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Food and Drink Overview
Regional Specialities
• Chelo khoresh (rice topped with vegetables and meat in a nut sauce).
• Polo chele (pilau rice), polo sabzi (pilau rice cooked with fresh herbs), polo chirin (sweet-sour saffron-coloured rice with raisins, almonds and orange), adas polo (rice, lentils and meat) and morgh polo (chicken and pilau rice).
• Chelo kababs (rice with skewered meats cooked over charcoal).
• Kofte (minced meat formed into meatballs) and kofte gusht (meatloaf).
• Abgusht (thick stew).
Regional Drinks
Fruit and vegetable juices are popular, as are sparkling mineral waters.
Tea is also popular and drunk in the many tea-houses (ghahve khane).
Doogh (a cold drink made from yoghurt and mineral water).
Tipping
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