Halal Ribfest in Ottawa: "All the communities can come together and eat"

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Or sign-in if you have an account. Lester Jordan was barbecueing halal meat at Texas Jack during the Halal Ribfest on the Great Lawn of Lansdowne Park on Saturday. Photo by Ashley Fraser / Postmedia Article content When Junaid Khan and his friends were growing up in Scarborough, Ont.

, the local rib festival was a tantalizing, but unsatisfying addition to the neighbourhood for them. “We used to see the smoke and everything, and we would go, but we couldn’t eat anything because halal was not being served,” Khan said Saturday while taking in the sights, sounds and smoky aroma of the second annual Halal Ribfest he has brought to Ottawa. “We could only have onions or fries.

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