On a bike ride through the countryside along the coast in Mombasa, Kenya, iReporter Brian Oh had lunch in a local village.
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On a bike ride through the countryside along the coast in Mombasa, Kenya, iReporter Brian Oh had lunch in a local village.
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A man named Abdul butchered a live chicken.
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A man named Abdul butchered a live chicken.
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The women in the village then cleaned and gutted the bird in preparation for cooking.
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The women in the village then cleaned and gutted the bird in preparation for cooking.
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The chicken was cooked in a small pot over a tiny charcoal stove with a little bit of cooking oil from a small baggie and store bought curry powder.
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The chicken was cooked in a small pot over a tiny charcoal stove with a little bit of cooking oil from a small baggie and store bought curry powder.
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The villagers then proceeded to use the same pot and stove for each successive dish, including the sukuma wiki (greens prepared with onions and tomatoes),, potatoes, bananas and ugali (corn maize cake).
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The villagers then proceeded to use the same pot and stove for each successive dish, including the sukuma wiki (greens prepared with onions and tomatoes),, potatoes, bananas and ugali (corn maize cake).
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The trio of village women worked for an hour and a half to prepare lunch.
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The trio of village women worked for an hour and a half to prepare lunch.
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Oh says like most Kenyan food, the food was not very flavor rich, for lack of much seasoning, but was enjoyable and edifying.
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Oh says like most Kenyan food, the food was not very flavor rich, for lack of much seasoning, but was enjoyable and edifying.
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With a compressed fistful of ugali in one hand and potatoes or chicken in the other, Oh ate and laughed with the villagers.
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With a compressed fistful of ugali in one hand and potatoes or chicken in the other, Oh ate and laughed with the villagers.
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The meal cost $11 equivalent in Kenyan shillings.
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The meal cost $11 equivalent in Kenyan shillings.
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Freshly butchered chicken, sukuma wiki, boiled potatoes and plantains, and ugali.
iReport: Lunch in Mombasa —
Freshly butchered chicken, sukuma wiki, boiled potatoes and plantains, and ugali.
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