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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Feb 26, 2020 19:28:04 GMT
 www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/the-seattle-areas-first-egyptian-eatery-has-arrived-in-totem-lake-at-hibiscus-everyone-is-familyBut where else will eaters find molokhia, Egyptian mallow greens with chicken ($7.99)? Where else can we order beef liver, served with a plate of koshari, stewed-tomato-and-shallot-covered rice and macaroni ($9.99)? Or wolf down mombar, deep-fried cow intestines stuffed with rice ($12.99)? Only, it seems, at Hibiscus. Located in the same strip mall as popular Northern Dumpling House, where lines can stretch out the door, a dumpling-hunter with a grumbling tummy may be tempted to pop quickly into Hibiscus for an order of fries, glistening with oil and covered in tomeia yogurt ($3.99), to weather the wait. That would be a mistake (and not because the fries aren’t garlicky-good). It’s just that at Hibiscus, everything slows down — way down. But in the restaurant, Basiony and Abdallah’s good cheer rubs off on the assembled eaters, many of them from Egypt, in a way that makes the time worthwhile.
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 26, 2020 19:38:43 GMT
Yep, in Egypt. About 30 years ago we went there. I remember it was in Cairo as I don't recall any "restaurants" being in Giza, but apparently now there are. And we had just had the camel ride around the pyramids. So my brother kept insisting we were eating camel. I had only bread & Falafel. I wish we had good authentic ones here, but we don't.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Feb 26, 2020 19:49:47 GMT
But where else will eaters find molokhia, Egyptian mallow greens with chicken ($7.99)? Where else can we order beef liver, served with a plate of koshari, stewed-tomato-and-shallot-covered rice and macaroni ($9.99)? Or wolf down mombar, deep-fried cow intestines stuffed with rice ($12.99)?
There was a place near me that was named Koshari something (Koshari King maybe?). I don't know how many times I walked right past it and said to myself "one of these days I have to try this place". Then one day I went to the museum to see a special exhibition about Ancient Egypt and I thought it was the perfect occasion to go to the Egyptian restaurant for the first time. That's when I found out that it had closed down.
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Post by divtal on Feb 26, 2020 22:58:06 GMT
I've eaten at Moroccan, and Tunisian restaurants, but not Egyptian.
I just posted Enigma about the great seafood in Seattle. I'll have to put Hibiscus on the list for the next visit.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Feb 26, 2020 23:08:28 GMT
I've eaten at Moroccan, and Tunisian restaurants, but not Egyptian. I just posted Enigma about the great seafood in Seattle. I'll have to put Hibiscus on the list for the next visit. i wonder if ZolotoyRetriever has been? saffron's, it's persian cuisine, in Louisville of all places; is the last great of that approx. area that was really great!
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Post by llanwydd on Feb 27, 2020 1:06:26 GMT
If it were authentic it would be in Egypt.
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Post by enigma72 on Feb 27, 2020 3:24:42 GMT
nutsberryfarm 🏜 you make the cutest polls!! love them! thank you! divtal I tried to look up Egyptian restaurants in northern Cal. I see several in San Francisco, but that's all. sweetpea what an experience! a camel ride in Egypt?? wow!! My brother and I were in Amsterdam and ate at several Chinese restaurants. The menu always said "meat" so of course he teased it was monkey. lol Brothers!!
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Feb 27, 2020 4:02:21 GMT
nutsberryfarm 🏜: I wonder if, after eating at that place, you walk like an Egyptian? lol
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Post by Morgana on Feb 27, 2020 11:51:21 GMT
www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/the-seattle-areas-first-egyptian-eatery-has-arrived-in-totem-lake-at-hibiscus-everyone-is-familyBut where else will eaters find molokhia, Egyptian mallow greens with chicken ($7.99)? Where else can we order beef liver, served with a plate of koshari, stewed-tomato-and-shallot-covered rice and macaroni ($9.99)? Or wolf down mombar, deep-fried cow intestines stuffed with rice ($12.99)? Only, it seems, at Hibiscus. Located in the same strip mall as popular Northern Dumpling House, where lines can stretch out the door, a dumpling-hunter with a grumbling tummy may be tempted to pop quickly into Hibiscus for an order of fries, glistening with oil and covered in tomeia yogurt ($3.99), to weather the wait. That would be a mistake (and not because the fries aren’t garlicky-good). It’s just that at Hibiscus, everything slows down — way down. But in the restaurant, Basiony and Abdallah’s good cheer rubs off on the assembled eaters, many of them from Egypt, in a way that makes the time worthwhile. I love molokhiya, with chicken. In Egypt they usually use rabbit. I also like khoshari. I don't like their fool so much. I like it made with stuff like onions, tomatoes, coriander and garlic, etc.
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Post by maya55555 on Feb 29, 2020 6:02:50 GMT
In Egypt.
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