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| The "night market" close to the hostel. This is where we would buy our egg sandwiches, pineapple and wakeye and jollof in the evening. |
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| Fried plantain and palava sauce |
Ghanaian food is quite the mix of flavors. There is usually a starch and a protein, and that constitutes a meal. There is lots of plantain, yam, rice (plain, jollof, fried, wakeye, omotuo), beans, banku, fufu, Tuo Zaafi , kenkey, palava sauce, red sauce, fried chicken, okro stew and ground nut soup. Much of the food is cooked in oil, and tends to be served with tomato-based sauces. It was delicious. Half the adventure was trying all the new foods.
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| Chicken, rice and a tomato based sauce with onions, cabbage, peppers and beans. |
It is also, literally, a mix of flavors. Most of the soups/stews are fish based (so there are occasionally small fish bones in the bottom of the bowl). With these fish based soups/stews, you can usually get your choice of meat, either goat, chicken, beef of bush meat/”grass cutter”.
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| Palava sauce and ampesi (boiled yam) |
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| One of the many stands to buy food. |
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| Omotuo (rice ball) in groundnut (peanut) soup |
Walking to class in the morning was always a joy, as Kendra and I would stop and buy a fried egg sandwich and a 1 cedi pineapple (approximately 70 cents), for our morning snack. It was the most delicious pineapple I have ever eaten, it was so fresh, along with all the other fruit available. I think I enjoyed the food so much because it was cheap! For less than 5 cedi a day, I could eat 3 meals, as well as a large amount of fruit.
I also love eating bananas in Ghana. They are fresh and cheap! At the night market on campus, I would pay 50 pesewas for 3 bananas (but they would usually throw in a 4th because Kendra and I are twins). At the building outside the classroom, we paid 20 pesewas for 2, and at Shop-rite I was able to get 8 for 49 pesewas. Out of the bus window, on the way to Tamale, Tori was able to pay 20 pesewas for 6. I guess it pays to get out of the city.
