Dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant is quite an experience. The food is eaten around a small, round and low table and everyone eats from one big “plate” by hand. The food course is a variety of different kinds of sauces (meat and vegetable). Insera, a thin, rolled-up, bitter-like bread, is used for scooping the food. The dessert consists of a very dark roast blend of coffee and, believe it or not, popcorn. Interestingly, Ethiopia has been an independent country for thousands of years (atleast since written history).
Eating out at an Ethiopian restaurant, “Addis in Dar”. Novermber 2006, Dar es Salaam
Illallinen etiopialaisessa Addis in Dar -ravintolassa. Marraskuu 2006, Dar es Salaam
Illallinen etiopialaisessa ravintolassa in mielenkiintoinen kokemus. Ruoka syödään pienen, pyöreän ja matalan pöydän ympärillä, yhdeltä isolta lautaselta ja käsin. Ruokalajikkeet ovat liha- ja vihanneskastikkeita, jotka ohuen ja happaman insera -leivän kera. Jälkiruoka koostuu tummapaahteisesta kahvista ja, uskokaa tai älkää, popkornista. Mielenkiintoista on myös, että Etiopia on ollut itsenäinen valtio tuhansien vuosien ajan (ainakin niin kauan kuin historiaa on kirjattu ylös).
I envy jason now
whoa! so glad you guys are getting to hang out in africa together! i could go for some of that ethiopian food (stephen). we miss you guys! and we miss jason too! tell him we got his email just before he left. we love you lepojarvies.
Cathy, no need to be envious. I will bring back the left overs. The dishes tasted good, but it was the experience of that type of dining that was the better part. And Dawn & Stephen, good to hear you got my email. ‘A Severe Mercy’ is one of the best stories I know. Hope you two are doing well!
Good to hear that popcorn and coffee have penetrated the glorious ancient Christian African Kingdom of Ethiopia, the one that the Portuguese were so happy to find after their sail around Africa and its great Islamic Sultanate of East-Africa in Zanzibar. Perfect Afro-American experience from the homeland of Rastafarians (where Bob Marley’s body rests) would have been completed with tobacco products offered by waitresses in cotton jeans. Improvements from the new continent. Other than that the food (is it dorowot?) looks terrific.
more pictures?!
Yes Sami, it is — or the center portion was — ‘dorowot’ (spicey chicken) before it went into my mouth. It was one of my favourite dishes. I also liked the cheese. Indian & Chinese sauces are, I think, more tasty, but the eating experience was surely more unique at Addis.
We are off for sushi now (prepared by a Japanese or Korean chef, depending on where we find a free table). Don’t know if they will be food related, Cathy, but I promise to post two or three new photos tomorrow. Hugs to Joshua cutie (and a punch on the shoulder to senior cutie too).
You are absolutely correct Jason. The food in the spine of worlds spice route is undeniably worth mentioning. It is very rare to experience the same debt of taste than on that very location next to Zanzibar the spice island (amongst others also the worlds largest producer of gloves). For those envious in Finland, dorowot can be found once a year for two days at “maailma kylässä†fare at Kaisaniemi held on June.
Sorry — new photos will be posted on Saturday and not before. We leaven for Mikumi National Park tomorrow 5.30 am and return Friday night. Maybe the photos will be better then anyways..?
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Terve Mari! Meille kuuluu hyvää! Mitäs sulle? Mitä puuhaat nykyään? Hyvää joulua! Terveisin, Sirkku, Danny ja Benjamin
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Hyvää joulua teillekkin.
Marilla on uusi koira. Mari, ota kuva ja lähetä se meille molemmille spostitse? Mari tulee Jouluksi Pitskuun, jee.