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Street Food
The street food experience is a unique one and offers a huge range of options and menu choices.
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The street food experience is a unique one and offers a huge range of options and menu choices. The most apparent form of street food is that which is sold by the women known as tea ladies who mainly serve hot beverages such as tea, coffee and karkade or hibiscus tea.
These settings are most popular among groups of friends and youth. Other types of food are light snacks such as tamia or falafel and baleela, a boiled grain, as well as desserts such as bakomba, made with another type of wheat grain. Other more substantial food, such as the traditional stew dishes, are served nearer to where manual and other forms of employees work or live such as by construction sites and in central parts of Khartoum. Many traditional restaurants serve food to their customers seated outside in the street rather than indoors.
“One pound for your juice of the lemons of Bara, that arrived by plane!”
Taking a walk through the central bus station in Khartoum you are likely to hear this call by the juice sellers with their plastic buckets brimming with sweet liquid and chunks of ice bobbing on the surface. Fresh juices and snacks are the most common types of street food on offer next to transport hubs. There are also children pushing wheelbarrows selling sticks of sugarcane and roasted corn on the cob, women with baskets on their heads selling dry fruits and nuts, as well as various mixtures of condiments made from tabaldi or baobab powder, men sitting on the side of road with the popular concoction of green marrow with hot sauce, and girls with portable cold boxes selling popsicles. When it is the season, temporary shops appear selling Moulid sweets.
Other street food stalls sell basta, kunafa and basbusa sweets similar to baklava while others, strategically positioned next to bakeries, sell tamia and eggs, ready to be stuffed into a freshly bought hot loaf. Eating these impromptu sandwiches as you wait for the rest of your tamia order is a common phenomenon! It is also common to see small neighbourhood corner shops with large gourds bubbling away on coal stoves outside cooking the most popular of all; ful or fava beans. Orders of ful are placed in containers you bring with you or in a couple of plastic bags if you forget to bring one. More recently fancy food trucks selling western-style foods like burgers and chips have become very popular. Finally, the most commonly known street food experience is market food which includes grilled meats at livestock markets, and various fish options at fish markets or water fronts.
The collection of images in this gallery, showing different experiences of street food around Sudan, were taken by Zainab Gaafar and Issam Ahmed Abdelhafiez.
Cover picture © Issam Ahmed Abdelhafiez
The street food experience is a unique one and offers a huge range of options and menu choices. The most apparent form of street food is that which is sold by the women known as tea ladies who mainly serve hot beverages such as tea, coffee and karkade or hibiscus tea.
These settings are most popular among groups of friends and youth. Other types of food are light snacks such as tamia or falafel and baleela, a boiled grain, as well as desserts such as bakomba, made with another type of wheat grain. Other more substantial food, such as the traditional stew dishes, are served nearer to where manual and other forms of employees work or live such as by construction sites and in central parts of Khartoum. Many traditional restaurants serve food to their customers seated outside in the street rather than indoors.
“One pound for your juice of the lemons of Bara, that arrived by plane!”
Taking a walk through the central bus station in Khartoum you are likely to hear this call by the juice sellers with their plastic buckets brimming with sweet liquid and chunks of ice bobbing on the surface. Fresh juices and snacks are the most common types of street food on offer next to transport hubs. There are also children pushing wheelbarrows selling sticks of sugarcane and roasted corn on the cob, women with baskets on their heads selling dry fruits and nuts, as well as various mixtures of condiments made from tabaldi or baobab powder, men sitting on the side of road with the popular concoction of green marrow with hot sauce, and girls with portable cold boxes selling popsicles. When it is the season, temporary shops appear selling Moulid sweets.
Other street food stalls sell basta, kunafa and basbusa sweets similar to baklava while others, strategically positioned next to bakeries, sell tamia and eggs, ready to be stuffed into a freshly bought hot loaf. Eating these impromptu sandwiches as you wait for the rest of your tamia order is a common phenomenon! It is also common to see small neighbourhood corner shops with large gourds bubbling away on coal stoves outside cooking the most popular of all; ful or fava beans. Orders of ful are placed in containers you bring with you or in a couple of plastic bags if you forget to bring one. More recently fancy food trucks selling western-style foods like burgers and chips have become very popular. Finally, the most commonly known street food experience is market food which includes grilled meats at livestock markets, and various fish options at fish markets or water fronts.
The collection of images in this gallery, showing different experiences of street food around Sudan, were taken by Zainab Gaafar and Issam Ahmed Abdelhafiez.
Cover picture © Issam Ahmed Abdelhafiez
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