Street food

Shoes, clothes, cigarettes and mobile phone cases. All sorts of things are sold on the streets of The Rif. Here, we’re focusing on the edible items.

Cooked food

The simplest restaurants consist of nothing more than a cart or a table along the street.

For example, you can buy freshly grilled meat. Some vendors have grills so small that they can only cook for one customer at a time. As well as the grill and a small selection of meat, they have bread to put the meat in. A cheap and filling sandwich, in other words.

When it comes to sandwiches, there are also vendors who specialise in bread with fried anchovies.

If you like grilled food but not meat, sweetcorn on the cob is a good alternative. It’s available both in the cities and on the beaches

Carts selling cooked chickpeas are common. The liquid the chickpeas are served in is usually black; it’s the spices that give it that colour. It is called houmous, which is the Arabic word for chickpeas.

Another common dish is cooked snails. These are the small, shelled snails usually found on currant bushes in Sweden. I think it looks disgusting, but the dish is popular, so obviously many people think the opposite.

Other food in the streets

There are plenty of bread sellers. Most sell bread made in a bakery. If you’re lucky, you might find a street vendor with their own oven.

There are also stalls and carts where you can buy sweets and factory-made pastries.

Nuts and dried fruit are sold here and there along the streets.

There are plenty of fruit and vegetable sellers; mandarins are great for eating on the go.