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Meet the Chef

Rhia cooks and serves her cuisine in Dallas, Texas. She is Punjabi, native to Pakistan. Rhia has a MBA. Rhia has worked in numerous restaurants. She has met several chefs that went on to become celebrity chefs on Reality TV in her work with marketing for cable and prime time TV channels when she had her own marketing business. Rhia has had a passion for cooking from an early age. After earning her MBA, Rhia went on a world tour during the time she was furthering her studies in Europe, Latin America, and Turkey in Asia, and she was inspired to develop her international Halal menu. She used her MBA to begin a career with her own virtual restaurant with Shef. Rhia moved to Dallas in 2019 to be with her husband. Finding inspiration in cooking, Rhia is now offering her traditional Pakistani and Mediterranean menu to the residents of Dallas, Texas. She is also offering Halal desserts through CUPCAKEShalal that is also on Shef. To place an order, you can reach out to Rhia on her Facebook and WhatsApp. She believes cooking is all about bringing people together, love and laughter. Rhia is a philanthropist that has a main goal to eliminate hunger in the world because of poverty. She supports feeding the homeless in America and feeding the poor to break their fasts during Ramadan in other nations in the world.

Hobbies

Rhia is an avid world traveler. She has the hobbies of photography, music, art, learning languages, and continuing to earn certificates, such as in Nutrition for her cooking skills. She likes to build unique dishes with the fusion of flavors in her menu such as her popular Tandoori Chicken and Mango Pico de Gallo Salsa Soft Tacos that come in a set of 2! Rhia is inspired by her travels to create her most unique flavor palettes.

Inspiration

Rhia's Halal Mediterranean was founded on the idea that all food menus can be created HALAL, a term which has requirements for how to prepare and cook meat dishes with requirements slightly above the term KOSHER, which is also referred to as ZIBBIYA, Rhia's Halal Mediterranean creates recipes and serves dishes that are certified HALAL. Desserts are also HALAL with no gelatin or non-halal products in ingredients.