Amazing Tanzanian Food - Coconut Fish Curry (Mchuzi wa Samaki) and Ugali in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

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For this delicious Tanzanian food, here's the restaurant you need to go to: Dar Es Salaam is the largest city in Tanzania, and it's a city that attracts people from around the country. For this reason there's a great variety and mixture of Tanzanian food and restaurants that serve some of the best African food you'll find anywhere in Tanzania. One of the typical home-style restaurants in Dar Es Salaam, actually has no real name, but it's referred to as the Scouts Canteen, probably because it's located on the Boy Scouts of Tanzania campus. It's kind of a bar, but during lunchtime, Mama Theopiste, as she's known, shows up with pots full of local food that's sure to satisfy. People begin to break for lunch, filling up on huge plates of Tanzanian food. Today I decided to order a fish known as mchuzi wa samaki, which basically translates to a fish curried in coconut milk. Even though we were by the sea, the fish is actually from the province of Mwanza, Tanzania, next to Lake Victoria. The fish, known as a sato fish, is similar to a tilapia. The fish was made into a thick and creamy coconut gravy spiced with spices and tomatoes and onions. I ordered my mchuzi wa samaki along with the staple of East Africa known as ugali. Ugali can be made from a number of different flours, in this case from corn flour, that's cooked with water until it becomes a blob of cornmeal mush. Ugali is the starch and filler of the meal and it's served throughout Tanzania. I do like ugali, definitely not more than rice, but it does go well with sauce, especially that creamy coconut curry sauce and the fish. The Tanzanian food at Scouts Canteen was pretty delicious, and after chowing down on my lunch, I could barely resist taking a long nap, my stomach full to the brim. In Tanzania, definitely sample mchuzi wa samaki, African fish coconut curry, and you can either eat it with ugali or with rice. Price - 5, 000 TZS (3) full plate The Tanzanian food served at Scouts Canteen is a great place for a seriously filling lunch in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and the food is always prepared fresh by Mama Theopiste - she's friendly and cooks well
Date: 2019-08-19

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Comments and reviews: 10

protdeaf
lol that guy looked like he was gonna throw up. Mark, we know you love these food you eat during your journeys, but I wonder how does your wife like them? Because as far as I know, Thai people are very strict with their sense of taste and not very keen to different tastes other than Thai cuisine. At least, the ones I know were like that. Also, great video, as always
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aditya menon
The wash hand service is a cool idea; ) Btw - be careful when you say African, referring to the continent as one whole - I've seen some netizens flip out over it. AFRICA IS NOT ONE NATION, they scream. Just fair warning before you get hate comments. The point of the video, the fish, was awesome, as usual: )
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some one
That meal looks so good. Thanks for showing us so many different cuisines and the proper way to enjoy them. I really love the art of eating with one's hands. Truly beautiful occasions and you are a very respectful person Mark. You appreciate your life and you are a beautiful person. You are also very funny.
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Siddiq
i like your attitude to african food and every other kinds of food, many ppl are like ehw u eat with your hands and it looks disgusting but you respect the food as it is and the eating manners of each Culture and thats what i like about you, thanks for sharing your experience mark.
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TameTusker Silly
Whenever you enjoy a meal from Thailand, Korea or India or Tanzania. I go through the meal in my imagination and that brings a biggggg smile on my face: ): )I love the way you enjoy your food. you are very nice and informative. thanks a ton for sharing: ):: ): )
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HelloMissD
I just found u on YouTube and I'm very glad about that Your Videos are very interesting, because I love food and traveling too: -) Have u ever been to vietnam as well? I'm actually from Saigon and would love to see some good food there. Much love from Vienna
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Rolf Saitoti
I am half norwegian and half Tanzanian. And my mom makes this once a month, but she uses chapati instead of ugali. Its delicious Im so grateful that my tongue likes food from two different cultures, lol my friends cant eat nothing without complaining
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christina oh
lmao, I usually turn the tags off, I wouldn't even have noticed the drunk guy until you pointed him out: ) Had to watch this one twice, once for the food & you, then the food, you and the drunk dude lol. Thanks for sharing, I love all your stuff.
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Lanna S
my seconds favourite part of the videos apart from the exotic foods are the video bombers that just stare and smile at the camera like it is a foreign object from the future hahas: ) love it. so many different cultures, how do you keep up with it all?
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Lynette Thompson
Ong o love your shows am from the na south andros Bahamas but I live in Nassau Bahamas you need to pass here you will love the food trust me pls and when you come go to the fish fry the doc our what ever you will enjoy
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