Saturday, December 03, 2005
food
Yihali everybody (hello/how are you? in macua)!
Back in Maputo for the day (this might be our last day before we head off to our sites!). Nothing really new since last entry, so I thought i'd talk a little about the food here, and especially about the fruit (mmmm). I must admit that our diet here (living with our host family) consists of a lot of rice. We eat rice with every meal, and sometimes it changes and we have french fries (which are really good, but really bad for you). With the rice we have carril (gravy) and sometimes chicken or fish (the fish is really good!). But, besides some excepti0ns (we had shrimp a couple of times), that's been our diet (i have gained weight!!). But, the best part of our diet is the fruit. Let me tell you that our host family has in our back yard three mango trees, an orange tree, a coconout tree, a lichi tree (no fruit yet tho). Then they have a small farm with a banana tree and a papaya (papayas here are huuuuuuuge) tree. But that's only what our family has. There are a lot of people selling fruit in the street, and among the most interesting and good fruits, there are massalas (which look absolutely disgusting, but taste like warm apple pie, seriously -- it's round and green/brown, and hard in the outside, then you hit against the ground to crack it open, and you have something that looks like it could be a brain, or something, but you eat it, and it tastes like apple pie). Mozambique also has some really interesting bananas, they have the ones that we have, but they also have these smaller ones that kinda taste like pear (i know it sounds weird, but they're really good). Also, I have to admit that the fruit here is dirt cheap, you can get a big nice-looking mango (that tastes amazing!) for 1 conto (which is like 4 cents). Anyhow, that's that for today. Hope all of you are ok, healthy and keeping warm :-)
Love,
Eli
Back in Maputo for the day (this might be our last day before we head off to our sites!). Nothing really new since last entry, so I thought i'd talk a little about the food here, and especially about the fruit (mmmm). I must admit that our diet here (living with our host family) consists of a lot of rice. We eat rice with every meal, and sometimes it changes and we have french fries (which are really good, but really bad for you). With the rice we have carril (gravy) and sometimes chicken or fish (the fish is really good!). But, besides some excepti0ns (we had shrimp a couple of times), that's been our diet (i have gained weight!!). But, the best part of our diet is the fruit. Let me tell you that our host family has in our back yard three mango trees, an orange tree, a coconout tree, a lichi tree (no fruit yet tho). Then they have a small farm with a banana tree and a papaya (papayas here are huuuuuuuge) tree. But that's only what our family has. There are a lot of people selling fruit in the street, and among the most interesting and good fruits, there are massalas (which look absolutely disgusting, but taste like warm apple pie, seriously -- it's round and green/brown, and hard in the outside, then you hit against the ground to crack it open, and you have something that looks like it could be a brain, or something, but you eat it, and it tastes like apple pie). Mozambique also has some really interesting bananas, they have the ones that we have, but they also have these smaller ones that kinda taste like pear (i know it sounds weird, but they're really good). Also, I have to admit that the fruit here is dirt cheap, you can get a big nice-looking mango (that tastes amazing!) for 1 conto (which is like 4 cents). Anyhow, that's that for today. Hope all of you are ok, healthy and keeping warm :-)
Love,
Eli
# posted by Paul and Eli @ 12:50 AM 
