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Food
hazards
Of
course, only drink bottle water or drinks prepared with
boiled water, like the national drink, red tea, that
will be proposed with mint (nana in Arabic), or Turkish
coffee or hot or cold Karkade, a tea from flowers of a
tree close to hibiscus (said to be good for heart). We
recommend fresh fruit juices, lemon juice (from very
small green lemons), guava juice etc.but request them to
be made with bottle water.
Food
is not varied but it is tasty due to the quality of
vegetables.
A typical Egyptian meal would
include:
- a
baladi salad (tomato, cucumber, green salad, coriander,
all of it raw and chopped into tiny pieces) eaten with a
sesame sauce (tahina) which can be mixed with aubergine
(babaranouch) or chick-pea (ourmous).
- a
vegetable cassolette, named tajine (tomatos, aubergines,
potatoes, French beans, green peas, gombos or ocras,.)
cooked for hours with beef or chicken or kofta (chopped
meat with oriental spices, but not strong, looking like
small sausages),
- creole
cooked rice with small
vermicelli.
Any
guide would advise against raw vegetables. This advice
is appropriate to those with particularly sensitive bowels or who
stay on cruise boats or felucca. For others, it would be
a pity not to enjoy the quality and marvellous taste of
Egyptian vegetables. The address
recommended under Restaurants is
safe as regards hygiene, we tested it many times: you
can trust it. However, we advise to have some rice at
all meals: it will help compensate food and climate
changes and it is delicious.
Also,
under Restaurants,
you can find an address where you can eat something
different from Egyptian food: after 5 or 6 Egyptian
meals, you will probably look forward to having
something else. There, you can also have a quick meal to
fully enjoy visits or have tea time at sunset, which is
really enjoyable after a whole day walking in historic
sites.
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