Triple Frontier · Paraguayan-Arab Kibbeh
Kibbe (Quibe)
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Ciudad del Este's Arab community is large enough to support mosques and Arabic-language schools, and kibbeh is sold there as casually as empanadas.
A shell of bulgur wheat and ground beef is stuffed with spiced meat and fried or baked into small torpedo-shaped croquettes. Street stalls and Arab-run eateries around Ciudad del Este sell them as a quick snack alongside pita and hummus.
Why it's made this way: Alto Paraná's Ciudad del Este, part of the Triple Frontier with Brazil and Argentina, has one of Paraguay's largest Lebanese and Syrian immigrant communities, who brought kibbeh into the city's street food scene.
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