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The tastiest chapati in Kenya

By Alan on October 20, 2009

It’s been my observation over the last two years that you don’t go to a restaurant if you want to eat sweet chapati. Much like the most delicious burritos in Southern California are found in “hole in the wall” Mexican food joints, the tastiest chapatis are found in vibanda (shacks/sheds) all over Kenya. It’s a [...]

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Posted in Food, Kenya | Tagged Chapati, Food, Kenya, Kibanda, Nairobi, Swahili, Vibanda, Westland | 2 Responses

Rice milk is delicious!

By Alan on July 19, 2009

I know I haven’t written about cooking recently, but tonight I discovered something delicious and comforting from my past: rice milk. I used to eat it all the time when I was a kid. Take a bowl of white rice, pour some warm milk over it, add a pinch of sugar and cinnamon, and voila! [...]

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Posted in Food, Kenya | Tagged Cooking, Food, Kenya, Milk, Rice, Tala | 5 Responses

Welcome To My World

By Alan on July 6, 2009

Few of you have any clue how I live. Other than the “for just a fifty cents a day, you can sponsor…” commercials which used to air on TV, most people in the United States don’t know anything about what goes on in Africa. There aren’t any of those kids with flies in their eyes, [...]

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Posted in Food, Kenya, Pictures | Tagged Food, Kenya, Market, matatu, Pictures, Swahili, Tala, technology | 2 Responses

Windows Sucks!

By Alan on May 22, 2009

Haha, actually, computer bugs suck, and even Linux crashes. Anyways, the ATM in Tala had this error on the screen the other day when I was getting some money. It was working fine, just a little slower than normal. I even got a chance to practice Swahili with a mama (mama is a respectful word [...]

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Posted in Food, Kenya | Tagged ATM, Food, funny, KCB, Kenya, Language, Linux, Swahili, Tala, technology, Windows | 1 Response

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