Chips Mayai - You'll Love this Tanzanian French Fries Omelet

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1

One of the favorite junk foods in Tanzania is known as chips mayai, basically translating to chips and eggs. You can get more info here: As the name suggests, chips mayai (also sometimes known as chipsi mayai) is the basic combination of fresh chips or French fries wrapped into an egg omelet and fried in lots of oil. If you're ever in Tanzania and notice a big black wok sitting outside a restaurant with a fire underneath it and bubbling oil frying chips, you can be certain they serve this classic dish. To make chips mayai, the French fries are first fried. Normally the potatoes of cut in quite large pieces, and then fried until a golden yellow in color. East African style chips are not overly crispy, they are a little on the soggy side, and that's the reason why chips mayai works so well. So after the French fries or chips are finished cooking, they are thrown into a frying pan, and a couple of eggs are thrown on top. The result is the ultimate omelet that's hearty and very unhealthy, but it definitely tastes pretty decent. For this particular food video, I (Mark Wiens, was in Dar Es Salaam, and stopped at a small street food restaurant stall in the Upanga neighborhood. Feeling a little bit hungry, I decided to just order chips mayai. It just took a few moments, and my plate was delivered to me in all its glory. The Tanzanian omelet came served with a pile of salt on the side and also some fresh chilies. Also, the dish wouldn't be complete without a good dousing of East African style tomato sauce, which is similar to ketchup but a little more transparent and a little sweeter. Overall, chips mayai is a little on the plain side, but it tastes a lot better when it's combined with the chilies, and covered in the tangy tomato sauce. Chips mayai is not my overall favorite food in the world, and it's far from being even close to a healthy snack, but it is one of the comfort Tanzanian foods and it's widely available anywhere you travel in the country
Date: 2019-08-19

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Comments and reviews: 8

PandemoniumMeltDown
Damn Mark, junk food, really? How can natural, fresh quality ingredient end up into a dish worthy of the qualificative junk after being prepared like this? Second weak video after Zanzibar Pizza. Not bad average still. You should go back to these places and make ammend and fix those weak videos I've seen you eat US crap food and say nicer things to avoid offending people who had nothing to do with the preparation of said US junk food.
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MrDefend0r
Mark Wiens your videos are the best food videos on youtube I am going to Lahore in March to eat Chapli Kabab, you should try it in Peshawar, its their speciality. Do you have eastern genes? You dont look 100% european or western.
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Shorsh Osman
i love the way you eat those foods, you have a very special technique and that is make me waiting for your new videos all the time, God bless you and help you to visit more country
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geoff2204
Folks. What we have just witnessed there is one of the great hang-over breakfasts of all time. Next time I overindulge I know what's going in my frying pan.
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Srujan Chunduri
Hi Mark. Could I know where is that restaurant located exactly in Dar es Salaam? I live in Dar I might go there and taste it as well.
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Gwen Salador
i grew to love mark wiens work he really just eats about everything on his way not just popular destinations etc a lil of everywhere
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Kirien Sangha
I love me some junk food but even I'm dubious about this one. I look forward to cooking it up though. Thanks for sharing: -)
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Greg Austin
I love fries and I love fried eggs, but put them both together for a dish and you better Believe I am going to devour it.
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