shisha • 16 comments • During our meal at Abou El Sid, we noticed several other Egyptians, in the restaurant, smoking shisha. The extensive list was filled with fruit flavoured tobacco - green apple, mango, pineapple, to name a few. After our meal, we decided to partake in the old Egyptian tradition, while the waiters laughed at us. We had briefly tried shisha during an 'Arabian Safari' we took in 2009, and it is available in Canada, but it just seemed like an appropriate way to end our delicious Egyptian dinner experience. Since we're not smokers, and think that it's a pretty disgusting habit, it is not something we would do often, but the strawberry flavour that we ended up choosing almost makes you forget how terrible it is. The novelty of two foreigners trying shisha was too much for the waitstaff and busboys to ignore and they requested to take photos with us while giggling. After a few minutes of smoking in front of the captive audience, we settled our bill and left the restaurant a little lightheaded.
