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25 (Tue) September 2018

Mansaf with Meat and Rise (WHAT)

2.0

from Jungles (WHERE)

in my room (Marriot Hotel)

-Amman, Jordan-

solo

Mission to Jordan, Day 3 (see previously 9.262 Mixed Grill and All the Fixin’s, Baby!).

In Amman.  Here to attend a Meeting of the Regional Parliamentary Working Group on Universal Health Coverage in the Eastern Mediterranean Region – Tue to Wed.  As focal point for the Asia-Pacific Parliamentarian Forum on Global Health (see most recently 9.231 Boodle Fight), I’m here to help WHO EMRO – which covers North Africa and the Middle East – set up their own forum, aimed for launch sometime in mid-2019.

Mansaf is a Jordanian lamb dish.  Lamb is braised in fermented yogurt, served on steamed rise.

Thin flat bread was good. Fermented yogurt sauce, not so good.

Unsure whether all this is meant for 1 person.

Meat was kinda bland and dried out, showing clear signs of freezer burn.  Assuming this is a poor reflection on the quality of the restaurant, not the dish per se.