Hello from Cairo!
Is Japan the season for autumn leaves?
Egypt has a strong image of being hot, but it is not hot all year round, and it gets quite cold in winter.
It's still hot in the daytime and in the sun, but the wind is cool in the shade, and the mornings and evenings have become a very pleasant season.
Egypt is the best season for tourism.
The Pyramid area of Giza is also very crowded with tourists from all over the world.
Recently, there are many countries such as Spain, Brazil, and Russia. I think the flight from England will be resumed and it will be even more crowded.
The photo shows the Pyramid of Khafre and the Sphinx, which are the second largest in the world, not the largest Khufu in the world.
On the left is the Menkaurer Pyramid and three small pyramids next to it. This is a pyramid such as Menkaure's wife.
Hello from Cairo!
The Egyptian Museum is located in Taharir Square, which became famous as the stage of the revolution when many young people gathered during the 2011 revolution.
Last year, an obelisk was brought in from the ruins of San El Hagar, making it a more symbolic place for Egypt.
The obelisk is about 19 meters high and weighs 90 tons.
It is about 3300 years old and was built during the time of Ramses II, who left the most buildings in ancient Egyptian history.
There is a lot of traffic around Taharir Square, and the underground is actually a huge underground parking lot.
There are only a few traffic lights, so be careful when crossing the road!
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There are many hotels in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, which is also a tourism-oriented country.
I went to High Tea at the Chocolate Lounge at the Kempinski Nile Hotel, one of the finest hotels in Cairo!
Afternoon tea and high tea are very popular in Japan, but they are still only available in some luxury hotels in Egypt. I also had it for the first time in Egypt.
For those who really like it ...
The cakes were very delicious! Many sandwiches are hard to find in Egypt, and it was very delicious for me living in Egypt.
Did you reheat the scones in the microwave? ?? It was a pity that it had become hard.
The price is 280 Egyptian pounds + service charge and VAT 26% (+ tip). (* As of September 2021)
It's very expensive considering the prices in Egypt, but it's about 2,500 yen in Japanese yen, so it's much cheaper than Japan as a high tea at a hotel.
Apart from the traditional high tea we ordered, there is also a menu called Oriental High Tea.
It seems that there are contents unique to Egypt such as Shishita Week, pita bread and hummus (hummus), dates (dry date palm) tart. If you are traveling from Japan, you may want to try this.
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Egyptian souvenirs sold at tourist spots include pyramid figurines, papyrus, and Garabaya in national costumes, but they are all a little unfashionable ...
Under such circumstances, we recommend the Egyptian handmade clothing and miscellaneous goods.
The area called Zamalek on the island of Gezira, a sandbank on the Nile, has embassies from various countries and is home to many foreigners, so it is rare in Cairo! There are fashionable shops, some of which sell handmade items.
Here is a photo of one of them, Nomad.
This shop has more clothing than tableware. There are traditional Bedouin-style clothes, but there are also modern arrangements of vests and ponchos, and there are also designs that can be worn normally in Japan.
There are various accessories, from large ones that have an impact that are not found in Japan to simple ones that are just right for everyday use.
There are also many bags, pouches and stalls.
There are not many, but there are also tableware and other miscellaneous goods.
It's handmade, so the price is a little high, but the quality is still good, and I think it's a very good souvenir for Japan. (There are cheaper handmade products in tourist areas, but the quality is not good ...)
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The fried chicken shop I introduced earlier is like an outdoor mall in Japan. There are shops and pet shops that sell Egyptian cotton innerwear, but most of them are restaurants, cafes, and food-related shops.
It is hot in the daytime, so the nights are busy in Egypt. I took the picture around 9:30 pm, but the boys are playing well.
The third photo is crowded with shops selling milk-based sweets such as Rods Bellaban, Onmuari, and ice cream.
Egyptian nights are very lively.
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Recently, the number of fried chicken shops is increasing one after another, and although they all have similar feelings, I went to the first shop.
This shop called KANSAS. The store is a little American and cute, isn't it?
There is only a cash register inside the store, and table seats are only outdoors. There are many restaurants like this in Cairo where it hardly rains. When I took the picture, it was just vacant, but it seemed that about 3 seats were always occupied by the replacement. There were quite a few customers taking out.
The second photo is in the state of being carried to the tray. There is fried chicken under the potatoes and bread, so I moved it a little and took the third photo.
As you can't see in the picture, vinyl gloves are included in the new fried chicken shops that are being built these days. You don't have to get your hands dirty if you eat with these vinyl gloves.
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Egyptians are very conservative about food and basically don't even try something they don't know.
However, after all, changes have been seen little by little with the times.
Especially for the wealthy, eating sushi has become a status recently, and many sushi restaurants have opened.
From the Japanese point of view, this is not sushi! There are many things that make you want to turn the chabudai upside down, haha.
Even in Egypt, which is conservative for such food, Maharaja, an Indian restaurant, has branches in large malls and street shops.
It's a little expensive, but you can enjoy delicious food that is the same as Japanese Indian restaurants.
Some stores have an Indian-inspired interior, but the interior wasn't very elaborate, probably because it's an open space inside the mall.
Still, there is a PV of an Indian singer on TV, and you can enjoy a little exoticism.
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Egyptians love meat.
This is a Yemeni restaurant called Hadarmout, and there are many shops,
This shop in New Cairo is especially popular and you can line up even on weekdays.
In the foreground of the photo, there is plenty of rice on the plate, and Dawn and bone-in meat are on it, which is called Monday.
Egypt eats the same japonica rice as Japan, but Yemen and other Gulf countries eat the same long basmati rice as India, so Mandy is also basmati rice.
The bone-in meat on the top is very tender and can be broken with a spoon.
The sausage-like thing in the back is actually packed with rice, not sausage. It is an Egyptian dish called Montbar.
Behind it are the classic tahina (sesame paste) and salad.
If you apply sesame paste to greasy foods such as meat, the sesame paste will be softened and the food will go on.
The second photo shows the inside of the store.
It's about 3 stories high and it's large enough, but each floor was full.
It's already around 9 pm, but there are many families with young children.
Egyptians are night-time, so boys play soccer on the road even around 12:00 pm.
The third photo is the exterior photo.
The glittering flashy structure seems to be good for Egyptians.
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50% off sushi on Instagram only on Wednesday, August! I found the profitable information and went to eat sushi for the first time in a long time.
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The taste was delicious, but it was small! !!
I don't think it can be seen in the photo, but it's about 2/3 the size of Japanese conveyor belt sushi.
The sushi rice is about half the size.
This is all the types of grips.
There are other crabs, but the grip of Egyptian crabs is not very good, just the so-called crab sticks are placed on the dawn and sushi rice as they are (without unraveling).
There was an octopus on the menu, but I was told that it wasn't there. This is also in Egypt.
Others are all unique California roll scrolls.
It's delicious, but it's a little different from sushi for Japanese people.
I expected this too, but when I paid for it, it wasn't 50% off!
I urged him from here and asked him to try again at the cash register.
Even though there is a 50% off promotion on the table. There is really no chance to be alert.
This shop is a chain store with most malls, but it is not a sushi specialty shop, but a cafe restaurant called Cafe Supreme, which also has ordinary menus such as pizza and grilled dishes, so even when I went There seemed to be no other people eating sushi.
It was about 600 yen in Japanese yen with 50% off, so it's still acceptable, but I wondered if there would be any more repeats ...
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Last time, we introduced a tour to visit a guide's house where you can see the pyramids, but this time we will introduce a hieroglyphic course tour of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Although it is a hieroglyphic course, the tour starts from a very ordinary market.
Actually, some customers said that this market visit was more interesting (?), So I'm not so interested in hieroglyphs and would like to see the local situation that is not a tourist destination! It is recommended for those who say.
There are many large supermarkets such as Carrefour and medium-sized supermarkets in Egypt, and if you go to the supermarket, you can basically find everything, but even so, there are old-fashioned markets such as fruit and vegetable stores, butcher shops, bakeries, and hardware stores. It is everywhere and supports the lives of the common people.
The guide will guide you through the market while chatting with the shop staff.
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Have you experienced VELTRA's online tour yet?
Egypt also currently offers four online tours.
The most popular of these is a tour to visit a guide's house that lives right next to the pyramid.
Before going to the guide's house, go to the local Termeiya shop.
Termeiya is Egypt's standard breakfast menu, which is fried broad beans mixed with herbs and Italian parsley. It looks like a Japanese croquette.
Termeiya is delicious even when cold, but after all freshly fried is the best.
This shop is so popular that more and more customers come, so you can buy freshly fried tameiya as well.
It may be difficult to actually come to Egypt, but why not feel the raw Egypt on an online tour?
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Krispy Kreme, a popular donut shop from the United States that also has a store in Japan, has finally landed in Egypt! !!
The first store opened in a mall called Arabella Plaza in the 3rd District of New Cairo.
I went on the second day of the opening, and it was a big line as expected!
However, the staff was guiding me properly, and there were quite a few staff members, so I didn't have to wait longer than I was prepared for.
It's an essential donut, but it tastes the same as in Japan! quality!
Even if it's an international chain store, the quality may drop when I come to Egypt for some reason, so I was a little worried, but I'm very satisfied.
The price is £ 15 for the original glazed and £ 21 for the other donuts, which you can buy for donuts or half donuts.
When converted to Japanese yen, it is a little cheaper than the price in Japan.
I don't know the schedule for opening the second store at all, but looking at this popularity, it seems that we can expect more stores in the future.
