Frying Pan Adventures - Dubai

02/12/2024

Blessed to be here 🇦🇪

Our adventures could never have found their fuel anywhere else. It had to be here, because this country gives dreams a home. So much gratitude for the privileged life we lead here, the opportunities that the leaders have sown and for You — our community 🤍 Sending you positive vibes & way too many luqaimat to handle this Eid al Etihad.
‏كل عام وانتو بخير✨

❤️

17/09/2024

Look we’re tourists 😬🤳🏽

This tour through the Deira & Bur Dubai souks gives us the biggest adrenaline rush, every. single. time.

It’s ironic because years ago, when people asked us to take them on a food tour through the souks, we resisted the idea. It was just too touristy.

Until one day, we caved. We finally committed to scouring through every alley of the souks we knew and finding the route that was not just off the beaten path but full of nostalgia, humble flavours & stories of the land. This tour might have been the unplanned child back then, but now we can’t imagine our family of tours without it.

If you’ve not yet seen how Dubai has sparkle even where there’s no shine, you need the back alley route. We’ll be waiting for you right here 🩵

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10/09/2024

Nitro chai w/out nitro 💨

Photo dump from the simple things we’re up to in the back alleys of the souks. If you ever want to time travel back to 1970s when life was a turtle crawl & buildings were toddler high & everything costs 25 fils, then—

you can’t. Cause ain’t nothing cost 25 fils anymore hello 2024 is here 🏴‍☠️

BUT — nothing like a big fat dose of nostalgia. That’s what we’re gonna do this week on our Souks food tour. This week + every week from now on, cause the heat is gonna be out the back door soon 🚪and—

food tour season is BAAAACK 💥tour dates & details on our very pretty website, link in our profile ☝🏾 or just DM us, she who guards our DMs is quite a chatterbox 💃🏽

01/07/2024

Let’s find out before July 12💥

We just spent 3 glorious days last week training our last batch of food heroes, and now the cycle starts again!

If any of these 3 things excites you, consider dropping us an application online before July 12th:
✨public speaking & storytelling
✨serving different types of people from around the world
✨learning food history & culture

We intentionally haven’t put “eating food” on there because that’s actually the lowest bar. Don’t most of us here love stuffing our faces already?👹 But a love for food doesn’t a charismatic food storyteller make. There’s so much more. If think you’ve got in you or you’re not sure but you want to just give it a shot, go for it. APPLY.

🔗 Link with all the details & key dates in our Insta profile or drop the word LINK in the comments & we’ll DM it to you.

23/06/2024

That time when we drove out of DIFC👠

One of our highlights of the year is getting to take 50 undergrad, MBA & exec MBA students from out into the streets of Old Dubai. It’s humbling that we get to play a role in a program packed with regional business leaders, because the professors have prioritized local immersion. These are not people who visit and leave thinking that Shiny is all there is to see. True leaders know to get outside the bubble and look beyond.

They step out and explore with us. We inhale saffron, juggle hot bread, bargain like our mums, cram into an abra & hear stories of the past together. It never gets old, because the people we meet make it new all over again, every single time 🤍

31/05/2024

And remind us if we ever lose sight.

There is power of community, there is power in our voices, every single one. This collective dream of 🇵🇸freedom will emerge from the nightmare. And if we believe and we speak up and we find our individual ways to show solidarity, humanity will win. No matter how the world has proven us wrong & how many red lines have been crossed & how sick to our core we feel, we simply don’t have an option to believe in anything else.

Gaza in our hearts
Today and everyday
Until this genocide is over
And even then, still in our hearts,
Because never may our children
perpetuate this barbarism.
✊🏾🇵🇸

Thank you to every voice who’s helped educate us and us our connection with Palestine — .maryam …and many more. Sorry if we’ve missed anyone 🙏

30/05/2024

We let our hair down testing this tour💃🏽

(we let our budget down too but that’s Finance’s problem💁🏽‍♀️)

Literally none of the food in these photos, except one, made it to the final tour. This Dubai Mall food walk took WAY more time to fine tune than any other tour we’ve done—it had to be curated just right if it was going to be truly special in the most touristy spot in the city.

Dragged in many a foodie friend & heck, we even had a toddler tester for good measure. This is our first tour where babies can join cause…it’s cool indoors + Dubai mall toilets ROCK 🤘🏾

If you were doing a food tour through Dubai Mall, which spots would you include? Just don’t give us cheesecake, we ain’t havin none of that.

18/04/2024

Our team at Frying Pan Adventures is hiring for part-time tour leaders!

We're looking for food enthusiasts and history buffs who are also outgoing, articulate and energetic. If you love exploring every hidden nook and cranny of a neighborhood, sampling new foods, sharing stories, researching history and meeting people from around the world, then reach out to us today to learn more about working with us—or share this link with a friend you think might be interested!

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We're hiring! We're looking for food enthusiasts who are also outgoing, articulate and energetic to join us as food tour leaders in Dubai.