Oujda Karan & Street Food Tour - the Eastern Capital's Snacks

Oujda is Morocco's eastern gateway, a lively border city with a food scene all its own and almost no tourists to share it with. A street-food tour here is a rare thing - a graze through the everyday eating of a place shaped by the eastern plains, the Beni Snassen hills and the citrus country of Berkane, guided by someone who knows which cart and counter does it best.

The star is karan (also called garan), the baked chickpea-flour custard that is Oujda's obsession - sold hot from carts, cut into wobbly squares, sprinkled with cumin and often tucked into bread. Around it the tour takes in eastern grilled snacks and brochettes, local breads and pastries, olives and olive oil from the Triffa plain, and the sweet clementines and oranges that Berkane just up the road is famous for, along with fresh juices.

Your guide threads it all with the city's character - its Andalusian-Andalusi and border-region heritage, its music, its distinct eastern identity - so you understand a Morocco quite different from the imperial cities. It is authentic, affordable and completely off the tourist map. Bring small cash for the carts, come hungry, and expect a warm welcome in a city unused to food travellers.