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Experience Ramadan in Dubai: A Unique Iftar with Frying Pan Adventures

A unique walking tour that introduces the culture of breaking the fast together and local culinary delights that have existed since 2013.

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Discovering Dubai: 6 Unique Activities Beyond the Crowds

Sisters Arva and Farida Ahmed grew up in Dubai and now share their passion for the city's culinary diversity with Frying Pan Tours.

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[Journey] Dubai: Global Crossroads and Visionary Oasis

This nighttime escapade with the sisters of Frying Pan Adventures is full of surprises!

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Exploring the Heart of Historic Dubai: Traditional Artisans and Culinary Adventures

Led by locals, these culinary walks of Old Dubai take in the kind of hole-in-the-wall restaurant and unassuming street food stalls you’d have a hard time finding alone.

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Discover Downtown Dubai’s Culinary Gems with an Expert Alleyway Guide!

We recommend taking advantage of the Dubai Souks and Creekside Food Walk ) organized by Frying Pan Adventures.

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The Ahmed Sisters’ Culinary Revolution in Dubai

Recognizing the city's culinary potential, Arva and Farida conceived Frying Pan Adventures, a venture that showcases the diversity of Dubai's dining scene.

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Exploring Authentic Dubai: Traditional Districts and Local Cuisine

It was a very interesting tour, touring local areas that would be a little scary to enter on your own, and experiencing the food that the locals actually eat.

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Chat with Farida Ahmed, Co-Founder of Dubai’s Frying Pan Adventures

Since its establishment in 2013, Frying Pan Adventures has played a pivotal role in reshaping the local food and culture scene in Dubai. The founders believe their culinary excursions have revealed an often overlooked side of the city, broadening perspectives.

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Best Destination: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, or Qatar?

Frying Pan Adventures is a not-to-be missed walking tour of Old Dubai and although it centres around the cuisines of the Levantine countries it is, in fact, a cultural journey conducted by two clever sisters.

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Exploring Dubai: A Blend of Future and Tradition

For those who prefer street food, a good option is to hire Frying Pan Adventures, a group of guides specialized in taking tourists to popular restaurants in Dubai.

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Glamorous City: Luxury, Desert Thrills & Michelin Dining

Dubai is the ideal destination for tourists, and there are a number of reasons why,” Farida Ahmed, a guide and owner of Frying Pan Adventures, told Travel + Leisure. “It is safe, whether you are traveling solo or as a family. That, for me, is one of the most pivotal points on which tourism rests.

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The District

Get in touch with locally based Frying Pan Adventures, run by Farida Ahmed and her team, who will take you to the best Middle Eastern mezze, Emirati originals and souk spices on a deep-dive tour of Dubai’s food culture.

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À Dubaï, une cuisine aux mille et une saveurs

The guide, Moza Almatrooshi, from the women's company Frying Pan Adventures, takes us on a journey through the inhabitants of old Dubai through their culinary specialties.

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It’s Rooted in Heritage and History

We have three signature food tours; the Middle Eastern Food Pilgrimage, Dubai Souks and Creekside Food Walk, and Little India Food Tour. Each of those tours takes anywhere from three to four hours long and we do a deep dive into the cuisines that are featured but, along with that, we also share personal anecdotes from our childhood growing up in the city, historical context and discuss dining etiquette.

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Exploring Local Life through an Al Rigga Food Tour

An evening food tour with Frying Pan Adventures, visiting restaurants in Al Rigga, gave further insight into how residents live.

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Bridging Dubai’s Food Traditions Old and New

In 2013, the sisters launched Frying Pan Adventures, a tour company that takes residents and travelers on immersive, three- to four-hour experiences along the bustling, unmanicured back streets of Old Dubai to find culinary delights ranging from the best pani puri—a beloved street snack from the Indian subcontinent—to well–hidden falafel joints.

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Frying Pan Adventures Leads Dubai Food Tours Where Couples Bond Over a Hot Plate

To set you and your date up for success, the Frying Pan Adventures offers an experience you will always cherish. Frying Pan Adventures combines the love for food and exploration, leaving guests full and with an appreciation for Dubai culture.

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The best souk tours in Dubai

To get an insider’s perspective, explore the area with the passionate guides at Frying Pan Adventures, a tour company that offers walking tours around the souks that include tastings of snacks that capture the essence of this part of Dubai.

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I took the company’s signature Middle Eastern Food Pilgrimage Tour and I absolutely loved it.

Perhaps the biggest highlight of my first trip to Dubai and of this Dubai Itinerary was taking an evening food tour with Frying Pan Adventures.

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Ett av de roligaste sätten att uppleva ett resmål är genom maten.

Jag testade en rolig och lärorik food tour för både näsa och gom, i Dubais souk med Frying Pan Adventures Dubai.

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12 local businesses we love

Frying Pan Adventures began life as a small start-up offering bespoke walking, talking, storytelling and eating tours of old Dubai.

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Utforska det lokala köket på ett guidat smakäventyr!

One of the most enjoyable ways to experience a destination is through the food. I tried a fun and educational food tour for both nose and palate, in Dubai's souk with Frying Pan Adventures Dubai.

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All these different flavours and traditions come together in a big pot

Sharing food creates a cultural connection, says Arva Ahmed of Frying Pan Adventures, Dubai’s first food walking tour operator.

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Time stands still in the heart of UAE

I was on a walking tour with Frying Pan Adventures, stumbling along the souks (markets) of Dubai — spice, textile, gold. The Emiratis and their rich cosmopolitan history ensure their food is the best of different cultures, served into one dish.

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Dubai’s top tours

The best thing about booking a tour with the team at Frying Pan Adventures is you know you’re in good hands, as all of the guides adore food and know Dubai extremely well.

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A FOOD WALKING TOUR IN DUBAI: EATING OUR WAY THROUGH THE MIDDLE EAST

Frying Pan Adventures takes the guesswork out of where to go and what to try. It should be on every traveler’s bucket list — along with going to the top of the Burj Khalifa (the tallest building in the world) and strolling through Dubai’s historic Al Bastakiya district. It’s that good!

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DISCOVER DUBAI’S HIDDEN FOOD SCENE ON A VERY SPECIAL WALKING TOUR

Led by locals, Frying Pan Adventures’ culinary walks of Old Dubai take in the kind of hole-in-the-wall restaurant and unassuming street food stalls you’d have a hard time finding alone.

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A taste of the United Arab Emirates

Then Farida Ahmed of Frying Pan Adventures takes you on a tour of Emirati food and all the international cuisine you can enjoy in this cosmopolitan country.

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Popular food tours

Food tours are a popular way to explore Dubai Creek. Arva Ahmed is the founder of Frying Pan Adventures. She describes one of the restaurants that features on the tour's itinerary.
"One of the restaurants we stop on our tour is called Sultan Dubai Falafel," she says. "And the thing that they are known for is stuffed falafels.

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The Coolest Neighbourhoods In Dubai To Unleash Your Love For Arts And Culture!

Joining a local food tour with Frying Pan Adventures was like stepping into a different realm. Well, the route itself already made you feel like you were a local — nothing like your super touristy food checklist. We experienced Old Dubai through back streets, winding alleys, and bustling spice souks.

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Dubai for beginners

There are also completely unsophisticated street food places hidden in the alleys of the souks, which appeal to lost tourists with an authenticity that seaside restaurants serving every cuisine in the world will never offer.
If you need a guide through this ethnic jungle, check out what Frying Pan Adventure offers on its culinary tours.

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The 10 best city walking tours

While introducing you to local vendors and chefs, self-confessed "food nerd" guides will show you the best places to sample anything from Palestinian falafels to spicy Indian samosas and the tastiest delicacies in town. See fryingpanadventures.com

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THE WORLD’S BEST STOPOVER CITIES, FROM ATLANTA TO SINGAPORE

Do: It’s not just the beaches that are sandy – 4WD tours of the desert sand dunes with the likes of Arabian Adventures offer plenty of excitement. Alternatively, Frying Pan Adventures runs superb food tours through the authentic parts of Dubai few tourists see.

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What it’s like for a Kiwi expat in Dubai during Ramadan

For the last few years, food tour company Frying Pan Adventures has organised special walking tours through one of Dubai's oldest neighbourhoods during Ramadan. They want participants to experience the true, humble spirit of the holy month.

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SUMMER LOVIN’ Here’s seven reasons to visit the sun-soaked city Dubai and lap up the luxury

The Frying Pan Adventures tour walks you through Deira to sample Egyptian, Iranian and Lebanese delights from hand-picked restaurants, £82 for 4.5 hours (Fryingpanadventures.com).

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15 extraordinary things to do in the United Arab Emirates

Dubai is famed for its fancy five-star fare, but the real foodie gems lie in the back streets of its Deira neighbourhood, where Yemeni, Iranian and Palestinian restaurants rub shoulders with Lebanese cafés and Turkish street food. Frying Pan Adventures’ Middle Eastern Food Pilgrimage squeezes 10 (10!) delicious dishes into a four-hour evening walking tour, finishing with coffee and baklava.

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Kaki Lima

Frying Pan Adventures founder Arva Ahmed featured on Indonesian TV

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7 Alternative (But Amazing) Things To Do In Dubai Read

From tiny Falafel shops where you can create your own spicy wraps, to bakeries selling baklava by the tray-load, Frying Pan Adventures gives a real snapshot of traditional Middle Eastern cuisine on its foodie walking tours.

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Frying Pan Adventures – take a cultural food tour of Old Dubai

Heading for one of the countless neon-lit frontages in Old Dubai can be daunting. Where to go? What to order? That’s where Arva Ahmed, founder of Frying Pan Adventure Tours, can help.

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Dubai: the stopover city guide

On a 24-hour stopover, you'll be able to squeeze in a tour, too: most companies are geared towards stopover tourists, so arrival/departure times are punctual. Dubai's international appeal is best experienced through its food, and Frying Pan Adventures' evening tours will transport you to little-known authentic restaurants on a 'foodie marathon'.

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True Dubai Flavor

Led by locals, Frying Pan Adventures’ culinary walks of Old Dubai take in the kind of hole-in-the-wall restaurant and unassuming street food stalls you’d have a hard time finding alone.

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Dubai on a plate

If you are a foodie, the walking tour with tourist group Frying Pan Adventures is a must. They run the Middle Eastern Food Pilgrimage, which gives you a snapshot of more traditional cuisine.

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Glitz-free sparkle

Dining is one of the joys of visiting Dubai. A new food walking tour launched in January by local food blogger Arva Ahmed offers an alternative to the usual white tablecloths in restaurants of the city.

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食べたもの&行ったお店まとめ★

(Translated from Japanese) It's an amazing tour. If you're a foodie, I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone who is good at English, as well as those who are studying English . Because you're showered with five hours of English, and it's almost all about food, which you'll love. If you like food, you'll be able to keep up. In fact, your listening skills will improve a little by the end of the tour (probably).

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The Hidden Gems of Naif Road, Deira

Frying Pan Adventures' founder, Arva Ahmed, takes City Wrap on Dubai One TV

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Frying Pan Adventures in Dubai

The first time Time Out Dubai had the pleasure of traipsing (and nibbling) our way through Old Dubai’s backstreets with local food blogger Arva Ahmed, was because the old town enthusiast had launched Frying Pan Adventures, the guided food tours company.

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Street food in Deira

Arva has evidently unearthed this information through extensive research – not only does she test the menus thoroughly before adding them to her tour, but she also has an impressive knowledge of food history and customs, and she shares a wealth of knowledge on Arabic food terms and ingredients.

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HIGH FLYER

If you are a foodie, the walking tour with tourist group Frying Pan Adventures is a must. They run the Middle Eastern Food Pilgrimage, which gives you a snapshot of more traditional cuisine.

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Dining out with a difference: new UAE food experiences to try

When, a little more than five years ago, Arva Ahmed founded Frying Pan Adventures, which offers walking and eating tours of the UAE, she did so with the intention of raising awareness of Emirati food and cooking.

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Amateur photographers go off the beaten track to capture UAE gems

It’s one of a number of tours set up in a collaboration between Gulf Photo Plus photography centre and Frying Pan Adventures, which was started by Arva Ahmed to uncover little-known eateries in hidden pockets of the city to tell a different story about Dubai’s roots.

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Heart of Sharjah food tour is brimming with memories and munchies

Frying Pan Adventures and the Heart of Sharjah project serve up the culture, tradition and foods that have stood the test of time in the old districts of Sharjah in a limited-edition tour.

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A voyage of food discovery: Dubai’s walking food tours

Be one of the first to take a Frying Pan Food Adventures tour: watch www.fryingpanadventures.com for news of the upcoming launch date, search Facebook and Twitter

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Camel heads and spice souks: on the food trail in Dubai’s backstreets

“There’s a whole other side to the gilded, skyscraper Dubai. And there’s no better way to explore it than with your tummy,” promises the website for Frying Pan Adventures, which Wharton MBA graduate Ahmed runs with her sister Farida.
For almost seven hours we follow Arva, a former New York management consultant and self-confessed food fanatic, around the produce market and spice souk as she deciphers some of the secrets of Emirati cooking.

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What nobody tells you about Dubai

Local start-up Frying Pan Adventures offers boutique food tours through some of the city’s backstreets, snacking on everything from stuffed Palestinian falafels to saffron-flavoured Persian ice cream along the way.

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Wrong Way Round: Dining in Dubai

I stumbled upon Frying Pan Adventures; led by 30-year-old Arva Ahmed, the company, launched in January of this year, offers culinary tours of the city for groups or custom tours for individuals. My time here coincided with one of Ahmed’s brand new Ramadan-themed Sacred Sunset Voyage tours. A cultural lesson with dinner is the sort of efficiency I can get behind, so I signed up and prepared for a night of eating.

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An Arabian Summer Sonnet

Dubai’s first-ever food trails, Frying Pan Tourism is quickly gaining popularity as it takes tourists through a unique food-tasting journey to some of the most authentic hidden gems. Their Arabian Summer Sage includes pit stops at four restaurants and a café to taste food ranging from stewed ancient Egyptian beans, Moroccan chicken and almond pies encased in crusty layers of pastry, platters of Emirati meat and rice, a wood-fired giant fish from Iraq, or an icy cool summery dessert perfumed with the heady fragrance of rosewater.

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Eight incredible things most people don’t know they can do in Dubai

Frying Pan Adventures runs a fantastic tour called Naif by Night which explores the souks, people and incredible food on offer.

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Explore Dubai: the best places to visit, what to do and where to stay

With so many cultures communing in one city, it’s inevitable that Dubai’s food scene is just as global. Take a Frying Pan Adventures food tour through Deira, one of the city’s oldest areas, to get a taste of the Middle Eastern cuisine and a better understanding of the various cultures that make up this modern metropolis.

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First time Dubai: top tips for your first visit to the city of gold

Dubai has an incredibly diverse and multicultural dining scene, ranging from fine-dining restaurants from the likes of Yannick Alléno and Heinz Beck to hole-in-the-wall shawarma joints. For the inside track on the city’s melting pot of cuisines, take a walking tour of old Dubai with Frying Pan Adventures, which offers fantastic foodie itineraries year-round.

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‘Harees’ and ‘maamoul’ for world peace

Your leader in this Mad Hatter adventure is the foodie Arva Ahmed, founder and chief executive muncher of Frying Pan Adventures, who somehow manages to remain fashion-model-thin while eating for a living, and has high cheekbones and dreamy eyes to match. If the food is a treat, so is Arva. She seems to have absorbed enormous founts of gastronomical knowledge and quotes casually from pre-Biblical recipes inscribed on stone tablets, hypotheses that the falafel pre-dates Islam, and then gives you a little botany lesson on the saffron flower and the heaven-and-earth importance of buying the right microscopic bits of it.

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WHERE TO DINE DURING YOUR DUBAI HOLIDAY

Frying Pan Adventures were the first food tour company in the Middle East and they love immersing food lovers in Dubai’s authentic dining options. They spoke to us about the best way visitors can enjoy the city’s culinary delights:

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Eating Dubai: a food tour of the old town

We were taken on a food tour by Arva Ahmed, who grew up in old Dubai eating all kinds of Middle Eastern food. After studying and working for years in the US, it was food that brought her home to Old Dubai, where she founded her food tour company, Frying Pan Adventures.

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Dubai – Size Isn’t Everything.

It’s also the favoured haunt of Frying Pan Adventures’ Arva Ahmed, who has been running food tours of Deira since January this year. The best way to unearth Dubai’s unheralded heart is through your tummy – Arva combines her passion for culinary history with a devastatingly thorough knowledge of which restaurant does which dish best.

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Dubai: Opulent dining in the world’s newest foodie capital

Everyone has an image of Dubai as a place of glitz and glamour, with the biggest and newest of everything - and it is that, but there are old areas full of character, and Naif is one of them. Arva Ahmed, the delightful owner of Frying Pan Adventures, guided us around the bustling area, a melting pot of different nationalities, particularly Indians, Iranians and Ethiopians.

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Desert Song: Singing the praise of a developing Dubai

"Anyone who knows Dubai knows it is in pretty much a constant state of flux," says my guide on a neighbourhood food tour with Frying Pan Adventures (fryingpanadventures.com).

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DUBAI TRAVEL TIPS: WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO SEE IN 48 HOURS

Dubai has more than 5,000 restaurants, but I highly recommend a walking foodie tour with Frying Pan Adventures (fryingpanadventures.com), which is run by two enthusiastic sisters.

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Hyderabadi Haleem & Indian Sweets in Al Ghusais, Deira

Frying Pan Adventure featured on Dubai One TV

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Dubai’s burgeoning restaurant scene is worth tucking into

Farida Ahmed, of Frying Pan Adventures, offers Middle Eastern and Indian food tours through old Dubai. Here the grand boulevards of new Dubai disappear, funnelling into narrow, bustling streets.

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Luksuksen kosketusta lähes nollabudjetilla

Led by locals, Frying Pan Adventures’ culinary walks of Old Dubai take in the kind of hole-in-the-wall restaurant and unassuming street food stalls you’d have a hard time finding alone.

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Iftar review: Walking tour of Deira

Frying Pan Adventures and Gulf Photo Plus’ trail of old Dubai will take you right out of your comfort zone and into the heart of the city

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THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO DUBAI: 6 PEOPLE YOU NEED TO MEET

Dubai’s dining scene isn’t defined just by its plentiful celebrity-chef restaurants. Arva Ahmed, a respected food blogger and the founder of Frying Pan Adventures, provides an authentic taste of local flavours on her culinary tours of Old Dubai.

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Soulful Iftars ~ Break your bread this Ramadan on the streets, with strangers!

Frying Pan Adventures, the first Food Tour in this region that explores the culinary back streets of Dubai and makes them look fashionable enough to be featured in the CNN, amongst other International Media Channels.

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Top Food Trails

This tour takes you off the main tourist trail to meander through the city’s backstreets, interact with locals and sample conventional Middle Eastern flavours.

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Desert city of soaring visions and hidden delights

Arva Ahmed is a former finance industry strategy consultant who returned to Dubai after working her way through the United States. Her full-time job is running Frying Pan Adventures’ food tours through Old Dubai to show tourists there is much more to savour than standard Western fare.

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Travel Guide: Dubai

Any foodie with a penchant for fresh fish would likely leap at a seafood lunch prepared by an old seadog in the even older (and glitter-free) neighbourhood of Al Ras. The catch? You’ve got to deal with the heady aroma of the fish market in the morning before winding along the creek to build up an appetite before eating. The six-hour tour costs £105 per person. fryingpanadventures.com

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Dubai Travel Guide

Frying Pan Adventures founder Arva Ahmed was featured on the Attaché Dubai Tour guide.

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Frying Pan Adventures – Dubai Indian Food Tour

Led by locals, Frying Pan Adventures’ culinary walks of Old Dubai take in the kind of hole-in-the-wall restaurant and unassuming street food stalls you’d have a hard time finding alone.

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Savour Frying Pan Adventures

Fusing together touring and food Frying Pan Adventures offers an enchanting take on what Dubai has to offer. This exploration takes you off the city’s tourist trail and ventures into back streets, winding alleys and bustling local markets. You’ll be served up a mezze of flavours from across the world at some of the city’s most authentic cafes.

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A Foodie’s Tour of Dubai

Guided by a true local who loves the city she was raised in, this tour is perfect for those who want to explore the old town feel and culture through the narrow streets of Old Dubai. Experience the old souks and the culture behind them and stop over at a historic Iranian kebab restaurant for dinner to learn about the colourful and intricate history and culture of Dubai through the eyes of the people themselves.

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Frying Pan Adventures – Dubai Indian Food TourThe Best Cultural Tours to Take in Dubai

Learn how to cook four traditional dishes from Dubai thanks to an award-winning Emirati chef and while doing so, learn about traditional ingredients and the cultural history behind each of these dishes. After you’re done cooking (or at least trying), enjoy an authentic four-course Emirati lunch as part of the tour to enjoy the culinary food scene of Dubai to the fullest.

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Savour Frying Pan AdventuresA taste of Dubai

The different traditions of the Middle East countries are everywhere in Dubai, especially in the neighborhood of Deira. Thanks to local food tour company Frying Pan Adventures, it’s possible to taste Lebanese, Palestinian, Turkish and Persian cuisine in a three-km walking tour of this laid-back area north of the glitzy downtown.

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Get Away from Dubai’s Skyscrapers and Start Eating on this New Food Tour

Dubai, the U.A.E’s capital of bling, might be best known for zillion-star hotels, but for a different taste, Frying Pan Adventures offers the city’s first food tours. Food fanatic Arva Ahmed leads three- to four-hour crawls around old Dubai, where you’ll sample treats from the Middle East and beyond: flaky Egyptian sweet-cheese-filled fiteer pastry; bumpy, chewy Iranian sangak bread; and momos—pan-fried Nepalese dumplings. Since many places lack signs and even addresses, Ahmed’s guidance is invaluable, and you’ll get to eat with your hands and actually walk—a novelty in this car-crazy metropolis (tours, $95 per person).

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Arabic Iftar with Dubai One in Deira, Dubai

Frying Pan Adventures featured in the Attaché guide to Dubai, one of the most extraordinary cities on earth.

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ドバイで食い倒れ! ローカルフードを食べ歩こう

今回ご紹介したお店も含め、全7店舗(レストラン4店、スイーツショップ2店、スパイスショップ1店)をアラビックフードカルチャーのスペシャリストと5時間かけて回る「フライング パン アドベンチャーズ」が企画をしているツアーに参加するのも面白いかもしれません。

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SAVOUR AN ETHNIC FOOD SAFARI

Frying Pan Adventures offers four hour walking tours for AED 350 including mini bus transfers from Mall of the Emirates, all food and water, booklet with descriptions of the dishes, wet wipes, a little gift and even a certificate. Customised tours also available.

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Middle Eastern Foodie Pilgrimage

To get a feel for the real Dubai, there’s no better way than to book a tour with Frying Pan Adventures. Frying Pan was the first culinary tour outfit in Dubai, and their success is well deserved. A day with Frying Pan will get you out of the glitzy hotel scene and into Dubai’s neighborhoods, which can be hard to imagine when you’re sitting in a bar 25 stories above the city.

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Dubai Food Tours

The local duo behind Frying Pan Adventures might have a monopoly on food tours in the city, but for good reason. Indian sisters Arva and Farida Ahmed have lived in Dubai all their lives and they know their biryani from their baklava.

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7 street-food tours to try around the world

Frying Pan Adventures has since expanded into other food trails around Dubai, but the Middle Eastern Food Pilgrimage – lasting about four hours and costing Dh415 – is still the classic choice for unheralded surprises.

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Old Dubai’s Foodie escapades!

With her food tour, Arva Ahmed has not only opened up our palates to a wider choice of Middle Eastern cuisine but has also expanded our world by allowing us, in a very tangible way, to engage with the fabulous cultural fabric of the countries of this region. For those of us who tend to avoid the touristy stuff, a Frying Pan Adventure is a great way to rediscover the city we live in.

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From belly-busting brunch to classic English fare: Five food experiences to enjoy in Dubai

Frying Pan Adventures is the king of food tours in Dubai. It allows you to set aside the glitzy skyscrapers of the new Dubai, and chow down and restaurant-hop your way through old Dubai with an experienced local guide.

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A guide to traditional street food in Dubai: A handy Middle East feast

Frying Pan Adventures runs five-hour "Middle Eastern Food Pilgrimage" tours of Deira, which include food, some drinks and transfers from the Mall of the Emirates, for AED415. See fryingpanadventures.com.

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Enjoy the dessert of Dubai

Frying Pan Adventures run foodie walking tours which go beyond celebrity chef restaurants in expensive resorts.

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Dubai’s landmarks redefined

Far more casual but similarly illuminating was the culinary experience offered by Frying Pan Adventures. The first company to offer food tours in the city, its guides divert epicureans from the expected fine-dining haunts and instead take them on trails of Old Dubai’s most impressive Middle Eastern eateries.

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7 local businesses we love

No one deserves such success more than the hardworking, forward-thinking Frying Pan Adventures team.

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Best falafel in Dubai—and the woman who found it

Frying Pan Adventures, Ahmed’s walking tours around a series of unheralded Dubai restaurants, are partly an opportunity for her to share her love and knowledge of favorite Middle Eastern dishes, but she is also something of a pioneer for a different kind of tourism in the city.

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Jin Xin: Entering the homes of ordinary people in Dubai

Jin Xin: Entering the homes of ordinary people in Dubai

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Dubai as barely anyone knows it

Farida has seen the skyscrapers shooting up from the ground. She grew up in Dubai and, together with her sister Arva, founded Frying Pan Tours, culinary tours to hidden, authentic restaurants, snack bars and the Arabian markets, the souks.

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