Anas- what food do you most like to eat

Anas- What food do you most like to eat?

Rana- Well the food I most like to eat is grape leaves.

Anas- yes grape leaves, I like this dish, it’s tasty.

Rana- yes, very

Anas- and what else do you like, other than grape leaves?

Rana- I like imjaddara¹

Anas- yes imjaddara is well know among us

Rana- and it’s easy to make

Anas- Yes it is easy. I like yogurt broth and I like Ma’loobeh². I really like these two dishes.

Rana- Ma’loobeh is very good as well.

Anas- Inshallah³ we can share some of these foods.

Rana- Inshallah. Maybe we can go to a restaurant after tomorrow. What do you think?

Anas- Inshallah. You mean a restaurant that makes Arab food and things like that?

Rana- The Jerusalem restaurant in the center of town, their food is very good.

Anas- Inshallah. Great, we’ll go there tomorrow.

1 Imjaddara – Rice and lentils dish

2 Ma’loobeh – A rice, meat, and steamed vegetable dish named for the way it is served – ‘Upside-down.’

3 Inshallah – lit. God Willing. Often used to mean ‘hopefully’