I was invited to a luncheon hosted by South African Tourism last week on Halloween. I’m glad I didn’t wear my Transformers mask, because no one else was dressed up. I did wear my keyboard tie and mummy pin, just in case. I blended in fine.
So the point of the luncheon was to “celebrate the rich and vibrant culinary culture of South Africa” and share some South African cuisine. I’ve never had South African food. Well it turns out South African food is influenced by many other countries. Here you can read about it at Wikipedia. I was never good at reading something and putting it back into my own words like we had to do in school reports. I’m not sure what the point of that was.
They brought in award-winning Chef Wamukelwe Zuma to show us how to make and feed us Chicken Bunny Chow, Beef Bobotie and Cinnamon Koeksisters. Nice guy. From the heart.
The Chicken Bunny Chow was the best because of the name. It was like a mild Chicken Curry Sandwich. No bunnies are in the chow though.
The Beef Bobotie was a minced meat pie in bowl. The filling is similar to the minced meat in an Australian meat pie.
Cinnamon Koeksisters are fried braided dough sticks. Nice. Kinda like elephant ears. I liked this one with the Amraula ala Angliase.
In conclusion, South African food rocks. Shit, I sound like I’m writing a 5th grade school report. “In conclusion…?” fuck. I should of wore my Optimus Prime mask.
Continue on for the recipes that I just copied and pasted from the thumb drive they gave me.