Goldie Ghamari - November 19, 2025


Storytime： Iranian Food at Tehran to

Hosted by
Goldie Ghamari
Documentary aboug the Shah： Rated by an Iranian (Part 2) Iranian Food 101

Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

221.34

Word count

654

Sentence count

23


Summary

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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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00:00:00.000 Iranian here with another pro tip for anyone who's not from the Middle East.
00:00:03.900 If you're one of the people who's been messaging me or commenting,
00:00:07.180 asking me to talk about Iranian food, tonight's your lucky night.
00:00:10.960 Before we get started, I just want to say like I'm not a food blogger.
00:00:13.900 My area of expertise and what I'm comfortable talking about is of course
00:00:17.480 Iran, Middle Eastern politics, Islamic terrorism, you know, that sort of thing.
00:00:21.720 So let me tell you what happened first before I get into the food review.
00:00:24.880 A good friend of mine who I met through politics is an Iranian police officer.
00:00:28.680 And whenever he's in town, we like to catch up over dinner.
00:00:31.640 And because we're both Iranian, we of course prefer Iranian food.
00:00:35.080 And the reason I picked Tehran Toh is because I've heard amazing things about it.
00:00:38.720 My sister says the kabao kubideh is to die for, so of course I wanted to go try it out.
00:00:43.220 And one of the things I like to do before I eat is I like to take a picture of my food.
00:00:46.580 It doesn't matter if it's at home or outside, it's just a little habit I have.
00:00:50.300 I don't post it anywhere, but I have like tons and tons of food pictures.
00:00:54.160 So we're sitting at the table having a conversation.
00:00:56.060 I'm taking pictures of the appetizers and then the server comes to take the menus away and I'm like
00:01:00.340 oh no no can you hold on a second I want to take a photo and he was like oh is this for Instagram
00:01:03.900 and I didn't know how to answer so I was just like I'm thinking about it then he asked me how
00:01:09.020 many followers I have and because I'm just you know like starting out with my political advocacy
00:01:13.740 stuff I've only been really going at what I've been doing on Instagram for about a month and a
00:01:17.600 half I said oh like I'm just starting out I'm only at 120,000 followers and that was basically it I
00:01:24.640 I didn't really think anything else of it.
00:01:26.480 Next thing I know, he brought out a few things,
00:01:29.460 compliments of the chef.
00:01:34.960 Guys, they thought I was a food blogger.
00:01:37.500 I felt really bad because I'm not.
00:01:40.640 I probably should have mentioned that my focus is politics
00:01:45.520 and the Middle East and Islamic terrorism.
00:01:47.320 But then I remembered that many of you have asked me
00:01:50.520 to talk about Iranian food,
00:01:52.600 some of the best dishes are and things like that so i figured i might as well use the opportunity to
00:01:57.000 talk about iranian food i also just want to put out there that whatever they did not charge me
00:02:02.280 um i added as a tip afterwards i'm not a professional food blogger by any means i'm
00:02:07.880 not comfortable getting free things like that i've also never felt more awkward in my life where i
00:02:13.000 was like the camera was there and i'm you know eating food in front of the camera i don't know
00:02:18.840 know how food bloggers do it like it was just very very awkward my friend who's you know the
00:02:23.280 police officer he's sitting opposite for me and he's like you know he's dying of laughter because
00:02:27.460 again like i'm i'm a former politician i'm not a food blogger like i talk politics you know i like
00:02:32.060 to keep it serious but the food was absolutely phenomenal the service was amazing so i am more
00:02:39.580 than happy to do this so the next video that i upload will be the actual food review i'm also
00:02:44.120 going to talk about some of my favorite Iranian foods. I'll also explain to you how we eat the
00:02:49.100 food and give you some suggestions for things you can try if you decide to go to an Iranian
00:02:53.540 restaurant. So here you go. Here's Iranian food 101.