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Khubz regag is the paper thin Emirati flatbread cooked on a domed iron plate, folded around cream cheese, egg or fish sauce and eaten from the hand in Dubai.
Regag is baked by trailing a loose batter across a saj, the convex iron dome heated over gas or coals, so the sheet dries in seconds into something closer to a crisp than a bread. It was the working bread of the coast, cheap and fast, and the fillings record what was to hand: cream cheese and egg, or mehyawa, the fermented anchovy sauce that Emirati and Bastaki households brought from the Persian side of the Gulf. Dubai's regag counters cluster on Jumeirah Road and in Satwa, often beside a karak window, and the standard pairing of a regag roll with a sweet cup of tea has outlasted every restaurant trend in the city.
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