A new restaurant, Koshari Street, has brought Egypt's much-loved street food and national dish to London
The food that apparently fuelled a revolution has arrived in the UK. Koshari, Egypt's much-loved street food and national dish, just made a grand entrance in London, via Koshari Street a new "hole-in-the-wall" restaurant serving it up for lunch.
If carb-bombing is your thing, then this is the food for you: a mountain of rice, lentils, vermicelli, macaroni and chickpeas, all layered together with a spicy tomato sauce and crunchy caramelised onions. Egyptians seemingly can't get enough of the stuff plus, it was dispatched to the protester frontlines of Tahrir Square during the 2011 revolution, so now it has near-mythical status.