Saturday
4:57pm (40 minutes - early thanks to Franz and Tjark, I remembered to check the
flight details of qatar online!) Sebastian arrived in Cape Town! I rented a car
for our road trip this week, so I could pick him up from the airport J. I managed quite well driving left!
I actually caught myself checking the street the right way: right-left-right,
not left-right-left like I trained my whole life. So I am adjusting to South
Afican traffic!
For his first night here I wanted to go out get African food (he didn’t like the idea that much, because he hated the African food he had in his year studying in Paris). I had read in my guidebooks about the African Café quite close to where I live and wanted to check it out. (Even my housemate told me not to go there, but I didn’t listen…). We thought about Addis in Cape, a nice Ethiopian restaurant close by, but I wanted to go to Cafè Africa. So we did.
To get to know African food it is actually quite good! It’s an all you can eat menue, where you get to taste everything on the menue and you can order more of whatever, if you wish. The first few courses where nice! Differently baked dough, Egyptian with chick peas, little other baked things. The main courses where exactly like Sebastian remembered them from Paris. For me all of them were too hot, for I can’t eat hot-spicy stuff at all. I tried everything, but I couldn’t eat much. And we were nearly full of all the starters we had before. The desert was very nice anyway (carrot-ginger cake).
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| African Café Vegetable Soup |
For his first night here I wanted to go out get African food (he didn’t like the idea that much, because he hated the African food he had in his year studying in Paris). I had read in my guidebooks about the African Café quite close to where I live and wanted to check it out. (Even my housemate told me not to go there, but I didn’t listen…). We thought about Addis in Cape, a nice Ethiopian restaurant close by, but I wanted to go to Cafè Africa. So we did.
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| Ethiopian Iab Cape Malay Dhal Curry in Roti African Café Cassava Bread Botswana Seswaa Masala Xhosa Imifino Patties |
To get to know African food it is actually quite good! It’s an all you can eat menue, where you get to taste everything on the menue and you can order more of whatever, if you wish. The first few courses where nice! Differently baked dough, Egyptian with chick peas, little other baked things. The main courses where exactly like Sebastian remembered them from Paris. For me all of them were too hot, for I can’t eat hot-spicy stuff at all. I tried everything, but I couldn’t eat much. And we were nearly full of all the starters we had before. The desert was very nice anyway (carrot-ginger cake).
So they did
give us an impression of African cuisine indeed. But it was horribly touristic…
All the other guests beside us where obviously tourists, too. If the language
didn’t give them away than the reaction to the dancing and singing staff. And
yes. The waiters started singing, dancing and drumming after they brought us
the mains. Tiny room, tourists, drums and black people singing African songs….
I seriously thought it would have better to listen to Sebastian or Bukle – and
it was pretty expensive, too!
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