Eating out in Jordan

Listen: Going out to eat American or Western food in Jordan is just plain silly, with very few exceptions, in my humble opinion. It is usually of average to bad quality and double the price. This has at least been my experience for the most part, although I must admit that I've had a few good pizzas and Melanie has had a few good salads. Yesterday I paid about $12 for a crappy burger and fries at some hoity toity, wanna be French restaurant. I was not happy, but luckily we had a good cab ride home during which the cabby blasted a mixed tape of some of my childhood 80's favorites. That night we went to Al Quds restaurant to eat some local food that was twice as good and half as much. We both ordered mansaf with meat, which means lamb here. Mansaf is basically a dish of yummy rice with pie nuts topped with a tender piece of lamb. The lamb is so tender they don't even bother to give you a knife because you don't need it. We also ordered hummus and two waters. We walked out paying $15 for two people. The most important thing is that the food was yummy and I was stuffed. Usually after eating mansaf the only thing you can do is sleep, which is what we did shortly after getting home.