How to pronounce Sobia

Sobia is written سوبيا where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈsobjæ/. In plain English letters that is SOHB-ya, 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 Sobia?

Sobia is a drink of Egypt. People usually eat it on festive days. Its main ingredients are dairy & cheese and rice. It tastes sweet and fresh.

Where Sobia comes from

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

• Ful medames فول مدمس · Main dish · Egypt

  Ful medames is fava beans cooked very slowly, traditionally buried overnight in the embers of the public bath furnaces in big copper pots, then mashed lightly with olive oil, cumin, lemon and garlic.

• Ta'ameya طعمية · Street food · Egypt

  Ta'ameya is what most Egyptians call falafel, the deep-fried fritter that English sources describe as being of Egyptian origin before it became a fixture of Middle Eastern and especially Levantine cooking.

• 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.

• Om Ali أم علي · Dessert · Egypt

  Om Ali, Ali's mother, is a traditional Egyptian dessert often described as the national dessert of Egypt.

• Kahk كحك · Dessert · Egypt

  Kahk, or kahk el-eid, is a sweet shortbread biscuit covered in powdered sugar that Egyptians make above all for Eid al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan, and also for Christmas and Easter.

• Halawet el-mulid حلاوة المولد · Dessert · Egypt

  Halawet el-mulid are the sweets of the Prophet's birthday, a family of confections that Arabic sources say began in Egypt for the celebration of al-Mawlid an-Nabawi.

Food of Egypt

Dishes like Sobia in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Sobia:

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• Bicerin · Drink · Turin, Italy

  Bicerin is a hot drink from Turin served in a small glass, in three layers that you do not stir: espresso, thick drinking chocolate and cold milk cream on top.

• Fura da nono · Drink · North (Hausa-Fulani), Nigeria

  Fura is a millet dough ball from the Sahel, eaten by the Zarma-Songhai, Fulani and Hausa peoples, and "fura" means millet ball.