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A large metal tray heaped with spiced yellow rice and pieces of meat, one with a lamb bone.

Cairo · Nasr City and branches

Hadramout

The Yemeni mandi that conquered Cairo: lamb, smoked rice, sharing platters.

€€ Mid-range

Yemeni cooking settled in Egypt in the 2010s and Hadramout is its best-known name: lamb cooked for hours, fragrant rice, all served on a platter set in the middle of the table. You eat with your hands, together.

The extra bit

Lamb mandi is ordered by the kilo for the table: half a kilo feeds two with the rice.

Know before you go

Separate family rooms in some branches, as in the Gulf: ask at the door.

Directions

Nasr City and other branches, Cairo

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