On Sunday nights, the dining room of Cairo Restaurant & Café in Anaheim is full of Disney-goers and usual family customers. The restaurant in Orange County is known for its Egyptian cuisine. The Cairo menu includes hummus, baba ganoush, shawarma and grape leaves. That said, people visit the location mainly for its specialty dishes.
You may want to start a Cairo visit with its mombar mahshy, a dish made of beef, rice, parsley, mastic and cardamom. The main ingredient of mombar mahshy is a set of beef intestines. The staff of Cairo fries the beef until it becomes golden brown colored and serves it with a salsa made in Mediterranean style. An ideal product to share is a set of falafel balls that Cairo prepares in Egyptian style and serves with powdered fava beans. The sesame elements that the balls are covered in give the product a nutty and crunchy flavor on the whole.
Most people like to have a dish known as the koshari as well. Many people, especially Egyptian descendants, describe it as an Egyptian version of lasagna. The koshari at Cairo has macaroni pasta, rice, and lentils drowned in spicy tomato sauce as well as garnished with garbanzo beans and fried onions. It is a mixture of all these ingredients for a flawless bite.
The Cairo kebab plates come in kufta, chicken, lamb and beef varieties as well as with side dishes and rice. Hummus, tangy labneh, and salad are three of the side dish options. Halabessa, garbanzo beans in spicy tomato soup, is a well-known street food option. Cairo serves it with a spoon that allows scooping out the warm chickpeas/garbanzo beans as well as lemon. Bamya, also known as a beef and okra stew, is an amazing option for people who seek something hearty and warm.
For dessert, many Cairo visitors choose the kanafeh, which is a conventional Middle Eastern pastry item in a sugar-based and sweet syrup. The flaky treat is also a perfect option as the sweet at the end of your meal.
