Saying food is one of my favorite things is an
understatement. I used to work on
food issues, read everything I could about it, cook whenever I had a chance,
jump at the opportunity to eat something new, and baked non-stop while unemployed…so South Sudan will present some interesting
situations.
Due to fifty years of conflict, massive displacement of
people, food shortages and a 90% poverty rate, there really isn’t a traditional
cuisine, as people didn’t have the luxury to cultivate crops, concoct
local specialties, or even stay in one place for long. As a result, there aren’t really
local restaurants except ex-pat places which cater to westerners and serve
things like spaghetti Bolognese (its amazing how that gets everywhere!), pizza,
hamburgers, but they leave a little to be desired. There is however a good Indian and Chinese restaurant in
town.
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| Ugali |
At work we do have a South Sudanese café which serves things
like spinach in peanut sauce (sounds odd but quite tasty) beans in various
forms, rice, chapatti (a flat bread that is super yummy) usually some stewed
bananas (the starchy kind not the sweet ones), ugali (a white starchy glutinous
thing) and if you are lucky boiled goat.
I haven’t actually worked up the courage to try that.
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