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Just for fun: Food culture in Egypt

Last activity 19 September 2019 by Sotobus

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Diksha

Hello everyone,

We all know Egyptian food tastes great. Do you consider yourself a foodie? Share with us your unique food experience as an expat.

1. Name 3 best well-known Egyptian street foods according to you.
2. Which are some unusual dishes that you have discovered ?
3. What makes up the typical breakfast in Egypt?
4. Name 3 of your favourite festive dishes.
5. According to you, which essential ingredient defines Egyptian cuisine?

Thanks for participating,
Diksha

magdy_840

1- Kushary , Kebda (liver ) and sausages
2-brain and other parts of the caw being eating like tail it's called akaawy .
3-Foul and Flafel
4-btats with rosted checken , Mahshi Grape leaves, rice meatfingers (it's made by camel meat and rice smashed together and then forms as fingers )
5-Bread and beans :D

you are welcome , i'm interested in food cultural and actually trying to write a paper about it would be great if we can meet and cooperate in it

regards
Magdy

ShadiaBishara

1.  Koshary, foul ( beans ), kebda and segoo ( sausages )
2.  Kawaree, Fattet betengan, roz meamar ( rice with milk and fatty cream and stuffed with chicken ).
3.  Egg with Pastramy, Eggs with sausages,  Feteer with honey or cheese
4.  Fattah with Upper-Egypt-Bread, Roasted chicken, Pigeons stuffed with fereek.
5.  Rice, fereek, beans

Sarakhodair

Q 1 a)Felfela- downtown Cairo
b) El Megharbel - Agouzah/Mohandessin
c) Zamakmak - Ahmed Oraby Mohandessin

Q 3 Typical breakfast: Foul (fava beans), Felafel, Balady bread, Pickled egg plants (betengan mekhalek).

Q 4 a) Fattah with red sauce and Balady breast +\- meat - b) Rabbits with Molokheya and rice c) Stuffed vine leaves with rice

Q 5 Garlic

laady24

Koshary in the street awful but made at home very good

rest just guess I am used to now.......

shrimp sandwich the best

Sotobus

1 - Koshary, liver in pomegranate sauce (kebda dips roman), shawerma
2- more than unusual food, the spices used, a lot of cardamom, cummin, and cinnamon
3- beans, eggs, in sandwich with traditional bread
4- i found hard to find a good Ros Maamar (well done is amazing), egyptian chicken (i heard that's how they call it), and some grills, with lamb chops, an speciality here
5- the use of the spices, and the grills

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