Day 12 - Fang-Fang and Rolex

Being a vegetarian, food is always an issue when I travel. I am happy to report, not even the slightest concern here. They eat simple here - rice, beans, posho (porridge-cake made from cornmeal), cassava, 'irish' potatoes,collard greens, matoke (mashed plantains) and g-nut sauce ( peanut sauce) with fish or goat curry. Lunch or supper is a combination or all of the above and I must say with the exception of the matoke (and the fish/goat curry), I find rest of the meal tasty. It is quite filling and leaves you hunger-less for atleast6 hours afterward.

We have been eating traditional Ugandan food for lunch at the Hospital cafeteria and usually venture out for dinner. Most of our culinary adventures have had happy endings - we have tried two Indian restaurants - Haandi and Pavement Tandoori, a Pizzeria - Mamba Point, Continental - Crocodile and American Deli - Ranchers. Last night, we discovered a scrumptious Ugandan secret (imagine drum roll) the Rolex. Its a freshly made roll of chapati and omelette, made to order by your friendly neigbourhood street vendor, that is absolutely delish ! I wish we had taken our camera to record our rolex guy making the rolex - he has about 1 square feet of space to share with a coal stove, all the veggies (onion, tomatoes, cabbage) and atleast 3 dozen eggs :)

Tonight's dinner was a different story - we walked almost 30 minutes to try chinese food at Fang Fang. The restaurant is quite big with artificial plants and calligraphy signs hanging from the ceiling, a three level water fountain and silk upholstery. The menu was long but we narrowed our choices to sweet corn soup, vegetable dumplings in garlic sauce, chilli beef and egg fried rice. We were sad to find the dumplings were doughy and the fried rice somewhat sticky. The soup was bland and had no flavor. The only positive factor was the attentive staff. So there it was - our good and the not-so-good culinary experiences on consecutive days.

Rolex