Introducing tropical food and tropical recipes to the world!
The coolest thing about Tropical Foodies is that we do not just travel geographically and explore how different people and different cultures transform the same ingredients, we also travel in history as we do get to see how past encounters or clashes
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Name: Bofrot, Boflot, Togbei
Eaten in: Ghana
Foodie: Linda
Is there a country/culture in the world that doesn’t have its version of fried dough? Ghana certainly does. The bofrot, bofloto are ubiquitous street snacks in that country. I like the doughy, chewy version with a slight tinge of nutmeg….
Name: Merveilles, chin-chin
Eaten in: West Africa
Foodie: Linda
“Fried dough” is the food equivalent of a local liquor, every region of the world has its own recipe. In West Africa, people eat merveilles or chin-chin as a snack. The small squares of deliciousness can be doughy or crunchy…
This recipe is one of these whose wow factor is almost undeserved considering how easy they are to make. Coming out of the oven, the butter bread looks gorgeous and you will have a moment of hesitation before digging in, briefly imagining it as a piece of art to be displayed in a museum. But who can resist the call of nature?…
