{"id":49467,"date":"2016-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/49467\/13-things-lebanese-do-bigger-than-anyone-else"},"modified":"2023-08-11T05:46:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T05:46:49","slug":"13-things-lebanese-do-bigger-than-anyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/49467\/13-things-lebanese-do-bigger-than-anyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Things Lebanese Do &#8216;Bigger&#8217; Than Anyone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Go big or go home.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49467.png\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>1. Hospitality:<\/b>  Oh you have 4 people coming over for a <i>3azeemeh<\/i>? Prepare enough food for 300 people otherwise it\u2019s 3ayb.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>2. Wasta and cutting corners:<\/b> Your official document needs 5 working days to be ready? Make 100 phone calls to ensure it\u2019s ready in an hour.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>3. Giving directions:<\/b> Street names are for suckers, head to the third petrol station to the right and ask for Abu Imad. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>4. Rooftop bars:<\/b> World class bars atop a pile of trash, because we love to party.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>5. Boozing it up:<\/b><i> See #4. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>  <b>6. Faking it until we make it:<\/b> Look polished, dress beautifully, fine-dine all while you\u2019re hustling. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>7. Weddings:<\/b> I don\u2019t need to elaborate but basically imagine the royal wedding and dial it UP a few notches. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>8. Wedding cakes:<\/b> Forget your classic 3-tier wedding cake that you actually cut and eat. We have 3-meter tall fake cakes, diamond studded and covered in genuine zebra skin or something. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>9. Gymming in style:<\/b> Who said a treadmill and high heels don\u2019t mix? <\/p>\n<p>  <b>10. Food:<\/b> One platter? More like 15 mezza dishes then 3 main dishes.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>11. Fake lashes and hair gel:<\/b> All day, every day.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>12. Family:<\/b> Why have one child when you can have ten?<\/p>\n<p>  <b>13. Hustling:<\/b> Despite all our obstacles, many Lebanese defy the odds on a regular basis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><big>Go big or go home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":411141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-49467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[102],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>13 Things Lebanese Do &#039;Bigger&#039; Than Anyone Else<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Go big or go home.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/49467\/13-things-lebanese-do-bigger-than-anyone-else\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"13 Things Lebanese Do &#039;Bigger&#039; 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