Iraqi LATE NIGHT FOOD TOUR and STREET FOOD in NASIRIYAH IRAQ!

🇮🇶 BIL WEEKEND:   / bilweekend   | https://bilweekend.com/ 🧳 TASOS:   / agreeksolo   🌎 VISIT MY TRAVEL BLOG: https://davidsbeenhere.com/ My time in southern Iraq continued with a Late Night Street Food Tour in the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah! Nasiriyah is very lively at night, especially because its so hot during the day. My first stop was a café along the road to get some Iraqi chai! 📝SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER: https://bit.ly/3JR71yN 🌳 MY LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/davidsbeenhere A lot of local gentlemen were hanging out in chairs on the side of the street. They were all relaxing and taking in the night. The Iraqi chai was too hot, so I poured it into a saucer to cool it off. It cools it off by at least 10 degrees! Then, we walked down the street, past lots of other shops, to go get some food! We’d be getting some kebda, or liver and kidney kebabs! A gentleman at the shop fed me some of his. It was so tasty and smoky, with a nice iron flavor. Next, we got some kubba saray, which is a dense dough ball similar to a matzo ball, which is stuffed with lamb. It comes with beef, tomatoes, and broth poured on top. It’s a very tasty comfort food. I love the prominence of lamb in Iraqi cuisine! The vendor there wouldn’t accept my money. He was too kind! We arrived at the shawarma spot and headed inside. Then, I tried some chili peppers and then headed into the kitchen, where they were making burgers, samosas, and huge falafel sandwiches. I wanted a sandwich and some shawarma! They had lots of pickles, tomatoes, cucumbers, and fries as well. I tried some falafel and some fries. The fries were still scorching hot! The vendors there couldn’t stop feeding me! They were so friendly! Then, they started building my falafel sandwich. I added some chilies, some amba, and a cucumber-yogurt sauce called jajik. It ws very flavorful and contained nice eggplant as well. I loved adding more chilies! Next, Jafar let me try some of his chicken shawarma. I really liked it with the amba. It was really tasty, but I was already starting to get full. The roasted eggplant in it was the absolute best! Then, I washed it down with a fruit shushie. Then, just as we were about to leave, they asked me to try some fries, which they topped with macaroni in tomato sauce! It was unique and very tasty. Buried beneath the macaroni was an Iraqi burek, which contains lamb! It was to die for! Then, we headed to get some sweets! We tried some nuts from a vendor and raced to the sweets shop, as all the shops would be closing within the next 20 minutes. We entered the oldest sweets shop in the sweet, where we saw lots of types of baklava, Turkish delights, biscuits, and jalebi! The shop owner was too kind. He gave us heaping portions of multiple items to try. It was too much! Our first sweet was Nutella knafeh, which was thick with a crispy layer of noodles and doused in sugar syrup. It was the best sweet ever! Next was a cream-filled baklava, which was a major sugar rush. We had another baklava, as well as another type of knafeh that was like pure sugar. The crispy layers in the baklava blew my mind, but the Nutella knafeh was on another level! I was ready to pop! Finally, we headed to our final stop, which was just about to close. It was a street vendor selling khirret, a very rare and special sweet from the marshlands of southern Iraq. It’s very expensive at $50 USD for a kilo! It’s powdery and chalky but not flavorless. It wasn’t my favorite, but I could tell it would be good with some chai! And that’s it for our nighttime street food tour of Nasiriyah, Iraq! Where have you been? Subscribe Here! http://bit.ly/DavidsbeenhereSub Top videos! http://bit.ly/DavidsbeenhereTopVideos Follow Me: INSTAGRAM ►   / davidsbeenhere   FACEBOOK ►   / davidsbeenhere   TWITTER ►   / davidsbeenhere   MY BLOG! ► http://davidsbeenhere.com/ Contact Me: +BUSINESS EMAIL ► [email protected] #Iraq #Foodie #StreetFood #Travel About Me: My name is David Hoffmann. Since starting David’s Been Here in 2008, I have traveled to over 1,300 destinations in 95 countries to experience and document unique cultures on my YouTube channel, travel blog, and social media. I highlight culture and historical sites, but my passion is food! I love to experience and showcase the different flavors each destination has to offer, from casual street food to gourmet restaurant dining. Thanks for watching and subscribing!