
Once the sun starts going down, the Forodhani Market opens in Stonetown. The locals have vendors selling chocolate bars, coffee, sodas, sugarcane juice and food. I have an obsession with these crepe-like, Chinese pancake-type pizzas there, my favorite being chocolate banana. There are multiple vendors who cook up the same pizzas, but I only ever go to this one vendor for my chocolate banana pizzas because he uses Cadbury chocolate. He has little balls of dough that he flattens and adds bananas and chocolate on top. Then he adds another flattened piece of dough on top cooks it up on a griddle until it puffs up. To finish it off he slathers on condensed milk and drizzles on chocolate syrup. It tastes AMAZING and its cheap compared to a lot of other cafes and restaurants in the area (1500 Tsh per “pizza” or about $1.50 US). Other vendors have seafood or meat skewers which they grill up for you on the spot as well as samosas, chapati, and chips (fries). This night market not only attracts tourists, but there are also many locals who know the vendors that come with their families and friends to hang out and eat together.

1 comment:
What an adventure you are having! The banana chocolate pizza sounds delicious!
Eileen
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