Favorite foods - Madagascar Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
My favorite was rice called Vadi and Saramassu, which is like a kidney bean, it's like a white kidney bean. But I liked it best when they were the green ones, they were fresh, like they'd never been dried. If you bought them fresh at the market where they'd just been grown, they had like such a good flavor because they were still green and they were still really fresh, you couldn't cook them for as long. And then I loved to put that with a lot of salt, of course, and then sausage, like pork sausage, you buy that really fresh too, and you just boil it and then pan fry it, like in some onions or tomatoes. I made that so many times, like in one area we cooked literally every afternoon, and it was just like so good to eat rice and fresh beans and pork, it was like the freshest I've ever eaten. You can get things really cheap, like I went to a market and you can spend like 500 ariari, which is a quarter, and get a whole meal that could last you the whole day pretty much. And I loved that, it was probably my favorite part of the food at least.
Video 2 Transcript
So everything has rice with it, it's called vadi. And then my favorite loke, which is just something you put on top of the rice, was probably some stuff, probably a malna, which is an eel, a freshwater eel, it was cooked, really delicious. But I also really liked ravitutu, which is cassava leaves smashed until they're like tiny, it's like a tiny little powder. It was usually served with pig, which means just the fat of the pig, but it was really good. And then there's lots of street food that I really loved, that probably was not very healthy or safe to eat, but the sambosas.
Video 3 Transcript
Malagasy people, they eat a lot of rice with just random stuff on top. They call it varisi loke and that's everything they eat. But the loke or the rice topping changes and they have some pretty good ones. They have this thing called bonziburi which literally translates to round nuts. They're bombara beans or I think they're also called ground nuts. They're really good. They kind of taste like peanut butter when made correctly, which sounds weird, but it's actually really good. Just bonziburi and chicken on top of rice.
Video 4 Transcript
Exalted in my mind is the best food in Madagascar. It was chicken with these white beans and coconut. I don't even like coconut, the flesh at least, or even the milk, but like they dilute it, they mash it up and they dilute the juice and put it into sauces and as soon as you see that on a menu, buy it because your mind will be blown. Like I don't know why I haven't really had too much of it here and it's the way they do it that's incredible. They have tons of tools to really get this uh the coconut juice out and so I bought these tools and brought them home but I can't think of any other foods because that one's just like dominating my mind.
Video 5 Transcript
I have so many favorite foods from Madagascar that it's pretty difficult to just narrow it down to one. But probably the one that I would, I enjoyed the most was something called katsakokoko. And essentially it's corn and this like coconut broth. And so a lot of times what you'll do is you'll add sugar in it. And the type of corn they use isn't like the small corn that we have here. It's almost like a feed corn that animals would have, but it's really good. And you usually, preferably you would eat it hot. But yeah, that's probably the best thing that I had in Madagascar. I mean, of course there was rice and rice and different types of uh meat and beans, but I think the katsakokoko takes the cake.
Video 6 Transcript
One of my favorite foods that we would eat, we'd make it a lot in when I was in this one province called Majinga is we would make shark and so we had like rice is like the staple of it, you know, you got rice and then we had shark that we'd cook with some some garlic and ginger and then cook that and then make like a little like vegetable thing on the side and like put all that together and we'd have that like every week because it was super good.
