“I’m a Maggi cube person"

Today our first visit was to Rwandan born, Nina Bola, film production assistant living in the leafy Nairobi suburb Kilimani. Nina cooked two of her specialties for us -a fish dish DRC style- her father is Kikongo;

 and a plantain and bean dish called Ibitoki ni bi Harage from her mother’s homeland Rwanda.

Styling ninas beans for the camera

 Nina introduced us to a pungent thing smelling amavuta y’inga. It is a type of fermented butter from fresh cows milk we hadn’t gotten to the bottom of it yet- so any Rwandese out there that know more please comment. It is a dish favoured by the Tutsis of Rwanda. Whilst cooking, Nina explained to us that Maggi stock cubes were definitely a favorite ingredient- way superior to any other brands on sale!

Our afternoon stop took us to Nairobi’s colourful Ngara market, where I was offered all sorts of colourful wares including a Kenyan husband!

Ngara market

We ended the evening with our whole team, eating  traditional Kenyan food. Good!