Benin

My favorite food there was Inyam Pile. Basically, what it is is it's yams and they just smash it with water and they just keep smashing it until you get almost a dough and then I always preferred the peanut sauce with some cheese and I always found that super good. I would eat that so often whenever there was a place I found it was my new favorite place to go. So that was my favorite food.

The food in Benin is actually usually, I mean it's very different. Most often they're eating rice or noodles, some sort of pasta, with fish or chicken. That's pretty common. Their staple food though, that's unique to their region is called pat. And it's basically flour boiled with water. And it makes this pretty flavorless doughy thing. And they just combine it with all sorts of different sauces. It's really weird at first, I'm not going to lie, I didn't know what to do with this. But it actually is pretty good if they get the right sauce with it. It definitely fills you up.

In Togo they call it fufu, and then in Benin they call it ingam, ingam pile is what it's called, and it's just one of the best things. It sounds super nasty when you think about it, it's like this root that comes out of the ground, it's black, and they peel it and it's white on the inside, and they smash it in this big wooden thing, and then they eat it with a peanut sauce, and with like either some sort of goat meat or goat cheese, and it sounds super weird, but trust me, you'll it, you eat it with your hands, you get super messy, but it's fantastic.