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what if we rediscovered authentic tastes, full of color, passion,

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with style but also desire and sharing as well

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says Authentic flavors to discover.

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akia,

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the kitchen of your heart.

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what if we rediscovered authentic tastes, full of color, passion,

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says Authentic flavors to discover.

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akia,

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the kitchen of your heart.

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n this episode.

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o

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oday we're flying from Paris to Morocco to begin

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ur adventures in the Red City of Marrakesh.

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his is the first time I've been on the African continent

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nd I was happy to mark Morocco as my first country.

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t's been a dream destination of mine for many years.

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ow, I've always been so fascinated by the architecture,

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ntricate mosaics and of course, the cuisine.

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 done a little research on what to expect in Morocco.

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o I knew there would be a bit of a culture shock, but I wasn't expecting this.

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ep. That's a swarm of angry taxi drivers.

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o when Jonathan and I arrived at the airport,

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e were quickly ushered into one of the cars.

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hat we didn't know at the time was that he already had a passenger in the front seat.

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o as we were leaving,

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here was absolute chaos when all the other taxi drivers

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ere understandably pissed that he had taken two clients.

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s I said, not quite the shock I was expecting,

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ut we ended up making it safely to Riad

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lecia where we were greeted with traditional Moroccan mint tea and sweets.

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onathan.

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ow.

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re you already digging

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oneymoon nuts.

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h, yeah.

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his is our honeymoon, by the way,

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hich is why they had set up the sweetest surprise for us cut.

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his rad is so beautiful and you'll see more of it in the room tour.

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n the next episode,

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ur day ended at

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quare where you can't film anything without being hassled for a tip.

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ou're all cut up. Let's get into day one.

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e decided to introduce ourselves to the city with a tour.

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o my name is Yusuf. I was born and raised up inside the old Medina of Marrakesh

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nd I'm half, half, half

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nd half Arab.

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s you know, as I said earlier, the Buba are the native inhabitants of Morocco.

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hile the Arabs are the ones who came from Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Syria.

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o they cross the Middle East

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nd the Rich North African. I'm a father of three kids,

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wo daughters and one son. So today I'm going to show you,

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ou know the maze of the,

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he streets, the alleyways, the dead ends.

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t's a very exotic place and we invite you to come to see it

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ith your eyes. Ok.

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ousef was so kind and knowledgeable.

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 would highly recommend booking a tour with him for your next trip to Marrakesh.

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is information will be linked in the description box below.

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hanks to his knowledge,

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e got to these gardens early and you'll see exactly why that's important later

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ere in the mall

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ardens. Also known as the

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nd these were bought by

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acques

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all when he came to visit Marrakesh

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nd fell absolutely in love with this place.

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o he took plants from all over the world, planted them here.

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ut the problem was it is so expensive to maintain and being a painter,

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our art work is often not worth much until you're

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hat happened is he ran out of money, divorced, his wife, moved back to Paris

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nd got into a bad accident.

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o these gardens fell into complete disrepair because

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tarted negotiating for these gardens in 1966.

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t's not until 1980 that they bought this place. Yves,

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hat he wanted his ashes to be spread when he died.

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nd that's exactly what happened in 2008 when Yves,

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aint Laurent's ashes were spread around the garden.

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his Electric Blue house is now home to

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hich showcases over 600 artifacts from Morocco's indigenous people.

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he Berbers, the shade of blue that the house is painted in is called Blue Mall

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imself and has even been patented.

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t is made from a precious stone called La la

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hich can be ground to a powder and used as a pigment.

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hat's wrong baby,

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ut we have to go to the next place. So

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n recent years,

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his garden has become incredibly popular and now ranks as one of

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orocco's most visited tourist attractions with around 900,000 visitors a year.

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emember what I said about the early bird catches the worm,

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 long line right there.

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e arrived a little after nine AM and walked right inside.

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ut by the time we left around 10 30 this was the line.

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o if you don't wanna deal with the crowd or waiting the line,

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ext stop is Bahia

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alace which means brilliance in Arabic.

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t was built between 18 66 and 18 76 and features over 150 ornately decorated rooms

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n every palace.

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here are four layers to a room, cedarwood,

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hen plaster tile and marble on the floor.

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he cedarwood ceilings are painted with natural pigments

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range from hena yellow, from saffron green,

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rom wild mint blue from indigo flowers and purple from

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acaranda flowers.

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ll of the plaster you see is carved by

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nd by the way, all the noble families during the old time took it as a rule

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o keep the whole place and the whole palace very simple from outside,

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ut very beautiful and very orated from inside.

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nd this was done on purpose

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he Vizi would only choose naturally blind

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usicians to perform at the palace because they

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ould not be able to reveal the opulence and wealth to the outside world.

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his courtyard was the mistresses section.

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t's large because the grand vizier loved women so

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uch that he had four wives and 24 mistresses,

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ll of their rooms face his grand courtyard.

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nd on the other side is an entrance to a beautiful garden.

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o just imagine how much water do we need to keep those gardens green all the time.

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o chisel that fountain over there

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akes a lot of time and we value anything that is hand made.

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nd that's why we try to teach

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he work of the hands like the work of tiles chiseling the marble cheese,

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imp the plaster so that this kind of work would not die out.

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ur guide Yusuf was saying that one kg of sugar was treated for one kg of marble.

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e exported a lot of sugar

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o eat late to have marble in return. But we use this sugar

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n the Moroccan

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hat's what was so addicted

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he stained glass windows were one of my favorite parts of the Baja

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hen the sun shines through, it leaves rainbows on the walls.

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o we were joking with, you said that the owner of this palace had 24 wives.

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hink one is already too much

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ne is enough, one is enough. One is enough enough enough.

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he second was how friendly and close knit the whole community is.

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he donkeys are equipped with the diapers to catch

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he pool and to keep the city clean.

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he poop is Cooper.

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ur first stop in the old Medina is the community oven.

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o be cooked in that fireplace. I want you to squat down

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t's so big and so huge that the guy has some puddles

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n the right to flip the bread or to take the bread out of the fireplace.

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his place also is used to roast the peanuts, almonds and what not.

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nd the afternoon, it can be used like a place to cook the Moroccan pastry.

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ne of the chores I did was to take the dough to the community of every day.

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o we don't want those places to die out with time.

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o leave them doing this kind of job. So every single neighborhood has

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s the best where we wash our bodies. One community often like this

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o those places you know, make people here very close to each other.

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verybody knows everybody inside the old medina,

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verybody talks to everybody inside the old medina and you

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annot imagine how much talking we do every day.

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e can spend the whole day long talking. Do you know why

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ome people have watches.

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ome people have time.

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o normally people splash the water on the floor

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o settle down the dust because in Marrakech, we have a lot of dust.

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he souk is a tornado of smells. At times.

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he pungent smells were always changing.

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o the whole sok is divided into section as well.

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he spice market, the carpet market,

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he blacksmith area.

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o the leather market and in some places like the places we saw earlier,

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t's all mixed together.

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t's divided into sections like this because the overlapping bricks are red

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e took this time with Yusuf to really familiarize ourselves with

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he maze of the souk and how to navigate it.

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n a later episode,

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onathan and I will try to tackle it all on our own and buy some things along the way.

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his is,

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e use Noga in it, sesame. You know, honey, sugar, flour, salt.

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t's very, very tasty and very sweet, very sweet.

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e break the fasting with something sweet.

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o it's very, very famous.

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f the Moroccan pastry. This one,

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as been so kind to share it with us. I'm so happy. We have a local showing us around

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nd getting us the most interesting prices. Obviously,

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hat we call the Fatima's hand.

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t's used like a token to chase away the evil eye and it brings luck to people.

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o you may find that like a knock off a door

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f it is down like this, it brings luck if it is pointing upward,

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t words up evil, see very beautiful, full of cutters.

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he auction takes place in the middle of this square

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fter the third time of praying,

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ou know, like 4 35 you know, when people finish their praying,

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hey go out and start the auction and carpets here.

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o you tell me why a lot of people come here. They come just for this.

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his is so magical. So

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h uh uh mind blowing as the Americans say, drop dead gorgeous.

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 have to agree. The lantern section of the soup was my favorite.