Halal Encyclopedia

　　Arabs are good at cooking and their food is rich and colorful.Their cuisine is characterized by sweetness, fragrance, and richness. Coffee and tea are indispensable daily beverages. Arabs adhere to custom by abstaining from pork, ugly-looking or unclean things like turtles and crabs, and dead animals. When hunting game, the hunter must quickly cut the animal's throat before the blood has coagulated; otherwise, the animal cannot be eaten.
　　The staple food of Arabs in the past was corn tortillas, wheat cakes and beans, and poor families mainly ate corn tortillas.Since many Arab countries have been earning large amounts of dollars from oil exports, their governments have subsidized the prices of staple foods. Flatbread (fermented flatbread) and flatbread sold in stores are now cheaper than flour. Therefore, every family eats flatbread or flatbread on a regular basis. Side dishes include tomato salad, onion and pepper salad, boiled beans, and sauces. Meat is primarily beef or mutton.
　　Arabs love coffee and tea.Coffee stalls abound on the streets of every city, where a cup of coffee and a few pastries make for an inexpensive lunch. Distinctive dishes include fried pigeon, baked fish, and roasted whole lamb. Roasted whole lamb is prepared by removing the head and feet of a tender lamb, hollowing out its entrails, and stuffing it with rice, raisins, almonds, olives, pine nuts, and other dried fruits, along with seasonings, before being grilled over a high flame. Its characteristic tenderness, fragrance, and delicious flavor are its characteristics. Arabs are highly skilled at eating with their hands. Firstly, they are not afraid of burns, and secondly, they can quickly tear off small pieces of meat and food with their fingers, without touching their mouths.