly what you mean man!

I've almost just given up (being a vocal opponent against Muslim's vices).

When the Quran tells us to be humble - we are arrogant.

When the quran tells us to be pious - we are sinful

When the Quran tells us to be united - we are divided

When the Quran tells us to be moral - we are decadent!

That is true ............... Alas

Couldn't agree more, you hit the points but its still hard for them to digest.

does anyone knows how the camel tastes like

It tastes a bit salty and is difficult to digest (for people like us). The same goes for camel milk it is quite think and full of proteins. These days in UAE they have introduced camel milk but again it is a diluted version .. i oftenly buy it.

The difference between Mandi / Capsa & Biryani is the shortage of spices like we put.

Also it is true that Arabs are throwing away lots of edible food which is really sad or rather haram. I have attended Local marriages and it is a shame that they throw away so much of food.

Also in Pakistan / India there is a sub-sect of Shia called Dawoodi Bohra's (Bohri) who eat in a large plate with 8 people (the majority of Muslims killed in Gujrat / Ahmedabad were Bohris). It is very interesting to go to their marriages as all sit quitely in such large plate (thaal) arrangement, however, in them you must finish everything on the thaal only then everybody is allowed to stand up and go. In way it is a community gathering and effectively hardly anything gets wasted.

Some blog notes from some people, who have visited a Bohri marriage ...

http://greenloco.blogspot.com/2006/01/en-t...erience_05.html

An En-'thaal'ing Experience

First things first ... Happy New Year !

A couple of days back, I was invited to a Bori wedding along with a few friends. Never been to one before, so well.. here I am publishing this post.

All Bohra's have their meals in a 'thaal', which is a large steel plate, three feet (!) in diameter. Usually, eight to nine people sit around the thaal and eat from it. Food items are brought in at regular intervals and everyone shares the dishes. The first thing to arrive is a small katori of salt. Everyone consumes a pinch of it which enhances the digestion process. After that, a sweet comes followed by a snack, then again a sweet and so on.
Happy occassions are initiated with a sweet called "sakhrana"- a small mango coloured mawa form of rice and sugar. Anyone had the Bengali chumchum sweet? It's a little bit like that.

In the next forty minutes we experienced a succession of superb dishes.

A round of salad items in the form of dry bhel and dahi idli came first. Then came the item one otherwise would have had last. Ice-cream. And a big bowl of it too. There was a block of Orange flavour as well as Tender Coconut. Each one of us was given a spoon and we dove into the bowl centrally placed on the thaal. Good things never last do they ? But a dazzling replacement of chicken in red sauce was brought in immediately. Absolutely tender to the bone. And finger licking good. If that wasn't enough, a round of souffle made its way to the thaal. Aesthetically pleasing and in terms of taste simply overwhelming. Small green pieces of "khas" rasgulla were embedded in it which when bit into, released that minty gush of liquid, empowering the taste buds with a captivating new flavour. Pity it got over in a flash. Evergreen kababs made their entry thereafter, bringing smiles all over. All this while the dahi idli and the dry bhel was replenished as soon as its depletion was evident. Sprite was constantly passed around. Soup was next, made from milk and corn. Nice and hot. Yes, the biryani made its mark and we were busy having that for what seemed like a good fifteen minutes. Marvellous. To finish off, all of us had a paan each.

Bloated with such well prepared delicacies, I returned home wondering when the next thaal opportunity would come my way.

Guys
Check out BBC Urdu SVC page on WAZWAN, Kashmiris way of serving and eating. they also use THali method of eating food
It has nice pics, makes me hungry


http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/interactivity/sp...0_wedding_food/

eating food in big plates in groups of 5-10 is also a common practice in gatherings such as marriges in my village in FATA too.

Yeh, huge, mother of all birianis. A few of those would solve our hunger problems in INDIA.

You metioned a wrong country, hunger problem in India is right.

BTW dont you think you are in too much hurry !

Ok, India. What do you mean "you are in too much hurry"?

i come from jummu kashmir and back home during weddings and gatherings we eat around a big plate of rice, just enough for 4 people, the servants add different kinds of curry to the rice whilst where eating, the best kashmiri meat you'll ever taste is streight from the hands of a vasvaan

yes i have - in saudi arabia (jeddah)

Thanks dear for involving India to the food festival.

thats because it is the sunnah of the prophet (SAW) for everyone eat like this in one dish, with three fingers of your right hand.

Billi ko khuwab mey bhi chich-rey nazar aa-tey hai-n.
Vegeteranians can see the ammount of rice in that huge tub, add a bit of daal and you're popeye the sailor!

Mir, they need Wheat, serious case of malnurishment, or else he'll join The Naxal Revolutionaries.

am i the only one that wants biriyani after seeing that?

Yeah, me too.
There's a place here, Royal Restaurant, and I just got a (take out) Biryani from there!!




Paguma = 3 Stooges = Larry/Curly/Moe (take your pick).

Paguma's and his new ABCD bride's phone conversation:
The Scene: The Girl (ABCD) is a 23 year old investment banker working
in New York. The Boy (Paguma, jis ka kaam, logon ko Larvata) is doing his residency in Boston and was
given her number by his mother, who is a friend of the Girl's
aunt's brother-in-law's cousin's uncle's wife in Florida.

Monday night, 10 pm

Girl: Hello?

Boy: (####, she's home!) Umm, hi! Is this ---?

Girl: Speaking.

Boy: My name is ---. I don't know if you know who I am-
(God, what if she doesn't know who I am? I'll sound like
a complete idiot.) Hell, I already sound like a complete
idiot. I don't even know why I'm doing this!)

Girl: Oh, you live in Boston, right?

Boy: Yeah. (Ok, she was told about me, that's a ###### relief.
I wonder what she was told - "He's a resident, tall, and
fair, and he graduated from Ivy League school!" God, she
probably hates me already!)

Girl: Yeah, my mother mentioned you had my number.
(I can't believe he actually called!)

Boy: So, how are you? Oh yeah, that's real original, but what the
hell else I am supposed to say- Umm, hi, I don't know you,
but do you want to be wife?)

Girl: I'm fine. And you? (Ok, this is off to a great ###### start)

Boy: I'm good.(Ok, think, think!) So, I heard you're an investment
banker? (Oh, that's a real winner. Now I can be a bad
conversationalist and an idiot!)

Girl: Yes.

Boy: (Ok, she is not helping me at all!) Where do you work?

Girl: Merrill Lynch.

Boy: Hey, that's a great firm! (I sound like a complete moron.
I should just hang up except my mother would somehow find
out and kill me!)

Girl: Yeah, it's a nice place to work. (God, this guy sounds
like a complete loser)

Boy: So...(Stall ,stall!)

Girl: So you're doing your residency in cardiology?
(Like my mom didn't tell me that 500 times already!)

Boy: (Ok, I can handle this...) Yeah, I'm in my second year.
(Alright, now say something else, but what do I say? Do you
drink and have sex? Cause if you want to marry me, you can't
be one of those goody goody South Asian girls who think if
they kiss a guy they've practically gone all the way)
So, what do you like to do in your free time?

Girl: (Umm... get wasted...) Oh, you know, hang out with my friends,
go to movies.

Boy: Where do you like to hang out in NY?

Girl: (####, what am I supposed to say? This guy could be some
religious freak! I can't say bars - I'll say clubs, you can
go to clubs and not drink...) Oh, sometimes we go to the
movies, or there's a couple clubs that are good... (That
was good, I made it sound like I like clubs, but I'm not
really into them...)

Boy: (Ok, she goes to clubs, that's a good sign. If she was really
religious she wouldn't do that.) Yeah? I like to dance also.

Girl: (He likes to dance- that's a good sign. He can't be that
stiff!) So where do you hang out in Boston?

Boy: (Should I say it- alright, I'll say it, what the hell!)
Umm, the same, bars, clubs, stuff like that.

Girl: (He said bars! So he probably drinks. Good sign. I should
explore this further...) Are there any good bars in Boston?

Boy: Yeah, there are some nice ones, I mean, I'm not a huge drinker,
but I like having a good time. (Ok, that gives the impression
of someone who enjoys drinking but is not an alcoholic -
pretty good, if I do say so myself!)

Girl: (That sounds really positive. This guy sounds kind of cool.
But if he's so cool why is he calling me? Shouldn't he have
a girlfriend? Or not need to call random girls his mother
tells him about? God, what if he's completely ugly? Or has
never been kissed?)
Yeah, me too. Although I hope my parents never find out.

Boy: Yeah. I know exactly what you mean. (I wonder if she's butt)

Girl: (Ok, so he didn't freak out at the living a double life
reference- another good sign. I just wish I knew what he
looked like...) So...

Boy: (Or she could be really fat with a huge mustache. Well, there's
only one way to find out!) So, I know this sounds a little
crazy, but I'm visiting some friends in NYC next weekend and
I wonder if you'd want to get together for coffee sometime.


Girl: (Coffee. That's totally safe. If he's totally nasty I can have
a quick espresso and run like hell!) Yeah, that sounds great.

Boy: (Alright that went pretty well. Coffee's pretty harmless. And
who knows, maybe she'll be cool. Now I have to get the hell
out of this conversation...)
So I have your e-mail, should I just e-mail you soon and
we can figure it out?

Girl: (E-mail is sooo much better than the phone. Thank God for
e-mail!) Yeah, just e-mail, I check it all the time at
work, so- (God, this is getting painful)

Boy: Alright, I'll e-mail you soon.(Meaning in two days cause
I don't want to look too desperate, but at the same time
I don't want to look like I'm trying not to look too desperate)

Girl: Cool. Well, I'm glad you called. (I think...)

Boy: Me too. Well, I'll see you soon.(Please be hot, please be hot!)

Girl: Alright. Bye. (I can't believe he called! Too late to back out
now. Besides, maybe he's cool. He didn't sound so bad on
the phone. I really hope he's not a virgin.)

Boy: Bye.(I did it! I am the man. I think she wants me. Yeah, she
definitely wants me..... I hope she has nice breasts.....)

huh............who will feed you with this delicious biryani when you are even shy to say welcome to female members, just to let every body know, I can cook this biryani