Food update

So here's a quick Egyptian food update: Just tried last night this Egyptian street food called kushary. It's a dish people eat in a hurry, a bowl of macaroni, lentils, rice, fried onions and tomato sauce. It sounds really random, and it basically is...the best thing though is that it is topped with this spicy chili oil which is amazing (and causes mad heartburn). It was pretty good, though I don't really see how some people are obsessed with it.

Today for lunch I had an AMAZING dish at this small hole-in-the-wall restaurant by AUC. It's called fatir (picture below) and it's essentially a flaky, pastry pancake stuffed with different things. I had one stuffed with veggies and gebna baidh (a cheese similar to feta) while my friend Alex had one with egg and fried onions. SOO good, and there are others like stuffed with mincemeat and also dessert fatir. By the way, the vegetables are hella better here (like in India)---they are a lot smaller and less perfect looking, but have ridiculously better taste. Also, the variety of fruit is crazy: every street corner has a fresh juice stand making juice from fresh apricots, peaches, mangoes, oranges, pomegranates, strawberries, lemons, etc. So refreshing and narniatingly good...

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