Garlic, onion, salt, pepper, oil or butter - without those ingredients egyptian kitchen won't be egyptian. During a day Egyptians are eating breakfast, lunch and dinner. On the table you'll always find egyptian bread, which cutted in small pieces reminds "cat ears". That way prepared bread is filled with the food. Cutlery are used mostly with soups:)

Most of Egyptians are muslims, so you'll not gonna find much pork in this country.

 
Breakfast

Foul and taameya - Foul it's beans prepared in a special way on the butter, often in tomato sause - "cat's ears" are requisite! Taameya reminds hamburgers, but instead of minced meat is minced bean with some spices. You can find also taameya and foul sandwiches. Egyptian bread is white, round, flat and empty inside. If you cut it in half, you will get two pieces which filled with some ingredients (can be also tomato, cheese with tomato, eggs, salads) will create two egyptian sandwiches. In the morning hours on the table you'll might see also fried egg and salads (mostly it's mix salad - tomato, green pepper, cucumber, onion - that's typical egyptian salad:)

 Lunch & Dinner

Moloheya, mahshi, bamia. Couldn't find moloheya's english name, looks like a green soup. Mahshi - vagetables filled with rice and meat; mahshi waraanab (grapes leafs); mahshi cromb (cabbage); mahshi cousa (zucchini); mahshi tomatom (tomato); mahshi bitengen (eggplant). Bamia = okra. Lamb cubes lightly sauteed in a frying pan with garlic, onion and salt and pepper and tomato sause. The rice makes dish.

Salads: tahina, babaghanough. Tahina it's a sesame sause, often spiced with garlic and lemon juice. Babaghanough it's tahina with baked and after minced eggplant, garlic, sometimes with parsley. Both of that salad's you eat with bread (again "cat's ears:).

Soups: ads, isan afour. Ads it's a thick, bean soup. Isan asfour - based on beef, with small pasta, which looks like "birds tongues" (in arabic isan asfour means that exactly).

Main course: Egyptians can't imagine real dinner without the meat. Just has to be: beef, chicken or lamb prepared in many ways. You can find also fried eggplants and tomatos with garlic, vegetables in tomato sause like okra (bamia); peas, carrot, string beans, white beans, potatos. Egyptians don't use potatos as main ingredient for the dinner (exception: french fries), potatos are mostly used in salads. Beside meat and salads has to be rice, pasta or, as I said before, french fries. Pasta is used also for makarona beszamel - egiptian lasagna with minced meat in beshamel sause, version without pasta - cousa beshamel, where insted of pasta you'll find zucchini.   

Egyptian restaurants in Hurghada:

Felfela - close to Safir hotel

El Arabi - in front of Sea Gull hotel

Masri - Sakalla square, in front of fish restaurant El Joker