Where Best to Eat in Darfur

by Michael Bear · 2009-01-19 18:00:00 UTC
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A weekly (semi-weekly) guide about where best to eat in some of the various humanitarian crises and catastrophes around the world.  For the moment, thought I'd continue the focus on Darfur - last week, Paul Currion offered a review of K-2 restaurant in Nyala, South Darfur.  This week, a friend offers his opinion on restaurants in El Fasher, West Darfur:

"I can tell you there are two pizza restaurants in El Fasher, one is called Broast House and I'm not sure of the name of the other. I can check it out once I get back if you are interested. The Broast House also serves roast chicken, kebabs, chips and fresh juice (guava, pineapple, mango, et al), although from the looks of the well used and rarely cleaned squeezer, you'd be taking your chances. I've eaten the food many times and never been sick, but I haven't touched the juices (they tend to use local ice). The pizzas wouldn't impress an Italian, but are quite decent in my opinion. They have the usual suspects for toppings: vegetable, tuna, chicken and mushroom.

I haven't been to the other pizza restaurant as I heard their pizza crusts are excessively doughy, but there is an upstairs seating area that looks much more appealing than the outdoor ceramic tiled take-it-as-it-comes eating area at the Broast House. Apart from these places there are only local roast chicken and fuul (beans) joints that leave an awful lot to be desired, and little to the imagination."

Finally, as regards last week's post - two people wrote to recommend Little India, in Nyala, South Darfur.  According to one commenter:

"The Indian restaurant in Nyala has a nice courtyard and the food is quite good. Also doubles as a guesthouse. Not sure if it's still there. I forgot the name too (it's just called 'Indian Restaurant' on the map too). It's on the other side of town though so lacks the accessibility of K2 and 'the Lebanese' and was difficult to get a taxi from if you hadn't arranged that earlier."

[Street Scene in El Fasher - Photo from Robert Lankenau at www.pbase.com/rlankenau]

Michael Bear
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