Street Food

I found myself in Ibadan, Oyo State in Nigeria and notice a culture there. It is quite difficult to get food in the morning unless one wants to patronize exotic restaurant with big branded names. So it’s generally believed that one could only get food by 11am. One would be shocked that after waiting for  brunch, you have just one option to select from and that’s bean soup (Gbegiri and Ewedu) with Amala. Per adventure one is busy, that’s the only meal one would have for the day. This monotonous regularity would make one result into patronizing street food. It’s more fun if one know it’s street food. The next post would describe places one could get varieties of dishes in the city of Ibadan. It is often fun to have varieties of dishes to munch on but let’s see how well one knows his/her street foods.

• A & B: for those who hard stayed in Cross River before, you should know the meaning of that abbreviation. It means Akara and Bread. Akara which some call beans cake is made of beans. We have different type of recipe in preparing it but it does go well with bread. Just not to repeat what goes with bread, I’ll just mention a few things that goes with bread that is been sold on the street. Bread and egg, bread and butter (Ghana bread as they call it), Bread with Beans, moi moi and bread etc. All this could be got on the street. Tea and food beverages also go well with bread.
• Egbo ati Ewa: this is a complete street food. It’s difficult to work into a restaurant and request for it to be served on a platter. It is made of marched maize (corn) and served with beans.  It is usually hawked maybe I shall consider giving recipes to some of the foods.

Egbo ati Ewa

• Abacha/Ugba: Abacha is another nice street food made of cassava. It is well watched to reduce the cyanid acid which is toxic to the body and dried. Well the details of the recipe would be discussed later. It is been garnished with vegetables and mixed with a thickener. Ugba is got from Ugba seed garnished with vegetables and thickener. It is one of the street food commonly consumed by the Igbo people of Nigeria.

Abacha 

• The regular snacks: this is very common everywhere in Nigeria. Things like puff puff, meat pie, fish pie, buns, small chops etc. They are regularly sold on a street. 
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