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Tapi Tapi: Ice cream from Africa, for Africa
Tapi Tapi is an ice cream innovator in Cape Town. It uses ingredients from across the continent in unique flavor combinations such as this: salty kapenta fish, toffee and scotch bonnet chilli. The final ice cream is blitzed.
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Tapi Tapi was founded by Tapiwa Guzha, a post-doctorate molecular biologist who turned his hand to ice cream after experimenting with dry ice.
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A selection of ingredients sourced from across the African continent and used in Tapi Tapi's ice creams. Fish and insects sit alongside nuts and other more well-known ice cream ingredients.
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The menu at Tapi Tapi changes daily and no two ice creams are the same. Guzha says he has created over 800 different flavor combinations.
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Hibiscus, cloves and anise ice cream. "This (is) ice cream for my identity, for other people's sake," Guzha told CNN.
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Malted millet ice cream. Millet, a drought resistant cereal, is a key crop in many semi-arid regions in Africa.
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Ice cream made from sun-dried blackjack greens and caramel.
