are there fresh produce like fruit, veg,and fish?if yes then what types? is it more expensive? also can you buy different cuisine like pasta and chinese noodles? By nomadnees...
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Everything in Egypt is fresh! So fresh that it was probably killed that morning. Meat's are not required to be bled for weeks like they are in the us. It's fresh of the farm or river in the case of fish. Just walk through the marketplaces and you'll find all sorts of foods. For fruits you can find banana's(mowz in arabic), oranges(bortooan in egyptian arabic), mangos, mulberries (toot in arabic), watermelon(batikh), strawberries(farawla), pomegranet(rooman), almost everything although they may not all be available at the same season! Vegetable... you'll find cucmber, carrots(gizzar), tomatos(tomatum), zuchini, okra(bamia), lettuce, eggplant, again pretty much everything! I'm not sure how much variety they have of noodles either italian pasta's or chinese style but I know they have at least elbow macaroni (a popular ingredient in koshari-a deliscious dish you should try) and spagetti noodles. I also know that I saw chinese restaurants so there must be some chinese noodles somewhere. If you can't find them on your own you could ask the people at the restaurant where they buy their noodles from. Of couse if they make them from scratch I guess that really wouldn't help much unless they give you a recipie. I missed peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, american cheese, and diet coke when I was there. I couldn't find any of those although I'm convinced that if I look harder next time I'll find them somewhere. Funny what little things you miss that you would never think of until all of the sudden you don't have any access to them. Also, I was mostly in mansoura and had given up looking once I was in cairo but I'm sure there's more choices for international food in cairo than mansoura. Other Answer
It's a cosmopolitan city linked to the agricultural countryside. I can't imagine you doing without.
One think that Egypt is not short of is fresh produce.
Caio has many stores that sell international products.
I live in the Ma'adi district of Cairo, and yes, you can pretty much find it all here. Not far from here is a Carrefour, and it's like an American Super Wal-Mart, with everything from large screen TVs to ostrich filets. Carrefour is reasonable, but on the expensive side for Cairo. If I go down to Road 7, and go to the daily open souqs there, I can buy a kilo of tomatoes for 1 Egyptian guinea (about 17 U.S. cents). There's a fish market near the Ma'adi Grand Mall, El Horia, that not only sells fish fresh from the Med, not the Nile, but you can go in, point out what you'd like to buy, and they'll grill or cook it any way you like right there. There are several places like that around Cairo - I've read about another Fish Market like this in the Shubra district, and another in Garden City.
You will pay a bit more for imports, but you can maintain a balanced budget here if you're smart about your shopping.