World Cafe: Middle East with Bobby Chinn

Bobby Chinn with his fans, foe winner Jovin as well as Queenie
TLC (formerly Discovery Travel & Living) not long ago held a special cooking to deliver their latest foodie adventure, World Cafe:Middle East which hits our television screens (Astro Channel 707)today during 10pm. Hosted by Bobby Chinn, a man we're all informed with for his gallivanting epicurean cooking around in World Cafe Asia, a cooking was a tiny intimate affair with only Kyspeaks (with Haze)and a a organisation of really lucky foe winners together with Jovin who had flown in specifically from Penang.
According to Bobby, a Middle East hold Adam & Eve ate a pomegranate (vs an apple) in Eden, a childhood cookie, stone sweets with pencil lead - cinema have been pleasantness of TLC
Befitting a Middle East theme, cooking was during Al-Halabi Lounge located upon a lower ground building of JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur. The place which is run by a people who own Tarbush was packaged with Middle Eastern tourists who desired a opulent design, easy lounging chairs as well as etc. While a food wasn't really enticing (only a bread as well as hummus was good whilst a rest was really ho hum), we were allthere to hob nob with a infamous Mr. Chinn who has a larger than hold up personality.
dates, dates, as well as some-more dates, Bobby does his most appropriate Lawrence of Arabia sense - cinema have been pleasantness of TLC
The uncover is kinda person! al to hi m, since he can snippet his birthright to Egypt where he was born.For any partial in this third series of his show, he introduces recipes, history as well as delves deep in to a culture. The Middle Eastern cuisine additionally covers a broad range due to a meridian as well as culture. Persian, Levantine, Turkish as well as North Africa has additionally shabby a Middle Eastern cuisine.
Hummus, feathery bread, baklava, flattering roses from Al-Halabi Lounge, JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur
Bobby's travels cover Istanbul, Damascus & Aleppo, Jordan & The West Bank as well as eventually Cairo & Alexandria. Each partial is a single hour (versus 30 minutes similar to before) as Bobby longed for to highlight some-more engaging stories. He common which they used to cut out so many engaging stories for a World Cafe Middle East series due to a miss of time.
His journey starts in Istanbul, a crossroads with Eurupoe where he explores food similar to kebabs, pilafs, filo pies which all originated from a Ottoman Empire. Damascus & Aleppo is next, where Bobby breaks bread (with his head) to have breadcrumbs. Damascus is additionally a oldest city in a world.At Aleppo, this is a last partial of a spice route as a result a abundance of spices there. Jordan & West Bank is next where Bobby dons a Lawrence of Arabia clothe as well as gets up tighten as well as personalwith a camel. He additionally visits date farms as well as olive groves as well as explore Palestinian food.Then comes Cairo & Alexandria, where hegot a little family timewith hiscousins. They were there during Prophet Muhammad's birthday, which a Egyptians celebrate by giving a kids candy. He is pictured with stone sweets as well as a big frown as they had inked a eyebrows in with pencil lead which is poisonous! Bobb! y additi onally gets to relieve childhood memories by trying a thin cookie from his immature days. He alsointroduces ful medames (made from fava beans as well as garlic) as well as melokhia, a soup made wih Corete, avegetable local to Egypt. Incidentally, I've eaten which vegetable as they sell it in Justlife underneath a name mulukhiya.
It was great fun dining with Bobby as well as meeting a little brand new people similar to Jovin from Penang as well as Joelynn from Kuala Lumpur (who has read about a blog before!). Thanks to TLC as well as Compass Communications for making a arrangements.
Don't forget to tune in to Channel 707 (TLC) tonight during 10pm for a initial partial of World Cafe: Middle East. The uncover additionally repeats upon Tuesdays, 4pm as well as Saturdays, 2pm. For some-more pictures, see the Flickr set.
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