First of all the plane ride to Dubai on Monday night/Tuesday they gave us some food similar to what we could have in Dubai: chicken and potatoes made slightly different than we would in America, hot mushy spinach, cold bean salad, custard with berries and granola.
Since we didn't have an immediate connecting flight Tuesday night out of Dubai to Nairobi, Emirates Airlines policy was to put us up for the night, and breakfast was included. There was a great buffet the night before with Arabic Bread (flat bread), baclava, bean salad, pasta noodles, meat stew (beef or goat???) rice, fresh fruit, potatoes mashed then fried.... The breakfast buffet had scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, fresh juice, sausages, fresh fruit, breads, and probably more I can't remember....
In our hotel in Nairobi we had similar food at supper and breakfast, but there was an amazing orange-ish sweet bread - so good!
We are at Dan's Hotel in Kisii, Kenya, from Thursday through checkout Wednesday morning - 6 nights! Our favorite waitress so far is named Happiness! Lots on the menu here: meat (or vegetable) samosas (deep fried triangles with ground beef and onions inside), greens like spinach or kale or collards, chicken or beef pilau (rice pilaf) or biryani (spicier rice), choma (goat, which isn't half bad!), mandazi (tastes like a donut shaped like a triangle), ugali (white corn breadlike but solid), and more rice mixed with stir fry meat / veggies.
(I think I could make a pile of all of the rice I ate this week and it would be more rice than I have had in the past year!!!)
The breakfast buffet here is good: very flat pancakes with slight lemon zest, omelettes, hard boiled eggs, tea, warm milk, fruit - usually watermelon and bananas and some pineapple, fried potatoes, and I forget the name of the boiled/fried bananas that taste like potatoes..... The past 2 nights there had been recorded music with a neat Kenyan playing trumpet along! He told me tonight that he wants to play jazz in America! He also told me that former President Obama is in our town of Kisii tomorrow....
Oh yes - we also had a nice meal at the home of Pastor Enosh yesterday - rice, ugali, and goat stew.
Other teams or my own - please chime in if I forgot anything that I should have remembered or if you have food experiences to share!
If you have read this far.... PLEASE feel free to comment on this or any post! We are so glad to be able to share our experiences with you all, and we would love to hear back your thoughts or encouragement or prayers that undoubtedly continue on our behalf!
I pray that all three teams continue in good health, safety, and much success as they sow the seeds of God's Word to all we meet on this trip!
In Christ Jesus our Savior,
Phil Strike - Team Kenya
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