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Off The Beaten Path: You must visit a village
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You absolutely must visit a village. Ghanaian people will always welcome you. When you enter a village, go first to visit the chief. Then you can go everywhere as you of course respect people. When I enter a village in Ghana, I am always surprised to see how welcome I am. People have nothing, or better, they don't have all what we consider as useful in our standards. However, they are happy and have a good living, no stress, etc. Best Ghanaian hospitality can be seen in the North
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Off The Beaten Path: S h i t o
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S h i t o is a typical Ghanaian sauce. You will receive it in all restaurant to accompany rice. It is made of dry fish, dry shrimps, dry hot red pepper, mashed onions, mashed ginger and some red oil for cooking. Everything is mixed in a powder and cooked longly with oil. The best one are more expensive because they don't use too much oil and then use more expensive stuffs. It is special but very good. Don't forget to buy some to go back, it is one of the flavours of Ghana
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Off The Beaten Path: Fufu
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Fufu is the traditional dish of Ghana. Fufu is a kind of pastry you made of cassava leaves and plantain. Cassava leave is a kind of spinash and plantain is a kind of banana. They make a flour out of them. Women mash that with water in a heavy wooden bowl, with a long heavy wooden stock. They serve it with hot pepper soup. This food is very heavy. You have to eat it on the Ghanaian way: First you wash your hands on the table, then you eat with your right hand (it is very inpolite to eat with left hand). In West Africa, you only eat with three fingers. You make a small dice of fufu and soak it in the soup then eat it. The soup usually contains fish or/and goat meat. After, you wash your hands and rest, you are too full and cannot move.
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Off The Beaten Path: Kenkey
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Another Ghanaian food is kenkey. It is a pastry made of mash corn and sold in corn leaves. You eat it with dry fish or saucy meat, or like you want. It is very cheap, 2000 cedis and if I eat one, I have enough for the day. I did not know the diet of my dogs, but I was surprised my house girl was asking so little money for dog food. In fact, she was giving them two balls of kenkey (one ball is the size of a fist) each. She was cutting them into dices and soaking them into fish or meat juice. In Ghana, with less than one Euro, you eat and drink for one day.
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Off The Beaten Path: Alomo
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Go to any of the local bars and ask for Alomo. It looks like Campari and tastes as bitter as Campari, with the same colour. It is made of local herbs. We use to mix it with beer. This is one of the Ghanaian real aphrodisiacs! I could not believe when it became true. If you drink two-three glasses of this alcohol, don't be alone! I tested it several times because I thought it was a coincidence, but it really works even if you don't want.
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angiebabe Tue Dec 16, 2008 22:50 UTC
Hi, a good friend of mine here in London is from Ghana - been really interesting to read tips and info on her country thanks!Might be off to Burundi in April-my 1st visit to central/deep Africa! | karentids Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:13 UTC
Greetings from UK. Great informative pages. Will be in orphanage in Mampong in January. | mvtouring Wed Aug 20, 2008 20:11 UTC
very interesting page ;-) | swedishmaid Mon Apr 23, 2007 03:55 UTC
That is sooo true. Also, some women do it on their own as well. i'll say beware |
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