Authentic Egyptian Street Food in Cairo, Egypt 🇪🇬 PIGEON, Shawarma & Insane Desserts!

pigeon

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: quail

Chicken is more widely available and less expensive.

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil provides a healthier fat option.

Go to a restaurant known for serving pigeon.

Take a spoon and get some rice from the dish.

Eat the pigeon wing with the rice.

Note that the rice is oily and robustly flavored.

The pigeon skin acts as a vessel for the rice.

Eat the meat from the pigeon, which is described as having a gamey flavor similar to rabbit.

Use tahini to enhance the flavor of the pigeon meat.

Try different meatballs that are spiced and have a sausage-like flavor.

Sample a soft meat part called muza, which is from sheep.

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