Does Yemen have good food

Answer 1

YES. Everyone has different tastes, but I particularly enjoy Yemeni cuisine. The best way to imagine it is to see it as the "Down-Home Southern Cooking" of the Middle East. You have a lot of soups, stews, roasted meats, and boiled vegetables, but all with the typical spices and flavor profile that characterize Middle Eastern cuisines (cumin, coriander, turmeric, etc.). It is worth noting that Non-Yemeni Middle Easterners will immediately recognize Yemeni food because it is relatively distinct to us, even though it may blend into the general flavor palette of the Middle East for those not sufficiently accustomed to the menu selection.

Like other Middle Eastern cuisines, Yemeni food is generally split three ways: (1) mezze, (2) meat dishes to be eaten over rice, (3) meat dishes to be eaten with bread. The mezze are small appetizers that are similar to those found elsewhere in the Middle East like humus, babaghanouj, foul, fasulia, and simple salads. The meat dishes prepared over rice tend to be chunkier pieces of meat, such as braised chicken leg, lamb kebabs, or roasted chicken or lamb. The meat dishes designed to be eaten with bread tend to be stews like those in the above picture. Probably the most famous is salta, followed closely by fahsa.