Exploring the neighborhood, exploring new foods!

Jonathan asked a great question - what is the first food I've had that we don't eat here. Last night, I went exploring with two school librarians from Seychelles, an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa (near Kenya, where we helped create a school library!). We walked past shops, saw a wedding party and had dinner. To answer Jonathan's question, the first food I ate that I haven't had before is Kuzu Paca (trotting feet soup). The broth was delicious - full of garlic; the “trotting feet” - I think their purpose was to give the broth flavor! This morning for breakfast, I had a few more new things including grape molasses, which I put on my yogurt (delicious!), turkish scrambled eggs, turkish sausage, chicken ham and dates still on the stem.

We walked around the neighborhood of Sisli near our hotel. Here are some of the things we saw.