Lebanese STREET FOOD TOUR in Sidon - Brain Sandwiches & Bread Factory in Saida, Lebanon!

NICO: https://www.instagram.com/explorernico AL BABA: https://www.instagram.com/albabasweets MY TRAVEL/FOOD BLOG: https://davidsbeenhere.com/ After dreaming about it for over a decade, I finally made it to Lebanon, my 85th country! My adventures in the country started in Sidon, a coastal city about 45 minutes south of Beirut. Come with me as I go on an incredible Lebanese street food tour of Sidon! Joining me on my first Lebanese food tour is my friend Nico. He’d be taking me to the souk and the best spots in town to have sweets, baked goods, and even some more exotic far like sheep brains! DAVID’S BEEN HERE MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/davids-been-here Our tour began at Al Baba Sweets to have some knafeh, which is popular Middle Eastern snack. It’s made from semolina dough or phyllo dough and stuffed with cheese! Here, they stuff a slice of it into kaak bread and top it with some sugar syrup! Al Baba is the best place to have it in town! They also had lots of other sweets, including namoura, sanyoura, and basbousa. They reminded me of Armenian sweets! There, their employee Najah told me that the sanyoura is a Sidon specialty and is filled with pistachio. The sanyoura was like a flaky cookie or biscuit with pistachios inside. It wasn’t too sweet. They also have different varieties of ma’amul with walnuts, dates, figs, apricots, pistachio, sesame seeds, orange, and more. It was really airy! The namoura was made with semolina flour, rose water, a sugar syrup called atter, and honey. It was like a sweet, dense, and sugary cake. I liked it a lot! Then, we tried the knafeh inside the kaak bread. It was gooey, sweet, and savory! I loved the combination of the soft filling and crispy bread! It was delicious and decadent!