My experience is vast and it all goes hand in hand with each country’s taste.
Food and Traveling
Food Notes, Walter Sinthumule
Walter is a Solution Architect at Nokia, who’s job allows him to travel the world for projects. He loves food, laughter and happiness. In every country he visits, he always gets excited to have his palate challenged by new flavours of each country and always takes pictures of the food. As much as traveling can be exhausting from time to time, however, the experience and exposure to different cultures and foods triumphs everything.
In South Africa, the food is homely and has usual taste and depends on how you mix your spices or sauce, and it can easily become traditional meal irrespective of your location. For example, pap and beef is most South Africans staple food, however depending on your taste buds and cravings, you can use rice from time to time or switch to spaghetti if tired of meat. When you are rural, hardbody and spinach always makes it to the dinner table.
In Equatorial Guinea, tasteless cassava and range of raw sweet and tasteless banana called plantain is normal here, cibu/beef skin mixed with spinach is another level of mixture I came across appealing but not so bad taste. In Malabo they love their fish in different ways, almost like want to eat it raw as it is. It works for babalazi, when you eat fish as it is within 2 minutes of being boiled and a great soup, but I respect the flavour of the food, no matter how it looks, you always want to taste due to the aroma, the big portions of fish appears to be a show off of abundance of fish in the Area. They love their fish and chicken. Key ingredients come from local plants and animals, including plantains, sweet potato, breadfruit, cassava, yam, cocoyam (known locally as malanga), groundnuts, and snails
Tanzani, on a daily basis you cannot miss raw bananas, also known as ndizi, Ugali (porridge) also known as pap in South Africa is what they love. Fish aka mishkaki is good meat to have from time to time, especially on Saturday or Sunday afternoon chilling or socializing with friends at Mlimani city. No matter what meat you eat in Tanzanian, make sure Ugali is there, for those who eat light, they always go for sweet banana aka ndizi as an option.
“My experience is vast and it all goes hand in hand with each country’s taste.”
In Nigeria, mixing of seafood and either beef or chicken without forgetting spicy ingredients seems to be the norm. richness of tomatoes with hotness of sauce complimented by bones with meat is a typical example of local food and if they want to go extreme they can add fish on the same pot.
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Loved this story! Thank you for sharing it.
It’s a truly beautiful story, thank you on behalf of Walter.