Egyptians usually take Jesus as their staple food and eat it with Foer (boiled beans), Kebunai (white cheese) and Mohji Ya (soup). Perillae leaves are flat round Egyptian bread without yeast. They like to eat mutton, chicken, duck, eggs, peas, onions, pumpkins, eggplant, carrots and potatoes. In terms of taste, it is generally required to be light, sweet, fragrant and not greasy. Roast whole sheep and roast whole sheep are their delicacies. Love to eat China and Sichuan Lai.

Egyptians avoid talking during formal meals, otherwise it will be regarded as blasphemy against God. They are used to eating with their right hands, thinking that their left hands are not clean, and it is forbidden to touch others with their left hands or send food and other items to others. Egyptians generally abide by Islamic rules, and alcohol is forbidden, but they can drink tea. They have the habit of washing hands, drinking tea and chatting after meals. They like to drink a kind of green tea with mint, crystal sugar and lemon, which is considered as a good product to quench their thirst and refresh themselves. They avoid eating pigs and dog meat and talking about pigs and dogs. Do not eat seafood such as shrimp and crab, animal viscera (except liver), eel, turtle and other strange fish.

Saturday to next Thursday is the time for Egyptians to go to work, and Friday is the rest day of Islam. Social gatherings in Egypt are relatively late. Dinner may be eaten after 10. When invited to dinner, you can bring some flowers or chocolates. Get along with Egyptians, praise Egypt's famous cotton and ancient civilization when talking, and avoid talking about the political situation in the Middle East.

Usually try not to yawn or sneeze in front of Egyptians. If you really can't control it, you should turn your face, cover your mouth and say "I'm sorry". Egyptians hate yawning and think it is a worship of the devil. A man yawned and said in a hurry like a crime, "Please forgive me."

Djibouti

Djiboutians have some established rules when they treat people to dinner. Reception of official delegations, business talks and banquets are generally arranged in hotels or restaurants. It is purely a communication between private friends, and they will be warmly invited to their own homes, and more will be served with local traditional meals. The traditional staple foods for Djibouti people to entertain guests are roasted corn, home-cooked cakes baked with sorghum paste and corn paste and milk, thick porridge cooked with sorghum rice, beans and melons, and various sweets. The main dishes are chicken, duck, fish, beef, mutton and vegetables. Roast whole lamb, a famous dish, is essential for entertaining distinguished guests. Pepper is very popular among men, women and children in Djibouti, and every household has good peppers all year round. When entertaining guests, always put a can of Chili sauce on the table. This chili gravy is made of superior chili, spices, sugar, beef or mutton, with moderate sweetness and unique flavor. Tear off a piece of bread, dip it in Chili gravy and eat it wrapped in meat. Sweet, salty and spicy, full of color and flavor, greatly increasing appetite. Of course, guests can choose whether to eat Chili juice according to their own hobbies, and the host will never insist. As long as the guests eat more, the host will be happier.

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Malians are famous for their hospitality. The host is always happy when guests visit. According to the traditional custom of Mali, visiting friends requires contacting in advance, choosing a convenient time for the host and keeping the appointment on time. Unless there is an emergency or special reason, a sudden visit may make the host seem unprepared, and the locals think this behavior is impolite. When the guest enters the door, the host treats him with tea, and puts a few mint leaves in the hot tea, which is fragrant and refreshing. Mali people eat beef and mutton all the year round, and tea has become their indispensable consumer goods, which is one of the countries with the highest consumption of tea in Africa. Malians especially like China's green tea, which is one of the commodities that China has exported to Mali for many years. Inviting guests to tea is an important part of social activities in Mali. When guests visit, they will give everyone a pot of hot tea and a cup. They will have fun chatting, exchange ideas and deepen their feelings while drinking.

If a guest comes to visit temporarily, if he happens to catch up with the host's family for dinner, the host will warmly invite the guest to sit down for dinner and cook some delicious dishes temporarily. At this time, guests must not refuse the host's kindness whether they eat or not, otherwise it will cause the host's unhappiness. No matter in the city or in the countryside, when you meet passers-by or even strangers who have nowhere to stay, the host will warmly invite you to his home after hearing the news, and will be generous and hospitable, arrange accommodation and treat you as a guest. Locals will never shut passers-by out on the grounds of large family size and small living room, and some families will repeatedly ask passers-by to stay for a few more days before leaving. When passers-by say goodbye, the host family will send them warmly for a while, and if the host family finds that passers-by are already cash-strapped, they will also donate some money.

When a stranger passing by asks for water to drink, the Dogon host will warmly welcome him into the house, brew a pot of tea, bring a plate of fruit and send him some snacks. The more casual the guests are, the more they eat and drink, and the happier the host will be. If the guest refuses the host's hospitality for fear of causing trouble to the host, it will cause the host's unhappiness and even anger.

Angola

Angolans are hospitable. Strangers may become bosom friends after meeting and chatting for a while, so they take the initiative to invite each other to their home, offer the best food at home, and send some local souvenirs or folk handicrafts as commemorative gifts when they leave. The local people's staple food is corn, cassava, millet and so on. Because the local area is rich in tropical fruits, many people often eat bananas, mangoes and papayas. Angolans cook food in a unique way. Most people like to eat roasted corn cob or sorghum-corn-milk scones. Many people also like to use sorghum paste, corn paste and melon, fruit, beans, salt and so on. Boil it into thick porridge. Cassava is abundant in the local area, and the local people eat cassava in various ways, or cut it into pieces and cook it before pouring soup, or grind it into powder and boil it with water to make a paste, and then mix it with thick juice made of tomatoes, fish pieces or diced meat, or make diced steamed bread and diced fish with cassava powder.

There are many ways for local people to eat bananas, except as fruit, or drying bananas and grinding them into flour to make banana cakes, or cutting banana cores into pieces and frying them in an oil pan to make fried bananas, or peeling bananas, steaming or boiling them into mud, and pouring them with thick juice made of vegetables, fish, meat and chicken. Or bake it on the fire and peel it for eating. These ethnic and local dishes of Angolans will always leave a beautiful and unforgettable impression on people in foreign countries after eating them. When local state-owned enterprises or private enterprises hold business banquets, they always arrange for customers to eat western food in hotels or restaurants. The cooking skills of local chefs are not low, and the French food or Italian food cooked is not worse than that eaten in France or Italy. When eating, in addition to the staple food and vegetables, there are also various wines. The host doesn't advise the wine, and the guests choose for themselves.

Angolans entertain guests with coffee, soda, orange juice, mango juice, banana juice, papaya juice, tea and cold water. When visiting a friend's house in Angola, a large porcelain pot or crock in the living room is particularly eye-catching. It is filled with cold water. People who are concerned boil raw water and inject it. Many families simply pour tap water into it. The local climate is hot. Your mouth is thirsty when you enter the room from outside. When you drink a glass of cold water, you can't express your happiness in words. In many hotel rooms, there is always a basin of cold water for guests, even in five-star hotels. At a formal banquet, everyone present has all kinds of drinks, but a glass of cold water is essential.

When you are invited to a friend's house in Angola, you must be on time for the appointment. It's impolite to be late, and the host will be caught off guard early. When entering the owner's house, first of all, pay attention to whether the owner wears shoes indoors. If the host takes off his shoes when he enters the door, the guests should also learn to take off their shoes when they enter the door, because many people enter the carpeted living room without shoes. When you enter the living room, you should sit in the position specified by the host. After taking a seat, during the conversation between the host and the guest, the sitting posture should be dignified and the spirit should be concentrated. You shouldn't look around. Take the initiative to accept drinks and fruits from the host and say something of thanks. When talking, we should avoid the political situation, national situation and religious issues, talk more about some achievements made in building the country since Angola achieved national reconciliation, and praise the hard work and wisdom of the Angolan people.

Botswana

Botswana people especially like to make friends, meet for the first time, meet by chance, shake hands, greet each other, say a few greetings and chat for a while. They are likely to feel at home, immediately call each other brothers, and sincerely invite you to his house to entertain you with the best food stored at home. Botswana people's diet is rich in ethnic characteristics, with corn, rice and sorghum as the main foods, and vegetables, wild plants, poultry and animal meat as non-staple foods. The usual cooking method is to cook corn kernels or sorghum rice, mix it with Laiyao made of meat and vegetables (or wild plants), and finally sprinkle some salt and Chili noodles, which is delicious and appetizing. In the local area, every March and April, many people catch a reptile named "Mobaha" from the Bahai tree, take out its internal organs, wash it, fry it, roast it with fire or cook it with salt water, and it tastes delicious, no less than seafood such as shrimps and crabs. One person can eat hundreds of them at a meal. This caterpillar is about 5 cm long, green and covered with soft bristles. It lives in trees and eats leaves for a living. It is extremely fertile. It parasitizes on tree trunks in March and April every year, and local residents can catch thousands of them a day. They can be preserved for a long time after boiling, drying or baking in salt water, and they will take them out to taste every major festival or VIP visit.

Togo

Togolese people hold family banquets to entertain guests, mostly traditional meals and homemade palm wine. Like many other African countries, Togo's most famous dish is roast whole sheep. A fat and tender lamb was slaughtered on the spot, roasted with charcoal fire, full of fragrance, and filled with large pots. Everyone sat together and ate with relish, chatting while eating, and the atmosphere was warm. During the dinner, the host kept tearing off the fresh and delicious roast mutton and giving it to the guests, constantly persuading them to drink palm wine. The more guests eat and drink, the happier the host is. After the meal, the host has not left the table, and the guests should sit still and wait; Before leaving the table, the guests should thank the host for his warm hospitality, praise the delicious food many times, and declare that they have never had such a happy time as today. After dinner, the host will also take out some local fruits for the guests to taste and continue the cordial and friendly conversation. When leaving, the host mostly leads the whole family to see them off from afar. When shaking hands to say goodbye, he also gave some native products such as fruits produced by himself as gifts for friends, and then waved goodbye. Many people will say goodbye with tears until the guests disappear from their sight and the host family goes home.

Congo

Congolese people are hospitable, and they are regarded as friends or even brothers after chatting with foreign guests. They were warmly invited to their homes to entertain them. When guests enter the door, they are served with coffee, tea, mineral water and fruit. After a heated conversation, they were invited to sit down and taste traditional food. The Congolese staple food is rice, corn, barley, cassava and various beans; Non-staple food includes pork (Muslim fasting), beef, mutton, chicken, fish, potatoes, vegetables and so on. The local staple foods that are usually used to entertain guests are: gravy rice, fried rice with eggs, cassava steamed bread, cassava steamed cakes and various sweets. The production process of cassava steamed bread is roughly as follows: firstly, cassava is soaked in water for several days, peeled and dried, ground into fine powder, added with flour, stirred with water, kneaded into dough, and steamed with fire to obtain steamed bread. Cassava steamed bread is white, soft and fresh. Cassava steamed cake is made by mixing cassava flour with water, wrapping banana leaves into balls or strips and boiling in boiling water. The taste is unique. The local non-staple foods that entertain guests mainly include: fried pork chops, curry beef, mutton kebabs, braised whole chicken, braised fish pieces, shredded pork with fish flavor, and roasted meat with potatoes. These dishes are rich in flavor, moderately sweet and spicy, fragrant and refreshing, and foreign guests will leave unforgettable memories after eating them.

Cameroon

Cameroonians are very hospitable, especially to foreign guests. If they are familiar with foreign guests, they will sincerely invite them home and entertain them with things from their home. The traditional food for local people to entertain guests is rice, bread and sweets, and the non-staple food is tomatoes, peppers, amaranth, onions, potatoes, beef and mutton, chicken, fish and shrimp. The common hospitality meal is to fry beef, mutton, chicken and fish, mix them with tomatoes, peppers or vegetables, stew them with fire, pour them on rice or roll them on bread, which is really unique.

Food in northern Cameroon is different from food in southern Cameroon. The staple foods in the south are cassava, cereals, bananas and plantains. Mash cassava and grind it into powder, add water and cook it into porridge. Cook tomatoes with meat or fish until it is rotten. Finally, mix them, cool them and grab them with your hands. Bananas can't be eaten raw because of their fishy and astringent taste, so locals will dry them and grind them into powder, add flour, eggs and sugar to make bread, or peel and slice them and fry them. The staple foods in the north are millet, corn and sorghum. These grains are mashed into powder, mixed with water and made into steamed cakes, which are especially delicious when eaten with vegetables.

Except for formal banquets, most Cameroonians like to grab food with their hands. When eating, everyone has two glasses of water in front of them, one for drinking and the other for washing hands before meals. Put a pot of staple food and a pot of vegetables on the mat, and the host and guest sit around. Everyone will hold the edge of the rice basin with his left hand, knead the staple food into a ball with his right index finger, middle finger and thumb, roll it in the vegetable basin, and then put a piece of meat or fish in his mouth to eat. Keep your movements clean and tidy, and don't let food touch your fingers or splash on the mat. Foreign guests who grasp food by hand for the first time are often not used to it. They can learn from their owners and move slowly, as long as they try not to spill food on the mat. Take a few bites slowly, and you will gradually become proficient.

Somalia

If you are invited to a friend's house in Somalia, you should arrive on time according to the pre-agreed time, and then the host will greet you cheerfully and warmly outside the yard. When a guest enters the door, it always brings a happy and festive atmosphere to the host family. The hostess will lead all the children to salute the guests to express their greetings and welcome, and then leave the living room one by one. The host and the guests started a warm and friendly conversation. Somalis are very particular about the drinks they entertain their guests. Although there are differences in different regions and ethnic groups, Somalis, mainly beef, mutton and dairy products, have simply become a standing drink that Somalis can't live without in their daily lives. Therefore, camel milk has become a traditional hospitality drink for Somalis. Among the nomadic people in the north, tea is an indispensable drink in people's lives, and it is also a widely used entertainment drink in social communication activities. Among many nomadic people, tea entertainment has almost become synonymous with banquet entertainment. Unlike most Somalis who love to drink tea, Dukir and Lahanwen people have no habit of drinking tea, but they like to cook green coffee beans with ghee as a drink. Whenever a guest comes to the door, the Dukiel people and Lahanwen people will serve the cooked buttered coffee beans, put them in wooden plates and pass them on to each guest for tasting. After the guests finish eating coffee beans, the host will hand the cooked hot soup of coffee beans to the guests and let everyone wipe their arms and hair. Then the guests will learn from the appearance of the host and suck ghee into their nostrils, which will suddenly produce a special sense of satisfaction and pleasure.

Somalis entertain guests with unique cooking, special flavor and rich and delicious food. The staple food is rice, tortillas, coconut patties and milk cakes, and the non-staple food is beef and mutton, chicken, eggs, seafood and vegetables. Bananas are the main agricultural products in Somalia. They are big, thin-skinned and thick-fleshed, and they taste sweet. They have been selling well in the international market and enjoy the reputation of "the sweetest banana in the world". When Somalis entertain guests, bananas are indispensable on the table, including raw bananas, banana rice, banana cakes and banana wine. In business activities, Somalis like to invite guests to restaurants and hotels and entertain them with western food. Many Somalis will also invite guests to their homes for traditional meals after establishing close relationships with customers.

Somalia is also a country with many taboos, so foreign guests need to pay attention to familiarity, understanding and respect. In the local area, you are not allowed to enter the mosque without permission. Men are not allowed to reach out and shake hands with women. They are not allowed to ask women's age in person, ask others about their wages and incomes, and curiously ask others if they have a lover, or say things that are harmful to Somalia's country or nation. In Muslim areas, it is not allowed to eat pork, horse meat, donkey meat and mule meat. And drinking is not allowed. Camels play an important role in the life or thoughts of Somalis. For a long time, people are used to taking the number of camels as the standard to measure the rich and the poor. People love and cherish camels. Besides greeting people, they should also greet camels. Don't desecrate camels in conversation and don't take photos of camels without permission. Somalis have a history of respecting camels.

Mozambique

Mozambicans treat their guests with drinks and fruits, so they should treat them with traditional meals. Their staple food is rice, corn, cassava and so on. Non-staple foods include beef and mutton, chicken, marine fish, shrimp, tomatoes, beans, potatoes, green peppers and onions. There are two ways for local people to entertain guests with rice: one is to pour a layer of cooked beef and tomato juice on the cooked rice, and the other is to add diced meat, diced carrots and salt to the cooked rice and stew it until it is cooked. Both ways are delicious.

Namibia

They often arrange for guests to eat western food in restaurants or hotels, which belongs to the communication between private friends and wealthy families. They often invite guests to restaurants, hotels or clubs to eat western food, and ordinary people often entertain them with traditional African meals. Therefore, Namibians often treat people to dinner because of their different economic conditions. The traditional meals used by Namibians to entertain guests include corn, sorghum, wheat flour and bean cakes. After the staple food is cooked, pour some thick soup made of tomatoes, peppers, beef or fish pieces, which has a special flavor.

Rwanda

Rwandans are polite and courteous, and this traditional national custom of paying attention to etiquette always leaves a deep and beautiful impression on foreign guests. When people meet, young people raise their hands, middle-aged and elderly people take off their hats and shake hands on formal occasions. Rwandans have the virtue of helping others. When foreign friends encounter difficulties, strangers in Rwanda will take the initiative to help without asking for compensation. Even if the people who are helped offer to pay, they should politely refuse.

Rwanda is a country with a long tradition of respecting the elderly. Older people are born heads of families, and the younger generation always respects their elders. Rwandans also show great respect when they meet older foreign guests. The staple foods of Rwandans are rice, corn, sorghum, cassava, beans and bananas. Non-staple foods include sheep, pork, chicken and vegetables. This food tastes unique. Rwanda's banana wine is mellow, sweet and slightly sour, and it is an ideal refreshing drink.

Ivory Coast. Also known as IVORY COAST

In C? te d 'Ivoire, when dating friends, you must contact in advance, determine the time and place, and keep the appointment on time. When invited to a friend's house, the host will wait at home or outside the door. When entering the host's house, if you see a carpet in the living room, you'd better take off your shoes as soon as you enter. If you are going to a dinner party, you usually bring some gifts. Ivorians often entertain guests with drinks such as coffee, tea and juice. At banquets, Muslim families usually entertain guests with mineral water and other drinks, while non-Muslim families usually entertain guests with beer, whisky and other alcoholic drinks. Ivorians generally don't persuade people to drink, but the method of toasting is quite special. After opening the bottle cap, the host poured eight glasses of wine, first presented the glass to the guest, then put the bottle next to the guest and said "please". Later, the host returned to his place, opened another bottle of wine, poured eight glasses of wine, sat down and said, "Please! Cheers. " The host and guest had a friendly conversation while drinking. In the process of drinking, there is no scene where you pour for me and I pour for you. Instead, all the wine bottles are given to the guests, who drink and pour themselves. How much to drink and how much to drink is up to the guests themselves. If you drink wine with ice or cold water, guests don't have to help themselves. It is impolite for guests to help themselves.

In C? te d 'Ivoire, when people are talking, they usually pay attention to each other's conversation, do not interrupt the topic they are talking about, and do not comment on each other's conversation lightly. If there is something they don't understand, they should be polite, so as to gain each other's trust and win each other's goodwill. In C? te d 'Ivoire, people often use humorous language in conversation. However, for officials or elders who meet for the first time, humor is generally used with caution, otherwise the other party will feel abrupt, or think that you are being clever or deliberately joking, and think that you are untrue. In addition, Ivorians generally don't talk about each other's salary, age, wife and special relationship between men and women.