"...The short afternoon was a real treat. His Mom's cooking was definitely the best food we had in Egypt apart from the sweets in Waleed's favorite pastry shop." Nicholas Strozza and family
"Mustafa's mother and sister were amazing, the food was some of the best we had on our whole trip and everything done for a fair and reasonable price. I will be back for sure, no question about it ..." (Leanne, Australia)
"Fool" (beans cooked slowly all night - see foto left) and Molochea (foto in the middle) are typical dishes in Upper Egypt. But not the only ones. All kinds of vegetables and fruits are grown by Nubian people in large gardens. Women sit together and take their time to pick out and clean the nicest leaves to prepare a delicous meal for their family.
"A" delicious
meal? - Its not one, its a lot of different dishes they serve. As soon as
you sit down you will have to choose between soup, molochea, salat, rice,
potatoes, meat, cooked vegetables of all kinds.
Bread
(mostly baked by the housewife itself) is served to be taken between the fingers
and to pick some of the food.
Bil hana we shifa! Bon appetit!
How about picnic on the felucca? Take a felucca tour, maybe throw the fishing rod and enjoy the delicate meal which Mustafa will have brought along from his mother.
It was such a privilege to eat lunch at his mother's house, she is a wonderful cook... Despina Karidis
As we explained, we got a very good time with Mustafa and Minshawee. The taxi from Abu simbel to Aswan was perfect, the flat good, the dinner great... Emmanuel & Soazig, Barcelona
At his mothers house his sister prepared a very tasty dinner for us served in a room set aside for such
entertaining.
(John and Annette, UK)
... the
picture taken is NOT after we had lunch... it was during lunch when we remembered "oh damn... we should had taken a picture of
the food before we started". Because I can assure you that at the end of the meal there was very little left ;) Mostly what was
left was only the bread. (Hugo & Maria, Portugal)
Dinner prepared
in a Nubian house on
Elephanteen (including tea),
eat at the house or on the felucca:
Full lunch or dinner:
50 EGP each person
