Fuul , felafel and houmos are the three staples of the Middle East, and you'll find them at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Fuul is a paste made from fava beans, garlic and lemon, usually served swimming in oil. Houmos is cooked chickpeas ground into a paste and mixed with garlic and lemon. Arabic bread is eaten with absolutely everything and is also called aish , meaning 'life'. It's round and flat and makes a good filler.
Main dishes are usually chicken, kebabs or meat and vegetable stews.
Western fast foods abound. Forget about alcohol which is banned by Muslim law. Events Just about everything that can close will close on a Muslim holiday, so it's important to know when they fall. Kuwait's religious holidays follow the Muslim lunar calendar, so the corresponding dates of the western calendar vary each year. Liberation Day on 26 February is not an official holiday but everyone seems to treat it as one.