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Hi Hans-Georg,
In Maputo there is a collection of small local restaurants (buracos) on the road between Maputo and Costa do Sol. You can get fantastic fish and shellfish, but as you say, don't expect a knife and fork :-) Kampala has some fantastic eating spots, but you'll need to make friends with a local in order to find them. I guess this is probably true of any country/city. Marc On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:06:54 +0200, Hans-Georg Michna wrote: Marc, a very precise description of the food situation, as far as I can judge. In the Kenyan wildlife lodges you usually get a decent variety of food, English-influenced cooking. Quality depends on the price you pay. There are always some lapses, and the food is apparently never perfectly clean, so there is always some risk of intestinal infection when you eat salads and similar. But it's reasonable. With some carefulness it can be enjoyable. Some things are tasty. The thing I find most striking is that, in spite of having the most wonderful tropical fruits at their disposal, fruit salads are almost always very poor, few, uninspired types of fruit, usually the less tasty ones like melon and papaya, almost never mango, fruit often unripe (which is a general African problem, apparently). On the other hand, I often get very tasty starters and particularly soups and sometimes quite good main dishes. I've eaten both extremely good and rather poor and tough lamb in Kenya. Sometimes you get tasty meat from wild animals like antelopes. If you want to eat like the locals do, my recommendation in Nairobi would be the Kariakor Market (Kiswahili version of Carrier Corps). Ask your driver to take you there and don't expect fork or knife. I wouldn't go there after dark these days. Hans-Georg |
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In message , Hans-Georg
Michna writes Marc, a very precise description of the food situation, as far as I can judge. In the Kenyan wildlife lodges you usually get a decent variety of food, English-influenced cooking. Quality depends on the price you pay. There are always some lapses, and the food is apparently never perfectly clean, so there is always some risk of intestinal infection when you eat salads and similar. But it's reasonable. With some carefulness it can be enjoyable. Some things are tasty. The thing I find most striking is that, in spite of having the most wonderful tropical fruits at their disposal, fruit salads are almost always very poor, few, uninspired types of fruit, usually the less tasty ones like melon and papaya, almost never mango, fruit often unripe (which is a general African problem, apparently). On the other hand, I often get very tasty starters and particularly soups and sometimes quite good main dishes. I've eaten both extremely good and rather poor and tough lamb in Kenya. Sometimes you get tasty meat from wild animals like antelopes. If you want to eat like the locals do, my recommendation in Nairobi would be the Kariakor Market (Kiswahili version of Carrier Corps). Ask your driver to take you there and don't expect fork or knife. I wouldn't go there after dark these days. Hans-Georg During my years in Kenya I never ceased to be amazed at the wonderful food produced. This was probably after being in Nigeria with much less variety, probably due to climate. Now I pay a lot of money in Britain for mangoes, paw paw and Kenyan green beans etc! In the hotels and lodges I`ve found fruit, especially at Hemingways in Watamu, where there are mangoes and fresh strawberries for breakfast most of the time, to be of good quality. The worst thing I ever had served was a globe artichoke at the Ark. Everyone had one given as a starter and most left them on their plate. The leaves were tough and most people didn`t know what to do with the vegetable! I agree about the antelope. It`s possible to buy the farmed variety in Nairobi but I once ate some barbecued in Nigeria that had come from the forest. It was delicious! Pat -- Pat Anderson |
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In message , Hans-Georg
Michna writes Marc, a very precise description of the food situation, as far as I can judge. In the Kenyan wildlife lodges you usually get a decent variety of food, English-influenced cooking. Quality depends on the price you pay. There are always some lapses, and the food is apparently never perfectly clean, so there is always some risk of intestinal infection when you eat salads and similar. But it's reasonable. With some carefulness it can be enjoyable. Some things are tasty. The thing I find most striking is that, in spite of having the most wonderful tropical fruits at their disposal, fruit salads are almost always very poor, few, uninspired types of fruit, usually the less tasty ones like melon and papaya, almost never mango, fruit often unripe (which is a general African problem, apparently). On the other hand, I often get very tasty starters and particularly soups and sometimes quite good main dishes. I've eaten both extremely good and rather poor and tough lamb in Kenya. Sometimes you get tasty meat from wild animals like antelopes. If you want to eat like the locals do, my recommendation in Nairobi would be the Kariakor Market (Kiswahili version of Carrier Corps). Ask your driver to take you there and don't expect fork or knife. I wouldn't go there after dark these days. Hans-Georg During my years in Kenya I never ceased to be amazed at the wonderful food produced. This was probably after being in Nigeria with much less variety, probably due to climate. Now I pay a lot of money in Britain for mangoes, paw paw and Kenyan green beans etc! In the hotels and lodges I`ve found fruit, especially at Hemingways in Watamu, where there are mangoes and fresh strawberries for breakfast most of the time, to be of good quality. The worst thing I ever had served was a globe artichoke at the Ark. Everyone had one given as a starter and most left them on their plate. The leaves were tough and most people didn`t know what to do with the vegetable! I agree about the antelope. It`s possible to buy the farmed variety in Nairobi but I once ate some barbecued in Nigeria that had come from the forest. It was delicious! Pat -- Pat Anderson |
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