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Mecca, Saudi Arabia
6 dishes to eat in Mecca, what is in them, and where they belong.
Spiced rice with lamb or chicken, served communally in the pilgrim districts.
Fava beans with a large tandoor-baked Afghan flatbread — the standard pilgrim breakfast.
Stuffed griddled pancake, sold from stalls around the mosque approaches.
The traditional way to break a fast, and freely available inside the mosque.
Fried pastries filled with meat or cheese, ubiquitous in Ramadan.
Turkish, Indonesian, Bengali and West African restaurants serving their own communities.
