This Foot Long Shrimp Sandwich Costs EGP 150
Aug 04, 2025
Somewhere between the toothpaste aisle and the discount mop buckets at Gomla Market lives a foot-long fried shrimp sandwich that's causing a quiet, breaded revolution. For just EGP 150, you get a seafood behemoth the length of a regulation ruler and the structural integrity of a Jenga tower on a trampoline. It arrives wrapped in enough foil to reflect satellite signals, stuffed with what we can only describe as the entire cast of Finding Nemo—lightly seasoned, heavily fried, unapologetically stacked. This sandwich is not here to play. It's here to crunch. It's here to drip mysterious pink sauce onto your shirt. It's here to challenge your sense of proportion and your cardiovascular system. Is it lunch? Is it a dare? Is it a lifestyle? Yes.
One bite in, and you'll be questioning everything you know about market economics, shrimp-to-bread ratios, and why you ever paid more than this for anything. In conclusion: 10/10, would shrimp again.
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