Doha Corniche View Point

This guide to the Doha Corniche traces the karak tea tradition that migrant construction workers, like eighteen-year-old Abid Mehmood, carried from Pakistan when they arrived in 1975 to help build the city. It follows how a truck drivers' pick-me-up became a fixture of this waterfront, sold without ginger or masala at kiosks like Al Bandar near the old dhow harbor. Listen for it as you walk toward the harbor at dusk, when the kiosks are busiest.