Memon: Pakistan on a Plate: Recipes Hara Lassan, Aatha, Masur Pulao & more: Sindh Episode: 5

The Memon community always fascinated me, with lots of friends from the community I've been privileged to enjoy their incredible cuisine. The first converts to Islam came from Thatta Sindh this mercantile community has come a long way. Pir Gilani of Bagdad's disciple converted a section of the Lohano Tribals who became the first Momins in the Subcontinent.as they moved south, and east they integrated flavours traditions spices & recipes blending with their past to make incredible food .
The question of who are the original Memons was so revealing, ive always thought of them as migrants from across the border but their history tells us otherwise: Sindhi, Kuch & Katiaywar are the three largest communities.
Their culinary heritage carries all these journeys enriching our palate and heritage.
walking through their neighbourhoods and markets the spices ingredients vegetables all telling us tales. I found several new items and fruits and spices which I had never known before. I hope you also enjoy this food adventure tour as much as I did.
there is an incredible story of how the Traders of upper Sindh are linked to Hazrat Yusuf/ Jesus Christ, I was most intrigued and was delighted to see all these connection we have with so many parts through the millennia.
This episode captures a window into this incredibly successful community in Pakistan and is dedicated to the late Abdur Sattar Edhi and Bilquis Edhi who dedicated their lives for the people of Pakistan.
I am grateful to all of them in helping me record some their incredible cultural stories and incredible culinary histories.

[@imtiyaz7176]

Memon ❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉 good 👍👍👍 pah Memon yu🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@seemarm662]

Pakistan mai b akni baneti suni ne khushi thi .. from Gujarat India 🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@saifsamo9750]

Memon & akni both originally from Sindh in Pakistan. You are nakli Memon in India😂

[@seemarm662]

Seero Aatho Gudpaapdi Ringde jo bhurto Akni Lasan Churme ( malido ) ja laddu Duniya mai kida b wanje ..he paan badhe memon g favourite dish ain ...

[@asifmerchant9020]

Thanks a lot for promoting our Memon community and also to know from where we originated. I'm very much impressed by your channel and your efforts to share the complete history of Memons. Wish you all the best and I'm looking forward for more of your videos on Memons. Jazak ALLAH Khairan

[@denishthakkar3951]

gujarat kathiyawad india

[@shahzebahmed1990]

So interesting learning about this. I belong to the Deeplai Memon community. We settled in Deeplo, Tharparker. We speak Sindhi.

[@TheOrthodontist26]

My grandmother still makes all these foods. Which is amazing since we’ve been in east Africa for the past 100 years or more.

[@muhammadkilic]

You from Mozambique

[@MohamedAli-xy3cs]

Good to see the great granddaughter of Sir Adamjee, a great Memon. Am Halai Memon from Madras. Let me add some info I have, in a nutshell: Memons: A tribe (out of 84 tribes) of 700 families (of Lohana cast/Vaishya cast) in Thatta, Sind, converted to Islam by Hazrath Yusuffudin Abu Zakaria Yahya, direct descendant of Hazrath Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilani of Baghdad, in 1421 AD. Because of ostracism from other tribes, they moved to nearby Varia, then in a few years, 600 families moved to Halar, Kathiawar, Gujarat. More than being called Kathiawari Memons, we are called Halai Memons (from Halar). Then in 1545 AD, when Humayun attacked Sind, many who had stayed back, moved to Kutch, Gujarat. Later called Katchi Memons. All those who stayed back in Sind, are Sindhi Memons. Halai Memons, Kutchi Memons, Sindhi Memons. Majority are Halai Memons. Then there were further migrations due to following: 1828 Famine and plague in Gujarat. 1858 British crown take over of East India Company admin. 1900 Kathiawar famine. 1918 Crisis of rupee devaluation. 1947 Partition.

[@priteshgajra9239]

But lohana are originally of kathiyawad ..we migration to karachi for business purpose...

[@priteshgajra9239]

@@chapalchor4343 u know what are lohanas ..we migration iran and afghatnistan by sea coast gujarat kathiyawad and kutch..

[@saadmuneer-zb1lw]

​@@priteshgajra9239yes you are right either Memon community and Khawaja are from kathiawad Gujrat or they are from Arab origin or Afghanistan or Persian origin

[@ScindianLad]

​@@saadmuneer-zb1lwit seems like you have something against Memons and Khowajas, that's why I see you every video trying to make them Arabs and Persian. And yet you call yourself Sindhi, what a shame, maybe your aren't even Sindhi.

[@faizalmemon1947]

Iam an Indian Memon. Very good culinary documentary on us(memons).. Reminds me about my nani ma making all this sweet dishes..Hope you will explore more about our community's culinary.

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

Love from memon cummunity of pakistan

[@nehpatel7290]

Memons have so much similarities with Gujratis. All the sweets gur papri, uradhiya are same with Gujrati people.

[@subhaida_manaf]

I want to know about memons

[@alimemon4114]

Love from Pakistan

[@priyanshpopat]

Bro I am A Lohana (Hindu) if I Convert To Islam What I will Be A Memon?

[@birdsambassador]

Yes I'm Sindhi and I understand a little bit of memoni.

[@msg656]

Great.

[@Murtaza.memon.92]

Good Documentary. And the Dr lady has good knowloedge. Thankyou for showing our culture and food. So happy and proud.

[@sairab8538]

Thanks for doing a segment on Memoni food. I am a Memon too...it reminds me of my grandma's kitchen :)

[@hamin31]

Yes

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

Hi am 2 memon

[@alimemon4114]

Hi

[@eden55272]

Memon are Sindhi origin not Gujarati

[@sairab8538]

@@eden55272 True...100%

[@asifmerchant9020]

Tons of love and duaas from Pakistan

[@hadeedalimemon7700]

very happy to see this video encouraging and educating other communities and even Memons it self

[@faari4001]

Excellent information! Thank you for doing a segment on Memoni food. Now I’m craving all the dishes. 😋

[@Niloferscorner]

hope you have subscribed to the channel :) do share with those who maybe interested in watching it :)

[@aminiqbalsorthya5608]

Good nice🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉memon gujrati majameyo🎉🎉

[@rafishaikh3598]

MEMON PEOPLE ARE HIGHLY EDUCATED. RAFI MET MANY OF THESE PEOPLE. THEY LIVE IN HARMONY & PEACE. HIGHLY DISCIPLINED & HELPFUL PEOPLE. RAFI MAINE USA

[@muhammedcara5413]

I am memon from south africa

[@asmamukati5503]

Looking for such videos from long Happy to watch Amazing alhamdulillah

[@reemsaira5980]

Memon ek number

[@aftabahmed5837]

Some delicious memon dishes in list Maatar Maliday k laddo Masoor polao Khichdi with pakora Kari Machi chawal Daal chawal Hara Lassan Anday Ka mesoob Khaosa Phaphda jalebi Bhel pori Keema samosa Gathiya Papar in deferent flavor Bari Banana fry Kathiyawari cholay Achar Bhagara began Alo bengan salan with rice and khichdi Sokhay gosht ki levri Phudinay ki chatni Hari mirch tamatar ki chatni Haleem Sorabba Dhokray Dhokri Bajray keemay k kabab Attay Ka halwa seero Gurh papri Phalli pak Murr murray k laddo Masalay wali tilli

[@iYTBeing]

Just subscribed to your channel ☺ Nice to see people making such documentaries.

[@ayazsiddique3300]

Masha Allah Amazing culinary knowledge Keep it up Team 👍💕 loved it From India

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

Love from pakistan

[@Ayubkhan-mn8go]

Excellent report

[@Home-gr3dx]

💯💯💯💯 🇺🇸

[@thazinhlaing3986]

We are from Myanmar.My husband is also memon.

[@faheemnomani]

Good👍

[@Niloferscorner]

hope you have subscribed to the channel :) do share with those who maybe interested in watching it :)

[@abdullahyousuf6120]

Proud to be memon muhajir

[@carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222]

You guys are Gujarati?

[@eden55272]

Memon are Sindhi origin not Gujarati

[@eden55272]

​@@carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222 Memon are Sindhi origin not Gujarati

[@ziaxazia9899]

Memon is my language

[@yusufdawood3018]

At 18:23 there are pictures of some people. Is kasim dada also known as dada champa. My mum tells us that he turned us to Muslims back in the days when we were hindus

[@ytv31]

Alhamdulillah

[@denishthakkar3951]

yaa u r lohana hindu thakkar

[@yusufdawood3018]

@@denishthakkar3951 whats that?

[@eden55272]

​@@yusufdawood3018Memon are Sindhi origin not Gujarati

[@cindy1010us]

Do you know what Memon stands for M=Make E=Enough M=Money O=Out of N=Nothing This a compliment as Memons are very smart and intelligent people

[@democraticguy]

MASJID BUILT BY CUTHI MEMONS IN MUMBAI MINARA MASJID ISMAIL HABIB MASJID ZAKARIA MASJID SUNNI BADI MASJID MADANPURA BAWLA MASJID LOWER PAREL HAMIDIYA MASJID PYDHONIE AND MANY MORE ALHAMDULILAH ❤❤❤

[@eden55272]

Nakhoda masjid Kolkata

[@tenny6246]

I wish I can come to Pakistan, but its so difficult to get visa from India.

[@amm3ra248]

In’Sha’Allah it will happen

[@aliattari618]

Good

[@irfanmemon5227]

I am KATHIYAWADI MEMON

[@333abbey]

Can I ask you since you are memon.. is there such thing as ‘sheikh memon’?

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

@@333abbey no

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

@@333abbey sheikh r no memon

[@adityawaglearch]

Gud papdi,Udad papdi & Udad papad are traditionally made in Maharashtrian households..

[@priteshgajra9239]

Ha oky...but they are guju sindhi people..so much rich ...

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

Thnks for suck a nice video on memon cummunity Love from germany Am sindhi memon also memoni language speaker My home city is karachi

[@mumtazkhan8016]

Piyari qoum hai

[@ziaxazia9899]

Atleast my culture is reunited My beast my rest

[@aminmemon007]

Indian...🔥

[@qashout82]

السلام علیکم Great video. Iam kathiyawari and we make something similar to aatha but calls it suthera. Does anyone know anything more. My wife is punjabi and they use suji and calls it panjiri. Can't find any recipes, in fact Google don't know anything on "suthera" either. Help!

[@Kanikachaudhary936]

🙏

[@everythingindailylife7046]

I'm MEMON CHYRMANG

[@Themodernmonk2014]

That methaan word was derived from Sanskrit word mishthaan

[@memonchyrmang27]

memon is my name

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

🤔

[@shakeelgaya7511]

what about Surmai and bhangra fish and Muthiyas

[@Niloferscorner]

Ive shared a muthiya recipe?

[@sabirabanujaveed3862]

Nice recipes, good information about our Cutchi Memons, thank you so much❤❤❤❤

[@Niloferscorner]

hope you have subscribed to the channel :) do share with those who maybe interested in watching it :)

[@aamirahaseeb2604]

Thank you so much for such an interesting and informative video about the memons ! I’m a cutchi memon hailing from Bangalore , India . I visited Karachi in 2015 and enjoyed my trip thoroughly!

[@shakeelgaya7511]

@@aamirahaseeb2604 now visit Vancouver and meet cm s from all over including Blaore

[@sabilmuhammad5428]

My mom is memon is but my father is belong to turk family any one teach me memoni language

[@fashioniconbymarveekhan5835]

I wil

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

Yes me

[@nehpatel7290]

I can teach you Gujrati. I am not fluent in Memoni only my dadi is.

[@TheOrthodontist26]

Is Aatha the same as Gurpapri?

[@Niloferscorner]

No no

[@333abbey]

Is there such thing as ‘sheikh memon’?

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

No

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

Sheikh is cast not No one is in memon sheikh

[@cyborguru]

The theory of 700 families converted from Lohanas is very flimsy. Assuming 2 grandparents, 2 parents and 5 children on average gives us a sum of 6,300 converts. The population of South Asia, according to Angus Maddison a distinguished British economist, was 150million in 1400AD and around 2.25billion in 2020, an increase of around 15 times, therefore those 6300 converts would translate to a population of 94,500 Memons in 2020. We all know the population of Memons is 1.8million, so working backwards that would translate to 120,000 persons or around 13,300 families converting, 20 times the number bandied about.

[@abidtiger4386]

Pakistan bananey ke Baad aye kachi memon kumnasal he

[@ytv31]

12:43 the shroud of turin is a fake, Hazrat Isa A.S. was never put on the cross, the gospel of barnabas is very clear on this.

[@MOHAMMEDADVANY]

My parents migrated to Pakistan from Bantva Kathiawar. I was very impressed with all the information. My wife is from USA and mostly cooks Pakistani food, which she learned from my mother and sisters in Pakistan. The worst thing I heard from this documentary is the mention of the shroud of Turin. The Quran says: And [for] their saying, "Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, the messenger of Allāh." And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but [another] was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain.

[@hareeshkumar3660]

Is Memon's origin from Hindu Lohana caste????? 🤔🤔

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

No

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

Memon r from gujrat india No lohna We r memon by cast

[@pandyap16]

@@Arzhang-nu4yq one of my memon friends (Makda surname) says before 9 generations they were Lohanas...probably Dhoraji memons have lohana ancestry

[@sudhakarmuthyala1272]

@@Arzhang-nu4yq What do you mean by no. The documentary clearly explains how from the 83 different castes of the Lohana people, one of the sub castes converts to Islam and hence are socially boycotted by the rest of the Lohana Tribe. The film also informs us that being a trading community from around a city called Thatta which was an important trading hub and also the Capital of medieval Sindh. So these converts to Islam were referred to as Mum'min who later were called Memons when they migrated to Kutch and Kathiawad in present day Gujarat. Thats how the became Kutchi Memons and Kathiawadi Memons. Also they became probably the first group of people to embrace Islam in the Indian Sub Continent. Hinduism and to some extent Buddhism were the prevalent religions in Sindh before the advent of Islam.

[@azaankhan9418]

Yes they were Sindhi Hindus from Sindh

[@iYTBeing]

Honestly, very near to my house there's a Memon community apartment and I have observed a lot of Memons are doing jobs instead of businesses.

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

Yes alhamdulillah we r mosly richest in pakistan

[@hajco10]

السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُاللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ I really appreciated this video I would like to contact Dr Zebu Ashraf. Would it be possible to get her email or any website or any other link with her. I Would like to find out more. جزاك الله خيرا في امان الله Ashraf

[@fahadiqbal794]

In ko hindi ya urdu nahi aati memon hoon tu memoni tu bolon secondly khoosa is a Burmese dish not memoni dish

[@MOHAMMEDADVANY]

Khawso is definitely a Burmese dish. No one claims that it was invented by Memons, but I am not sure if it is called Khawso in Burma. Try buying 'French Fries' in France. None of my children speak Memoni or Urdu, but they are proud to be Muslims and Memons.

[@nypalla]

Defense, KDA is full with memon tax payers!!

[@zabbymemon4093]

Memons look Nepali though Are they pure desdecendent of Mughals mongols

[@786swe]

Zahud Memon are not descendants of Mughuls or Mongols. They're from Sindh.

[@zabbymemon4093]

@@786swe bro their ancestors were basically kshatriya nepali, I know because my mamu is memon Yeah they are situated in Sindh Pakistan gujrat dubai and many other places

[@786swe]

@@zabbymemon4093 So were you saying the Nepalis were descendants of Mughuls abd Mongols? No, they're not. And Memons do not look Nepali per se.

[@zabbymemon4093]

@@786swe brother my responsibility was to give u info Now if u take being Nepal I as a insult then I can't help u

[@shaheens2549]

@@zabbymemon4093 m from Kutch Gujarat India...it surprising to c so much similarity in cuisine.

[@hassenrazack4755]

In my own opinion both memon people in India and Pakistan are from the lost 12 tribes of israel

[@786swe]

Hassan No

[@Arzhang-nu4yq]

No

[@nehpatel7290]

No we are from the Sindh-Gujrat region. NOT Israel.

[@up8691]

Urdu kyo nhi bolte tum log. Sare viewer yahin ke tu hai tumhare. Koi angrez thori dekh rha ya south indian