The Fish Market in Alexandria Harbor
The other gentleman in this picture works for Emaar, the developer of the Marassi project. His grandparents came to Egypt from Italy in the early 1900's and he and Ron hit it off immediately. Since my arrival he has wanted to take us for the "best fish" in Egypt. He is from Alexandria, and that is where we go for dinner the night of November 24th. We had our Thanksgiving feast early!
These pictures are from the fish market in Alexandria Harbor. We picked out our fish when we entered.. including which squid we wanted for our fried calamari. They cleaned our choice of fish right in front of us prior to being seated. Yum, yum! Once we sat down, the food started arriving. We didn't think it was going to stop! Grilled eggplant, humus, bread, fresh vegetables, rice... then our fish and prawns (each with heads and tails and eyes and everything). Truly, we could have fed our whole family two meals from this extravaganza. After all this they brought out the fruit plate. Then we had Egyptian ice cream (don't ask, I've no idea what makes it different but it is) and tea. Ron had lemon ice cream. Mine was "milk" flavored. Rather like vanilla but yet not. We started dinner around 8:00p and finished up about 9:45p. Pretty quick evening meal by Egyptian standards. We ventured forth to Alexandria about 6:30p and returned to Marassi at 11:30p. Quite a long way to go for dinner but definitely worth the experience.
posted by Teresa @ 12:06 AM
2 Comments:
ya for pictures! looks like fun!
Teresa! You guys look good! I'm glad Ron has an Italian friend...and I'm glad you got a good meal. Dang, I've just been worried about you finally getting something good to eat! Yes, that is quite a spread!
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