After checking into our hotel, we napped for nearly 5 hours and got up in time to eat dinner. I am a big time food lover and Ethiopian food is renowed for its rich and intense flavour. We grabbed a taxi and went straight to Habesha restaurant that also offered nightly folk dancing with your dinner.
Kat had been to Ethiopia in business trip before and knew the traditional food scene quite well. We relied in her to order us a mixed plate of goodies that including raw meat. Ethiopian food is eaten with hands. Soap and water was brought to us at the table. Shortly, a large plate with a sheet of injera which was a very thin, spongy pancake-like flat bread. Then the food was piled on top. First up was the Gored Gored, the raw meat dish mixed with spices. Second dish was called Tibs a mutton dish with thinly diced green peppers. Third dish was piled in the middle called Doro wat minced chicken curry that even came with a whole egg. Finally we topped off the plate with Shiro a vegetarian fasting food (wed & fri) chick pea dish. We were each given a roll of extra Injera, To be honest, in the very darkly lit restaurant it looked like a roll of toilet paper. We tore off a small piece of injera to use to grab a bit size of the dishes. Everything was an explosion of flavour in your month. Made out of tef, injera is very light and very sour at first bit. However, mixed with shiro and other dishes, the sour taste became not so noticeable.
Kat had been to Ethiopia in business trip before and knew the traditional food scene quite well. We relied in her to order us a mixed plate of goodies that including raw meat. Ethiopian food is eaten with hands. Soap and water was brought to us at the table. Shortly, a large plate with a sheet of injera which was a very thin, spongy pancake-like flat bread. Then the food was piled on top. First up was the Gored Gored, the raw meat dish mixed with spices. Second dish was called Tibs a mutton dish with thinly diced green peppers. Third dish was piled in the middle called Doro wat minced chicken curry that even came with a whole egg. Finally we topped off the plate with Shiro a vegetarian fasting food (wed & fri) chick pea dish. We were each given a roll of extra Injera, To be honest, in the very darkly lit restaurant it looked like a roll of toilet paper. We tore off a small piece of injera to use to grab a bit size of the dishes. Everything was an explosion of flavour in your month. Made out of tef, injera is very light and very sour at first bit. However, mixed with shiro and other dishes, the sour taste became not so noticeable.
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