Sweet Middle Eastern delicacies @ 阿里吧吧 Ali Baba

At first, I didnt realise this little shop sold delicacies of dried fruit and chocolate.

When I went it, I was amazed at the selection, very rare and exotic choices of dried cactus fruit, dried figs, dried dates, dried apricots, dried apple, dried aubergine and various nougats.

One of the pistachio nougat I tried was interesting, it was pistachio in grape jelly, the grape taste was real grape extract too, rather than the fake grape essense or the wine flavour type.

My favourite nougat was the pistachio nougat sandwiched between the apricot, the nuttyness and sweetness of the nougat infused with the sour fruitiness of the apricot.

The candied fruits tasted quite the same for most of them, except for strong tasting fruits such as dates, or strawberries, the candied cactus fruit had a waxy skin, just like the dates, and many rock hard seeds in it too.

The candied aubergine tasted starchy.
For middle eastern delicacies, they contain alot of figs, dates, and apricots.
Although the sweets were really nice, I found the occaisional sand/grit in some, most probably blown on the fruits when they were being sun-dried.