Nile-side Egypt town heralds spring with pungent delicacy

A fish monger packing salted mullet fish, known in Egypt as feseekh, for a customer at a shop in the town of Nabaruh, near Egypt’s northern Nile Delta city of Mansoura. Photos: AFP

The overwhelming smell may be misleading, but the Egyptian town of Nabaruh, its streets lined with shops selling salty, fermented fish called feseekh, is far from the seaside.

Landlocked in the Nile Delta, “Nabaruh is the capital of feseekh,” boasted 44-year-old Sherif al-Yamani, owner of one of the town’s famed shops.