Category: Food

So I’ve had some time to readjust to life in the U.S. and one big thing I’ve found. The beer in Kenya isn’t very good. Score one for the U.S.

Don’t get me wrong. It is good, but only if it is fresh. Refrigeration of beer while transporting isn’t a big thing in Kenya (from what I could tell) and as such, the beer can get skunky. I told you all before, the best beer I had was in the airport the day I was leaving. It actually tasted good. That’s how all the beer now tastes to me here in the U.S.

So this leaves the question, is the beer actually skunky or is it just the way it tastes due to different ingredients?

Here’s to hoping that the beer situation is better in Cape Town. If not, there’s always wine.

Good old Japanese Teppanyaki.  By far the most expensive food I’ve had since arriving, but also the tastiest.

I find that I blog a lot about food; however, when most of my life revolves around it, I find it interesting.

Without further ado, boxed milk.  It’s what you buy here.

I’ve never had dragonfruit so I bought some the other day.  It’s like a big kiwi.

Here’s a video of me giving it a try.

Just down the street in the mall there is a place that has delicious fajitas.  This makes me happy.

Decided to forego on the usual today and headed up to the shopping center for lunch.  The Junction is the large mall near my office which pretty much looks like any other in the U.S.  The interesting part of this, and why I’m posting, is that you sit down at your table and each food place sends a waiter over and gives you a menu.  So there you are sitting with 6 different menus from fast food places.  I went with Chinese today.

Apologies on not getting out the tales from the weekend, but I have a ton of photos to get through that I want to make sure to include.

In the meantime, there’s a food place out behind our office building.  It is a small corrugated iron and concrete block building about the size of a one-car garage.  I’m not sure what these are called, but they are where local people eat and local food is served.

I have eaten at this place 3 or 4 times since I got here and realized that it’s actually pretty good.  They serve a plate of beans, kale (sukuma), chapati, cooked cabbage and a carrot salad (very similar to salsa).  Grand total 50 Ksh.  That’s equal to less than 60 cents for the whole meal.

While I was in Opuwo I decided that I’d take a picture of every meal that I prepared. Why? Not really sure, but I figured it’d be cool to look back and see what I made and if I ever need any dinner ideas I’m set. I also think about food pretty much all the time so that might explain it a bit also. I mean, I’m thinking about my next meal even before I’m done with the current one. I had a bunch more pictures but they were casualties to the hd failure I experienced in Windhoek airport…nice parting gift I thought. Well, without further ado, here are a collection of 20 meals that I prepared and will give you a better idea of how and what I ate.