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In a quaint little room on a quiet back street, Hana serves reasonably priced Korean delicacies. In addition to chicken, beef, lamb and seafood dishes that you can barbecue at your table, there’s a multitude of pre-prepared plates. The sizzling beef is particularly delicious. Supplement your main course with a soup or salad. Every meal comes with six or seven petite appetisers, including kimchi (pickled cabbage), marinated potatoes and chilled daikon. Chinese tea and beer are available, and after dinner the smiling staff bring complimentary fruit slices to round off your meal.
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Inaka-ya’s exquisite food is accompanied by serious entertainment. Dexterous chefs slice, dice and grill before your eyes, cooking up a range of pan-Asian foods sure to satisfy the pickiest Orientophile. Sushi is fresh, excellent and reasonably priced. For the less adventurous, the chicken stirfry with fried rice is a flawless rendition of the Far Eastern classic. Diners are a diverse, fun bunch. Sit back and enjoy the atmosphere in the plush surroundings of the Sheraton Royal Gardens.
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After riding in an ornate golden elevator that rises from the busy Gamiat-ad-Dowal St, the peace and order of Kandahar’s interior comes as little surprise. The menu is a competent reinterpretation of Indian favourites. The samosas are crispy, the dal is smooth and portions are large. However, as with most Indian restaurants in Cairo, if you’re used to the real thing, the food can seem disappointingly bland. A word of warning: despite the white table linen and elegant atmosphere, the music can be incongruously loud. Not always the place for an intimate dinner à deux.
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The gilded pillars, dragon statuettes and red-and-gold colour scheme create a sumptuous interior. Once ensconced at your white-draped table, peruse the menu’s wide variety of standard Chinese favourites. The Szechuan prawns and, for vegetarians, the tofu-with-vegetables are particularly good. The spring rolls, while a little on the petite side, are faultlessly crispy—just order twice as many as you usually would. Service is attentive and keeps the Chinese tea flowing freely.
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Spice serves brilliant renditions of Cantonese food from Hong Kong. Following a selection from the dim sum menu, try the beef with ginger, the Peking duck or the veal ribs in honey and black pepper sauce. And there’s nothing like a sweet dessert to really tie the meal together—the chilled bean curd soaking in almond syrup with mango is exceptional (even for those with an aversion to tofu). Most main courses are reasonably priced, but some of the speciality items, like the shark fin soup, cost a bit more.
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