Favorite foods - Ghana Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Probably the food that I've missed the most is sweet plantain boiled with an egg stew. It's called empassy and you literally like start dunking them plantains like some tater tots into ketchup. You just scoop it up and eat it with your hands. It is the best food I have ever had, honestly. It's so good. And even now just thinking about it, like, I wish, I wish I could get my hands on some of that. Man, that stuff is so good. If you get the chance to try it, you have to just request it as much as possible.
Video 2 Transcript
My favorite fruit that I had while I was on my mission was fufu with light soup. And fufu, the way that it was made was they took cassava, which is basically an African version of a potato, and plantain, and they boiled them for a while. Then they took a mortar and pestle and they pounded it to where it was just a pulp and it was very soft and mixed together. And from there, they would serve it with a soup that you would then just tear off a piece of the dough and put inside the soup and then put in your mouth and swallow it. And a lot of times there's meat served with it as well. Food can be pretty spicy. I did not like the spice at first, but you can adjust it. So if you love spicy food, you're in the right place. The hard thing though, is the gag reflex from swallowing your food. It does take a little getting used to when it comes to swallowing your food without chewing, but given enough time, you'll be able to enjoy the food that's going to be there.
Video 3 Transcript
When I got to Ghana, I think the first thing I ate was banku, which is made with the sour corn dough, fermented, mixed with fermented cassava dough, and okra stew, which is made of okra and meat, goat meat, and fish and shrimps and crabs. When I got there first, it was hate on the first sight, but after some time, I started loving it.
Video 4 Transcript
So my favorite food was something called empasi and it's boiled yam and yam is similar to a potato but a little bit harder and they boil it just in big chunks and then you take the chunks and you dip it in this soup called contombre or garden egg stew and it's basically just these kind of funky green leaves that they mix with some fish and some other little spices and things and it's a really really good soup or I guess stew that you just dip it in so I really really loved the empasi.
Video 5 Transcript
So my favorite food was coconte with groundnut soup, otherwise known as peanut soup. What coconte is, is pretty much just cassava flour. They grind cassava into this powder, and they will boil it, and then it will turn into sort of a dough. You'll eat it with your hands, and you'll eat it with the peanut soup, and that was my favorite food.
Video 6 Transcript
My favorite food in Ghana is rice and chicken, specifically a certain type of rice which is called jollof rice. Jollof rice, it's made by boiling rice in tomato paste and a little bit of water with seasonings and chicken and there could be hot dogs or ham in there. It's very very good. The rice in Africa is unbelievable. You'll come back to America or wherever you're from and miss the rice that you eat in Africa. It's to die for.
Video 7 Transcript
I love the food in Ghana. Oh, I love it. So much, so much, so much, so much. My favorite food is called fufu, okay? You'll learn what it is and what it's made of, but it kind of looks like bread dough and you pinch it off and you swallow it and you, so it's in a bowl and you put soup on top of it and usually there's like a meat, so like chicken or fish or beef or something that you just, it's in the soup. Fufu is my all-time favorite. Everything else just kind of falls into place. You have like different rice dishes, wache, jollof rice, rice and stew, or you'll have something called bangku. It's kind of like fufu, but it's a little bit less doughy and it's a lot more sour and you eat it with different soups. That one's okay. I mean, I like it, but that's not my favorite. And that, oh, but the fufu. My last day there, I had it twice. I had it for lunch and dinner. Oh, I miss fufu. You're going to enjoy fufu.
Video 8 Transcript
Fufu is a combination of plantain, cassava, and yam boiled and mashed. And it sounds kind of gross, but it's an acquired taste and it's super yummy. So give it a go, it's delicious.
Video 9 Transcript
My favorite food in Ghana was probably tomato stew over rice. There's a million variations of tomato stew, but when you find one that's really good, just definitely something you got to look for. Also, they have something called kiliwili, not to be confused with willy that I talked about in a different video, but kiliwili is fried ripe plantain. So it's really sweet and they just fry it up and then you eat it with like peanuts or something like that. But it's definitely one of the sweeter things that they have in Ghana because they don't have a lot of sweet treats.
