With chicken diseases sweeping all over California, it’s more important that ever to know where your meat is coming from and who is preparing it. I mean, when Uganda stops accepting poultry from you, it’s time to take notice. To that end, you usually can’t go wrong with traditions that go back five thousand years. A strict kosher restaurant is supervised by rabbis to ensure that all meat is thoroughly cleaned, killed quickly and efficiently with a single slash to the throat, dried and drained of blood, and kept far away from bacteria. You will get a lot more salt from kosher meats, as they are packed in salt to pull the blood out of the carcass. But it’s better than eating congealed muck cooked into your food, that’s for sure. Magic Carpet serves traditional Yemeni cuisine, which looks a lot like most Mediterranean restaurants, but is done with a different ratio of spices. In fact, what separates most middle eastern regions from another is not what spices and ingredients they use, but which ones they favor. When you’re all drawing from the fertile crescent, it’s how much you use of your bountiful crop source that counts. Magic Carpet is like eating over at a friend’s kitchen than a regular restaurant. A vast menu of grilled and roasted beef, lamb, and chicken, soups, stews, and more. Two people can eat for thirty bucks.
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