Mansoura Oriental Pastry

South Brooklyn's Middle Eastern district is packed with genuine culinary delights from that part of the world. The family-run Mansoura Oriental Pastry bakery (515 Kings Highway - www.mansoura.com) relocated from Egypt in 1961 and features baklava (layers of thin dough, filled with nuts and sweetened honey syrup), burekas, and basbousas (a orange-hued Egyptian pastry made with almonds).

The exterior of Mansoura Oriental Pastry, a bakery in Flatbush
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