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good morning I hope you're having an amazing day at smart Queens I'm in Accra Ghana are we always best to start your morning with a cup of coffee oh yeah it's about 6 a.m. right now we're on our way it's a couple hours drive away to a village and they have arranged to cook us some Ghanaian food we're gonna have a chance to walk around and explore the village and then we'll be eating some amazing home-cooked gonna and food at the village they've already said that the village is really excited and looking forward to hosting us so I know it's gonna be a lot of fun so we're on our way great Oh Michael Michael yeah awesome yes Michael a mother Michael Eilert yes and how long is the drive gonna be let's say roughly 22 and a half hours we're getting closer to the village and we're in cape coast region but we're actually heading inland we're not gonna be by the coast where we're heading inland it's getting really green and lush back here it's beautiful the road got a little rough and then it eventually turned to a dirt road and now we're just on a single kind of bush road here we're really getting off the beaten path oh man this is getting really beautiful back here though hey that was about a three-hour drive and especially the last part getting here driving through the the jungle road to finally arrive at the village that was the highlight of the drive but it was great I'm excited to be here hello how are you hello nice to meet you kids are great I think those chairs might be for us to sit on we're gonna walk around we're gonna have a chance to see the cocoa farming that's part of this community but to begin with we're just gonna have a chance to watch him as their cookie said they're gonna move back over where it's more shady to do the cooking so that it's a little cooler hello nice to meet you nice to meet you thank you for having us Oh palm nut soup made from the palm those kinds of homeless okra oh whoa all right now what so that one was that one is the fish yes they're doing some of the cooking they've got some dishes going one of the cold issues is an okra soup you can see how sticky that is from that okra and then she mixed it with some fish they've also got some palm nut soup going cassava fresh cassava there that's where fufu okay all they'll be making the fufu here awesome okay we're gonna have a chance to see it all and this is all fresh home cooking in the village they're getting ready to move transfer over to that where it's a little more shady so we can cook but they're putting all that even the pots of like boiling things onto the head unto their heads they're all men they're balancing skills our next level like I had so many friends one of the things that it just makes me so happy the kids they learn responsibility from such a young age and taking care of their their siblings and they immediately just start taking care of naturally taking care of Micah that's so great okay we're gonna move to the shady air cooler area we just finished flying the drill and that was a lot of fun especially getting to show everyone the aerial views yeah and then it can fold up to very small like a so you can travel and you see yourself they're gonna be making for us fufu for lunch today and fufu is a staple in this region of West Africa but it can be made from a few different things they're gonna make it today with a mixture of cassava which she's peeling right now as well as plantains more of the villages gathering here and we're about to be officially greeted and welcomed to the village the village will officially welcome Charlie welcome you a descalvado bunny and very young in Sierra thank you for the warm welcome we are very honored to be here Thomasson is it a must where is such a welcome to this community to this village and one of the Ghanaian traditions is that when you enter a village you sit down with the community with the elders of the community you tell them what your what you are here for you have a conversation they get to know you and that's the official welcome into the village so they've given us an extremely warm welcome we're taking a little walk back into the jungle and this community is they grow cocoa and Ghana is actually they grow a lot of cocoa there that's with the world's second largest producer of cocoa but they don't do a lot of processing but they grow a lot of cocoa so we're gonna just take a look at some of the cocoa you put it like this and inclusive before it will emit unless it took maybe 49 so 180 damn minute you make sure that you apply without it as we're planting some cocoa we may as well snack on some cocoa beans a fruit oh so nice it's all good really sweet a little bit sour creamy and kind of like sticky really cool that will turn into fruit you have to close it fermenting it once they pick the pods then they empty out the the cocoa seeds which are covered in that fruit membrane and they cover them to ferment for seven days and so actually when you're at the village you can smell kind of a sour aroma fermented aroma which comes from the cocoa and then they're dried and that's the actual seeds that's that's the chocolate that's the chocolate you eat they're gonna show us where they dry out the cocoa beans and maybe ferment them too but as you're walking to the village you you can really smell a very distinct sour aroma which is coming from the the drying and the fermenting of the the chocolate beans the cocoa beans these are drying or fermented they're drying okay okay they're in the process of being dried now they're they're still not fully dried they have some moisture to them still but you can yeah you can really smell that aroma and then over here they said there's some that are fully dried ready to be sold this is the dry product yeah you can see they're kind of withered up there they're fully dry they're ready to be to be processed in Seoul sold and processed but you can you can eat mm oh that's chocolate oh that's the real thing it has kind of a skin around it mmm it's almost purple in color it's a little bitter a little sour oh it's delicious oh it's really fruity - oh thank you and he has peeled some so now you can see this is the without that little skin on it it's really good yeah it's just that is just the pure taste of chocolate the bitterness no sugar added and love it lots of good things packed into that my god like a clap your hands beautiful beautiful culture beautiful people Silva means so friendly I'm loving it he ain't got a new baby they're getting ready to pound the fufu so we're heading back to where they're cooking to see them pound okay we're back just in time as the cassava and the plantains have been boiled and now she's just starting to mash them but just first taking piece-by-piece of the plantain and mashing it and then that's all gonna come together and do the the fufu paste like consistency buckle this one is made from corn okay corn and cassava with every pound you have to take your hand and mix it over to kind of turn over it almost turns into a dough it's almost like I'm kneading but next level meeting but it takes such concentration such a such a rhythm I can guarantee you if I tried doing that I would smash my hand first they pounded the plantain down now their plant compounding the cassava and I think they'll mix it together little by little it's such a process to to make fufu we're gonna really appreciate okay now she's mixing in some of the plantain now mixed together the fufu is still being pounded and in the meantime they're frying up some of the plantains to eat with the beans just walking around the village you'll see so many innovative so many creative genius ideas and that's something I like is what the children come up to play with he has a bamboo pole and he has a little wheel with a spoke with the old slippers he cuts them into wheels and then he pushes that around that's oh that's such a cool innovative toy that he can make on his own terrain is starting to come yeah just a little bit it's been threatening to rain for a while now but the rain is just starting to come right now but we're gonna go have a look at the school as they're continuing to hello as they continue to finish the pounding the fufu and finish flying the trying the plantains will come back to eat let's go let's go visit the school company I just called they brought us to the village is that some of the proceeds from the tour that we're taking go directly I mean go directly to this community and directly to this school as well other file 20% of our purses go directly back to the community and helping with projects like this my starting school right now it's a holiday so the kids are not in school but it will restart next week really great to see the school we're heading back to eat fufu now you have to look in here look in here and then you will show in here as we're getting ready to eat it better the rain is still coming down so we're stepping into here inside of the the patio area to eat and the fufu is all ready and prepared and ready to go Bangu witness with the okra suit you brought out the other dishes that Bunco which is the other starch staple along with the fish and okra soup and then the red red which is those beans that those red oily delicious looking beans with the fried plantains I'm gonna begin with the fufu because this is this is the dish that we saw them making from scratch it's with the palm nut soup there's fish in there oh it's just a little beauty uh just a little a little ball of fufu scooped into the soup all that fish down there Oh give that look just wonderful soup and then and then only fufu with soup oh that is oh that's amazing well the fufu is so smooth and kind of gummy and texture you don't actually need to chew fufu you just bite and swallow because it's completely I mean that the pounding has done the chewing for you hmm it's so good that that palm nut soup wow it's a little bit spicy you can crease that we read oil and can taste that fish the dry fish in there wow that's that's super oh yeah okay it's kind of its kind of difficult that to not choose because your instinct is to choose I'm sort of getting the hang of it slowly and again you eat the fish separate from the fufu because the the fish you have to chew mm-hmm yeah I think it's dried macro really good again just just soaking up all of that soup next up I'm gonna move over to the plant area because I've been I've been waiting to eat the plantain the freshly fill out fried plantain and look at that beautiful golden color from being deep-fried this is the bean stew which is called red red and that the oil is palm that oil okay they're really fragrant palm oil you can even just kind of scoop it up yeah he's a little plantain like a chip just oh it's really hot Wow oh yes look how beautifully hot that is Oh oh that's incredible oh that's so good the beans really fragrant palm oil and then the plantain is just perfect it's a little bit sweet naturally sweet but then it has that crunchy caramelized crust on the outside from being deep-fried along with the starchy beans that is it's so good it's so fragrant and lastly for the funcle' which is the other starch which is it's kind of like formed into a plastic bag it's fermented corn made into a mash and then kind of wrapped up in a plastic bag so you grab a piece of the bong coo-all has it very again a very smooth like like bouncy texture to it mold a bite in your fingers and then this one is the okra soup so you can see how sticky that is with the fish in here as well oh yeah well that's incredible - oh yeah you've got the stickiness and like the slimy dis there Bunko hairs is excellent loving that okay okra soup with the bongo now moving back to the back to the poopoo thank you I'm loving this meal okay stepping out water lunch oh man all all of that food was cooked with love such good yeah among the best gun in food that I've ever had all man I yeah it was really good flavors really balanced to perfection thank you very much food was so good food was so good thank you yeah that was a that was an amazing guy named meal everything home cooked everything cooked right here and step outside and the rain has stopped fantastic it's been so good being here at this village and meeting so many people and enjoying the food but before we leave they're trying to organize dance a village dance and maybe a song before we before we head out they're getting ready to dance over there yes yeah okay sure sure one of the elders of the village I guess I flew the drone earlier today and it attracted a lot of people it was really fun for everyone huh they asked me if I can especially fly the drone the whole village is here now if I can fly the drone so that everyone can can see I'll be better soon yeah be saved is that egg time how do I set tonight everybody whistle ooh ah and then who you become a comma comma comma comma comma come on Victor Clemente ah and Sanna was also be else would it be out on the village and the health of the villages they loved it so much they wanted me to defecate for the whole community to see and they loved it there really is a fascinating device and now at the same time they're getting ready to dance what an amazing experience amazing people but dancing the drumming the music the singing their footwork is incredible this is spectacular I've just been asked to quickly say a greeting through everyone thank you very much for inviting us or welcoming us into the village and very special the food is amazing everyone has been so kind and so gracious to us really been an honor to be here what a hole what an amazing experience we just made it back to the house after quite a long drive back it was a little longer because of the traffic coming back but during that time I just had a chance to absorb that experience and everything that happened and it was it was an unforgettable memorable experience everything from interacting with the kids and the elders and everyone to watching them cook the food to eating the food to just walking around the village the natural scenery the dances and the performance that they put on today but that was just one single day but that really sums up that demonstrates the beauty of gun and culture an African culture the hospitality the importance of relationships and interacting with people and we have I have so much to learn from a community like that from a village like that so I want to say a huge thank you to everyone at the community for hosting us for being so generous and friendly to us and also I want to say a big thank you also to Afiya tors who organised everything I paid for the tour so this is not sponsored but they did an amazing job and they're doing great things and I love how they give back to the community it's really community driven so that was highly recommended that was that was truly superb I want to say huge thank you to you for watching this video please remember 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