Rainer and Lindsey: Food!

It’s always great to be in a different country and try out the local food. Rainer and I have been trying Kenyan dishes and other ethnic food. We’ve been to an Indian ‘food court’ where the minute you sit down, 12 waiters from each restaurant come up to the table with their menus. We liked the spicy chicken dishes, cheese in sauce and fried potato slices called bhajia (SOOO good).

Once a week our group tries out a restaurant for lunch. We tried Ethiopian food one week. You use ‘the bread’ to scoop up dishes like goat and greasy chicken in sauce (served with a hardboiled egg in it). ‘The bread’ is like spongy gauze wrap. It was an experience!

We’ve tried lots of Kenyan food- ugali (maize flour starch with a few potatoes mixed in), mokimo (mashed potatoes with green peas mashed in, making it green), skumiwiki (like spinach with a few tomatoes and carrots cooked in), chapati (flat fry bread- like torillas but thinner), githeri (beans, maize, cabbage, carrots) and lots of beef stews.

In Kenya, when you visit someone's home, it's not polite to refuse anything offered to eat or drink. Therefore, Rainer and I (who don't drink hot drinks or much milk), have had mutiple cups of Kenyan tea. Coffee and tea are grown all around Limuru. Tea is the #1 export of Kenya (#2 is flowers). But Kenyans drink there tea with mostly milk, a little tea, and if you're lucky- sugar. With the sugar, it's ok.