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Online directory of eateries launched
Filed under FoodApr 30JEDDAH: A Saudi company on Tuesday launched the first comprehensive online directory of restaurants around the Kingdom.
The website, www.sufrati.com, contains information, phone numbers and addresses of more than 2,000 restaurants in the country, according to Abdulaziz Al-Abdullah, vice president of Nowayrah Group and a partner in Sufrati.com.
This site helps save time usually spent looking for a proper restaurant, given the ever increasing number of restaurants in Kingdom prompted by the expansion of the Saudi cities, he said. He added that he and his partners had established Sufrati.com to make it easy for everyone to locate a restaurant to suit their tastes.
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Chinese culture winning over Jeddah
Filed under FoodApr 29JEDDAH – “My children know all the types of Chinese food and order it themselves in their original names,” says Mohammed Al-Ghamdi.
Al-Ghamdi is one of many residents of Jeddah whose family has developed a passion for Chinese food and the more than 150 Chinese restaurants that now grace the city.
Their unique menus and architectural styles represent in the Kingdom what has become a worldwide economic force of no small influence.
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Apr 29
By Badr Al-Rasheedi
YANBU – A 26-year-old businesswoman is all set to open the first women-only operated bakery. More than 150 Saudi women will work in the bakery worth SR3 million. It is expected to open in a year and will supply bread to schools. Alwiya Al-Munqil, the bakery owner, said that she developed the idea of the bakery after she successfully invested in 12 school cafeterias. She made it clear that the bakery project will be 100 percent operated by Saudi women. – Okaz/SG
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Pizza Inn on expansion drive
Filed under FoodApr 29RIYADH: Pizza Inn, in defiance of the global recession and gloomy financial forecasts, has unveiled ambitious plans to open several new restaurants in the Kingdom as well as in the Middle East & North Africa and Asia regions. The announcement was made by Charlie Morrison, president and CEO of the US-based Pizza Inn here yesterday.
Morrison announced the scheduled opening of some nine Pizza Inn restaurants including four in the Western Province of Saudi Arabia. The restaurants will offer traditional delivery, dine-in and carry out services. The Riyadh-based United Food Company (UFC), a master licensor of the Pizza Inn brand for MENA & Asia regions, is working on the new projects with the Pizza Inn. UFC is a division of the A. Abunayyan Group of Riyadh and master licensor for Pizza Inn franchise in MENA and Asia region. The press briefing of Morrison was also attended by Madison Jobe, Pizza Inn vice president, who is accompanying Morrison on his trip to Gulf. Khusro Mistry, chief of Pizza Inn operations in MENA and Asia region, and Raj Shah, director of marketing were also present. Morrison and Jobe are visiting Saudi Arabia on the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebration of Pizza Inn, which opened its first outlet in 1958 in the US city of Dallas.
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SFDA to monitor food imports from May 25
Filed under FoodApr 28JEDDAH: The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) will take over next month the monitoring of imported foodstuffs from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Mohamad bin Ahmed Alkanhal, executive president of the authority, announced yesterday.
Well check imported foodstuffs at 27 entry points. We have mobilized adequate number of employees for the purpose, including 100 staff members who had undergone training abroad, he told Al-Watan Arabic daily.
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Apr 23
RIYADH: In 2008, food prices were fast-rising in Saudi Arabia, in the GCC as well as the rest of the world. Skyrocketing food inflation partly triggered by shortages, rising transportation costs, the heavy concentration on bio-fuels as well as global speculation in commodities.
For Saudi Arabia, ensuring medium to long-term food security seems to be a top policy priority, in order to avoid similar difficulties. As it stands, according to the Gulf Research Center (GRC) report on food inflation, in absolute numbers Saudi Arabia is the largest Arab food importer in the GCC followed by the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. In 2008, it is estimated that food imports in the GCC totaled more than SR43 billion.
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Al Baik Menu
Filed under FoodApr 11
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Pizza Fusion is going international
Filed under FoodApr 2 -
Mar 31Peas are packed with all kinds of health-beneficial nutrients, and new research has shown that proteins from the garden pea are associated with relieving symptoms of chronic kidney disease.There are generally three types of peas that are commonly eaten: garden peas, snow peas (mangetout) and snap peas (or sugarsnap peas). Garden peas (Pisum sativum) are a legume that grows in rounded pods, with each pod containing several sweet, starchy peas. Snow peas are flatter than garden peas, and the shadows of the flat pea seeds can usually be seen within them. Snap peas, a cross between the garden and snow pea, have plump pods with a crisp, snappy texture. The pods of both snow peas and snap peas are edible, and both have a slightly sweeter taste than the garden pea.
Fresh green garden peas provide an excellent source of thiamine (vitamin B1), and they are also a good source of folic acid, and Vitamin A and C. Peas are a good source of protein, but they need to be combined with cereals like rice, pasta or bread to make them a complete protein.
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Food cheaper
Filed under FoodDec 30A worker stacks bags of rice in a Jeddah store Sunday. Prices of basic commodities like rice, powder milk, and cooking oil have decreased noticeably amid fears of retailers to buy larger quantities now as the prices are expected to get cheaper soon. The decrease in rice prices has gone down by 10-15 percent. Cooking oil has gone down by 25 percent and 10 percent for powder milk. – Okaz photo by Saeed Al-Shehri
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