Middle Eastern Menu Recommendations For Joint Opening In The Month Of Ramadan

Middle Eastern Menu (IST)

JAKARTA - Have a plan to open it together with family, friends, or loved ones in the month of Ramadan? If you want to try something new, there's nothing wrong with trying out various Middle Eastern-style menus for breaking the fast in the month of Ramadan 2023.

No need to go all the way to Arabia, now many restaurants, cafes and resotran highlight the opening menu with the Middle East theme. In addition, many also display the theme of whether it is decoration to the typical music with the Southwest Asian country.

One of them, the Episode of Hotels in the Kelapa Dua area, Tangerang, presents a menu of breaking the fast in the Middle East and Mediterranean styles. Some of the country's typical snacks were also displayed by the chef at the restaurant, starting from opening foods such as Palestinian Dates, Fields, Baklava Bite, and Falavel. Then heavy foods, such as Middle Eastern-style pizza.

Executive Sous Chef Episode Gading Serpong, Danius said, this typical Middle East menu is still a mainstay in the month of Ramadan in 2023. This is because of the atmosphere that supports and is typical of Islamic values.

"Ramadan this year is still typical of the Middle East, one of which is food and we continue to highlight this," said Danius when met in Tangerang, Sunday, March 19.

In this menu, he presents a typical Middle East salad in which the use of olive oil, olives and various Arabic spices are united in a healthy menu breaking the fast.

Moreover, the salad is enriched with various types of leaves rich in fiber, this type of salad is also sprinkled with pieces of olives and also a typical Greek cheese that resembles tofu slices.

"This cheese, too, is soft, as you know. We also present this cheese at the Pizza cut," he said.

Then, there are also sweet takjil menus such as Turkish typical Baklava, and Mejol dates from Palestine. Where this date is large but has very small seeds, from sweet and legit taste.

"This time we present Palestinian Dates, where the dates are quite large and the meat is quite large, plus a feeling of legit and sweet that can meet the needs of sugar during breaking the fast," he said.

Waroeng steak and Shake is also preparing new menus to welcome the holy month of Ramadan. The new menu is Milkshake Date.

"We are specifically preparing Milkshake dates this year. It's called Rama Kurma-Kurma special Rama Ramadan. Special drinks for Ramadan," said Waroeng steak and Shake Manager, DKI Jakarta Regional 5, Monday, March 20.

Sidiq explained that Waroeng steak and Shake also provides a iftar menu with various food variants wrapped in one place.

"We support breaking the fast, namely the Support Box menu which consists of 3 chikens, 2 tenderloins, 4 rices, 2 brown sauces, 2 cheese sauces, 1 serving of spraysticks and 1 portion of French fries," he said.

Sidiq also revealed that for visitors who want to hold iftar in their place, his party has prepared facilities in the form of places of worship and quite a lot of chairs. So that where for customers will be guaranteed.

"For Waroeng steak and Shake itself, it is supported by a large parking lot and you don't have to be worried about missing the Maghrib prayer, because almost all athletes have a fairly clean prayer. So if you break the fast and get together, the family can be comfortable," he concluded