Iraqi food is arguably some of the most delicious food in the Middle East. A non-Iraqi tries the cuisine for the first time and even eats some brains.
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00:00okay wait give me a brain give me a brain this is a brain
00:07we usually like meat but we prefer the musgo fish i've heard so much about it so many people are
00:13like you have to try it hi i'm ali and this is yusra i am an iraqi and i've been eating the
00:19iraqi food for my whole my life and today i can introduce the iraqi cuisine to yusra i've never
00:25had iraqi cuisine so i'm pretty excited i don't know what to expect i mean you'll expect a lot
00:31it's a heavy cuisine we have a lot of traditional dishes like iraqi masgouf dolma kebab so please
00:39join us for the iraqi people eating is a ritual and masgouf is an important part of that ritual
00:50masgouf is a smoky iraqi fish that dates back to the ancient times of mesopotamia
00:56who described it as a freshwater fish touched by the fire the fish grilled next to an open fire
01:03for 45 minutes we're about to eat some iraqi food yes can you tell me what's on this table
01:10right now well we have a lot of famous iraqi dishes here we have the iraqi kebab
01:15yeah and we have the famous masgouf which is the one we saw on the fire yes and here we have
01:20dolma which will reveal soon which will reveal soon yes and we have here port de place it's also
01:27an iraqi traditional dish so we're gonna try it i hope you're still hungry i'm starving yeah let's
01:34do it i think we should start with the masgouf since it is the most famous yes so we should
01:39start with this usually i use my hand for cutting it the best part is here
01:48wow you really butchered this so it's it's uh what do you call it tell me about it it's delicious
01:55in iraq it's uh it's a kind of a traditional dish that we heard that it's our ancestors they use
02:02to cook the fish in this way okay you know we have two rivers so usually our ancestors they
02:07were bringing the wood and they made the fire open up the fish open up the fish they only put
02:15salt on it they clean the fish i can tell that it's very like pure yes it's amazing i see that
02:21you like it yeah i like it that's why i'm not talking and you're talking another famous iraqi
02:26dish is the lamb brain dish or what iraqi is called bacha you have brain yes and you have
02:32also it's basically you go inside you see there is a bread okay on the bottom of the that's
02:39comforting something yes this is a bread so you can mix the bread with the brain of the lamb
02:47and you have the lamb tongue i don't know if you like it i'm scared yes that's the tongue yes
02:55well this you need to eat it with you using your hand no you won't so you try okay i'll eat it with
03:01my hand okay wait give me a brain give me a brain this is a brain
03:09and you have a piece of bread a piece of bread you want to put some yeah
03:18kill it with orange i've never had an organ ever and i know akis it tastes fine
03:26it looks like a brain i'm scared it is a brain look i don't want to let oh it's so nice
03:37i mean in iraq we fall in love with this dish
03:48okay okay it's like me
03:50oh my god okay it's a brain it's okay it's okay it's a meat
04:01i swallowed it too quickly i didn't taste any try this one okay i'm gonna taste the brain again
04:08it looks like a brain you know trust me it's nice in egypt we don't really we eat liver
04:18that's the most i think that's good
04:30it's good it's squishy look it tastes good there's no denying but psychologically
04:36i'm eating a brain this is one of our famous dishes yeah the pacha
04:41it has no time to eat whenever you want to eat it you can eat it so i guess you want to
04:51try the tongue i forget no the tongue okay let's do it oh my god
05:00the best part is your bread then i'm not eating the bread because i want to experience real iraqi
05:06cuisine did you just eat that tongue yeah it's nice
05:13trust me it's nice
05:21yeah right it's better than the brain really that's for sure
05:30so this is a famous iraqi dolma it's vegetables okay stuffed with the meat and rice and it has a
05:46lot of it's it's uh it's not a spicy food okay it's just flavorful like yeah so you choose the
05:52onion which is the best part of don't no way yeah okay i made that i mean there's also the
05:58grape leaves okay vine leaves yes vine leaves and here you have the pepper okay and also tomato
06:13yeah okay now i understand you understand it's really good it's um you guys made vegetables
06:20delicious yeah yeah a little bit of meat yes the ribs yeah it's a kind of a mix of
06:30spices yeah i know it's amazing it's that just like it goes straight away to your mouth yeah it's
06:36very very good we as iraqis we just like we have it mostly with families on fridays this kind of
06:43a traditional yes it's where family they gather okay and just like they have this food
06:52i want to eat the outside first yeah the crunchy
06:58that's yummy so it's rice and nuts and meat
07:02and spices yes and you prefer some egg also eggs and wrapped in a little
07:13what's what they call this and wrapping pastry pastry yeah
07:25the iraqi kebab it's kind of juicy and you can just like feel the taste of meat yeah it's it's
07:33and surprisingly really light and it like breaks apart really easily yeah um i'm obsessed with this
07:42i could eat the whole plate i'm definitely more of like a meat person so you're gonna love this
07:48cuisine i mean the iraqi cuisine we're just like we fall in love with meat a lot of meat in here
07:54yeah i mean with kebab we eat it all the time okay dinner lunch sometimes for me even i have
08:02it on breakfast i think i think iraqi kebabs are not my favorite kebabs i think they've surpassed
08:10all others uh-huh yeah i mean as i said it's juicy
08:18and uh yeah delicious
08:24it's a bread it's on the bottom of the dish and then you put you put a piece of meat okay this
08:32looks like um like a like a bone and uh yeah okay it's not the shank shank like the leg yeah
08:43as an iraqi i spent my whole life eating it using my hand okay so basically you put the meat
08:50with the bread you're gonna try it with your hand
08:54yeah be iraqi corona
08:57oh it's nice that's really good it's really good this is one of my favorite dishes
09:09i mean i can eat it anytime we fall in love with food yeah in iraq so we just like really enjoy it
09:18it's a mixture of spices meat being cooked in different ways yeah rice
09:27well yes successfully made me fall in love with your food yes so you saw by the end of
09:37our meals we should try the iraqi tea okay it's a heavy tea and we have it
09:45it's either just like it will digest the food that you've been eating careful it's really hot
09:52so there is another another way
09:59what are you doing because it's really hot get from the dish
10:05ah yes that's very lucky too love