The BEST Street Food in Nairobi

Very good, one of the most fun things you can do on a sunny day in Nairobi is try some amazing

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, it's varied, you find it all over the city, number one on the list, something I haven't tried in a long time It's muture. also known as African sausage and then we are going to try some grilled meat called yamacha Uh, we are going to try some grilled Street maze madafu, a very refreshing drink and a very popular

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for a certain time of the night when someone It's deep drunk it's uh Smoky with kachumbari so I can't wait to have that sober too.

The first SP we are going to find mutura, okay, so this is an area with a couple of local restaurants called kibas and the kibas are like these. casual, you know the places you can get it, oh they have fish too, they might have it on this side, oh no they don't, oh I have SMY, so this is a classic type of mid-week snack night you have Between clubbing and drinking, a lot of drunks love this as a snack and then you usually add tomatoes, onions and a little bit of chili, so I asked him to add chili, which is PE in Swahili, blood pressure, okay. , okay, then you can, you can come. to this and on the corner ari drives and gets some SMY, maybe some Chas sauce, kind of nice, okay let's try it, here's the place, so basically they take the Smokey, which is like the sausage , and then they put a sauce on it that we call kachumbari is made of tomatoes, onions, then they added chili to it, which is called PE, so it's a little spicy and spicy, and then they put some Yama barbecue sauce on top.

He wants to take us to the local uh Bas, which is like a wine. and spirit, it's too early, too early later on, so I don't think we're going to have chili and mango there, so no, let's not even go for the Chom yam now, okay, so YY cha is a very meat dish common. It's like classic

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food in Kenya and Kenyans love their meat, we love our meat and we love our beer so you'll find this in every corner where you grow up so this is Sam we're trying out Sam's name Chom we'll give it to you I'm going to give.

You've got a verdict, Sam, this meat better be tasty. So is this meat beef or goat? some chicken cha too, so I can try yes, it was delicious, although I need a little salt, Sal, so I'll put it on the side m m kib Kenya m yes, oh, this is good, it's very juicy and very tasty oh wow Hey, where is it? this Sam meat this is very good meat yes solid okay I'm going to try the chicken now yes let's see if it compares she's making fun of him I'm fine the chicken is also very good do you have a secret recipe?

How do you make it smooth? It looks very soft. It's soft because I love it. Yes. I don't have one. Wow, it's fresh. The fresh meat. How do you know it's fresh. I come from the slaughterhouse. Do you look like the one? who has them, oh you cut them the way you know the meat is fresh is also how tender it is and how soft it is, almost like the texture of spaghetti, so fucking good, so this time I'll have kachumbari, okay so take a nice chunk of ugali, mash it a little bit and then have some kachumbari.

Some people take the meat first and then put the kachumbari, but I prefer to have a small cold layer before adding the meat because I want to taste the meat first, you know? lands on the tongue, okay, here we go, applause, I think I'm a traa that is predominantly eaten during celebrations, at least that's how it started well, so for example, I'm from the Kikuyu tribe during a special celebration, for example, during a wedding or as a give ceremony and it was very interesting, all the slaughter of the goat plus the roasting of the meat was only done by men until today, so whenever we have something to do, just a man can do that and then they would serve the women once the meat was ready, but the women could only eat certain parts of the goat, it is not equal, so you can eat like the heart.

I remember when I was a kid, my dad always gave me like his heart or his kidneys, um. the language was also for girls, it also depends on the age, so some older women couldn't eat certain parts, but I think in today's Kenya I think Yama is whiter. Eating it is not only reserved for special ceremonies, let's try some roasted mayo. Hello how are you? I'm fine, what's going on here? You have a roast maze, yes, I want a piping hot one, the hot one is here, then the soft one, if you need the soft one, yes, yes, so this is a children's snack. that I used to drink a lot you would have it with chili and lemon I don't know Isaac you have chili lemon I have chili and lemon all chemon everything is good ok I'm excited I'm going to try it just the way I used to do it when I was a kid, so Isaac, yes, I like that one mom, but I think I like this one better.

I love mine, really black, black, black, charred, yeah, you know that black Isaac, you know I love him. my color you love your color black is beauty I remember a lot how the boys roasting a maze on the street stood under the scorching sun, I was literally under the sun, but Isaac is very smart right under this huge tree This is a place really good, Isaac, can I put it on you? Yes please. Basically, chili and lemon is a kind of paste that you make. M, you cut, you slice a lemon, just the top of the lemon and then you put chili powder in it. a container and then you dip the chili in it, you can dip the chili Isaac so that yeah, you can see it and then you spread it on the maze or yeah, squeeze that lemon juice out, Isaac, so just give me half, let's take the bottom half, yeah , Well. the moment of truth m m it's very chewy but also soft on the tips it's quite an interesting mix the lemon chili is so good it's like spicy but also quite spicy the chili nowadays is not that spicy no I remember when I was younger it was so hot I love it when it's charred because it's even crispier, so good we just had a very good session with Isaac, he is a vendor on Cuna Road, such a humble man, it's also a very hot day today in Nairobi so I am very excited for this upcoming street food.

It's called madafu. It's actually just coconut water. Street vendors usually have something called a cocotini where they keep the mfu. So yeah, let's try a mafu. This is my favorite drink, honestly. Fresh zri. Very good. okay, let's try it very good, very, very good SP, this one is so sweet and refreshing on its own, let's try the cream one too. Okay, I'm going to have another one because I can spend time with Mal, so now he's peeling off the skin. total Spring Valley right in front of the total patrol station that's where p is to find it anytime do you deliver?

Yes, we deliver. Ah, man, this is a guy for you, so he now he's making a spoon out of the coconut. Hey, this is called Malai. What's inside, 10 outside? out of 10 and I'm so happy we ended up with mfu because honestly it's so refreshing and so sweet. I am very happy that we have mfu in Nairobi. This never used to be something you enjoyed holding your breath until you were gone. to the coast it's so hot in Nairobi that now they have mafus here, so climate change what day I'm full. It's been a good day to try different street foods, some of which I haven't tried in a long time.

We started with a bang, did the Smokey kachumbari combination, then tried yamacha with ugali and skuma Wei and kachumbari again. We also did a roast maze at Isaac's. I loved the conversation we had with him and then we ended up at Peters with madafu, you know? he is not originally from Nairobi, this is something we got from the coastal part of Kenya. In case you need more recommendations on other street food to try, we will be happy to let you know that we will guide you. Yes, the only drawback. It's just that I didn't try muta today.

I'm pretty sad about that, but I'm still looking and I'll get you mutura, which is an option for this episode. Stay tuned for more content on Kenya, we are going to be doing a lot of travel content on Kenya, in the meantime if you know any of your favorite street foods we would love to hear from you, comment below and subscribe.