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Extreme Hospitality!! SAUDI ARABIAN FOOD on Remote Farasan Islands in the RED SEA!!

Mar 10, 2024
Hello everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day. I'm Mark Wiens. I'm in the Farasan Islands, which are off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea and this is a cultural island, the people are very hospitable, very friendly and the

food

. it's delicious today we are going to take a tour of the

farasan

islands

and we are going to tour them, we are going to eat some of the local

food

and we are going to try some of the local delicacies and then the highlight of today is that I am going to go to a beach where some members of the local community have gathered and are going to prepare us a traditional farazani style meal with fish cooked in a local Tandoor on the beach.
extreme hospitality saudi arabian food on remote farasan islands in the red sea
It's going to be an incredible day. The food is going to be. delicious and there will be a lot of fun culture and delicious food all of which will be presented right now in this video welcome to the

farasan

island chain and it is made up of 266

islands

here we are in the Red Sea um so we are in an area unique, it's a marine sanctuary here and these islands are known for their unique culture, so we're going to explore and it's going to be a really interesting day here, oh man, it actually rarely drizzles and drizzles this morning when we arrive, I mean.
extreme hospitality saudi arabian food on remote farasan islands in the red sea

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We're in the main town here, it's really nice, quiet and peaceful, so I'm hoping the rain clears up because today we have a great seafood barbecue on the beach for lunch, but first we'll stop in town for local breakfast. Foreign Island and it's like frying Paradise, it's got a few different batters, a few different things, it's like expert drops in the oil and they just fry until they're golden and crispy, oh what a great place you've got, a lot of people actually get delivery. right outside the window it's like a self service uh but they're frying them hot and fresh the aroma of the frying oil smells so good weird it's like the flame of a jet engine that they're using to keep the oil is so hot it's just so much pressure a little flour with egg flour and water they just mix it and if you want it sweet you don't attack just flour and water plus it's not sweet at all two types are fine so if you wanted to add salt or if you wanted oh okay, okay, the flat ones are called my fish and the ball ones are called okay, let's try these flat ones first okay, the taste of the oil is so tasty thanks okay, I mean, it's like flour, egg and water. that's basically it and salt, it's got that nice kind of fluffy texture, almost like a fried pancake texture, now next up is the mafesh, oh this one has a little more seasoning and it also has a sourness to it. oh this is really good, oh I really like muffish, the best, simple but good, and you can see how it would go great with tea or coffee in the morning, like a salty fried donut.
extreme hospitality saudi arabian food on remote farasan islands in the red sea
I like the other one better, although the muffin. Oh man, I already love this island, the people are so friendly and hospitable and it's so peaceful, relaxed and Ottoman, who is our guide here? um, I mean, who says this is a very common local breakfast? Oh, that was some serious frying action. it was so good foreigner about 25 to 13 good, 25 to 30 000 people good, so the next step we are in the market and I think it is like a melon, it seems to have a very strong ripe aroma, maybe a type of melon musk. and this is common and in season it has a good pile here and we are going to try it, try it here in the market, if it rains like this it will grow, okay, okay, yes sir, here we come, first we will try the musk melon. it's going up the local mountain well very good very good again hey again so sweet and so juicy I'm very friendly here it's okay, it's cold and refreshing we need to have another piece of this, a big fresh slice of melon so juicy at the end It's okay , okay yeah oh what a cool place with friendly people oh man and you can really feel like this is like they have juice dripping down my chin but you can really feel like this is like a laid back lifestyle community In an island.
extreme hospitality saudi arabian food on remote farasan islands in the red sea
The people are very welcoming and they like to hang out to the fullest, so they are well known for seafood and fish on this island surrounded by the Red Sea and at the moment there are only a few of the small fish that are preparing to dry. of fish, which is also a very common part of the local diet and then I think later in the afternoon there's also the fish auction going on at the market, but I don't think we'll have time to see it, but he's just there. look at those, the eggs and the sack of roses, the market was fantastic, now we are on our way to the beach, a bit, just a few minutes away, where we are going to cook some local food for lunch today on the beach, To fish. folk song just as we reached the entrance to the beach and where we will be cooking for lunch today, that was beautiful and just the laughing water and the waves, okay, okay, oh, that was beautiful and a warm welcome, and We are settling right here. on the beach for the seafood banquet, the farazan, welcome in Hospitality, this place is so culturally rich, the people are very hospitable and welcoming and the food so far has already been delicious, but I know the food will be on another level, You can tell the uncle. here he is the fish master cutting, gutting and preparing the day's fresh catch.
You could see how fresh these fish are. The eyeballs just shine and shine. One of them is definitely a grouper, it definitely looks like a snapper. local local fish from the Red Sea right here in the Tarasan Islands I don't know oh what a scene here the seagulls are gathering for the guts and the sun is starting to rise Oh what a beautiful day, this dish is a traditional dish and it is socially known that on the first day after the wedding the family of the bride and groom in the morning eat this dish and it will already be prepared, okay, while we wait for the fire and the The fish is still being cleaned, oh yes, his uncle is still washing the fish here, but let's start with another traditional dish, okay, it's like a very sticky dough and you can smell the spices and it's very yellow. maybe because of some of the spices that are in there and as soon as you drop them in the oil, they're the size of a hamburger, so it immediately starts floating and swelling up. the fluffiest dough you've ever had on a cake and it has this amazing mix of salty and sweet mm-hmm I mean it tastes like curry powder mixed with dough on the inside but then with sugar and cinnamon on the outside it's like a curry donut , cinnamon and sugar, almost that's amazing, oh, it's a unique mix that really complements each other very well.
This was with the aunt who prepared this, what's her name? I think I just found my favorite donut in the world. we had seen this movement the movement of the guy he just wets his hand and then grabs burning embers with his hand that is experience oh man I think the oven is almost hot the fish is about to go in oh come on hello I want to move and then the Me love these, like an oven just moves, everything goes in and the technique is that they burn all the wood and create a bed of embers, so it gets very, very hot and that heats up the oven and then they take it out like the flames they wait for it to go out and then they just store everything in that oven and seal it completely so that you're roasting your steam and you're baking everything at the same time and then smoking, everything is smoked like Well, yeah, it's called a Tandoor here, which it's, you know, I mean you find variations of this all over the place, but this is such a cool portable Tandoor style here in the Red Sea and there everything will be like, I mean.
It's great because you just seal it and once it's sealed you just wait to see what happens, but they know exactly when to take it out so that it's all perfectly cooked and not overcooked some money. The next dish you will prepare is called sayadia. It's a Sera Fish and Rice, but starting by caramelizing some of the onions, so in the middle of cooking, Uncle shows up with her fishing net and she desperately wants to show us how she throws the fishing net into the ocean. I think he's an ex. Fisher, oh that's great, okay, I think we'll go straight to the ocean while we cook the foreign dish, here's a man on a mission, there's no stopping Uncle Mark, oh, we've got seaweed, okay, that's the salad recipe , which is like rice with fish but with spices, add a little tomato paste, add a small packet of spices with cinnamon and coriander seeds and then some other seasonings, add a whole pepper and then cook everything together , so it's one of my favorite dishes in the Jazan region is this fish cooked with sesame oil and tamarind, so it's getting ready to make one.
This is a dish that you will find in the Jazan region of Saudi Arabia and it is as if sesame oil is one of the most loved. The superior oils they use and you have to cook it in a stone container and then the sesame oil you have to heat it very hot until it starts to foam and bubble and then he made an onion mixture with a little bit of the spice mixture, which I think it smells like a mix of spices like cumin, especially cumin and turmeric, oh, the fish goes first, okay, name this dish, Simpson, so, Mark Simpson, and then the onions are about to come in, oh, all those onions and the Cuban aroma, everything simply. bubbling with that foreign sesame oil Cameron Cameron, okay, come on, the tea is ready, which was brewing over the Open Fire sweet tea, okay, so that the sesame oil fish is so foamy.
Bubbles and actually made a tamarind mix that is for another. foreign dish foreign a lot of cooking so many different dishes and we are very close to being ready to eat let's take all the fish out of the foreign oven come on the solution comes out of the oven it's such a simple preparation that there is no I mean, other than salt, there is no seasonings, but it has such an incredible aroma because of the smoke and steam that it's been baking in and those like lumps, like drops of bread dough, which is a cool process, one of them. it's the sour bread which I love and then we have the fish, we have all the other different dishes and it will be a feast, the final component that we need right before we start eating, the mercy, the mashed banana pudding. with bread and it's puree by hand also puree by hand fresh there's a little bit like breadcrumbs at the bottom plus the banana goes in oh and the ghee the ghee goes in foreign I think it's honey oh cute very cute wow not only are there so many different dishes , but the style of serving everything just on the table, there are so many things and more things come, all in the same order, arranged on the table and the community, this is the best community next to the beach eating foreign parasan style, everyone sitting down for the banquet, what an arrangement.
We're starting with Marsa Marsa, which is again bananas and bread, honey. Oh, and you're supposed to eat that with some of that salty fish, the sweet banana and honey with the salty fish. What a combination like really sweet honey and banana! more salt fish in the mouth, all at the same time, okay, we're okay, oh, they were, we were, this is the real way to eat, they said, okay, much more comfortable, yeah, oh, what a way to share a food, what are we eating next? this fish you can start breaking it down this is the grouper I think you eat this alone well so this is my first bite of fish I think I bought the smoked grouper yes good very good Smoked and steamed but in that technique of cooking the fish, they have You have to know exactly how many coals to add to the bottom at the right time so that it doesn't overcook and then push it to the table with that smoke because when they seal it everything is like that. turn off the heat but just let everything smoke there oh what food ok this is some sour bread cooked on the fire that you can dip in anything lots of sesame oil and lots of onions here and then all that like Masala Spices Masala, oh all the curry and curry spices, like cumin, oh wow that's amazing, the onions melt in your mouth, the taste of sesame oil and fish, and what I love about it are all the spices, coriander seeds and cumin.
In there wow this is the salad yes, it's the fish with rice with tomatoes I'm going to delve into this very quickly oh it's so aromatic and so fragrant very good this is so good oh The tamarind oh with the bread it's okay, another move you have to make and see how it takes the shape of charcoal and roasts in that fire. I want that kind of crispy edge that's a crispy edge right there grab some bread so this is the next dish with the fish and the tamarind sauce actually I just choose that sauce the sourness of the shower of the camera and the tomato combine, that's so good, oh, what food, what variety.
Well, then we have all the dishes to eat, what a variety of food we have. a few more dishes to try, I'm going to enjoy and what a feast on the beach and on the islands, what

hospitality

, that fish preparation is so unique and has such a smoky flavor, it's so good, okay, oh, I'm going for a piece of bread and One of my favorite jazzan sauces is helba, which is a combination of spices in a foamy, soapy paste, with a unique, bitter flavor, and I think it's also the texture, which is literally like a kind of foam and soap.
It is so amazing and has such a unique flavor to go with this whole combination of dishes. What food. Oh, and I love this bread. It has this.like almost a fermented sourness, the vegetables are like a mixture of melted vegetables, zucchini, tomatoes, onions and they have been cooked until yes, they literally dissolve in your mouth, okay, here we go, we are stillinvestigating, I think. That Sesame Oil with Onion and Masala Spices is probably my favorite dish ever, it's so tasty and that shower bread just soaks up all the flavour. How about this dish more? We forgot about the Black Eyed Peas, just simple but like stews. with black eye peas and potatoes in there, I think the light spices, everything is fantastic and I love it, this decor is just stunning and this location, the

hospitality

, yes, yes, let's get the helper so that's something that It is eaten with almost every meal here.
The hilba available is like one of the flavors of jazan moving around the table. What I saw the guy do is like squeeze it in a box and then you dip it in the fish and the excellent tamarind, okay, oh man, and the seagulls are out. a meal, what just a memory that will be here on the Red Sea Farasan Island, the hospitality, the friendliness that was a supreme Saudi Red Sea holiday on the beach and thank you to Chef Abdul, thank you to Chef Halima for cooking the local specialties to our guide utram for bringing us here and to our uncle who showed us how to do so many things and then also to Abdullah for coordinating with the tourism ministry in Saudi Arabia to organize this uh what a fantastic day, from here we just go straight back to the pier where we will take the boat back to jezan the city so that will complete our time here but what a memorable experience one of the most memorable days in

saudi

arabia and ah i love the food and the hospitality its a place brilliant. a special cultural destination I want to thank you very much for watching this video.
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