It is a simple meal, either of scrambled eggs with tomatoes or cooked beans, ful. With it fresh unleavened bread from the tannur, the stove with its opening at the top, is served. The morning is the only time of day when bun, real bean coffee, is served. Others prefer the milder qishr, made from the husks of coffee beans. The men then leave the house, and its five to seven floors become the domain of women, who see to the housework.
All work is done communally, constantly accompanied by noisy background music from the radio.
Old and young help to clean and cook until the work is done. The baking of bread is a particularly important task. The dough is laid in flat slabs over the machbaza, a mushroom-shaped instrument which is then used to press it against the hot oven wall of the tannur. Glowing charcoal is used to cook the other hot dishes, as well as butane gas. The preparations for the midday meal are so butane gas.