Have you tried everything in Tangier?

Join the Friday family ritual and hand-roll semolina into balls, utensils give tourists away instantly.

Try the fishing crews' breakfast at beachside stalls, salty fish chased with sweet tea confuses every foreigner.

Order fish soup with chilled fig juice at a no-frills seafood joint where Tangerines actually eat.

Taste the lentil-tomato soup the way locals do, sweet dates dropped in to ease the digestion.

Go Friday after prayers if you're a man, any other day if you're a woman, and budget two full hours.

Nurse a mint tea at a working-class qahwa while men debate politics loud enough to settle the neighborhood's affairs.

Climb to the Kasbah where old barracks now house locals living ordinary life among centuries-old walls.

Accept it even if you're stuffed, turning down hospitality is treated as an insult to someone's honor.

Cover shoulders in the Medina's conservative streets, loosen up once you cross into the Ville Nouvelle.

Thank people in Darija first (SHOOK-ran), locals notice and appreciate the small effort every time.

Head to Cap Spartel lighthouse where locals go weekends to watch Mediterranean and Atlantic waters collide.

Show up at Plage Municipale between 6-8pm, locals play barefoot and welcome anyone who joins in.