Letter From Egypt: Looking for nostalgia in a glass of juice
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Nice Article :
There appears to be a particular way to drink sugarcane juice. Standing outside the most popular sugarcane shop in Cairo, customers carefully hold the tall, slim glass between their thumb and forefinger, examine the milky green liquid as though eyeing something valuable, then chug it down.
There always seems to be a crowd hovering around the one-room open storefront on Salah Salem Street in Old Cairo. No line, just a crowd: men, women and children, Muslim and Christian, veiled and unveiled, poor and rich, all day long.
"I am born here," said Ali Muhammad, 52, as he wiped white foam from his top lip. "Everything has changed in this neighborhood. But this juice shop, it is still the same."
Salaam
Nice Article :
There appears to be a particular way to drink sugarcane juice. Standing outside the most popular sugarcane shop in Cairo, customers carefully hold the tall, slim glass between their thumb and forefinger, examine the milky green liquid as though eyeing something valuable, then chug it down.
There always seems to be a crowd hovering around the one-room open storefront on Salah Salem Street in Old Cairo. No line, just a crowd: men, women and children, Muslim and Christian, veiled and unveiled, poor and rich, all day long.
"I am born here," said Ali Muhammad, 52, as he wiped white foam from his top lip. "Everything has changed in this neighborhood. But this juice shop, it is still the same."
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