Cooking Djibouti
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Djibouti is full of nice little restaurants. You can eat a little bit of everything : spaghetti and pizza, fish, camel meat or turtle steak. You can taste European dishes, but also Ethiopian specialities (Watt) or Yemeni ones (oven cooked fish), and even lobsters. Amongst the famous restaurants : La reine de Saba, Le Parisien, La Sirène de l'Escale, le Golfe and le Kokeb. For smaller budgets, there is the fatira, a kind of omelette with tomatoes, onions and meat; chawarmas, diced meat with salad, tomatoes, onions and and chips; or even samosas (fried meat pastry). As for drinks, you can find delicious fruit juices everywhere, shaï tea (tea with cinnamon, clove and cardamom), and alcoholic beverages in European restaurants.