Best Bread in Town

I've always been a Bread Snob!  Growing up I'd be the one going to the bakery and getting fresh bread...some of it would never make it home, being eaten on the way by a "mysterious" mouse...  I've always loved good bread and am always looking for that tasty crusty bread.  After 15 years of deprivation in the States, I've finally found it!!!
Well, close to the compound there is a little stripmall of stores...nothing much to it, just a little grocery store, dry cleaner, some kind of office AND a bread store.  What I call the Bread store is nothing more than a counter in front of a open oven.  Set-up is easy: you hand in your ONE Saudi Riyal ( a whooping 25 cents US), grab a plastic bag and when the bread comes out of the oven, you get FOUR, yes you are reading this well, FOUR awesome, hot, crispy and soft flat arabian bread! 

We stopped there again tonight to pick a few for dinner.  Kids were all excited to see it, as usually Worth stops by himself....  It also was my first time as many of those hole in the wall places usually are for men only!  I took a risk today and was not quicked out...always a good sign.  I asked the baker if I could take his picture and probably made his day.  He was halfway posing while flattening out his rounds of dough into a perfect circle.  Then he lightly sprinkles water on a wooden paddle, places the flat round of dough over it, makes a few indentations with his fingertips and skillfully places it on the oven brickfloor!  Now comes the hardest part: waiting for the bread to be ready...excrutiating pain, major mouth watering just thinking about its crunchiness!  If only you could be here with us to share those four flat breads....  Too bad they don't taste nearly as good when cool....

Ain't this the most beautiful bread in the world?