Foods/Drinks
What To Know About Your Menu
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When you attend an event, how inquisitive are you on the kind of food presented to you?
When you visit a restaurant and the menu list is made available, there are options for you to choose. You may be surprised that you place order on a meal you may regret after consumption.
Some meals may appear tantalizing, but may not give the real taste you desire.
It is better to go for regular food as rice, beans, moi moi, garri and soup instead of intercontinental ones.
In terms of proteinous food like fish, meat, oporo, isam, ngolo to mention but a few, they are familiar in our delicacy in our locality.
The Bayelsa Suya (meat) as it is called may look very attractive, but you must make up your mind to chew it and like it when it is deposited in the mouth. For some, it is the best but others, it may not be.
When it comes to food consumption, it is advisable to eat what you know as the one you do not know may lead you to frequent stooling.
Foods like ewedu and Amala, gbegiri, are best for some persons especially in the western part of Nigeria.
Any food we invent, we must know how to eat such food.
When you visit Lagos for instance, you will be served with bole and groundnut. In the south, Niger Delta, you have bole and roasted fish to be eaten with delicacy such as oil and pepper source.
Meal eaten in one region in one way may be consumed in another region in a different way.
Ikpakwukwa and dog meat may be pleasant to some persons but may not be for other persons.
Okpa is prepared and eaten by the easterners. It is normally cut into pieces so it can be eaten in bits. But if you do not know, you may eat it the wrong way.
When you are invited to a treaty, where you are not responsible for the bills, that does not mean that you should eat what will cause you harm after consumption.