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Ta’meyya, the New Old Falafel

henever my Egyptian friends in Beijing and I get together, we won’t stop ranting about being stuck with no prospects of visiting home in the foreseeable future, thanks to COVID-19-related travel restrictions and quarantine measures. Of course, it goes with out saying that we miss our family and friends. What we all seem to agree on missing the most, how ever, is the appetizing smell of balls frying away on a quiet Friday morning on the backstreets of Cairo. Strange, eh?

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