The price in Cairo is relatively high, especially the restaurants in hotels, which are quite expensive. Generally, hotels are better. The price of a meal for one person can refer to the following standards (excluding drinks): 45-75 Egyptian pounds (expensive); 30-45 Egyptian pounds (medium); 10-30 Egyptian pounds (cheap). There are many special restaurants in Cairo. Visitors can taste many traditional Middle Eastern dishes and other non-Middle Eastern specialties in Cairo.
speciality
Cream mixed water jam
Cream-mixed fruit paste is the national dish of Egypt, which is called "fool" locally. This is a delicious mushy food, the main ingredient is broad beans. First, peel off the thin skin of peeled broad beans, cook them in water, mash them, mix them with oil, then pour lemon juice and sprinkle with salt and pepper, which becomes a favorite food of Egyptians.
Crispy mutton
Method: evenly spread the mutton with spices, soak it in the seasoning and take it out after a few minutes. Fill the lamb belly with rice, pine nuts and almonds, bake it in a big oven for a few hours, and then take it out to eat.
Features: crispy and delicious. How to eat: most people often eat rice, tear off the mutton, wrap it in rice and send it to their mouths together. At the banquet, a chef cuts meat for the guests.
Jingui decoction
Method: dry and chop the leaves of mallow, mix them with mutton, chicken and rice, and cook them together. Features: thick green and sticky, fresh and fragrant. Related: mallow soup means "Muru black spot" in Arabic. If you add butter to roasted garlic after the soup is finished, it tastes very good. This is also the secret that the mallow soup made by Egyptian women is better than that made by male chefs.
Restaurant recommendation
Flying pigeon casino
Flying pigeon casino is actually a hotel with a good environment, surrounded by date palm trees and an open-air dining table outside the door. The pigeon meat and chicken cooked here are very famous, including barbecue and stuffing. Snacks and salads before meals are also good. Address: near Giza Bridge, Giza District, Cairo Tel: 896299
Arab restaurant
Arab hotel has elegant environment and warm atmosphere, specializing in Egyptian and Lebanese cuisine. The price is moderate, but imported drinks are expensive. The hotel also has a small gallery of local Egyptian painters for diners to visit and buy. Address: No.6, Kaisr Nile Street, downtown Cairo Tel: 574898
farm
The layout of the farmhouse restaurant has a strong pastoral flavor, which is in line with its name. The specialty here is roast whole sheep, which is roasted on charcoal fire. It's delicious. Address: No.23 Mayutia Canal, outside Ahram Street, Giza District, Cairo Tel: 85 1870
We stayed in Cairo for half a month and found many delicious foods there. When we get home, we sometimes think of those delicious foods. My husband concluded: Good food is always unforgettable.
There is a very good seafood restaurant in Cairo. There are two main ways to make seafood, one is roasting and the other is frying. We all like to eat barbecue food, but it seems to be fried very well, so we fried a kind of fish called sole fish. This kind of fish tastes especially like small yellow croaker in the mouth, but different shops taste different. The sole fish in this shop is very big, almost as big as men's shoes of size 43. After frying, it became a 45-yard men's shoe size, which really exceeded our imagination, because we ordered fish at four o'clock and made my husband and I laugh and cry. Another mistake was that I ordered ten prawns bigger than my hand, which almost screwed us all up. As a result, I didn't want to eat prawns for a while after returning to China, but now I miss the prawns in Cairo more and more.
In Cairo, hookah, coffee and juice must be tasted. After the hookah is lit, it is a fruit-flavored smoke paste, which is filtered by water, inhaled into the nose and lungs, and finally ejected from the nose. I never smoke, let alone hookah. It's disgusting. But my husband tried, saying that tobacco smells good, and the fresh taste of fruit, coupled with the smell of tobacco, is full of countless mysteries.
Cakes in Cairo are as common as steamed bread that we northerners like to eat, and the price is quite cheap, 0.05 Egyptian pounds for a cake. As long as you walk to the streets of Cairo, you will find this kind of pie. Vendors usually spread a piece of plastic cloth on the street, and then pile cakes into hills, which are selected by customers themselves.
When it comes to the food of Cairo people, we have to mention the broad beans that we are familiar with in China. Most of the broad beans eaten by Cairo people are imported, and most of the broad beans produced in China are exported to Cairo. Therefore, Cairo people especially like to eat broad beans, and some people even call bean paste made of broad beans a national dish.
In the poor areas of Cairo, you will see cars selling bean paste all over the streets. Many people go home in their pajamas in the morning to eat a small pot of bean paste, and they have to queue up to buy it during the peak hours. Some booths also have simple tables and chairs on which guests can sit and eat bean paste.
Later, I learned that Cairo not only eats broad bean paste in poor areas, but also likes broad bean paste in rich areas. Walking in the rich area in the morning, I also saw several stalls selling bean paste. Some people sit on the floor, holding bean paste, and then take out some bean paste to eat with the pie. Cake in Cairo is also a staple food, and it is very cheap, only 0.05 Egyptian pounds per piece and 0.2 Egyptian pounds for bean paste. In Cairo, two big cakes and a plate of bean paste are breakfast, which is less than 50 cents, which is absolutely affordable for poor families. The broad bean sauce in Cairo has lived in 600 million families and maintained social stability. Even national legislators like to eat broad bean sauce. He once said in an interview that as long as he has a bowl of broad bean paste to eat every day, he will be full of energy all day.
Bean paste can be found not only on the streets of Cairo, but also in hotel restaurants. However, eating in a restaurant is different from eating in the street. No longer eat with the pie, but as a flavor dish, let the guests eat with a spoon. But personally, it is best to eat bean paste pie.
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Cairo, the capital of Egypt, straddles the Nile and is the political, economic and commercial center of the whole Middle East. It consists of Cairo, Giza and Qaljub provinces, commonly known as Grand Cairo. Grand Cairo is the largest city in Egypt and the Arab world and one of the oldest cities in the world. The population is 7.899 million (65438+2006 10).
The ancient Egyptians called Cairo "the mother of the city" and the Arabs called Cairo "Kale", meaning conqueror or winner.
The Nile is a famous river in the world. After flowing through the urban area, it divides into two tributaries and continues to flow northward into the Mediterranean Sea that separates Europe and Africa, forming a vast and rich Nile Delta. Cairo, the capital, is at the top of this delta.
The formation of Cairo can be traced back to the ancient kingdom around 3000 BC. As the capital, Cairo has a history of 1000 years. About 30 kilometers southwest of it, it is the site of the ancient capital Memphis. In the open space, under the shade of trees, there is a small yard. This is the Memphis Museum, which contains a giant stone statue of Pharaoh Ramses II with a long history. In the courtyard, there is a sphinx, intact, which is a place where people linger and take pictures as a souvenir.
About 20 kilometers west of the ruins of Memphis, it is the pyramid of one of the seven wonders of the world. On the barren Ye Ping, covered with yellow sand, the stone tombs of these ancient Egyptian emperors are magnificent, showing the dignity of the tomb owners in the past to tourists.
On the side of Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, there is the Egyptian Museum, with a collection of more than 6,543,800 pieces, which is unparalleled in introducing Egyptian culture, especially the antiquities of the Pharaoh period and the Greek and Roman period. Entering the gate, most of them are stones: stone statues, sarcophagus, stone tablets, stone pillars, countless names. This is an Egyptian history book and a "stone story".
Not far from this museum, it is located on an island of the Nile, with an altitude of 187 meters. You can have a panoramic view of the whole city when you board this modern building. The endless traffic on the street, the vaults of mosques of all sizes, rows of tall buildings, extraordinary criss-crossing elevated expressways, and the white sails and jade belts that ripple into the sea day and night.
Cairo is also the headquarters of the Arab League. There are ancient Islamic architectural art treasures such as Sultan Hassan Mosque, Azhar Mosque, Saladin Castle, Abu Dhabi Palace, and rows of modern high-rise buildings in the city. The minarets of mosques all over the city make Cairo enjoy the reputation of "City of Thousand Towers". The magnificent Cairo International Conference Center is a symbol of the friendship between the Chinese and Egyptian peoples.
Because Cairo is located in the transportation hub of Europe, Asia and Africa, people of all colors can be seen walking on the street. Locals, with wide robes and big sleeves, have existed since ancient times. In some communities, it is quite novel to occasionally see girls in the village riding donkeys to eat grass. This may be the epitome of old Cairo or the remains of ancient Cairo, but it is harmless. The wheel of history still takes this famous city to a more modern road.