The Date Market

Behind the fruit and vegetable market at Port Zayed in Abu Dhabi I found the date market. There were about a dozen stall all displaying a wide range of dates outside with more inside along with date products - eg chocolate covered dates.  Guess which I bought?

Tasting prior to purchase is all part of the process.  I tried soft dried Madjool dates "King of the Dates" from Palestine (Israel) and Ajwa dates from Medina which are meant to be holy and cure a myriad of ills.  There were also afresh dates like those in the  photo.  Dates dates and dates - All yummmo