How to pronounce Mish

Mish is written مش where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /meʃ/. In plain English letters that is MESH, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Mish?

Mish is a snack of Egypt. Where it comes from: Nile Delta. People usually eat it for breakfast and at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are dairy & cheese. It tastes sour and savory.

Where Mish comes from

Mish is one of 24 signature dishes of Egypt on this map.

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• Molokhia ملوخية · Soup & stew · Nile Valley

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• Ta'ameya طعمية · Street food · Egypt

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• Hawawshi حواوشي · Street food · Egypt

  Hawawshi is a traditional Egyptian dish of flatbread stuffed with minced meat spiced with onions, pepper, parsley and sometimes chillies.

Food of Egypt

Dishes like Mish in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Mish:

• Jameed جميد · Snack · Jordan

  Jameed is hard, dried and soured yogurt, shaped into balls and left in the sun until it is stone-hard; it is then cooked, or used to cook other dishes.

• Shanklish شنكليش · Snack · Lebanon

  Shanklish is an aged cheese of cow's or sheep's milk from Levantine cooking.

• Sulguni სულგუნი · Snack · Samegrelo, Georgia

  Sulguni is a brined Georgian cheese from Samegrelo, called selegini in Mingrelian, and it is also made in Svaneti.

• Handkäs mit Musik · Snack · Southern Hesse, Germany

  Handkäse, "hand cheese", is a small, translucent sour-milk cheese with a pungent smell, named after the old way of shaping it by hand.