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Day Number 511: Food tour in Tangier, Morocco!

Food drives so much of our travel choices, and it’s our favorite way to learn about places and cultures. With Tangier being our first stop in Morocco, we devoted half a day to a private food tour that gave us an affordable introduction to Moroccan food.

Our guide, Hamid, was delightful with the kids, and he especially chatted with Connor as we wandered the city on foot:

🥄 Breakfast at a local cafe: sesame flatbreads, crepes, soft cheeses, olives, atay (Moroccan mint green tea), and amlou, a Moroccan almond butter with honey and argan oil.

🥄 A street market. A couple of days a week, Berber peoples come into the city and set up a street market of produce, meat, cheeses, and more.

🥄 B’ssara. A hot, hearty start to the day! B’ssara is a soup made of pureed beans. Hamid took us down a neighborhood side street near the Berber market. Inside a small two-room cafe, the cook has been making b’ssara for over 25 years. We sampled both broad bean and split pea styles

🥄 Olives! An olive vendor bagged up assortments of olives, tied the bag, and chucked them to each customer—including Anthony.

🥄 Caliente: This common streetside snack (Hamid called it “Moroccan pizza”) is a slice of eggy Spanish tortilla cut from a disc the size of a bike tire.

🥄 Smoothies: Fruit juice and smoothie stalls abound, and Morocco is renowned for its fruit. We sampled orange juice, pomegranate juice, and a mixed fruit (which was the family fave).

And our finale?

🥄 Lunch. At a restaurant tucked into the medina, we dined on olives, marinated beets, flatbreads, atay, and two tagines, one with beef and one with chicken, and both chock full of couscous, chickpeas, squash, carrots, and onions.

Our favorite part though?

The kids were both so open-minded, engaged, and curious throughout this long day of walking, talking, and nibbling. They asked Hamid questions and were willing to try anything.

Now, as we continue our travels through Morocco, we understand the food better. That in turn opens us up all the more to the country and helps us learn even more about such an amazing place.

Welcome to day 51 of traveling fulltime today we are going on a food tour of tangum Morocco we realized that food is one of the ways our whole family likes to experience travel and Moroccan food was New to us all we went to a local market enjoyed light breakfast

Drank fresh juice and traditional favorites we even got a chance to see the community oven where people bring their dough to be baked by the fire every day have you tried Moroccan food what is your favorite