Trip to Kandahar Town III

Part III-Final

Those bigger plates that you see in Part II (last picture) were grill goat meat.

In this picture, the top plate in white is really really fresh raw goat liver ............. yucks. Managed to trick Peter to take it. I forbid myself from taking fear factor food hahaha
The reddish food at the bottom is a salad dish. Tomatoes, cucumber and foul mixed together.

Fantastic taste and this was the only dish that was finished by us.




In this picture, the smaller plate at the top is actually chillis. I like it and it really burn your lips.

A plate of salad that comprise cucumber, tomatoes, onions and greenies is very common.

The blackie stuff I tried this since it was fried, the goat liver again. No smell as it was marinated with salt just now hehehe and since it was fresh it was so tender.

This is their tea stall where you have all kinds of spices that could be put into the hot tea to spice up the taste.

A good cup of local coffee or tea after a good meal would be a complete meal.

Peter was still whacking the food after two of us have gave up. Another four more local Sudanese friends joined us later.









But our Sudanese friend said we cannot take our coffee and tea yet because he has ordered a special drink for us. Oh no!

I saw them preparing this concoction. It was a mixture of one litre of 7-Up, two cans of non-alcoholic beer and fresh local yoghurt. It taste like ........ hmmmm what does it like already???? Nice cocktail. A Sudanese friend said it's Sudanese Rum hahahaha.

You are given a tin cup .... scoop up and that's yours. We looked at each other and said that we have no meetings tomorrow, so go for it. After one cup, I drank another and another. Whatever is going happen, so be it.

Then came my favourite, the hot tea for me. I'm the only one who requested for tea. It came with an incense stuff. To drive the houseflies away or to add more taste to the atmosphere ?????







This street vendor really caught my attention. The other boys brought many stuffs hanging on their neck.

This guy came with an industrial weighing machine over his shoulder. He was trying to sell it to our group of Sudanese friends.










One of the Sudanese friends said before buying we must test whether the machine is working or not. Almost everyone in the group went up to see their personal weight.

For private & confidential purpose, not revealing the name of this person's weight ...... you guess. It's in kilograms of course.

No one bought that machine anyway haha

Saw the owner was cutting up another goat to be served to other customers.















Yeah, he tried not to block my camera's view and showed me the ribs.















The other side of the Souq Nagar .... desert.











Back to civilisation after our food adventure at Kandahar town.

This is the Burj Al-Fateh Hotel. We'll be in there soon for our afternoon tea. Too expensive to have a meal in there. Could cost up to US$70 per person.

Related posts:-
* Trip to Kandahar Town I
* Trip to Kandahar Town II
Tags: Kandahar, Sudan, Souq Nagar, Burj Al-Fateh Hotel

Trip to Kandahar Town II

Part II
Many more goat meat being slaughtered 'freshly' and hung up at the stall for customers to choose their piece.

Lots of other stalls selling the same stuff and normally you'll tend to eat at the same store where you are comfortable with.

The market area where city folks drop by for their weekend meals. No proper road here ...... all desert area.

The opposite shops where they sell the same stuff.











Noticed a lady was cooking some meat at the side of our stall.















Another street vendor came in with his stuff. Products from the same country as well.















Peeked to the other side of the stall operator. More chairs and 'beds' than customers???

I called them 'beds' as you could lie down as you wait for your food or take a nap after having a heavy meal. You can't find this in Kuala Lumpur hehehe










Suddenly I realised that my fresh food was being brought to the same lady I saw earlier. She's my cook after all.

My portion was those still in raw colour on the other two hot plates. It's grill goat meat that we are going to eat.

Walked around the market area while my food was being grilled nicely. The donkey in front of me was carrying a large drum of water. Local Sudanese would just go to the drum and pick up a general cup and draw water from the small tap.

The general cup would be used by the general public (whoever) who is thirsty.

This guy was one of those street vendors too. Guess what was he selling?

He was selling cassette tapes (have not heard of cassette tapes before, go ask your older folks) and a music compo (don't know what's this? ask about this too) was blasting the music loudly.

All this on a wheelbarrow being pushed around the market. Saw two guys doing the same.

Another side of the market area as I walked around with a Sudanese friend (just in case you see).

Here comes the food yahooooooooooooo.

No fork, spoon or knife .......... bare fingers only.
What do we have here?

Part III to come .................

Related post - Trip to Kandahar Town I
Tags: Kandahar, Sudan, Libya Market

Trip to Kandahar Town I

One of those wonderful trips in Sudan. Our Sudanese friends brought us to an obscure place .......... obscure to us of course, not them. The place that we were brought to was about 30-40 minutes drive from the city centre. It located somewhere around the Kandahar town.

Not far from the city centre, you'll see desert area already. Surprisingly I saw coconut trees???

You'll see houses made out of clay bricks.

Lots of tree trunks for sale at this market area called Libya Market. Such woods came from far away places ..... maybe south Sudan.

A number of shops were selling such woods.

The main mode of transport for smaller towns. You find such mode of transport in the city centre too.

In the city centre, the locals need to pay around 0.50 to 1 Sudanese Dinar for a journey up to 400m to 500m or even further. For us, once we flag one down, we have to negotiate the fare first before we board it.

For the same distance, we would be charged up to 3 Sudanese Dinar.

We arrived at the Souq Nagar market located at the Kandahar town. Our friends brought us to this shop where they always hang out almost every weekend in 2008.

I saw the lady owner preparing a dish for another customer.










Our gang was waiting patiently for the food. This is the only place in Sudan that has such large area of many stall operators selling various kind of meat dishes, i.e. goat meat in various cooking style hehe ....... camel meat (not served and not found in this market it seems).

Customers in this market are mainly from Khartoum city. They chose this place because the food here is very fresh.

That's how the stall looks like. Simple set-up only.











While seated inside the stall area, lots of street vendors will drop in. Our appearance (foreigners) has caught the locals' attention when we arrived.

This young chap just had everything that you need.





Torchlight, pen knive, screwdriver, wallet, cigarette lighter and many many many other smaller gadgets ........ all made in China goods.

Two of the items that caught my attention.

Guess the usage for it.









Went to the stall to see how this guy started to 'cut' those goat meat into smaller pieces. They sell by the kilograms. Don't know about the pricing as our local friends treated us.

Tags: Kandahar, Sudan, Libya Market, Souq Nagar

Just Got A New Car

We finally received our new car .....












The Infiniti EX35 model from USA, the high end model of Nissan.

Personally, I have not seen this model in Kuala Lumpur before and they have it here in Khartaoum. Really amazing!











Really comfortable. You start this car by pressing a button? A person can just drive the car away without a key?

It's being retailed at US$35,450 in the USA. In Sudan, ridiculously priced just below US$70,000 ........................ totally out of control.

How I wished it was our company car .......... actually, it belongs to a friend's friend ......... sigh. That Mitsubishi Pajero in the background is ours.
Tags: Infiniti, Infiniti EX35, Nissan

Have You Eaten the Mini Lobster?

News are being passed around that such mini lobsters may carry a certain organism called Paragonimiasis.

The thing is such mini lobsters are being served as edible food in restaurants. How bad is it actually? The organism may infect your lung.

Why do they possess such organism? These mini lobsters are literally the garbage cleaners in the sewage treatment plants.


The "dirtier" the water, the fatter these mini lobsters become. Their lungs are full of worms and their flesh saturated with poisonous metals.

Somehow these mini lobsters found their ways to be marketed to eateries.

Have you eaten such mini lobsters before? I thought I have seen such crustaceans in those eateries selling food on buffet style.
Tags: Mini Lobster, Crustaceans, Paragonimiasis, Health

Things To Keep Us Sane in Sudan

Friends do ask "What do you guys do to keep yourself occupied after work?"

My colleague got another colleague (who came back to Sudan from Malaysia) to bring in this small helicopter.

Spot the heli in this picture.



This is the small heli being controlled in its flight.

Well, it did keep us occupied by learning how to control it.











And most importantly, it kept us sane.
















On Friday, which is also our off day in Sudan, we went to one of our favourite restaurants called La Pergola.

This is a simple sandwich ordered by my colleague but being a small eater he couldn't finish it and brought it back for another colleague who was sleeping during our meal time.

Fairuz ordered glass noodle but was given meehoon instead. How disappointing that they don't even inform you that they have ran out of glass noodle. By right, he should be given a discount as glass noodle is more expensive.

Nazril ordered his all time favourite meal in La Pergola, the grill beef.

Their mashed potato is definitely my favourite.







Very nicely cooked indeed, medium rare. Soft and tender.

As for me, I thought having a light meal since it was already afternoon. How much damage can a Home Made Burger would cause?











To my surprise, it was this huge. Two giant burgers. One top half of the bread bun was definitely missing but nevertheless it was so feeling that all of us didn't come out for dinner.

Yummy indeed. One burger has an egg on top of it. The other burger has a large slice of cheese on it. No wonder my weight is gaining.
Tags: Helicopter, Sane, La Pergola, Home Made Burger