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Old October 21st, 2004, 09:01 AM
Marc Lurie
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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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Old October 22nd, 2004, 02:57 PM
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
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Old October 22nd, 2004, 02:57 PM
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
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Pat Anderson
 




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