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The farming Delta's cooking: poultry, rice, cheeses and vegetables of the day.
The Delta and the north coastZagazig, Sharqia
Bread baked under the sand, wood-fire tea and mountain stew.
SinaiSaint Catherine, South Sinai
Grilled fish and Bedouin salads on mats, facing Arabia.
SinaiNuweiba, South Sinai
Fish from a real port, served on a seafront with no resort.
Marsa Alam & the Red SeaQuseir
Sudanese ful, agashe and kisra: a neighbouring cuisine, and yet unknown.
CairoArba' wa Nus, Faisal, Nasr City
Clay tagines, oven meat and sorghum bread, brought from Upper Egypt.
CairoBoulaq, Imbaba, Sayeda Zeinab
Cane pressed in front of you, for the price of a coin.
CairoAll over Cairo
A road stop between Luxor and Dendera, where you eat for next to nothing.
LuxorQena
Nile tilapia grilled beside the lock, fifty kilometres from Luxor.
LuxorEsna
A staging town on the road south, and its roadside grills.
FayoumBeni Suef
Hurghada's old quarter eats at its own tables, not the marina's.
HurghadaEl Dahar, Hurghada
The district where Alexandria has dinner on weekdays, away from the tourist Corniche.
AlexandriaSidi Bishr, east of Alexandria
Egyptian popular cooking is largely vegan — you just have to know it.
Heliopolis's old racecourse turned neighbourhood park: grass, water, and crowds until midnight.
CairoHeliopolis
The neighbourhood garden cut to children's size: grass, benches, and a play area charged by the hour.
CairoNasr City
Sixty-five feddans around a lake in western Cairo — and it is not Zed Park.
Sheikh Zayed & 6th OctoberSheikh Zayed
Two feddans of terraces at the water's edge: a garden to sit in, not to run in.
CairoZamalek
Grass, shade and room to spread out in the middle of Zamalek, two minutes from the metro.
Four hands-on floors and a planetarium dome — but the door closes in the early afternoon.
A real ice rink on the Maadi corniche, inside a leisure complex that has aged around it.
CairoMaadi, Nile Corniche
The pool people take for public and which is not: it is reserved for syndicate engineers and their families.
AlexandriaAlexandria — the syndicate does not publish the club's address
125 pounds for the day: a sports-club pool, not a hotel annexe.
Sheikh Zayed & 6th October6th of October City, behind Mall of Arabia
