Monday, January 21, 2008

Bnîn (TRANSLATION: Delicious!)

One of the things my hotel does really well is breakfast. Every day from 6 a.m. until noon it has the most amazing breakfast buffet. For 75 Dirham (or about 20 USD) you can eat until you burst.

For me it depends on how I am feeling that day. If I'm not super hungry I will generally go to the cafe in the lobby and get a pot of tea and a pastry for about $3 (USD). By far, the cheaper (but less impressive) option.

Today I had the "fancy breakfast" so I could show you a few of the joys and wonders.

The breakdown is basically this: There are multiple stations and each has a theme. Juices, fruits, Middle Eastern, hot foods, cheeses (yes! a cheese station), lunch meats, breads, pastries and cereals. I think that covers all of them. Oh, and at the hot station stands a chef who will make whatever you can't find at the buffet.

25 different kinds of fresh squeezed juice. Not to mention the other side that features smooties.
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My course number one: Orange juice, rice cereal with strawberries, coffee and pastries.
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One of the many stations.
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Not only do they specialize in good regular breakfast foods but also in VERY exotic things (exotic to Americans). Beside having things like white kiwi fruit, emirates cheese and veal bacon they totally caught me off guard today when they replaced the "soya milk" (this is what soy milk is called). Instead of soya milk they offered CAMEL MILK.

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When I arrived at work I was informed that camel milk is like Middle Eastern Viagra. A co-worker of mine, who's lived in the Middle East far long than I, once gave a stray kitten camel milk. Sadly, the Viagra effect must have been too strong for it because it died.

2 comments:

Elissa said...

Holy crap. Wow.

The rows of juice are really pretty!

Unknown said...

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