Focus on Egyptian and Jordanian Food

The food is so good on this trip. Sometimes I forget to take pictures before I dig in. By the time I realize 'oops, picture', the plate's already empty. Jordanian food is slightly better than Egyptian food to my taste buds.

Julee eating the pasta with meat in Cairo with really boring music in the background. We identified this restaurant by the 'red' chairs outdoors. I later went back to the 'red chair' place for a shawarma that was also heavenly. Another place next door recommended by Daniel was the 'purple chair' restaurant. Everything was cheap and tasty.

photo above 1-pasta w/ meat in Cairo; 2-beef tagen, Aswan; right 1: baked sweet potato from Khan al Khalili bazaar, Cairo

Ayish is everywhere both in Egypt and Jordan but I prefer the thinner ayish served warm at Jordanian restaurants; below: Mint tea at el Fishawy, Cairo

The Aswan eatery where we got ripped off for felafel's and pasta with meat dishes-We all felt really disturbed that we got charged 10 times more. We complained to the owner that we would pay the bill but we knew we got ripped off and we found him incredibly dishonest and rude to treat guests in SUCH a way. He already took our money but was obviously remorseful, he stuck a bottle of mineral water in our hands for each of us before we got out of the door.

Above 1- Koshri at Giza; 2-fresh lemonade and kakade, Luxor; 3-Bird's tongue soup (a type of pasta), part of the Nubian home made lunch on the ferry towards Elephantine Isl., Aswan; 4-Breakfast at Little Garden Hotel, Luxor. Abdul is making me a hot lemonade with honey to cure my cough and sore throat. He's such a sweetheart; 5-Veggie tagen, Luxor

The best deal - 7 flavored bread for 1 JD for our lunch picnic in Wadi Rum. Aqaba, Jordan

Left: My favorite meal: mixed grill in Aqaba, Jordan (5 JD =7 USD)


Our Wadi Rum camp kitchen in the ground. The big pot is sweet Bedouin tea, the small one is non-sweetened tea. Bread is baked in the ashes in our ground stove. :) Below: dinner plate and main course dug out from ground (chicken, potato and whole garlic)

Above 1-Nuweiba beach breakfast, banana pancake with honey;2 sweets (mostly baklava) in Petra; 3-King shawarma in Madaba was the best;

Above 1-tomato over rice, Petra, Jordan; 2-Mushroom soup, Petra; 3- Chicken Sawani, Madaba, Jordan (chicken with potatoes cooked in herbs, this dish is very good) 4-Luxor group dinner 5- Madaba group dinner, Good bye Kirsten!(Kirsten is leaving the next day...)