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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you seem to me like a food and cooking person.  If there is one valuable thing you will take from this experience, it will be your discovery of halal/Middle Eastern food shops (if you haven't already). I cannot recommend them enough for the food-curious.  I suggest you plan a trip to Halalco in Falls Church City. Here is why:

- NEVER again pay white people's rates for spices and flavorings. Ridiculously cheap bags of spices that Safeway will charge you $5.99 for a small pinch.

- clean, fresh meat often done to order (skinned whole chickens, minced chicken and chicken organ meats, home-made spicy beef sausage, frenched lamb shanks)

- tinned leaf tea, actual tea the way it was meant to be drunk, not saw dust in tea bags

- all manner of rice, lentils, beans, nuts, in bulk, CHEAP!  Giant green Afghan raisins!

- breads like you don't see in supermarkets, thin long Persian bread studded with sesame and nigella you drape over your arm like a towel, fluffy Afghan sheets of bread, all kinds of pita

- real Bulgarian feta, frozen Indian case, Syrian string cheese

- produce section finds: abundant cilantro and mint, little Thai bomb eggplants, pea-size Persian grapes, sweet lemons (you massage them in your hands, then stick a straw in them and suck away)

- assorted nonsense: dates, ma'amoul cookies (shortbreads filled with dates and nuts), canned eggplant and beans - baba ghanoush, foul, rose water, pomegranate molasses

And in the same shopping plaza, should you care to walk 20 feet to the left upon exiting Halalco, there is a newish Russian food emporium called Troika.  Investigate for wonderful homemade dense brown bread, a dozen kinds of marinated herring, more canned sweet pepper and eggplant preparations than you can think of, ready-made frozen crepes with filling and without, ricotta breakfast cakes for frying, more leaf tea! good luck!

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