Quote Originally Posted by Beirut View Post
Sorry to be late asking, but can you expand on this? Would love to hear the details.

Omit no burn.
Heh, sure. I think the secret is in the local chili pepper. Green and nasty, while most spices will be hot in your mouth, and then dissipate, this chili is spicy in a completely different, nerve attacking/chemical burn kinda spicy. If you get some pepper juice on your hands, the skin will get red. Imagine what it does to your mouth and intestinal track...

Apart from that, I have been asking them to give me "oyibo spicy". (Oyibo is the local word for White man - not very polite if they say it, but they take it as a joke when i refer to myself as oyibo.) Oyibo spicy is very little spicy for their standards - at this stage i'd like to add they also abuse black pepper.

They have a variety of fried chicken recipes - most of them spicy, with curry powder (red), and the infamous chilis, a local "soup" called Okra or Okro, which they usually eat with a doughy substance called Ebo - essentially bread dough, but made in a different way. The soup is full of local herbs and leaves I don't know the name of, and has a very unusual flavour - it has a very yellow colour and is very tangy.

Another thing they have here that I love is coconut rice: it's prepared wth dry coconut powder, rice and hot red pepper. It's spicy, and eaten with chicken or beef and Moi-Moi (a paste made out of beans that may or may not be spicy depending on the cook).

Also, since there area lot of muslims here, it's hard to find pork in local restaurants, although most hotels have bacon and sausages and anything else you want.

Phew. Long post. I'll post more when i sample them...