00:00The Khaled Hurriyya Public Kitchen is named after the man Khaled Mohamed Abdallah Al-Hamadi, who owns the business.
00:08Hurriyya, which means freedom in Arabic, is Khaled's moniker,
00:11coined by him at a younger age when he first started out as an avid
00:16supporter of the UAE national team, as well as the Sharjah Football Club.
00:20I gave myself the nickname Hurriyya because I am the free, he said.
00:25Khaled hails from the town of Khurfaqan in the emirate of Sharjah and comes from a family background whose professions
00:31consisted of engineers, teachers and high-ranking police officers.
00:36However, Hurriyya decided to forge a different path for his career, from a young age when he
00:41expressed an interest in cooking and learned recipes from the local fishermen who cooked their daily catch for customers.
00:48As Hurriyya took the Gulf News team into his kitchen, his legion of fans
00:52continuously watched his live updates of the interview, which accumulated up to 7,900 views in one hour and a half.
01:01Hurriyya set up his first public kitchen on Sharjah's Wasit Street in
01:051989 and has been serving authentic Emirati food to generations of families for 30 years.
01:22We used to cook on wood, random things, and so on.
01:26The famous food we have in Ramadan is the Haris, the Haris, the biryani, the khabees, the madrouba.
01:33Back inside the kitchen, Hurriyya's staff continue to diligently work as they start to prepare
01:39receiving customers at noon. The busiest time in the kitchen is from 6 a.m.
01:43to 8 a.m., when employees start preparing the ingredients and cook the batches of chicken, meat and fish from an area of large
01:51metal frying pans and pots.
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