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Highway-side eatery in UAE feeds hungry one meal at a time

by Isabel Debre
| November 18, 2020 10:33 PM

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At a highway-side restaurant in the industrial outskirts of Dubai, workers methodically assemble packaged takeout meals of biryani rice, dal and brightly colored chicken curry for people in poverty and desperate to eat.

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