Hurghada - Red Sea - Egypt - guide, Egyptian kitchen

Garlic, onion, salt, pepper, oil or butter - without those ingredients
egyptian kitchen won't be egyptian. During a day Egyptians are eating
breakfast, lunch and dinner. On the table you'll always find egyptian
bread, which cutted in small pieces reminds "cat ears". That way
prepared bread is filled with the food. Cutlery are used mostly with
soups:)
Most of Egyptians are muslims, so you'll not gonna find much pork
in this country.

Foul and taameya - Foul it's beans prepared in a special way on the butter, often in tomato
sause - "cat's ears" are requisite! Taameya reminds hamburgers, but instead of minced meat
is minced bean with some spices. You can find also taameya and foul sandwiches. Egyptian
bread is white, round, flat and empty inside. If you cut it in half, you will get two pieces
which filled with some ingredients (can be also tomato, cheese with tomato, eggs, salads)
will create two egyptian sandwiches. In the morning hours on the table you'll might see also
fried egg and salads (mostly it's mix salad - tomato, green pepper, cucumber, onion -
that's typical egyptian salad:)

Moloheya, mahshi, bamia. Couldn't find moloheya's english name, looks like a green soup.
Mahshi - vagetables filled with rice and meat; mahshi waraanab (grapes leafs); mahshi cromb
(cabbage); mahshi cousa (zucchini); mahshi tomatom (tomato); mahshi bitengen (eggplant).
Bamia = okra. Lamb cubes lightly sauteed in a frying pan with garlic, onion and salt and pepper
and tomato sause. The rice makes dish.
Salads: tahina, babaghanough. Tahina it's a sesame sause, often spiced with garlic and lemon
juice. Babaghanough it's tahina with baked and after minced eggplant, garlic, sometimes with
parsley. Both of that salad's you eat with bread (again "cat's ears:).
Soups: ads, isan afour. Ads it's a thick, bean soup. Isan asfour - based on beef, with small
pasta,which looks like "birds tongues" (in arabic isan asfour means that exactly).
Main course: Egyptians can't imagine real dinner without the meat. Just has to be: beef,
chicken or lamb prepared in many ways. You can find also fried eggplants and tomatos with
garlic, vegetables in tomato sause like okra (bamia); peas, carrot, string beans, white beans,
potatos. Egyptians don't use potatos as main ingredient for the dinner (exception: french fries),
potatos are mostly used in salads. Beside meat and salads has to be rice, pasta or, as I said
before, french fries. Pasta is used also for makarona beszamel - egyptian lasagna with minced
meat in beshamel sause, version without pasta - cousa beshamel, where insted of pasta you'll
find zucchini.

Two seas and their fruits are not ignored by Egyptians. Many kind of fish (also those you
make friendships with snorkeling and diving in the Red Sea;), are available at many restaurants
in Hurghada. Shrimps, calamari, crabs, mussels, lobsters - fried or grilled cost much less
than anywhere in Europe.