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what i've noticed at least in a couple of other countries that have jellof rice they tend not to have like a stew like this don't know why we do it differently but this adds extra flavor to the jell-o rice the already very flavorful jollof rice it adds extra flavor to it so it's really good the best jello fries yeah argue with yourself absolutely amongst yourselves what's up guys welcome back to my channel my name is joannis or joe hatawa i'm a sierra leonean american living here in west africa i'm in sierra leone right now we got a mukbang for you today i'm joined by two very special guests one mariamba forbes hi and i also have tracy with us as well uh mariama can you give a little bit about who you are and what you do hi everybody my name is mariama forbes and i'm here instead of reconnecting with my roots you can follow me as well and follow me as i connect adventure through surya cool and i'll have all of that in the description like all of the pages that you can find mariama on and tracy you are not a youtuber but you know you decided to grace us with your presence thanks to mariama's coercion um so tracy can you tell us a little bit about what you're doing here hi guys my name is tracy pauline albert and i moved to sierra leone about eight months back okay and i work at the education sector nice and you moved here from india yes you're from india nice so we're going to talk a little bit about the food we're going to talk about what we ordered there's a lot of food here so we can talk through what it is and what's in it some of the cultural differences between india sierra leone and then of course my american cultural background and of course mariama's uk background and then we're going to talk a little bit about how the food tastes maybe we'll have some conversations about the future of sierra leone and then we'll end it there all right let's go into the food guys are you excited absolutely let's get into it so we have some binchakara over here which is made out of beans it's fried with a tiny little bit of salt it's really nice and delicious and it's like a vegan option we have some rice we got some buffalo over here and we have some sour sour to go with it and yeah go joe go ahead and tell us what you've got this is the steel four the jellof rice the famous sierra leone jill of rice i think the best jello price in west africa curious i mean you guys can debate it amongst yourselves we already know so this is the stuff that goes along with the jell-o price we have some jollof rice here we have some bean stew here this is vegan friendly i'm a vegan um same with the jell-o fries as well stew maybe not so much so today i'm just going to have the jell-o fries plain and then tracy do you want to go into the snacks that we have sure let's see what we have here we have some yam chips peanut brittle and spicy sweet potato chips yes and all of these snacks here are made from mamalu's kitchen they make these snacks here in certainly we're gonna have um all the information about them how you can order yourself some in the description box yeah and i think we also forgot the plantain chips too oh disappointing a special favorite of mine i love plantain chips there's actually some coconut oh coconuts coconut things too so we have a wide variety of snacks here and they're very good from mamalu kitchen the bin chakra and the beans are from nifty street food they are a uk-based catering company but they're also based in sterling as well again or everything you need to know about them if you're looking to order their food as well will be on the description box i'm gonna eat the white rice and the beans and some of the jello fries and maybe a little bit of michikara and some of the snacks here i am not a fan of fufu so that's all for me because i love myself i'm the sierra leone that doesn't need food for yourself i've been eyeing that jollof rice for a while okay so let me let me pass it over to you thank you go ahead and grab some go for it i'm gonna start off with the fufu so i'm gonna take the sour sour soup you guys can see that got my fish in here as well i might get some jell-o fries maybe and get some of the the stew itself with just the onions yeah i'm not one of the really strict ones where if there's like chicken in the food i won't eat it i just won't eat the chicken so i'm i'm not that guy but so i'm gonna grab some of this because i love jello fries and how how can i have this on the table and not have something and i am here on wrapping my fishy guys i'm starting with more of a heavy meal because it's the heaviest i would say normally i have my frisbee with my hand because i really don't care i'm an african woman but i've got long nails right now so that can't happen so that's the bean chakra so the bhitakara is fried and you said there's a little salt in there yeah so you grind the beans and then you have to like almost like beat it beat it beat it it add a tiny bit of salt some people do some people don't let you frying outside and so for me i get my protein through beans so i like because i you know i don't eat animals so i'm going to add some of this beanstalk no you don't eat animals we eat their food correct so are you starving them no definitely not that is what i'm feeling every vegan i'm like you're vegan but you're starving by eating that food incorrect there is so much vegetation on the planet for them to eat there's so much presentation on the planet for animals to eat there are many other arguments that are better than starving and the discussion for another day okay yes so there is this argument which i haven't been able to confirm or i guess deny is the idea that humans made the leap because of proteins that came from meat in terms of our being able our ability to like create fire do math these kinds of things language et cetera et cetera that's definitely a theory not necessarily fact because you don't know anything that happened thousands of years ago those are estimates or guesses but that argument i can maybe rock with a little bit but not the starving whatever anyway we're not starving animals but i want to get some of these plantain chips before we get i'm getting some of these i'm going to have the coconut the coconut it looks so good okay that's interesting kitchen coconut the way they close them up is actually really interesting too it keeps it nice and you know yeah it doesn't get cold so you like the food it's good it's so good like it's the salad salad is really nice one thing i like about salsa is that i feel like if you have a cold or anything like that it just really makes you you know get better faster so i really like it we all have decided to come here from different places i'm coming from the uk but i was born in germany i left here when i was five years old because of the war and i've come back and forth a few times but this is the first time i've come where i've come during rainy seasons and not holiday season okay and i'm having a completely different experience than i had before because like when i come during um holiday season is more of like just you know going out having fun not really experiencing the country right whereas this time i'm having a completely different experience how is it like being you know from you coming from america and then for me obviously coming from india you know so for me i've been coming to sierra leone since 2009 that was the first time i came as an adult and then coming again in 2017 but in both of those instances i came with family members my aunts and uncles or my parents and so they were deciding where we went and where we stayed and all those things when i first started coming in 2018 and i've been back i think six times since my experience has been a little bit different because now i get to control my experience so hanging out with friends staying at different places going to different events it's definitely given me a broader experience but as you mentioned most of those times we're in december and that will give you a very different experience than what you get during the regular year because everybody comes back in december so you have all the diasporans right so people from the uk people from the us other parts of europe and its parties non-stop right being here not during the holiday season is a lot different because you know you're everyone's at work and work mode right not vacation mode so you're not seeing everybody every day you're not going out to events all the time so then you have to kind of make time to get together so like yesterday we had a barbecue here yeah emma came to that yeah so that was cool it's good to get everybody together and hang out and then my group of friends what they do is on wednesdays they have a happy hour where they get together at a country laws really big hotels here that has a really nice view so they get together on wednesdays and have happy hours so that's been interesting and that's been a difference i would say between the two and then just the major differences between being in the us and in sierra leone i would say it's just the the lifestyle i feel more free here if i get pulled over by the police i don't fear being pulled over by the police right it's just a conversation whereas if it was in the u.s right i don't have to belabor the point but you guys know as a person of color being pulled over by the police you do fear that you will survive you have to comply to survive right is that is the advice that is given to you so that's something that's different also black excellence or people of color excellence where we're not minorities anymore we're the majority and for you tracy what was he about to learn specifically i made you like wanna come here from india well i moved here for work um and to be very honest just reflecting back on um what i was expecting i really didn't know what to expect when i moved here there isn't a lot of information out there about what uh it is like to live in syria especially if you're moving from another country so kudos to you guys actually for throwing some light on that but yeah when i moved here i was pleasantly surprised by all the parallels that i could draw between a life here and like back in india yeah and i think i've had this conversation with quite a few people here as well in terms of just like the energy the color the vibrance and even some of the chaos so i do feel quite at home when i'm here in sierra leone just in terms of all of those things so i've been to new delhi before oh you have i have yes i was there i've never been out there for ten days okay for a wedding and do you guys call those rickshaws okay yeah what do you got yeah so there's a similarity right exactly so i remember seeing those and being like i saw those in sierra leone so that's one of the major similarities right yes the rickshaws and we call kk i keep saying kk but it's k-e-h-k-e-h okay i'm working on my accent you're having the beans right now yes how do you like it i really like it yeah extremely flavorful again i feel like i keep i can't help but draw parallels of course the spices used are very different but it is still as flavorful as food would be back home and i like indian food i love indian food i used to eat chicken masala when i ate chicken broken juices are my favorite oh you do i love it it's like my favorite favorite rice i'm waiting to eat my jello fries right now because that's the i'm saving the best part for last period and um we didn't we didn't get a ton of jollof rice as you can see um when we ordered it i think we were expecting a little bit more yeah so i mean i don't want to take too much i'm waiting for mariama to get her portion but i had one bite and it's really good as i expected i mean what what else would you expect wow obviously yeah my costume is really really good but as you know it's quite heavy so i think i'm gonna take a break from eating this for a bit because there's quite a bit of bones in there as well so there's plenty of beans as you can see there's so much beans so the restaurant again who got the beans who gave us the beans in the rice so nifty street food nifty street food they are based in the uk and they also have branch not in syria nice serving size is nifty street food i know and i like taste so good very very good i had gone to an indian restaurant with a friend here in sierra leone okay and they serve this indian dish called biryani okay and the way i described it to the friend was essentially like it's it's it's the indian jollof rice how was the indian food here locally it's pretty good okay is it is it is it is it made by indians yes there is a pretty big indian community here in syria and again something i didn't know before i moved forward so i was again pleasantly surprised in some cases the families have been here for like a couple of generations oh wow exactly so quite interesting yeah i've definitely had indian food in ghana it was pretty good it was good so i do a home delivery vegan food service an indian lady actually makes it very good food because i know you guys have a lot of vegetarian options right so yes so it's a very good food what has it been like for you being vegan in africa yeah that's a great question it's been challenging to say the least very talented challenging everything is mostly you know like growing from the ground yeah because i don't i mean i don't think you realize when you're not immediate when you are a meat eater are you in your carnivore i guess you can say how much food meat goes into everything right and so when you go to a restaurant and ask them can you make this without chicken there's always a conversation like for sure and a lot of times two people use pig fat and like different things to make things for me it's probably limited what options i have so i tend to eat a lot of vegetable spring rolls that's been the main thing and the thing is that not only am i vegan but i tend to try to eat healthier you know there aren't as many non-fried options right so like yesterday there was a chinese restaurant that we went to it's not a sierra leone restaurant but they have steamed wontons right which is why i would prefer something steamed but they only had pork or beef i think right and so of course i would wanted the vegetable wontons steamed but they didn't happen it does limit what i can get and so like even as you can see like the bean chakra is fried right when i ask for food without meeting it there's always the like confusion like are you sure so you mean fish right okay fish and i'm like no i don't eat fish so like wait are you sure you don't want me and it's like a back and forth so that's really the issue what i would say too is the variety of fruits and vegetables are a little bit harder to come by and see early on you can get them they might be a little more expensive and you have to know where to go to get them but unlike in the west where you walk into a grocery store and there's a section for fruits and vegetables i don't know if it's like that in india yeah we do okay so here sometimes there stands outside or you have to go elsewhere to go find a local seller because they usually because there's not the best of refrigeration services usually those things are picked freshly the day before maybe two days before and then brought to town and then you have to buy from those people who are those vendors food is so good i can't even i can't it is really good for the conversation this is this is the thing it's challenging to eat and talk good guys i'm telling you like the food is so good the most sort of mainstream perspective that i had was unfortunately through the movie blood diamond and i don't think that is a good reference at all period oh my god but it's a good movie though it's a great movie yeah but if you're moving to sierra leone like that's not what you should be recognizing right right
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