Food tour

We had a fun time yesterday exploring some Egyptian food on a walking food tour. Here we tried many local dishes (see captions for details) whilst hearing about how they are made and some of the history behind them. We did pass on the fried cows brain - didn’t really want Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease as a souvenir! Very tasty, my favourites were the falafel (made with fava beans rather than chickpeas) and Michael’s was Koshary. This is Egypt’s national dish made with pasta, lentils, fried onions and tomato sauce. This place we ate at is the most popular in Cairo and the owner a bit of a local hero. He started his business from the cart in the picture. Lots of dessert too, the Egyptians seem to have a sweet tooth.Read more