Food

Surprise-Hurghada’s seaside location makes it a prime seafood spot. Shrimp, calamari, fish, and even lobster are readily available. In general, Hurghada’s menus offer more than their counterparts in Upper Egypt, with slightly higher prices. Even so, for the cost of a burger, fries, and a Coke, you can do quite well.

Tlie cheapest meals are by the bus station, where kushari and falafel stands ring the terminal. The stand behind the buses offers a heaping plate for LEI. In the area between An-Nasr Way and Abd al-Aziz Mustafa St., traditional meals of kufta or roast chicken are served up. Meals run from LE4 to LE6. At Zeko’s, across from Happy Home, a full meal (14-chicken, macaroni in bechamel sauce, green salad, tahina salad, and bread) is LE4. Top-notch falafel sandwiches 25pt. Aly Baba’s at the northern end of Abd al-Aziz Mustafa St. offers aheap of calamari for LE8.50. Further south, a small, brightly lit sandwich shop offers kufta, sausage, cheese, livers, or falafel for 50pt (open until around lam). Those with more highbrow tastes might opt for lobster thermidor, LE30-40 around town.