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Summary
In this episode of Iranian Food 101, I talk about my recent trip to Tehran to try Iranian food and the experience I had at Tehran Toh, a local Iranian restaurant. I also give you some of my favorite Iranian foods and give some suggestions for things to try if you decide to go there.
Transcript
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Iranian here with another pro tip for anyone who's not from the Middle East.
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If you're one of the people who's been messaging me or commenting,
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asking me to talk about Iranian food, tonight's your lucky night.
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Before we get started, I just want to say like I'm not a food blogger.
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My area of expertise and what I'm comfortable talking about is of course
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Iran, Middle Eastern politics, Islamic terrorism, you know, that sort of thing.
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So let me tell you what happened first before I get into the food review.
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A good friend of mine who I met through politics is an Iranian police officer.
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And whenever he's in town, we like to catch up over dinner.
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And because we're both Iranian, we of course prefer Iranian food.
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And the reason I picked Tehran Toh is because I've heard amazing things about it.
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My sister says the kabao kubideh is to die for, so of course I wanted to go try it out.
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And one of the things I like to do before I eat is I like to take a picture of my food.
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It doesn't matter if it's at home or outside, it's just a little habit I have.
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I don't post it anywhere, but I have like tons and tons of food pictures.
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So we're sitting at the table having a conversation.
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I'm taking pictures of the appetizers and then the server comes to take the menus away and I'm like
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oh no no can you hold on a second I want to take a photo and he was like oh is this for Instagram
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and I didn't know how to answer so I was just like I'm thinking about it then he asked me how
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many followers I have and because I'm just you know like starting out with my political advocacy
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stuff I've only been really going at what I've been doing on Instagram for about a month and a
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half I said oh like I'm just starting out I'm only at 120,000 followers and that was basically it I
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Next thing I know, he brought out a few things,
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I probably should have mentioned that my focus is politics
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But then I remembered that many of you have asked me
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some of the best dishes are and things like that so i figured i might as well use the opportunity to
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talk about iranian food i also just want to put out there that whatever they did not charge me
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um i added as a tip afterwards i'm not a professional food blogger by any means i'm
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not comfortable getting free things like that i've also never felt more awkward in my life where i
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was like the camera was there and i'm you know eating food in front of the camera i don't know
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know how food bloggers do it like it was just very very awkward my friend who's you know the
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police officer he's sitting opposite for me and he's like you know he's dying of laughter because
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again like i'm i'm a former politician i'm not a food blogger like i talk politics you know i like
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to keep it serious but the food was absolutely phenomenal the service was amazing so i am more
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than happy to do this so the next video that i upload will be the actual food review i'm also
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going to talk about some of my favorite Iranian foods. I'll also explain to you how we eat the
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food and give you some suggestions for things you can try if you decide to go to an Iranian
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restaurant. So here you go. Here's Iranian food 101.