Nostalgic Emirati restaurant in Dubai

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The Al-Fanar Restaurant and Cafe in Dubai offers patrons a taste of authentic Emirati food and time-fragments of local scenes. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00What is the difference between Arab and non-Arab expatriates?

00:30It's a real Emirati food. A lot of people think they have a misunderstanding of our food and our culture as well.

00:39They think that hummus and shawarma is our food, is Emirati food, which it's not.

00:44It's Arabic cuisine, but there is a big difference between Arabic cuisine and Emirati cuisine.

00:51So I came in, I wanted to make this correction and at the same time to give them the opportunity to come and taste the food.

00:59My concept is that you should come to me whenever you're hungry.

01:02You should not plan ahead to come to my restaurant.

01:07When you walk in, you don't think that you're walking into a restaurant.

01:10Your first impression would be that I'm walking into a museum.

01:15It's a mini museum with all these fine details.

01:21If you look around in this house, which we are sitting in now, this is Beit el Tawwaj, the pearl merchant house.

01:27You will see all the minute details, which was there in most of the houses in UAE before.

01:36Even I have gone into the details of putting the bird nests.

01:40Because I wanted you to live in a themed environment.

01:47So you can experience the true Emirati tradition.

01:56The ancestral way of living.

01:58The way that we were living back in the 1960s.

02:01Plus you can dine in with a reasonable price.

02:05It's self-satisfaction.

02:07You feel that you're doing something for your country.

02:13Giving back something to your society.

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