#Top50Jo: The Tweeps have listed their favorite 50 things about Jordan

January 24, 2010 at 3:51 pm · Filed under Amman, Geek Culture & Tech

Jordanian tweeps have been having a field day all morning and afternoon listing their favorite top 50 things about Jordan. I have no idea how this started, or who started it, but here are some of my favorite 50 things that were mentioned by Jo tweeps so far:

The Small Things:

  1. The Jordanian National Anthem at the end of broadcast day on Jordan TV. @Kanaani
  2. Football matches at Sports City. @tarawnah
  3. The fact that the weather broadcast almost always gets it wrong, making Jordanweather.jo super popular. Lol. @RobaAssi @Kanaani @Bardees_S
  4. Wandering into the National Museum in Webdeh looking for my favorite Ali Jabri 70s Aqaba painting. @NadineToukan
  5. Hamoudeh DVD! Definitely! @AyahNasan @RobaAssi
  6. The serene call for prayers resonating across Amman.. and definitely the weather..second to none! @Ryan_W_Sadi
  7. The trucks, like the one I can hear right now, which sell & collect used furniture & announce it on loud speaker. @RaghdaButros
  8. Watching all the traders set up their stalls for the Abdali Friday Market on a late and dark Thursday night @raghdabutros  @imadnaffa
  9. Getting to see views like these: http://img160.yfrog.com/i/img4762.jpg/ in spring @abitmutch
  10. The beautiful old houses of #Amman which speak of a humble yet rich past @Hamzetwasel @imadnaffa
  11.  Those people that rang the door bell asking for: empty perfume bottles @lo2lu2a @Ahmad_Kamal
  12. The way we all wait for snow like 3 year-olds. Still waiting. @khaledhakim @imadnaffa @Bardees_S
  13. The fact tht you can be in Syria / Lebanon within 3 hours :-P @madnaffa @Kanaani @LebTweets
  14. A cool Queen: @QueenRania with 1,240,897+ twitter follower!!!  @KrishnaUdeshi @imadnaffa @ArabObserver
  15. One of the best countries in the region for road tripping. a new destination every 50km! @tarawnah
  16. Driving home from the airport after a vacation, seeing everything with new eyes & really *appreciating* it! @Rula_Z
  17. King Hussein Cancer Foundation @khcf @Ahmad_Kamal  For any #cancer-related questions, call @KHCC toll-free Cancer Information Helpline at 0800 22662

The Edibles:

  1. Caramel Hot Chocolate and Hazelnut Latte from our all Jordanian “Cups and Kilos”.  @Bardees_S  @tarawnah
  2. The Sha3r il-Banat (cotton candy) man with the balloon inside every bag. @RaghdaButros
  3. Allo Arguileh :) @OmarChr
  4. Ka’ak & eggs sandwich from the cart vender, with tomato, lemon, zaatar and mint tea. @NadineToukan
  5. Chili House cheese coneys! @FawziB @steitiyeh @ArabObserver @tarawnah
  6. Hashem Restaurant (Al-Balad/Downtown) @fouadjeryes
  7. Bon el3ameed @3amor.
  8. Labaneh Jarashyeh, Jameed Karaki and the best olive oil from Ajloun mountains. @yugi
  9. Quick stops at a watermelon tents in the summer on your way home. @tarawnah
  10. Stopping at the spices & seeds stands on outer city routes, tasting, having tea with the vendors over a story. @NadineToukan
  11. The guys who sell corn, humos and fooul on those carts. @tarawnah
  12. Yummy falafel sandwiches from Al-quds in rainbow street /via @FawziB @imadnaffa @Bardees_S

  13. Gerard ice cream. Beats Ben & Jerry’s every time! @o2lu2a @hala_k
  14. Hot delicious mana2eesh from Abu Khamis on a lazy Friday morning with no traffic @lo2lu2a @kamelasmar @imadnaffa
  15. Seven+ packed branches of Tche Tche around Amman @fadia_hamdi
  16. Mansaf :-) That’s simple @lo2lu2a @reemba
  17. Fresh “Taboon” bread @Bardees_S
  18. Sufara Bakery and Abu Ghosh Bakery on Rainbow. Ka3eeek! Ka3eek! @kamelasmar @RobaAssi @tarawnah
  19. Kabab resturants at Jarash & Azraq @jawazsafar
  20. Books@Cafe. Best Cafe in Jordan @tala_tj  @RobaAssi @ArabObserver
  21. Batata =D @khasawnehman


The Culture:

  1. Tafeeli jokes! @tarawnah
  2. Getting totally inebriated & stupid at the bar you’ve been going to for four years and no matter how badly you behave, they still smile and serve you gladly. @NadineToukan
  3. Everyone’s father was offered to buy Abdoun or Mecca street, and they refused!! @swfmaster @yugi
  4. Zero to a maximum of one degree of separation! @yugi @Razano
  5. The way every person claims that they have land or a farm that overlooks the lights of Jerusalem or other parts of #Palestine @RaghdaButros
  6. Watching the excitement of kids on first day of Eid, dressed up, in streets, sizing the other, hustling over gifts & play plans. @NadineToukan
  7. The warm hospitality of Bedouins in Wadi Rum @imadnaffa @am2680
  8. For the memory of Abu Ahmad, the “Peanut Man” from downtown #Amman! http://is.gd/6Hm45 @imadnaffa @RaghdaButros
  9. The fact that “leway?”, “he!”, “hay!” all sound like noises but are acceptable words, making up entire conversations in places like Karak. @tarawnah
  10. Harmony between Muslims, Christians, Beduins, Villagers, Palestinians, Circassians. @A_Omari @MissKhasawneh @FawziB @ChristinaTwal
  11. Omar Alabdallat :) @Jansait
  12. Abu Mahjoob :) @imadnaffa  @AsrarSonya

Of course, you can check out the whole list (still being updated) on Twitter.
What are your favorite things about Jordan?






  • http://40some.wordpress.com Shusmo

    Yam wala Tweet elee? :-(

    LOL

    @Shusmo

  • http://www.kinziblogs.wordpress.com kinzi

    I missed this, because I was doing one of my new fav 50 in Jordan:

    A half hour outside the city you can dig down half a meter and hold a pottery shard from the Middle Bronze Age.

    For Americans who consider a 150 year old First Nations arrowhead a priceless treasure, it is an AWESOME experience!

  • http://www.twitter.com/Bardees_s Bardees

    yeeey (again) my name is up there ;)
    Roba Shusmo is the one who started #Top50Jo

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  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/46722456@N00/ Fika

    I’m actually quite impressed! With the effort doing all those… since no one I know personally does that.

  • Chris

    Those are quite funny Omar, but I’ll give you a little heads-up here, just because your Roba’s brother. I work for Xbox’s piracy division, so I’m personally heading up this investigation. I’m landing in Amman right now, so if you don’t want to be in handcuffs tonight, you’d better skedaddle now. But I’ll be back… sometime. :D As for the cover, haven’t the slightest idea. But it looks like the game Omar would have to play to get to his personally named Al-Quds mosque.

  • Chris

    Ooops! I think I rambled on the wrong post. Or something? Anyway, it’s pretty obvious which one it was meant for. :|

  • http://andfaraway.net Roba

    Yeee glad you guys like this post! Really, it’s just your ideas :)

    Bardees, wallah no one deserves a spot on this blog more than you do! :) You’ve been reading this space for years.

    Chris, no, no, it’s not you, I’m the airhead :) I accidentally updated this post with the XBox post until Bardees sent me a message letting me know that I did that. Now it’s fixed… and the XBox post has its own post. Software should be free! :) The game is Assassin’s Creed by the way, in case you’re curious :P

  • Chris

    Thanks for the clarification!!! My boss took the painters out for drinks after work today, so when I got home, figured I’d entertain myself with a quick “wake-me-up” post. Didn’t work, passed out. :D But anyway, I thought something was amiss, but wasn’t quite sure, you know, with the booze and all. And yes, uh, Bardees does indeed sound like a worthy ally.

  • http://twitter.com/Bardees_S Bardees

    That’s so sweet of you Roba thank you :D I’ve been coming back here only because your posts are brilliant! keep them coming :)

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  • Me

    Ok , don’t get me wrong I love jordan very much but don’t you think all the top50 things were mentioned revolves around food I mean there’s nothing special about this list with all due respect to everyone particepated plus other things have been mentioned in the list can be easily found in any other conutry .

  • http://andfaraway.net Roba

    Chris, lol, I wish I can go home to sleep during my work day :P Man, now that you mention it, i’m dead beat.

    Bardees, thanks darling :)

    Me, well, there were many other things said, but these are just my favorites :) Check out the tag, you’ll see some cool ideas.

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  • Me

    I’m afraid you got me wrong Roba , you are free to pick anything you like , I’m not complaning about your choices all I wanted to say that there’s nothing special about the top 50 things everyone has mentioned in twitter , I mean there’s no deep things were mentioned all of them were abit childish

  • http://andfaraway.net Roba

    Really? I didn’t think they were childish. I thought they were genuine. I’d be interested to hear your top 10 just to get to know what you mean better :)

  • Me

    This needs alot of work I believe , but if I were to make one , I think the jordanian blogsphere will make it ;)

  • http://bagoftreats.blogspot.com Amina

    Allow me to say that as a non-Jordanian, my favourite thing about Jordan are it’s people. Some of the sweetest and most genuine people i’ve known in my life are Jordanian. The woman i grew up calling my second mom was Jordanian (Allah yir7amha).

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