What is Karak?
Karar Tea or Chai Karak is a really heavy red tea with milk and lots of sugar usually made is quick serving food places, costs around 50 fils (around 15 cents) per small paper cup
If you are a resident of the GCC you'll be familiar with this drink. Originally, this tea mix is from India and it grew to become a popular drink (almost equivilent to the Arabic coffee in the region). The drink doesn't cost much, normally drank by labourers as a part of their meals (nowaday it is a part of this region's culture), it could be a part of a breakfast or an option for "tea time", maybe another version for morning coffee.
Few weekends ago I went to Doha (to watch the Asian Football games - good we won that day!) and visited the niceset place called Katara. Katara is almost a beachfront cultural village with waterfron cafes and restaurants, galleries, cultural places, etc...basically if you go to Doha/Qatar make sure you go there.
A place that caught my attention was Chapati & Karak..
It is a modern take on the traditional Karak tea in a more commercial/dining option context. Doha is known for its famous Karak Tea and if you are worried about having some from the random place on the streets, Chapati (Indian flatbread)& Karak is the place to head to.
There is no menu, a small window where you'll find a que of people with flasks to fill of that tea, basically all you can order is Chapati and/or Karak (as the name suggests),
The place is nice, it has outdoors seating - something dearly missed here :-(, i'm impressred that they had paper cups only. That was the perfect between meals snack.
Now, how to make one cup of Karak? this might be a funny thing to write here, but I'll share it anyways!
in a mug, put 2 teabags and pour boiling water over them, move them around a bit and leave them for 4/5 minutes. add evaborated milk & lots of sugar & that's it =)
Enjoy!
Karar Tea or Chai Karak is a really heavy red tea with milk and lots of sugar usually made is quick serving food places, costs around 50 fils (around 15 cents) per small paper cup
If you are a resident of the GCC you'll be familiar with this drink. Originally, this tea mix is from India and it grew to become a popular drink (almost equivilent to the Arabic coffee in the region). The drink doesn't cost much, normally drank by labourers as a part of their meals (nowaday it is a part of this region's culture), it could be a part of a breakfast or an option for "tea time", maybe another version for morning coffee.
Few weekends ago I went to Doha (to watch the Asian Football games - good we won that day!) and visited the niceset place called Katara. Katara is almost a beachfront cultural village with waterfron cafes and restaurants, galleries, cultural places, etc...basically if you go to Doha/Qatar make sure you go there.
A place that caught my attention was Chapati & Karak..
It is a modern take on the traditional Karak tea in a more commercial/dining option context. Doha is known for its famous Karak Tea and if you are worried about having some from the random place on the streets, Chapati (Indian flatbread)& Karak is the place to head to.
There is no menu, a small window where you'll find a que of people with flasks to fill of that tea, basically all you can order is Chapati and/or Karak (as the name suggests),
The place is nice, it has outdoors seating - something dearly missed here :-(, i'm impressred that they had paper cups only. That was the perfect between meals snack.
Now, how to make one cup of Karak? this might be a funny thing to write here, but I'll share it anyways!
in a mug, put 2 teabags and pour boiling water over them, move them around a bit and leave them for 4/5 minutes. add evaborated milk & lots of sugar & that's it =)
Enjoy!
thats not a karak...karak also having a recipes..
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