The Khan al Khalili is an enormous bazaar that spans several city blocks in Islamic Cairo, and vendors sell just about anything you can imagine. It is famous throughout the Middle East, and perhaps best known for its salesmen that hawk their goods from their tiny storefronts. And they are good. Many of them use some version of the "Jedi mind trick" to convince unwitting customers to pay too high a price for items they didn't particularly want to begin with. These pics show our family enjoying some coffee and Karkadei (sweet juice made with hibiscus) at Fishawi's, a coffee shop that has been open more or less continuously for that past 200 years.

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