 Hi friends and subscribers, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel bringing this video as usual from Jerusalem but today I'm bringing this from a little bit of a different location. I'm in my long-standing favourite Ethiopian restaurant in the city for those who didn't spot the amazing letters of the Amharic alphabet behind me. This restaurant's called Habish Jerusalem and it's located just off Agrippa Street which is one of the main streets in Jerusalem leading up to Shukmanehuda and on this little side street off of Agrippa Street I counted no less than three different Ethiopian restaurants side by side. So people when they come to Jerusalem looking for Middle Eastern food there's certainly lots of falafel and shawarma on offer but there's also this really really incredible Ethiopian restaurant scene that I've been patronizing for years and which a lot of people are surprised to know exist in the city. There are many Ethiopian restaurants in Jerusalem simply because there are a lot of Ethiopian Jews who made aliyah that means that they moved to Israel and they brought with them their amazing cuisine. So for those who haven't eaten Ethiopian before this is what you can expect to eat. It's basically this is their vegetarian platter they have a meat platter as well and it's a bunch of different the veggie platter that I've ordered today it's a bunch of different lentils cooked in Ethiopian spices there's an amazing Ethiopian spice blend called berbere that is consists of a bunch of spices from Ethiopia including chili you can buy it here in the local Ethiopian food stores which are going to go to next but they have both this and they have tibs which is basically a cooked beef dish. Now this particular restaurant is not kosher certified but there are other ones in israel that are as well as this absolutely amazing lentil mix of lentils served on this bread this bread is called injera and it's basically a fermented teff bread it takes a full three days to make because it's fermented and some people might liken it to a platter it's not only the bread that is delicious in its own right it's got a slightly tangy flavor but you just peel it off and you don't use cutlery when you're eating Ethiopian food you just scoop up some of the lentil mixes this is shiro that I'm having here and you just pop it in your mouth and it's absolutely a fantastic array of flavors I think that a lot of locals have discovered Ethiopian food in the last few years but still for tourists there's a lot of people who haven't found out that this exists in Jerusalem yet it might be quite exciting to find that it does as well as the main dishes of the vegetarian platter and the meat platter I also highly recommend trying Ethiopian coffee there's an Ethiopian coffee ceremony called buna in which the coffee is infused with incense smoke and served from this distinctive coffee serving utensil called ajebana it's absolutely amazing if I'm not mistaken Ethiopia is actually the home of coffee and they make it really really well they also have local Ethiopian beer that they import here two types of beer called habish and st. George they have both they're amazing a few bottles of beer some really really spicy Ethiopian food and if you like it extra spicy ask for some awaze hot sauce and it's an absolutely incredible meal so this is habish in Jerusalem and this is the proprietor s sara who I asked to say a few words about the restaurant as well as there being more Ethiopian restaurants in Jerusalem than I can care to count there's also a really vibrant ecosystem if you want to use that word of Ethiopian food stores supplying everything that the Ethiopian community needs to cook their amazing amazing food anyone who's into Ethiopian food knows about injera the delicious fermented tef bread that takes about three days to ferment and there's also behind me if lots and lots of lentils as well as berbere mitmita the big classic Ethiopian spice mixes green coffee beans Ethiopians are really into roasting their own coffee at home on a pan and making the most amazing coffee in the world Jebin is you can also see behind me which are the traditional vessels used in the Ethiopian coffee ceremony called Buna and lots lots more so I think for people looking to get into a really exciting form of cooking in Jerusalem these Ethiopian food stores are amazing and this one is located just outside from shuk mahanehuda just across the road you can probably hear some guys lighting the hanukkah menorah so there's a lot of different cultures and foods available in Jerusalem