I Found My True Love In Baghdad Iraq 🇮🇶
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- Today we ate masgouf, Iraq's national dish in North Baghdad.
Yep we ate wood smoked carp right on the banks of the tigris river.
Our good friend Abbas brought us to his family's favourite restaurant in Adamiyah, Baghdad and it did not let us down!
Probably one of the greatest grilled fish we've ever eaten hands down.
We then headed to a spot up on the river where we played domino's and drank lots of Iraqi tea.
Cheers Abbas 🙏
Iraq's national dish is bloody top 🇮🇶
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Chapters:
0:00 Old School Baghdad Grape Juice
3:58 Proper Iraqi Music!
4:58 Meeting & Kissing Our Carp
8:49 We're Eating Right On The Tigris River
10:38 Starters Are Here
12:14 Our Fish Has Arrived
14:26 First Time Tasting Masgouf
18:25 You Can't Pay For Anything In Iraq...
19:31 Playing Dominos
26:55 Supporting Young Street Seller
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Iraqi masgouf has gotta be some of the world's greatest grilled fish, what do you reckon? 🇮🇶
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It's a cultural thing and can get annoying, but while many people will refuse payment, you've got to basically fight to do it (3x minimum). It's just what you do... Also, don't show too much interest in peoples stuff because they'll offer it to you even if they don't actually want you to take it! Took me awhile to adjust.
Love your videos, still sad you didn't make it to Oaxaca city. Maybe one day!
@@adamp1440 Yeah we always offer a few times, we've learnt to read who means it and who doesn't. As guests most of the time in our experience they actually want to gift us the things though and won't take money.
بنضري كعراقيه الاكل العراقي جميل ومتنوع
فعلا المسكوف هو الافضل
Of course the best and my favorite food
Very exciting to see more Iraqi people traditional life style in general ❤
I think you will like the series 🙏❤️
Masgoof absolute taste... Welcome to cradle of civilizations... 🇮🇶❤️🏴
Best grilled fish ever
Everyone is welcome here in Iraq .. you’ll find real generosity and hospitality.
A comment for those who always ask about whether Iraq is safe or not: travelling is for the brave, not for the coward. You have seen the videos of globe trotters here in this channel or elsewhere. Iraq is just like any other country, full of history and traditions as well as hospitable locals like Abbas. Once you visit Iraq, you’ll find another time to pay a revisit cuz you won’t be able to experience everything in one single trip.
Already can't wait to return and visit all the places we haven't been. I mean it when I say Iraqi people are the kindest we've met on our travels, we feel family here.
Don't understand why everybody thinks it is extremely dangerous either, big western cities feel dodgy whereas here like I said were looked after well 🙏🇮🇶
@@EllisWR اعتقد ان هناك من يستفادمن تضليل صورة العراق الحقيقية
نرحب بكم في العراق
طبعا بعد زيارتكم للعراق نظرتكم للعراق اكيد تغيرت لان ما يقال في وسائل الاعلام ان العراق بلد غير آمن و لا يمكن للزوار التجوال فيه. العراق تغير كثيرا في الأونة الأخيرة و الأكل العراقي أطيب اكل في العالم. تحياتي لكم و زيارة موفقة
Abbas such a quiet and good looking kid. Hope he is well awarded for taking you guys around safe.
I don't understand Mary! Abbas is our friend we are not paying him! If we tried to do that he'd be extremely upset they don't do that here 🙏
@@EllisWR yes, we don't like this, We like when take our tourist to places without them paying 🤍
@@EllisWRyes that's right, we don't like to reserve money from our guests ❤❤ hope you guys a happy journey
Abbas has shown you true kindness 😊 good lad
كل العراق امن بإستثناء الصحراء الغربية توجد عمليات عسكرية لطرد تنظيم داعش
I have learned more about Iraq watching your videos than i did my whole time there. Baghdad looks similar to Amman Jordan, if ever in Jordan let me know. 😊 enjoy your journey.
Maybe! We will definitely be visiting more middle Eastern countries we are loving it here, very much our type of places 🙏
نحن نحضر الاسماك بلفرن اكثر ولكن السمك المشوي ع الحطب هوه الافضل ❤
Its. Sooo good
vanakkam Ellis and Mrs Ellis & hai to Abbas the Great....Fish dining place very nice....nandri
Thanks my friend
I ❤ the sidewalk very unique handmade cobble stones 👌
Abbas good looking chill dude. He reminds me of an actor.
He looks like actor Naveen Andrews, who played Saeed Jarrah in the series The Lost
Top lad he is!
he's soooo chill, someone needs to check his pulse
Abbas Legend, this combo hits hard man, do more videos like this 👍
He's class ain't he aha!
@@EllisWR For Real...!
Welcome ! We loved you ; my friend you are nice. I advise you to go to tigris village in Baghdad. It is a beautiful place and there are also quiet places in northern iraq if you. have enough time to go there
Please recommend places? Next trip we will visit my friend
@@EllisWR God willing , I will tell you beautiful places that you can visit ❤️✨
@@user-to2ds2hf8o Please email or comment here!
@@EllisWR Oh , if you love nature, go to korek Resort in Erbil Governorate or Al_ahwar in Dhi Qar , and if you need help, tell me in the comments 💝
@@EllisWR I apologize, i am not good English, so i am late in responding to you 😅👍
أهلا وسهلا بك في العراق 🇮🇶
Thanks so much!!
Hai sweet hearts - very very happy to see you in iraq... Am mani from sethu residency - dindugul (tamilnadu) - india.
Hey my friend hope your doing fantastic!
I always watching your videos.
Legend thanks so much
@@EllisWR 🥰
ديبدع عباس 😂😂😂😂😂
He's a top man aha
Lovely to the next COUNTRY Dears... WIND and dry warm weather... Lovely River.. FIRST COmment from #coimbatore #pollachi #south India #australian #victorian
Hey my friend how are you!
@@EllisWR Good mate...
Welcome to Iraq, a country of friendly people and good, peaceful people. We welcome everyone 😊😊
I hope you loved Iraq and the heart of Iraq, beautiful Baghdad, because we always love to see visitors in our streets.
Thank you for visiting our country .. I hope you enjoyed your visit and the hospitality and generosity of Iraqi people
Welcome to Iraq ❤️
If you guys are still in Baghdad, you should try (Tarshana) it’s good sweet. pretty much like jam except you eat it hot not cold. Have fun guys!!
8:00 In today's local news, weird man harasses a carp in broad daylight. The carp is traumatized and is currently undergoing therapy.
Ahaha carp has PTSD now of white men with mullets
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أهلا فيكم في بلدي ❤ أتمنى انكم قد استمتعتم برحله و يسعدني دائما أن أرى سياح من كل انحاء العالم أن يزور العراق ومشاهدة الحياة البسيطه الذي يعيشونها و كم هم مسالمون
Welcome to Iraq. I hope you will come to the city of Basra in southern Iraq. We'll be lucky to have you there.❤
Next trip! ❤️
@@EllisWR
Nice , 👍👍
You are amazing keep it up🤞🏻 Welcome to Iraq, you have become part of us💐💖
Thanks my friend so kind 🙏
Thank you so much guys, we really enjoyed this video .
Thanks for tuning in!!
The fruit that you guys ate is called wild jujube it's a very popular fruit in Iraq. there are several types of it.The best type is the one from Basrah southern Iraq. When I was a kid back in the 90s me and my friends used to leave the school to go and pick up some of these little fruits to snack on them. The one you ate is not ripe though you need to eat the ripe version of it to experience the full real flavor.I left my home country in 2007 and I miss it a lot. Enjoy your stay in Iraq and take care of yourselves 🙏
Thanks so much for sharing we appreciate you watching. Your country is beautiful
Glad you beat me to it mate !! They are a staple in Korea also !!
@@cheeba4114 Will have to try the Korean ones on a future trip!
@cheeba4114 wow I didn't know that they existed in Korea too, I have only seen them in Iraq where I was born
I loved the food you ate tonight. Looked gorgeous!
It was beautiful that fish!
اهلآوسهلآ في بلدكم العراق يرحب بالجميع
Beautiful country. ..beautiful video...❤❤❤
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Welcome to Iraq 🇮🇶 I hope you will apply to Basra.
Thanks a lot! Next trip definitely
Abbas really good guy , I liked him and all of you are amazing believe me ❤
He's a top man
This guy 😊 Abbas is an absolute legend
Genuin question Is there a way i can get hold of Abbas, i travel to Baghdad next week and seems like a cool guy, great episode❤
Send us an email I'll check with him but sure he won't mind helping you out with anything or meeting up! He's a proper legend 🙏
@@EllisWR that’s mega I have emailed you , thank you 🙏🏻
@@DadBudTours Will reply later if not comment again aha
@@EllisWR 🤣🤣 no probs you do what you got to do , your on your travels 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
@@DadBudTours Just emailed you mate.
You have nice trip guy enjoy Iraqi delicious food5
Thanks so much
😮 🐟 it looks delicious! ❤
Enjoy your feast! 😊
Supatra you would love it
19:15 Looool i can't, the guy said- It's in front of you, take it- meaning his mustache.
Amazing!
welcome here dude
Thanks!
good size portions 😊
You do get a lot of food!
brilliant. ⭐️ it's good that good value 👌
welcome back in IRAQ 🇮🇶
Thanks 🙏
First talking about cow balls. Now finding true love. You're the craziest tourist I've ever seen lol
What's next I wonder...
Thanks for visiting Iraq, Ya Habibi 🌚
Welcome To Your Home Bro
اللهم صلِّ على محمد وآل محمد
welcome man to Iraq, if you need any help in Basra hit me up 🤟
Legend thanks so much. Email us! Maybe next trip we hit the south
Kaman to Basra ❤😊
@@EllisWRWelcome to Basra
Very windy by the river 💨 really quiet everywhere but suppose that was because of Ramadan. Waiting to see more Iraq vids with busier streets
Yeah it's usually extremely busy everywhere!
The Iraqi dude hanging with you is sooooo chill, he reminds me of my American friend who's a total stoner lol
Ahaha he's a top lad pure chills all day everyday
صحة وهنا
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yummy food. 😊 👍
It was sooo good
I’ve never been very fond of seafood, but i can never say no to masgouf 😋
iraq iran Syria all are nice countries also food cultures amazing. but American spoil the countries. love you iraq . from srilanka. Nice vedieo bro njoy tc safe
Spoil most of the world really don't they
سبب دمار العراق هو ايران وامريكا
What about your flight - direct from Colombo to Baghdad ? Or Colombo-Istanbul-Baghdad
Colombo - sharjah - Baghdad £300!
I hope you come back and visit Iraq again and come to Karbala province because you did not visit it 😢❤❤❤
Next time yes
@@EllisWR Thx💫🩶
نورت العراق اهلا وسهلا❤🎉
اهلا بك في جمهورية العراق❤
Thankyou so much!!
Why not cook that fish for lunch? I was waiting for it.😊
What?!
Welcome to iraq Go to the city of Sulaymaniyah. It is close to you, about an hour in the car. It has mountains, valleys, plains, and green land with amazing nature, and then go to Dohuk has an amazing nature that you will not find in the world
Loving this journey into Iraq! So is Abbas a fixer that needs to chaperone you to be safe or is he a friend you met in your travels elsewhere? Interested to know the story behind him.
Noo he's not a fixer just a genuine friend we met online when looking for somewhere to stay in Baghdad over Eid! Was crazy expensive and sold out everywhere.
Rest of the whole trip we are solo but it was nice to make a good new friend he's a top bloke.
You'll see throughout the videos it's lovely here people look after you extremely well feels safer than anywhere back in Europe tbh
Love it, we’re seeing such a different side to what we get in the western media
@@gregg1152 Honestly wait until we post some of these videos. These people take hospitality to a different level you are like family here as a stranger
@@gregg1152
We are happy when tourists come. We do not like to exploit them, but rather we like to welcome them, take care of them, and help them as much as possible. Do not believe the media, we are good people and we love foreigners،
Welcome to Baghdad bro don't forget to visit the city of Kadhimiya, it is the most beautiful area in Baghdad
Thanks friend
Thanks
Thanks so much! We really appreciate that have a super day!
I suggest you to visit karbala , najaf and Babylon
Alot of historical and religious places there
Maybe next trip we go south!
🩵😞😂✨The translator is quite calm
He is a legend
@@EllisWRWow very cool 💐✨
أهلا وسهلا بكم في بلدي العراق
أهلا بكل الناس المسالمين ❤
Try street food in Baghdad ❤
What to try? Stay tuned
🇮🇶نورتونه ❤
Hi 👋 Ellis and Alicia hi 👋
Hey!!
I am mad at you, why you didn't visit my city.
I live in Mosul /Iraq. Good maskof.
And make yourself at home ♥️✌️😊
you have not watched my channel go have a look!!
@@EllisWR hahaha, I have just seen it but still now I am mad at you because I haven't seen you 😂😢♥️✌️
Iraq is just like England just little different it doesn’t snow there😢
Snow falls only in northern Iraq
Ahaha I dunno about that!
Welcome in Iraq 🔥🤍
Thanks!!
Iraq tuệt vời
We love it!
أهلا بك في العراق ❤
Come to Basra, you are welcome
Yammy i love masgof
So delicious
I think the fruit is jujubee. It doesn't seem like palm date but more like Asian jujubee bcs it's a bit dry and sour.
يامرحبا بيك بل عراق
Love ❤️
was the mystery fruit Jujube maybe??
Its name is buckthorn, and it is only found in Iraq ❤
@@yos479no it's called wild jujube in english not buckthorn and in Iraq we call it ( Nabak ) نبك
I don't know but commenters have identified for us!!
I am an Iraqi American and I tell you with confidence if you just tell any Iraqi, Kurdish or Arabic you don’t have a lodge they would invite you to their homes and offer accommodation and food for free! Our nation is the most hospitable and most generous among the world’s nations man! I you’ve just FOUR subscriptions from us!
Welcome to Iraq 🇮🇶
منور❤
Man I question have you given some money in the end to Abbas. He seem very humble and nice guy. people will reject to accept but persist and say baksheesh and put it in there pocket.
Abbas is my friend. Life is not about money, it is not happiness
Ellis the fruit you ate and young girl your friend by tree 🌳 calls buckthorn.
Yes
My Abbas is sooooo leng
Top man isn't he!
You love the moustaches 🤣
It is raisins juice...
It's bloody good
Hải Phòng > Việt Nam cũng rất nhớ.! các bạn
Oooo we will come back to Vietnam this year some point. One of our favourite places in the world aha.
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❤❤ you guys are so welcome to our country. Hope you enjoy have great times while staying and we hope you stay longer and always come back to your second home. We hope you liked Iraq 🇮🇶 ❤
We love it here 🙏
I’m glad I’m from there but living in the USA now planning to go there in a year or two to go places that I couldn’t go when I was kid like Babylon and Basrah and so many places. Hope you get to see them. :) cheers guys take care
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What you call small apple is NABUK
ما اسم هذا المطعم اللي على دجلة
Al balam family restaurant
البلام
By the way masgoof 5000 years old. Since Sumerian civilization
Amazing stuff
14:27وين هالمكان وشسمه منو يعرف
Family restaurant?
البلام
Your wife, like Iraqi women, is very nice, so Iraqi women, myself included, feel that she is part of us🥹❤️
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العراق ينهض من جديد ❤
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0:43 It looks like the KFC logo 😍
المسكوف هيه وجبة سومريه قديمه تتعتبر تراث اهلا بك يا صديقي في العراق وادعوك للمنزل لكي اقوم بضيافتك عندي
الجريدي شجابك بلفديو رحمه للحسين 😂😂