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post #1 of 5
6/2/06 at 5:51pm
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I work in South Beach, I was wondering if anyone out there knew anything about "halal" food. We have a guest coming in with a group and this person needs his food to be Halal approved. I want to know if anyone knows of a company in miami that provides meals to hotels for individuals like this one. Or if anyone can tell me if it's all right for me to prepare the food as long as I follow the basic guidelines, or do I have to be Muslim? Any advice from anyone who has experience with this would be extremely helpful.
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post #2 of 5
6/2/06 at 6:19pm
Any place that has a Muslim population should have a "deli" that has Halal, remember too that muslim doesn't always mean arabic decsent, so if there's an indonesian pop. as well it could be around. Look in the phone book or on line for halal. As near as I remember the rules aren't as strict for halal as they are for kosher, except that you have to use halal meats. Again check on line for definitive answers.
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post #3 of 5
6/2/06 at 8:12pm
As a large portion of the world is Muslim, there are very many types of Halal certified foods. Drives the multinational meat suppliers crazy, what's Halal in Saudia Arabia doesn't mean it's Halal in Malaysia or Turkey.
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post #4 of 5
6/3/06 at 10:48am
You might try talking with a kosher purveyor. Some manufacturers and meat plants provide halal as well as kosher products. I dated a guy who was in the meat processing business. They had a kosher kill-plant. A major market for their product was to Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries. I'm not sure if an imam was present, but it was strictly kosher. My fella knew as much about kosher meat as I do, and I'm Jewish.
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post #5 of 5
6/4/06 at 7:08am
Hi all,I'm a Muslim myself; I hope I can be of some help.Firstly, Halal meat is the meat which comes from lamb, beef or poultry, birds "not all" which are slaughtered in a certain way. "Islamic"Second Halal food must be by no means containing alcoholic drinks or even served next to them or cooked by using wines.I believe you will make it easy for yourself to suggest to your guests to have seafood "cooked without wine or any alcoholic drink" along with some vegetarian dishes.It is difficult not make mistakes with Halal if you're not dealing with pork, or pork product, alcohols directly.Some canned foods have pork fat as preservatives which make it not Halal.As I said fish will be the safest thing and will grantee satisfaction of your Muslim guest if you'll tell them why fish.Best of luck.
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