searching for cheese in algerie

[mimiiw]

Azul everyone, i am new here to this site! I am returning to Algeria this summer to stay with friends again (2nd visit for a Canadian) I would hope to be able to cook and bake something different for them while I am there. (haha) I know when i was there last, I only saw LA VACHE QUI RIT basically in the food stores there. I am wanting to know if an equivalent to the Philadelphia cream cheese might be obtainable in algeria -I believe a similar french cheese would be called Neufchatel? But I am not certain. So if anyone out there, who happens to be in algeria right now, and if you happen to be going to the grocers there next time, can you see if I have any possibility of finding this?? (Folle, je sais) If not, I suppose I might have to try with straining yogurt into some sort of cream cheese. I imagine this request sounds very bizarre, but it is important to me. Thank you so much for any information You might be able to give me with this

[TonyStarks]

Im from Canada and i go to Algeria every year. I dont think you can find Philadelphia Cream Cheese. All they have is La Vache Qui Rit like you said and others like it, as well as Fromage Rouge and Fromage Blanc, Camembert, Brie, etc... If you do find it, the best place would be in one of the Superettes but even there your chances would be slim.

[TonyStarks]

By the way, where in Canada you from ? Where in Algeria do you stay ? Im guessing you stay in either Bejaia or Tizi. Only big places where they would use Azul. Or maybe with a kbaylie family in Alger.

[mimiiw]

thank you for answering so quickly! Yes it will most likely be very hard to find, as I had suspected unfortunately. I am from western canada actually, in the province of alberta. I stayed just outside of Bejaia near Aokas. I cannot describe how wonderful everyone was to me and how much I enjoyed my visit. I have been counting the days until I can return again. I did stay with a Kabylie family yes.

[TonyStarks]

IM GOOD !!!

PS. They have Mozarella cheese in Algeria now. I was surprised. It comes in little packes and its ready to be used in pizzas and what not.

[mimiiw]

well that's good to know concerning mozzerella cheese but it wont do in a desert type of dish with cheese unfortunately, lol

[3rdTroop]

hi,
elformaje in aljeria iz better and cheaper than it iz inn north amerika.
amen wella guetta3 hwayjek!

in kanada they have onli mozarella , a friend of mine kall it shma3, bikoz it loucs liqe chma3 (kandel), and i thinq it's the same az cheddar and it iz ekspansiv kompared to other foude.

in aljeria wi uzed to buy formaje dhayeb fondu 200 DA/kg hayel hayel.

Az i statede in northe ta3 amerika makache formaje, makache healthkare.

dzayer khir bezzaf, fel formage wessaha.


mais khessara fi dzayer kayen LAKAMORA

i missed algeria, bledi elghalia.


sahitou, illa lika.