For fair prices on market goods, go to Ndolis Market or One Market in Remera. The gas prices are high due to the challenges Kenya is facing right now, so be aware that transportation costs may be higher than you expect.
For great African Chai Tea, go to Le Planet Restaurant, located behind Ndolis Market in Remera. They also have a $3 buffet that gives the Novotel $29 buffet a run for their money.
Another note from my friend … her name is Christy:
“I’m yearning for a taco, but very grateful for goat meat kabobs. There is a good amount of eggs, fish with the eyeballs and skin included of course. Bananas are plentiful and so are French fries [they are a sweet variety]. Avocados are around and if you can afford it the Chai tea [I, Betty loves the African Tea] is the best I’ve ever had.
I found out that it is absolutely taboo to eat in public, meaning your car, walking around town, in a shop or anywhere that is not inside your home or at restaurant. If you make the mistake of snacking on the street, you will be starred at and asked to share.
Sometimes, I just forget where I am. Most people only eat once a day here and food is not an easily affordable item. The majority of the people I have talked to tell me that they go home for lunch and rarely eat out except for a very special occasion. It’s another learning curve day for me.
My Pastor in Rwanda confirmed this. It was such a gift for us to take him, his associate pastor, and their wives out to dinner. While on Mission in Rwanda, you may notice that the eyes of the Rwandans have a yellow horizontal line through the iris of the eye … and the whole eye is a deep, deep cream colour. This is a sign of several things, but mainly dehydration. On this trip I took with me a gift from my former teammate Jane. I told all I knew and who knew Jane, that Jane sent her love, and her wish that they all drink 8, 8 ounce glasses of bottled, purified water a day …
There is nothing from Rwandan history that can withhold your love from them.
With you holding their hand and heart they can move joyously into their future.
Then If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves an pray,
and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins
and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
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