20 AED
20 AED
Weight: half a kilo
Fresh Yemeni dessert
One of the best sweets in Yemen
Glimpse of dessert history at right
Al-Hajj Ali Saeed Al-Qabbati founded the famous Al-Qubati sweets that all Yemenis know and attributed them to his name in order to deepen their knowledge of them, about 75 years ago.
Ali Saeed, who died in May 2012, at the age of more than 90, was known in Yemen as the King of Sweets.
It began at a time when the country was splintered, under British colonialism in the south, and imams in the north.
During that period, Hajj Ali Saeed established a small factory called “Al-Qabati”, before it flourished in the sweets trade, especially in the post-unity period in 1990, bringing the number of its commercial branches to 18 stores across Yemen, which was explained by the late Al-Qubati in an old interview with Yemeni TV. the official.
Ali Saeed Al-Qubati started in the city of Al-Rahda in Taiz, before the people of the neighboring Al-Qubaita district of the Lahj governorate took it as their starting point for the manufacture of sweets, and then spread in the Al-Anad region, as well as Al-Houta, Balhaj, and the rest of the country’s governorates.
The lineage of the king of sweets, Ali Saeed, comes from the Qubaita district of the Lahj governorate in southern Yemen, after it belonged to the governorate of Taiz before the Yemeni unity, and its population is 26,558, according to the 2004 census.
It is worth noting that Ali Saeed's stores were not the only ones that carried the same name "Al-Qubati"; Competitors emerged and established new shops and factories, but it also bore the name Al-Qabati, so that this name would be embodied as a popular registered brand of delicious Yemeni sweets; Due to the long and long experience of Al-Qabbati in this industry
