Manaqish story from Beirut

My friend Amer (who is back in Lebanon from Berkeley to finish his PhD dissertation) sent me this (I cite with his permission): "I have a good manaqish (pizza pie that are baked with thyme, olive oil, sesame seeds, and sometimes chees) story: so, until a few years back, barbar had these amazing cheese manaqish, the cheese was so melty and so delicious and so rich. No one knew what made it like that, people got seriously addicted to that cheesy manqousha. Turns out, according to a guy who worked in Barbar, that the restaurant would add Qashta (rich cream, or clotted cream) to the cheese, which gave it that rich, fatty, melting taste... he had to stop when Ghalayini opened nearby
and started to sell za`tar for 250ll and cheese for 750, Barbar had to compete on price and took out the qashta."