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We ate mainly at our hotel, but made a trip to the fish restaurant illustrated
here. We were made very welcome and felt we were closer to the authenic
Jordanian scene than staying in the hotel. Note that it is considered
quite normal to smoke throughout a meal. The table was laid with mezze - bowls of cold snacks such as hummus (sometimes called houmous) or salads with tasty bread. I had a dish called mensaf (alternatively
spelled mansaf) which was lamb on a bed of rice with pinenuts.
It came wrapped in very thin pancakes and a bowl of hot yoghurt. Although
yoghurt is served with many dishes in Jordan, this was the first time
I had seen it hot. The idea is to pour some of the yoghurt on the rice,
then eat some lamb with the yoghurty rice. It tasted much better then
it sounds!
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