How Community Chefs Feed 4,000 People During Ramadan In Egypt | Big Batches

How Community Chefs Feed 4,000 People During Ramadan In Egypt | Big Batches | Insider Food

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For nine years, the neighborhood of El Matareya in Cairo, Egypt, has been hosting one of Egypt's largest iftars, the evening meal eaten to break the fast during Ramadan.
On the 15th day of Ramadan, 200 volunteers from El Matareya help cook the food in the streets and in their homes.
In the streets, chicken and rice are cooked on grills, and in homes, dishes like mahshi and kebab halla are made by hand.
All of the food is served on 500 tables that stretch a kilometer down the road.
The event has become so popular that people from other neighborhoods stop by to enjoy the festivities and get a free meal.
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@effervescentsloth5132 Жыл бұрын

“But this time I don’t put in a lot of spice, because some people don’t like it and I don’t want to hurt them.” The look on her face made me chuckle. Such a wonderful person.

@LindseyLouWho Жыл бұрын

Beautiful display of community and humanity. Thank you to El Matareya and its humble citizens for sharing this with Insider, and with us.

@cloudlounger6903 Жыл бұрын

❤

@robz7369 Жыл бұрын

Once a great civilization, living like rats now such a shame

@renshawfreese47 Жыл бұрын

Where are the women

@confused_af 11 ай бұрын

@@renshawfreese47u are blind. 0:32 see there is women

@gafak47 4 ай бұрын

away from you..batty boi@@renshawfreese47

@recklessgeneration2361 Жыл бұрын

Um is not her first name, it's more of a honorific title given to her on the count of her first born child Mustafa, so Um Mustafa in shorts means "Mother of Mustafa ".

@cloudlounger6903 Жыл бұрын

Thanks....I think⁉️🤨

@momoproblems0 Жыл бұрын

I was just gonna comment this. Insider all you had to do was ask 1 Arabic person to verify the script, like come on lol

@ClemensDE Жыл бұрын

preparing all this amazing food while being hungry. big respect

@cloudlounger6903 Жыл бұрын

I'm hungry watching it....

@mamamiaherewegoagain6959 Жыл бұрын

Well, coming from a muslim who prepares the food for iftar for their family, when you're preparing it you don't really notice the hunger. Really the only unfortunate thing is not being able to taste the food as you prepare it, and being unsure whether it tastes good. so you really need to know the recipes by heart. Actually that goes for all activities. When you're fasting you don't really notice the hunger unless you're not doing anything. Aside from fasting, ramadhan is a time for prayer, reflection, family, and charity, so if you're practicing it fully there's really no time or chance to feel the hunger.

@chuckvanderbildt Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful way the tradition of iftar must be, to foster gratitude.

@U.K.N Жыл бұрын

Yes , it forges bonds of brotherhood and friendship in rich/middle income and in poor areas

@issacodah Жыл бұрын

well its a religious event not a tradition to be more precis , like muslims fast 1 month every year the month called Ramadan

@Hans.Dewitt 11 ай бұрын

@@issacodahRamadan is a religious event, but getting together and breaking fast together with the community in the streets like this is a tradition.

@issacodah 11 ай бұрын

@@Hans.Dewitt well he called iftar a tradition so i was just correcting, gathering for iftar like this is a tradition

@rodeo9837 Жыл бұрын

Amazing culture and humanity. This is real community. I love the at-home preparations by these great matriarchs

@adelsweify Жыл бұрын

As an Egyptian, I tell you that you are welcome in Egypt

@nerd26373 Жыл бұрын

This is fascinating to see. Egyptian cuisine doesn't get much hype, but I feel as though it deserves more international attention.

@tuhuttmesiii48 Жыл бұрын

The problem of Egyptian culture in general is that they allow changing names, so you find a specific Egyptian food or habit that is attributed to "Eastern" or "Arab".

@jessep8281 Жыл бұрын

How will they be able to promote their culture when the first thing they do once you arrive is harass and confiscate things from you lol

@mrmr80doba Жыл бұрын

I am afraid that people who lives next door neighbors always stealing our cuisine and claim its thier owner.. So if you see any arabic Levant bla bla food. Make sure it's egyptain

@devendarjain7037 Жыл бұрын

it's literally boiled rice stuffed into vegetables! What's there to hype about 🤣🤣

@arwasaadawy3346 11 ай бұрын

@@devendarjain7037 no the rice usually isn't boiled, the put it after turning off the fire. Mahashi is delicious and it deserve the hype if made right. you need to try it and the koshari I know they don't sound amazing but good ones are. there is many versions of Mahashi in Egypt and. many other countries I personally prefer my grandmother Mahashi.

@georgek1357 Жыл бұрын

As an Egyptein, I truely appreciate this video because it captures Egypt's image in the right way and does it justice

@ciecat6015 10 ай бұрын

The whole experience is surreal. The closeness of their community, the spirit, the get together.. it's amazing to see😮

@maryserrano6448 Жыл бұрын

I truly appreciate seeing how other Countries celebrate their holidays. I enjoy seeing how their communities come together in cooking and having fun.

@Aescoffier Жыл бұрын

If everyone could get along like this more the world would be a better place

@65WZ Жыл бұрын

I didn't know that, makes me want to attend next Ramadan. أكرمكم الله، وتقبل الله صالح الأعمال.. الله يديم عليكم الروح الطيبة والمحبة، ويكثر خيركم

@hadyahmed9819 Жыл бұрын

مصر ام الدنيا❤🇪🇬💪🏼

@MohamedMokhtar 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, Al-Mataria. Every year, we have a large group iftar during Ramadan

@jzain39 Жыл бұрын

I feel very proud of being an Egyptian and seeing our country being portrayed as beautifully❤

@AS__J Жыл бұрын

Your country trully beautiful

@qhuizatlantis8484 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful country bad government

@arshthakur8925 Жыл бұрын

Would like to sit on the same table as u and my other brothers. 😍 in sha. Allaha

@jaideepsingh2405 Жыл бұрын

I will go back to 5:54 whenever I'm having a bad day. What a benign smile.

@cloudlounger6903 Жыл бұрын

Visiting Egypt in the mid-90s was a very thoughtful and friendly experience. America needs THIS kind of 'pride' and fellowship, not .....well, you know....😢

@AS__J Жыл бұрын

Masha Allah,i love this,i love watch they can be happy and enjoy the food together🥲🥲🥲

@fernandorestelli Жыл бұрын

Beautifully shot!

@thandekadhlamini9101 11 ай бұрын

This is beautiful seriously 😢❤ Masha'allah

@mustafakhanjiwala5582 Жыл бұрын

Faboulous Gesture. Indeed A Great Initiative and Initiative of Oneness. Alhamdolillah Shukranllilah.

@MichaelSacamos Жыл бұрын

To everyone who sees this comment, keep pushing in life and never give up. Can't wait to see you successful one day and May God bless you!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@buzonpham Жыл бұрын

Love Insider Food from Vietnam ❤

@mrmayor7828 11 ай бұрын

Incredible, absolutely incredible. 500 tables!

@ScottieBMan 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful how everyone comes together! Need stuff like this in USA ✌🏻

@ekfkdlfvkdnwl4281 Жыл бұрын

subhanallah, this is amazing, i need to come here one day!

@gokhancakmak1410 Жыл бұрын

This looks like a very nice feast, dolma is also good thank you :)

@DapurBiru Жыл бұрын

Delicious ❤

@gabrieldta Жыл бұрын

This is humanity at its best! =)

@Mindfookfilms Жыл бұрын

It's a beautiful video.

@jessiimamii5113 Жыл бұрын

I didn't add spice because I didn't want to hurt them 🥺 BLESS THIS PURE SOUL

@MissHoneyOnline 11 ай бұрын

Aww, that was so beautiful!

@sabeenshahjehan8522 Жыл бұрын

So happy to see this ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@izzati4947 Жыл бұрын

Missing old days in Mansoura❤ went for masged hopping during ramadhan , mahsyi😢

@DeenBot20x 11 ай бұрын

Amazing ❤❤❤❤❤

@abdohawas3604 Жыл бұрын

as egyptian thanks for insider to show good sides of our country 😍

@WESPOTTHEM 11 ай бұрын

Ah man a full day of fast and cooking such tasty looking food, must be a patience test of these volunteers

@himangshusingha8971 11 ай бұрын

Amazing

@umsami Жыл бұрын

Masha'Allah. One of the wonderful Ramadan traditions.

@ThexBorg Жыл бұрын

What a fantastic celebration. I'd love to help and participate.

@funnyinfinity665 3 ай бұрын

this is so beautiful

@feeesh4324 9 ай бұрын

I love that when Umm is making the stuffing for the vegetables, she says that she doesn't add too many chilis as some people don't like it spicy and she doesn't want to hurt them. She is such a considerate soul and I hope she is doing good :D

@katherineex 6 ай бұрын

her name is not Umm, she wants to protect her privacy so she names herself Umm Mustafa? I believe? i forgot his name. anyways she names herself that because she was a son named Mustafa and Umm Mustafa means "Mustafa's Mom" in Arabic

@4n4Queen 2 ай бұрын

no , um is not her name. Um is More likely a honorable titles.

@henryviape1201 9 ай бұрын

Bro that started out listing the food he liked and then immideatly followed it up with concluding its all good is a man after my own heart.

@celvinmendonca 10 ай бұрын

@best ever food review has a different perspective of Egypt!

@clips2319 8 ай бұрын

When you see these ladies cooking, you know the food is going to be just perfect.

@341infantry 21 күн бұрын

Beautiful

@majd_shoots 11 ай бұрын

At 3:55 she said, “While umm is doing this” - every Arab who understands English is balling their eyes out from laughing 😂😂😂😂😂

@paulezay3599 Жыл бұрын

Look good

@asifkabir7484 Жыл бұрын

I am coming next Ramadan inshallah 😊.

@Hollietvshow Жыл бұрын

Yummy❤❤❤❤

@HFC786 Жыл бұрын

MāshāAllāh

@mercy1441 Жыл бұрын

Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen!

@abdelrahmansaad4061 Жыл бұрын

El matareya the One and only 👍

@masoudahmad4348 11 ай бұрын

How i miss the month of Ramadan

@soheilaamany1753 Жыл бұрын

Great . In Chenlam, I made stuffed mushrooms. Come and see😮

@SNEHASISH77 Жыл бұрын

i want to eat toooooo , ok gonna visit Egypt

@mrmr80doba 3 ай бұрын

It's Egypt

@villagetale12 Жыл бұрын

Hi 🧑‍🎤♥️I'm Iranian girl🧑‍🎤😍❤️ village cooking is relaxing and nice 😍❤️ thanks for your support 🌹🌹

@TONI__KROOS Жыл бұрын

How are things in iran?

@Tortall2012 Жыл бұрын

I’m not Muslim so I don’t know if it would be allowed (or appropriate) but when the chef commented that the hardest part was making the meal while fasting because he isn’t able to taste it. My immediate thought was what if they had a member of a different religious community taste the food as it is cooked so the chefs are able to make sure it is properly seasoned. As I mentioned before I am not Muslim and I know very little about what goes into meal preparation for breaking the fast for Ramadan, so this idea is from an outsider perspective.

@AbdulxEmara Жыл бұрын

My mother used to ask our neighbor (a Coptic Christian) to taste our food for the whole month

@arshthakur8925 Жыл бұрын

Good idea. Brother. Really appreciate your thought brother Bismillaha. May allaha guide you

@Aeybiseediy 11 ай бұрын

Its actually permissible to taste the food while fasting. Just need to use tip of tongue and don't swallow the food. Also rinse your mouth afterwards.

@arwasaadawy3346 11 ай бұрын

my family let my diabetic brother taste the food(as some people with health condition are forbidden from fasting), and kids and women in there period don't fast. its easy to find someone to taste the food.

@Lolomail22 2 ай бұрын

U csn come next year and you will be welcomed insha Allah

@chadvix5861 Жыл бұрын

Calling Um Mustafa just Um is so funny, lmfao. Great video nonetheless.

@mickl9567 Жыл бұрын

Egypt seems like a peaceful cities with lots of honest citizens , despite the darker sides of it , but at least safe for peoples to visit

@sirazummunira3042 2 ай бұрын

Wish we had something like this in my country 😭

@MuhammadMohsin6060 Жыл бұрын

Hard thing about fasting and cooking is that you unconsciously taste things while making them and to control that is really the hardest part.

@hussainalaa2361 Жыл бұрын

❤️

@iboken39 Жыл бұрын

*Um* actually isn’t in her first name , parents in in middle-east and North Africa are usually called by ( um/abo - then their first born name ) which translate into (mother/father of - first born name-) .

@jennglow4647 Жыл бұрын

😮

@melodyparra2960 Жыл бұрын

So much delicious looking food but how do they do the dishes and clean up that’s a lot of washing and scrubbing

@germany456 10 ай бұрын

My gf is from Iran and now I’m so interested in Islam and anything with it like Arabic. She said my Arabic is better then her old brothers lol

@villainess9092 Жыл бұрын

blessing for all of my muslim brother & sisters

@arshthakur8925 Жыл бұрын

Same to you brother

@zodiacsama7693 11 ай бұрын

@@arshthakur8925are you muslim?

@dabhai26 Жыл бұрын

I missed indonesia food mostly beef cow

@Jeyekomon 5 ай бұрын

6:20 All that single-use meal packaging...

@HelloAmDog Жыл бұрын

My introverted self could not

@armanahmed1358 Жыл бұрын

The tools that has been used to empty the inside of the vegetables, what is it called? Can someone tell me?

@sadekmostafa123 Жыл бұрын

it called vegetable Corer

@Amnok Жыл бұрын

공동체를 중시하고, 감사할 줄 알며, 성적인 절제를 유지하는 집단이 미래의 헤게모니를 잡을 것이다

@elmadf3gy2020 Жыл бұрын

*IT'S NOT FOR MUSLIMS ONLY EVEN CHRISTIANS OF EGYPT DONATE AND CELEBRATE THIS DAY , EGYPT AND ARAB COUNTRIES HAS A LONG HISTORY OF TOGETHERNESS BETWEEN ALL RELIGIONS SADLY WEST DOESN'T WANT THIS TO GO ON AND THEY TRY TO DIVIDE THEM*

@LandstreicherIndien Жыл бұрын

Nice to know that. But then why is the population of Christians declining in Egypt for many years?

@ahmedelprince9 Жыл бұрын

⁠⁠@@LandstreicherIndien because living expenses in Egypt right now is super high compared to the salaries given. Christians have the privilege to ask for asylum in European and North America’s countries, and therefore they go for it. I am muslim and I have nothing but love for my Christian brothers and sisters.

@mustafawail6493 Жыл бұрын

I'm a Muslim and Ramadan is a month of fasting for Muslims and we break our fast at maghrib

@Aeybiseediy 11 ай бұрын

@@LandstreicherIndien ask them why ask the muslims?

@degerbrocken2688 11 ай бұрын

I will join One Time 😊

@RiadhFelhi Жыл бұрын

@أكلة عدنان

@XxxpainxxX111 Жыл бұрын

What is the chicken called? I wanna look up the recipe

@Shams396 Жыл бұрын

They had two Shish tawook you need to search the Egyptian recipe not Lebanese and the other is chicken panne it’s a breaded chicken breast

@JohnSmith-me4ik Жыл бұрын

Though the Lebanese one is just as good

@SufficientDaikon Жыл бұрын

"middle eats" made a recipe recently, highly recommend

@Helm_hammer Жыл бұрын

You get a ring in your food if you are lucky at 0:18

@burnlogic8407 Жыл бұрын

How did you get permission to film in Egypt? If I remember correctly the Egyptian authorities are pretty strict when it comes to filming for television or news media.

@gamalmohammed2306 Жыл бұрын

Now they much open and they support more tourists

@AbdoTawdy Жыл бұрын

Just to clearfy, who making mahshe (stuffed vigtables), that is not her real name, just like a nick name, the nick name is um mustafa which mean (mom of Mustafa) which usually woman in Egypt be called with (mom of her child name) as in Egypt traditionally somehow hiding the mother names

@unpampered Жыл бұрын

Where do the adult women break the fast? I didn't see any on the street or at the tables.

@tcmixman 11 ай бұрын

Every Muslim needs a Christian taste tester during Ramadan food prep 😋

@ultrasonicradiation 7 ай бұрын

Looks like if the event gets any bigger, there will be a human stampede.

@johnb820 Жыл бұрын

Tell sonny Egypt is safe to film in now.

@3asem5000 Жыл бұрын

It's save to vist without camera, still not save to film. Don't lie

@SufficientDaikon Жыл бұрын

not yet

@tariqmostafa Жыл бұрын

by the way this iftar was banned from AL cici at the beginning he is afraid of any crowd that might start the revolution against him and his gang that called army

@misterbig9025 Жыл бұрын

For some reason Best Ever Food Review team had so many problems while making KZfaq video in Egypt and discouraged anyone to go there.

@mayapun5181 Жыл бұрын

Allha hubar

@johnpaullaxa5486 Жыл бұрын

Are they really making it or they have cooks on their house? Its the middle east every house holds has helpers

@abdelrahmana.abdelgawad6635 11 ай бұрын

the middle east is too large to use such a blanket statement, but anyway no house helpers aren't that common in egypt and people usually do cook their own food except maybe the wealthier folks but they make up a really small percentage of the population

@johnpaullaxa5486 11 ай бұрын

@@abdelrahmana.abdelgawad6635 so these people are not wealthy huh.

@MohamedAshraf-yy3nm 11 ай бұрын

@@johnpaullaxa5486yea they are just normal egyptian

@centrino007 2 ай бұрын

@@johnpaullaxa5486actually most are poor

@OrlandoBP Жыл бұрын

Porque hay un bot contactando por WhatsApp para que le dé me gusta y suscripción a esta mamada?

@advr3585 20 күн бұрын

Imagine all 4000 people pooping the same next day 😂😂 💩 same poop everywhere 😢

@_Vancelvany_ 11 ай бұрын

it's great but can't help but notice that there's barely any women in the streets, Claudia wasn't even there lol still behind the times in terms of equality from my POV must be good food but man, it's a sausage fest

@Scho-penhauer Жыл бұрын

But I heard that president Sissy banned this event this year!

@edbasset5754 Жыл бұрын

MB media

@ropyelking4488 2 ай бұрын

25000 ضيف

@laxmikushwaha8333 9 ай бұрын

✝️🙌🏽✝️

@diogenes. Жыл бұрын

Um is not her name 😂, oom means mother , like if your name is mike , your mother would be called " om mike " like a form of respect not to call her by name..

@manchesterunited8390 Жыл бұрын

But how they cook bomb, You gotta show us that too😂😂

@manchesterunited8390 Жыл бұрын

Insider food is from which country? Their Narrator has a painful accent man, They has taken pandering to whole New level😂😂

@sobysunny-oc6bv Жыл бұрын

How Egyptians became from Pharaohs to Muslims. Quite Strange?.. Anyone can help in telling some history please

@مقارناتالجيوش Жыл бұрын

the prophets send to you to lead you to the true way and the god is only one and all prophets worship same god this is simple answer

@ghassencsetwow Жыл бұрын

tell me single ethnic group that kept his relegion from thousands of years ago

@fff8841 Жыл бұрын

@@ghassencsetwow maybe Hindus

@ghassencsetwow Жыл бұрын

@@fff8841 nah it was Vedic relegion before that

@user-or1rm1ol3q 11 ай бұрын

Just like most. Of the world became Muslims and christians it happens sometimes

@royjohnson465 Жыл бұрын

I hope aluminum pots are not used, stainless-steel pots are healthy and the best, because aluminum pots are not healthy.

@emca1597 Жыл бұрын

I thought it was difficult to film in Egypt? due to their paranoid government, I'm surprised the filmers weren't stopped bt local police

@SufficientDaikon Жыл бұрын

it's a coin toss really, they got unlucky which really sucks

@edbasset5754 Жыл бұрын

If you film next to a government or a security building, the will make your life difficult. Otherwise, they don't care. From a personal experience.

@IRON9LORD 2 ай бұрын

She thinks the name of the woman us Um 😪

@Jijkgf Жыл бұрын

They never wear gloves 😮😮

@ShabeerSniper Жыл бұрын

The heat from cooking kills any bacteria, and it's their culture

@aliza__shah Жыл бұрын

Hands are cleaner than gloves

@sadjester800 Жыл бұрын

They clean their hand with water in every occasion.

@itssidx Жыл бұрын

Most restaurants and kitchens don't in fact it is safer to wash hands repeatedly than transfer bacteria accumulated on gloves!

@NShll-sd9yw Жыл бұрын

as long as they wash their hands it's fine