Mrs Dee's Corner - Nigerian Tribes And Their Delicacies

Every tribe has that one food that sets them apart and is often served to welcome guests ........

Back then in school hostel, my roommate from Ethiope in Delta state used to prepare Starch and Banga soup on some weekends, and even though we tasted the soup, none of us in the room was brave enough to try out the starch despite her preachings. 

We all stuck to the popular yellow eba.


Some parts of the Eastern states offer guests African salad as an appetizer and my traditional marriage was no exception.

My hubby had a taste of the worst food of his life on that day, and till now the memory still haunts him. His was not the typical African salad, but the more traditional one of utazi (very bitter kind of leaf) African spinach (akwukwo ańara) and the seed (mkpuru ańara) another very bitter fruit. As if that was not enough, it was garnished with bean oil (ugba) , another food he had never tasted and a big dry fish he didn't know how to tackle without messing up his outfit. To crown it all, the meal was stark cold.


Hubby was conscious as the man of the day not to pass the wrong message by refusing the meal, so he took a spoonful and nearly spat out the mixture of bitterness in his mouth. 

 As he chewed, he was visibly struggling not to puke, so I had to tell one of the ladiy serving the food to retrieve the food from him. He was so relieved.


I am not picky about foods, but the one food I will never try to eat again, not to talk of preparing is groundnut soup. At first, I found it strange that a regular snack could be used in food preparation, and even after I finally ate it, the taste kept coming to my mouth each time I belched. I hated the taste of it and swore never to eat it again....

Is there any Nigerian delicacy you ate and like?or didn't like?

*Who can separate me from Amala and ewedu soup with gbegiri with goat meat that has body odour?chai!!!!