Arabic writing	Description	Pronounciation	Comments
	Scented rice with lamb and almonds	Man-saph	A Bedouin speciality (Palmyra, Damascus)
	Roasted chicken with spices with olive oil and garlic sauce	Far-ruzh à la Al-Faham	A great dish at the slope of the Krak des Chevaliers
	Wheat with meat	Kitba à la asseekh	Armenian quartier, Aleppo
	Rice and yoghurt, with lamb, almonds and olive oil	Saha-zhee-eh	Hama Al Boustan Restaurant special, excellent
	Cream with honey and soft bread	Kooshta maha à la sahl	Delicious breakfast or middle-afternoon course, with the coffee. Get it anywhere on the road, for example
	The soups: lentil soup, fuul		The lentil soup is deceptively simple, but full of taste. The fuul is based on a faba beans paste with garlic, lemon, and other flavours, very good and substantial