{"id":19093,"date":"2023-05-24T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T11:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=19093"},"modified":"2023-05-24T07:20:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T11:20:02","slug":"balady-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=19093","title":{"rendered":"Balady Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Click on any image to view it in high resolution.)<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_E3039-edited-1440.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_E3039-edited-1440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_E3039-edited-1440.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_E3039-edited-1440-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_E3039-edited-1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_E3039-edited-1440-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_E3039-edited-1440-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the stops on my <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?page_id=1227#bay_ridge\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flavors of Little Levant and Little Yemen ethnojunket<\/a> is Balady Foods, the recently expanded Middle Eastern market at 7128 5th Ave in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>The array of treats pictured here includes soft, salty, squeaky Nabulsi cheese that hails from Palestine, electric magenta pickled turnips, foul mudammas (bean dip), Lebanese makdous (oil-cured eggplant stuffed with walnuts and red pepper), sucuk (the generic word for sausage found all across the Middle East) and several types of black olives all resting on a piece of msemen, flatbread from the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia).<\/p>\n<p>Many of these goodies came from Balady but other establishments are represented as well. And there\u2019s so much more to taste on this food tour! Get the details on my <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?page_id=1227\">Ethnojunkets<\/a> page and sign up to join in the fun!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Into Middle Eastern cuisine? Read on&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=19093\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,91,144,136],"class_list":["post-19093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-eats","tag-lebanese","tag-middle-eastern","tag-moroccan","tag-palestinian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19096,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19093\/revisions\/19096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}