{"revision":"d54d68e3e30b04c6","item":{"id":"sidr-honey","name":"Yemeni Sidr Honey (Do'ani)","tagline":"From a two-week bloom in the Hadhramaut valley","category":"food","price":{"amount":350,"display":"~$350 / kg","note":"Sidr Do'ani; $200–500/kg by grade","currency":"USD","unit":"kg","scope":"unit_estimate","verified":false},"rarity":90,"img":"img/honey-photo.jpg","imageCredit":"Art Rachen","imageSource":"https://unsplash.com/photos/Asj5DFw8UAw","imageNote":"Honey still life; origin and variety not verified.","palette":["#c98a2d","#7a4a12","#241203"],"why":"Sidr trees in Yemen's Hadhramaut bloom for roughly two weeks a year. Beekeepers move hives into the wadi for that single flow, producing a dark, date-and-caramel honey that Yemenis have prized for centuries. Manuka has marketing; Sidr has a 1,000-year head start.","story":"It's thick as molasses, barely sweet the way sugar is sweet — more like dried fruit and smoke. Families in the Gulf gift it at weddings the way others gift gold.","gift":"For the food obsessive: a jar that opens a conversation about a valley they've never heard of. Pair with the story of the two-week bloom.","where":"Yemeni and Gulf importers; specialty honey houses (verify purity — adulteration is common).","hiddenReason":"Sold through WhatsApp importers and Gulf souks, not Amazon. No English product pages, no reviews corpus — the entire market runs on trust networks search can't crawl.","tags":["honey","sidr","yemen","hadhramaut","food","gift","manuka"],"availability":"unknown","caveat":"The estimate is per kilogram. Ask for origin and purity evidence; jar sizes and shipping costs vary.","evidenceStatus":"unverified_editorial","verifiedAt":null,"kind":"Honey","url":"/rarities/sidr-honey"}}