Moon Restaurant Aswan

Aswan is the southern city of Egypt receiving the highest sunshine. It was the ancient frontier town of Egypt and has a typical African atmosphere. Aswan has a beautiful backdrop of the Nile and is located 81 miles south of Luxor. You can spend an amazing time strolling along the river bank, watch the sailboats in the river or savor Egyptian cuisine and freshly caught fish at the floating restaurants.

One such floating restaurants with is favorite with the tourists is the Moon Restaurant in Aswan. This excellent eatery is located at a barge on the water and offers a spectacular vista of the great Nile River. You can dine Egyptian cuisine and local specialties and watch the magnificent sunset. At this restaurant you can also hear the Nubian Music and amused by waiters dressed in white in Nubian style attires.

The Moon Restaurant offers Egyptian Delicacies such as chicken kabab and lamb kofta. For making these kababs, they season the chunks of lamb in onion, lemon juice and marjoram and an assortment of spices and then roast them over an open fire. The dishes are hearty and simple. They are cooked with naturally ripened fruits and vegetables and are seasoned with fresh spices. In fact the Egyptian cuisines are more popular for its flavor. A complete Egyptian meal comprises of soup, vegetable stew, bread named Aish, salad, rice and pasta. This Moon Restaurant, Aswan is famous for its soup, falafel with veal, lamb and pigeon and the Tabouli salad served with a topping of with native cheese gibna. Wara' enab, another Egyptian delicacy is made form boiled grape leaves stuffed with small amounts of spiced rice with or without ground meat.

Egyptian Sweet dishes like Baklava fatir, Egyptian rice pudding- mahallabiyya, Bbouzat haleeb- Egyptian ice-cream are also served in the Moon Restaurant, Aswan. Apart from these, appetizers like hummus, baba ganoush and tangy lemon juice is served. They will also serve the Stella beer.

Another interesting thing you can do at this restaurant is smoking shisha, which is as a local custom!