Alicia Ortego
Local food from Cameroon . Taró
An absolute must when visiting another country is to taste the food however humble it may be ... in Africa, often local dishes are quite humble, do not expect sophisticated stews or indeed varied menus. There simply isn´t any, this may mean you don´t eat one day but that´s the way it is. In Cameroon there is no single traditional dish much like in Spain. The dishes vary according to the area. In the Far North, you have what they call couscous, which is corn pasta seasoned with various different sauces(peanuts, tamarind, etc..). In the south, the Endolé, a dish made with a kind of spinach and peanut sauce (very tasty and calorie-filled!).
Here in the west, in Bamenda, try the taro - beef cooked with a kind of boiled spinach and potatoes, and on another plate dish plenty of yams and a sauce made from tree bark .... I tried it, and the sauce was not bad, but the pasta was too much for me (I have to admit I'm not very good in the strange foods). Another option was beef soup with boiled plantain (banana aside, to throw it in the soup or eat it like bread).
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