Jan 30th, 2010
I come from Spain, and i have visited Morroco several times, enjoyed their great food, couscous, tagine, humus... and many more. I love it. I went once to Marrakech restaurant in Shanghai, that was more than one year ago, and never came back. I had couscous, some humus, and i think that was it. I wanted to have a first contact with the classic morroquian dishes. It was quite discouraging. The meat in the couscous was not tender, not juicy enoug. They used saussages (merguez), which were way to dry and not tasty enough. And the main negative point was, while trying the humus i noticed something funny in its taste. About to ask the waiter for it, i didn't remember the english word "chickpea", so i was asking him "this bean you use to make the humus", he answered "potato". Everybody excuse me if there is a variant of couscous made with potato, but i have never heard nor read about it, never saw.
Well, maybe i'm being exigent to it, since my standards in morroquian cuisin are high, but, anyway, shouldn't it be that way?
The service, just right. The place quite decent.
I wish some other good morroquians open in town.