Travel to Africa, tasted 6 strange food, which has a strange soup, the flavor is still unforgettable!

Friends doing business in Africa, many times invited me to go to Africa Tourism, in my subconscious, always feel that Africa is nothing to play with, the blazing sun of the climate is not to bake me off a layer of skin, it is estimated that after returning to the country after a long period of time tanned skin can be restored, coupled with the poverty and backwardness of Africa, for fear of going to the food is not good to sleep well, so always looking for all kinds of reasons to put off friends.

Until once, saw the office Xiaoye in the circle of friends sent with his boyfriend to travel to Africa photos, all of a sudden was the original wild beauty of Africa shocked, so moved to go to Africa's mind, after a few consultations with African friends, finally finalized the trip.

To Africa to know, this is not the same as imagined, although some cities are indeed very dirty and chaotic, but like South Africa, Nigeria and other countries or more developed. It is a vibrant and developing continent with more than 50 countries, each with its own specialties and a lot of scenic beauty and delectable food.

In Africa, my friend put down his business to accompany me, along the way, I was invited to taste six local characteristics of strange food, including a strange soup, the flavor is still unforgettable.

French snails as a world famous dish, the practice is very fine, compared to the African snails, the body size of the pocket. The African snail body size, body length between 7 10 centimeters, the longest can reach 20 centimeters, weight from dozens of grams to hundreds of grams ranging. African snail meat full of thick, high nutritional value, the local people as "gold meat", it is said to eat 1.5 tons per year.

The practice of African snails can be described as blossoming, fried, fried, grilled, steamed, boiled, etc. can be, in general, unrestrained more rough, most of the time sprinkled with a little salt and chili powder baked can be eaten. My friend specially for me to order the snail, snail meat after washing and slicing the first with a high-fire frying, and then add chili, soy sauce, vinegar, ginger, wine, and other seasoning, and finally squeezed into the lemon juice in addition to the fishy fragrance, this dish on the table after the color and flavor, from the appearance of the I am still able to accept, the texture is not bad, the meat is smooth and Q elastic.

In the vast rainforests of Africa live a lot of wildlife, bats are one of them, I do not know when it began to become the mouth of the African food, they call it "bush meat". Bats are the only mammals that can actually fly, and the high temperatures in Africa are ideal for bats, hence the abundance of giant bats. Both the roasted bat and bat soup are local specialties, and in the case of the bat soup, I couldn't bring myself to eat a whole bat in the soup.

Roasted bats seem to look better than bat soup. The bats are skinned and cut up, the meat is slashed a few times, marinated in salt, pepper, and onion, and then stuck up on bamboo skewers and roasted on the grill, which some people say tastes like chicken, but in fact, still has a pungent flavor, which is disguised by dipping it in a spicy sauce. When my friend pushed the grilled bats in front of me, I can not refuse in front of me, tear off a drop of meat, do not dare to savor, directly and quickly swallowed into the belly, and in the end, what flavor did not eat out.

Maybe it's because it's too hot in Africa, and it seems that all the animals and insects are bigger than at home, even the bamboo worms are no exception. Bamboo worms are milky white, a bit like Cordyceps sinensis, but the body is more rounded, to the middle of the sweet bamboo fibers for food, is a pest of the bamboo forest. Bamboo worms are rich in protein and more than 10 kinds of amino acids needed by human body. Not only high nutritional value, but also unique flavor, is a rare and delicious ingredients.

In the domestic Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places folk have the habit of eating bamboo worms, its eating method is similar to silkworm pupae, fried in oil to the appearance of slightly charred, bite outside the crispy tender, full of mouth is fragrant collagen flavor. Africans often eat fried bamboo worms as a snack, for this dish I am not at all shy, eat quite flavorful, because in the country have eaten.

Kubo is a traditional snack in Africa, and it was a shock to see, thought it was sawed off the stump, and could not help but make people wonder if this can be eaten? Cutting the center is brownish-black, like caramel. In fact, this is made of glutinous rice flour snacks, wrapped in a layer of palm leaves outside, in the streets of Africa are sold, foreigners see this wrapped tightly giant things are difficult to associate with food.

Kubo practice and the domestic practice of chicken is quite similar, the first glutinous rice ground into powder, and then overlap the edges of the palm fronds one by one flat on the table, and then put the glutinous rice flour on the palm fronds wrapped tightly, and finally put into the fire barbecue to the charcoal, with a knife to cut into a slice, especially flat, like a glutinous rice cake, the flavor and fried dumplings about the same, the Kubo is easy to eat, eat more than not easy to digest.

Millionaire's salad is a specialty of the island nation of Mauritius in Africa, and is known around the world. This cuisine is processed with the palm tree heart as raw material, a palm tree takes five years to grow into, only the heart can eat, a tree heart only 8 people's amount, due to the long growth cycle of raw materials, and the number of limited, so the price is expensive, in the past, things are rare and expensive, only millionaires can afford to eat, hence the name, and now with a large number of artificial planting, the general tourists can afford to eat.

In Mauritius, we ate this dish at a popular restaurant, adding local deep-sea fish fillets to make a salad, which is said to be similar to the taste of bamboo shoots like crisp, delicate, but I felt after tasting the heart of the tree in addition to the faint sweetness, there is no other special features, and the expectations of the distance.

Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain range in Africa, with an altitude of 5895 meters above sea level, and it produces excellent coffee. When you come to Kilimanjaro in Africa, in addition to drinking local coffee, you will also taste a special food called Kiburu (Kiburu) soup.

This soup originally came from the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro Chago tribe, by bananas, beans, ingredients, incredibly, there are some leaves and twigs on the ground as well as a slightly salty soil and so on, so some people call it "muddy soup", after boiling and simmering for a period of time can be eaten, honestly, not good at all, except for the fact that it is not good enough to be eaten. To be honest, the soup is not good at all, except for the smell of dirt, I can not feel the other flavors, the entrance is like pouring mud and water, so I still can not forget. Why add dirt to a good soup? It is said to have the effect of strengthening the body, so that people can experience a kind of earthly flavor

Yaqian have something to say

African "strange" food More than these, we all know that there are mosquito cakes, rat meat, earth cake and so on these people scalp numbness. "Alternative" food, for these, no matter how delicious I really can not eat. In fact, Africa also has a lot of color and flavor of the delicious, such as Taji pot, five-color rice, Injera, etc., to go to Africa must remember to taste oh.