Al Dhafra Festival 2019 continues its 13th session, which will run until the 25th of this year, organized by the Committee for the Management of Festivals and Cultural Programs in Abu Dhabi, Zayed City, in the Al Dhafra Region. According to Obaid Khalfan Al Mazroui, Director of the Planning and Projects Department of the Committee, “The festival witnesses many activities and varied heritage competitions, amid large contributions from the children of the Emirates and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, in addition to Arab and foreign participation in many different events that take place in the Al Dhafra Heritage Market” .

As the corner of restaurants and popular cuisine attracts the fans and visitors of the Al Dhafra Festival, the delights of Emirati folk cuisine, where grandmothers and mothers are cooking food and serving it directly to visitors.

The festival administration designed mobile restaurants and heritage tables for visitors to the festival, as the menus contain the most popular dishes that come on top of which are mash, porridge, nibbles, and robbers, and others, where many visitors from different nationalities rush to those restaurants that take the design of stalls, which specialized in selling those dishes to remember Some of the most important popular cuisine, and open the horizon for visitors, tourists, foreigners and residents to get to know them and taste their local flavors.

Al Dhafra Festival, in addition to preserving cultural and heritage heritage, adopts heritage by addressing the sense of taste, through the popular kitchen, which offers traditional foods and sweets that are prepared and prepared in the same place, in addition to explaining the method of preparation in front of visitors.

Many visitors expressed their admiration for the idea and method of serving food in the dedicated corner, where the flavor of delicious cuisine blends with the spirit of nostalgia for the past, during this pleasant atmosphere, which is enjoyed by the Al Dhafra region today.

Maryam Al Qubaisi, one of the visitors to the Food Corner at the Al Dhafra Festival, said that “the corner combines modernity and originality, through the diversity of the various flavors in it that display Emirati folk food that are very popular, especially spices and spices for Emirati cuisine.” Noting that the secret in The growing demand for these foods is that they are served in a simple, clean and good way, as they serve hot foods to visitors as they are served in the Emirati home.

Fatima Helmy, one of the festival’s visitors of Arab nationality, said that she “learned about the way to prepare many dishes of the famous Emirati cuisine, especially the method of preparing the most popular mash, and despite its simplicity, it requires a lot of effort in order to satisfy the famous meal the tastes of kitchen lovers” .

For her part, the tourist, Sonia Joshua (British), said: “I was very happy to know the dishes of the Emirati cuisine, which is a living example of the Gulf Arab cuisine.” She explained that “the presence of these popular dishes in the Al Dhafra Festival is considered a qualitative addition to the festival, which gives a realistic impression of heritage. Emirati ».

Tourist Sonia Joshua: I had the pleasure of learning about Emirati cuisine.

The food corner combines modernity and originality and serves hot dishes.

Mash, porridge, dumplings, and jujube on traditional desks.