Arabic Kaek Sandwich at Salaheddin Bakery - INCREDIBLE Sesame Bread Sandwich in Amman, Jordan

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More details about this incredible Amman bakery: Watch all the Jordan food and travel videos here: On Day 12 in Amman, Jordan, I had one of the best fresh loaves of bread Ive ever had, then we had a delicious final Jordanian meal before heading to the airport at night. This is the end of the Jordan travel food video series. 00: 49 Salaheddin Bakery ( ) - Salaheddin Bakery is known as being one of the oldest and best bakeries in all of Amman, and its especially known throughout the city for selling kaek sandwiches, a sandwich made with small loaves of bread that are covered in a layer of sesame seeds before being freshly baked. When you go to Salaheddin Bakery, everything is self service, you grab your own bread, slice it in half, and then you can proceed to add in cheese, hard baked eggs, and then season it with zaatar, a mix of thyme and spices blend for seasoning. I added in a little extra chili sauce and a sprinkle of salt, and I was good to go. The sandwich was so simple, and included just a few ingredients, but as soon as I took my first bite, I knew exactly why it was so famous and so popular: the bread. The bread was stunning. It was fluffy on the inside, crunchy on the outside, with an abundance of fragrant crispy sesame seeds on top. If you love bread, when you visit Amman, Salaheddin Bakery, is a restaurant you have to check out. When the owners of Salaheddin Bakery saw me taking photos and videos, they were extremely kind. They invited me into the kitchen to see them making the bread and firing the bread, and they started giving me snacks to try as well. Salaheddin Bakery is also a full restaurant where they serve ful medames and falafel, and they also have a desserts shop as well. The owners of the restaurant were very friendly and generous. Ying and I ended up spending about an hour just hanging out and enjoying our last day in Amman. 11: 16 Rakwet Arab Cafe - For lunch, we walked over to Rakwet Arab Cafe, a restaurant that was located just a short distance from our hotel in Amman, and I had seen it from the outside and thought it looked pretty good. Inside the cafe and restaurant, it was nicely decorated with an Arabic theme. I ordered Arabic salad, tabbouleh (one of my favorite Middle Eastern dishes, the mixed grill (because I couldnt resist one more plate of kebabs before leaving Jordan, and finally some dish made in a claypot with chicken. The claypot chicken was brought to our table, and they opened in by cracking a seal of clay. The cover came off with a puff of steam, and it smelled delicious. The chicken was moist and juicy while very fragrant. The grilled meat was also delicious. But what I really loved at Rakwet Arab Cafe was he tabbouleh which was some of the best I had during my trip to Jordan. It had a fantastic lemon juice dressing and it was stronger with garlic than other versions that I had eaten previously - something I love. Our total price for everything came to 33 JD (46. 40. 16: 09 Spices - On our way back to the hotel, I stopped at a spice shop to pick up a few souvenirs to bring back to Bangkok with me - mostly that means a few bags of zaatar, the thyme herb mixture. The total price for everything I bought came to 11. 50 JD (16. 17) 16: 50 Dinner at La Locanda - We had a quick dinner at our hotel before heading to the airport. This wraps up this Jordan food and travel guide video series. I want to say a big thank you to the Jordan Tourism Board for inviting Ying and I to Jordan to experience the food, culture, and attractions. Jordan is an amazing country, I experience kindness and generosity, and lots of delicious food. Also a big thank you to Fadi who was our excellent guide during our trip. You can watch the entire Jordan video series here: Salaheddin Bakery ( ): Amman Travel Guide
Date: 2019-08-19

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Comments and reviews: 10

Life Long Patriot
One of the best 12 days in Jordan, totally enjoyed this food tour and loved what you did on this journey. So informative and learned so much about the Jordanian people and food. Also all the famous places all through Jordan was inspiring to want to come to Jordan to see for one's self. Mark, your description of the meals and the flavors make it possible to bring us to the table. Totally enjoyed learning about Jordan and the wonderful friendly Jordanian people. Thank you so much and God Bless. AWESOME
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esdfg
Except the bread, nothing seems extraordinary/special about the sandwich. Cheap cheese and boiled eggs spread on a sandwich is a terrible idea, perfect way to ruin the good bread. After those two ingredients, put all the spices in the world if you want, it doesnt matter, you killed it already. I would prefer eating that bread with nothing instead of that sandwich.
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UW 1999
I grew up in Jordan, but I haven't been there in over 20 years I remember as a kid my aunt used to take me with her downtown Amman for shoppings or even just to eat and hang out I remember when we used to wait for the bus to take us home, there was a sesame bread stand with cheese, eggs and zattar I couldn't wait to make that sandwich and eat it It was orgasmic
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Steve Orozco
Through your videos I learned about the spice blend Zaatar. What a wonderful taste. Although I have travel in the Mediterranean and Adriatic some I have been remiss and not previously encountered this spice blend. Thanks some much for your videos. Especially since your subject matter are two of the things I love most, travel and food. Keep the. Coming
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Ketan Chhatbar
I have been watching ur vlogs for 2-3 years. I think your Istanbul and Jordan tours are among the best. and specially this video. the sesame bread is looking insane. its becoming my biggest goal to eat it. Love the place Jordan and Istanbul. Keep it up. P. s: i am watching this videos 10th time. just want that sesame bread.
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OntarioStorms
I LOVE the cheese you put in that bread. In you can get it from a brand called laughing cow. A wonderful sweet with a sour note type of smooth creamy cheese that goes with so many things I love meat, but you can tell that sandwich doesn't need it. Also the sound the bread makes as you bite in is insane
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بنت نشميه
Why u didn't come to the north of Jordan its rich of cultural and unique dishes like makmoura and chacheel, ekbab, kufta, sheebarak or athan alshayeb, ejjeh, halawah, malfoof, etc really there is many different traditions dishes in the north of Jordan and very nice nature
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Jhanda Khan
my 1st experience to Mark Wiens videos started right from this Jordan series which caught me in its magic of culinary world hence never stopped watching Mark Wiens video and suddenly a great surprise reveled about Pakistan series i mean my Pakistan series by Mark wow.
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Ahmad Hilal
Thank you so much Mark for sharing such moments, I fell in love with my country more and more, you are always welcome to visit us anytime And for anyone who's planning to visit Jordan please feel free to reply to my comment, I will be pleased to help
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doha almarridi
Woow I'm in love with your video actually Palestinian and Jordanian videos. Come back to Jordan we will be very happy to see you again in our country, Tell me what is the best thing in Jordan and Palestine? The food actually and what else?
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