4/26/2007
Peter and I visited Souq Lybia, which is also known as the camel market. They don't sell camels, but they sell plenty of camel meat. Beef, chicken, fish, lamb and goat are much more popular, but camel meat is still eaten. It took us a while to figure out the arabic word for camel (we should have looked it up before coming), but we figured it out and got a reccomendation for a good meat stall. The "restaurant" had only three walls, which were lined with chairs, and a small coal fire for cooking. An old Sudanese woman cooked the camel meat in a large saucepan with holes in the bottom. She served it with bread and hot sauce. The meat tasted like goat, but it was not nearly as tender. It took awhile to chew each fatty piece. After we ate, we walked around the souq and stopped for some hot, sweet tea, which is served in abundance everywhere you go.
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