{"id":2782,"date":"2013-12-12T12:07:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2013-12-12T12:07:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:07:53","slug":"tyler-cowens-west-bank-ethnic-dining-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/tyler-cowens-west-bank-ethnic-dining-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Cowen\u2019s West Bank ethnic dining guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hippOChWrlw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I can recommend two places:<\/p>\n<p>1. Siri (that is how they pronounced it, I don\u2019t know the transliteration), a small restaurant on one of the main streets in the center of Ramallah.<\/p>\n<p>They serve hummus, foul, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#q=foul+bean+palestinian\">foul<\/a> ringed with hummus, get the latter. The accompanying vegetables were more strongly marinated than they typically would be in Israel, a plus in my view.<\/p>\n<p>2. Laymoon [The Lemon restaurant], Ariha (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jericho\">Jericho<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Musakhan\">chicken musakhan<\/a>, with piles of red onions and slivered nuts over bread, seasoned with generous doses of sumac and allspice, is very tasty. The restaurant is also a nice place to sit outside and enjoy the weather, or to catch an Arabic-language film on their large outdoor screen.<\/p>\n<p>I walked by many other places and in general they looked good. The various fruits I purchased on the street were all winners, the small oranges and the dates most of all. There is much less variety, but dish by dish my impression from a small sample was that the food in West Bank cities is slightly better than that of Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>Ariha was attracting a lot of Nigerian church tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Overall I noticed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Magazine\/Features\/Palestines-new-bride\">how much economic growth and globalized advertising were to be seen in Ramallah<\/a>. My biggest surprise was how much being in Ramallah felt like\u2026being in Israel. Except the citizenry seemed less religious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/12\/tyler-cowens-west-bank-ethnic-dining-guide.html\"><em>Originally posted on Marginal Revolution<\/em> &#8211; click to see comments and suggestions.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can recommend two places: 1. Siri (that is how they pronounced it, I don\u2019t know the transliteration), a small restaurant on one of the main streets in the center of Ramallah. They serve hummus, foul, and foul ringed with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/tyler-cowens-west-bank-ethnic-dining-guide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,129,874],"tags":[875,1389,872,873,1401],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-palestinian","category-west-bank","tag-hippochwrlw","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-ramallah","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}