Carb up on Koshary

You can’t leave Cairo without eating Egypt’s national dish, Koshary, influenced by Italian, Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Make sure you’re hungry because it’s a carb overload of macaroni, rice, lentils with chickpeas, garlic vinegar and crispy fried onions. All of this is topped with a tomato sauce. The place to try it is ‘Koshary Abou Tarek’ (abutarek.com), which also has restaurant branches in Dubai and Saudi Arabia.