Popular Somali restaurant in London has some people pressed

[jemappelle]

never heard of the resturaunt before, only know about the ones i tottenham islington and harlsden

 

[Qeelbax]

never heard of the resturaunt before, only know about the ones i tottenham islington and harlsden

brothers?

 

[jemappelle]

brothers?

How do you know about that?

 

[killerxsmoke]

how old is this? and idiots will say we ate rocks

It was the year 1331, 700 years ago

 

[celidheere]

The comments were very much tame, even by the Yemenis that commented. I didn't see any name callings or insults. The absolute majority of the comments were just about the food looking amazing and asking which restaurant this was.

On another note, i'm tired of these bootlicking Somalis that perpetuate the banana stereotype. Literally all the comments are about where the banana is, not even talking about the food/restaurant in the video.

Sure, many of us eat with it (and it's indeed delicious) but many of us don't either. They act like that is an universal Somali experience. Very much a caricature that they love pushing for it so much, now all these non Somalis (both in the comments and just overall) are saying the same stuff (many who have never seen and eaten Somali food).

If you're Somali not eating moos with bariis you're lacking

 

[Yaraye]

This is how we used to eat in muqdisho

"The food of these people is rice cooked with butter, served on a large wooden dish. With it they serve side-dishes, stews of chicken, meat, fish, and vegetables. They cook unripe bananas in fresh milk, and serve them as a sauce. They put curdled milk in another vessel with peppercorns, vinegar, and saffron, green ginger and mangoes, which look like apples but have a nut inside. Ripe mangoes are very sweet and are eaten like fruit; but unripe mangoes are as acid as lemons, and are cooked in vinegar. When the Mogadishu people have taken a mouthful of rice, they take some of these pickles. One of them eats as much as several of us: they are very fat and corpulent."

"They are very fat and corpulent" looooool!

 

[OffTheDome]

too much shit in my mouth confuses my taste buds

Salad makes it worse

You guys are children fr smh

 

[backgroundISneeded]

How come you can't find this food in Somalia? They dont even eat chicken. Its considered the lower man's food, along with seafood. It was only recently that it was introduced to cater to diaspora and foreigners. Ask for chicken in Somalia just a few years ago and you'd be looked at like an alien and they would lose respect for you.

These foods are only available in Somali restaurants in the west sort of like how Chinese restaurants in China do not have lemon chicken, general tso, chicken fried rice, ginger beef. Somali restaurants in the west are the 2.0 of Chinese restaurants in the west.

The meat looks great though. I'll skip the rice, a useless food.

Where are you from ?im trying to understand your point. Where in east Africa(dhulka somalida) does what you said?

I’m from hargaysa. Chicken are expensive like hilib Geel. People eat any kind of food here. Fish and other sea foods are stable food for barbera, Muqdisho, and all other cities along the ocean or nearby.

 

[ImanStan001]

I'm eating a shawarma plate right now and the rice is going straight to the trash. What a terrible thing to put in your calool. Maybe Dinkas can control the amount of rice they eat but not Somalis. 90% of the food on their plate is rice or pasta. It's a mountain on their plate. It explains their obesity crisis and high rates of diabetes.

Take a Somali restaurant's menu to Somalia and almost all dishes will be foreign to them. Somalis do not even know what alffreedo is but it's a very popular sauce put on linguine (something else they don't know) in Somali restaurants. So many flavours on the meat that is more a fusion of western and Indian. It's great food but not Somali. Even beef sambusa is alien. Somalis dont eat beef. It's even worse in Europe. They put tuna in their sambusa. Not only is that totally unheard of in Somalia but disgusting. I warn everyone not to buy sambusa from a Somali restaurant if you're in Europe. That would be the worst betrayal ever. Luckily I had it at someones house, also a betrayal.

so Somalis don’t eat beef or any seafood so what do we add to our sambuus. ?

it’s really odd how some of you guys talk about Somali food . I’m sorry we don’t eat the same food historians talked about 1300 years ago .

 

[killerxsmoke]

Most somali food were introduced to us through trade especially from india

 

[hinters]

I'll skip the rice, a useless food.

 

[AbrahamFreedom]

Where are you from ?im trying to understand your point. Where in east Africa(dhulka somalida) does what you said?

I’m from hargaysa. Chicken are expensive like hilib Geel. People eat any kind of food here. Fish and other sea foods are stable food for barbera, Muqdisho, and all other cities along the ocean or nearby.

Hilib geel is expensive, more even so than chicken, and it's a popular meat. Why do they eat that but not chicken? Show me a picture or video of people even chicken in Somalia in their homes.

 

[AbrahamFreedom]

so Somalis don’t eat beef or any seafood so what do we add to our sambuus. ?

it’s really odd how some of you guys talk about Somali food . I’m sorry we don’t eat the same food historians talked about 1300 years ago .

The ones in Somalia, no. I'm not talking about Somalis outside of Somali lands.

 

[Prince of HS]

Hilib geel is expensive, more even so than chicken, and it's a popular meat. Why do they eat that but not chicken? Show me a picture or video of people eating chicken in Somalia in their homes.

Your correct. No one eats chicken at home in Somalia. Only family on my road that used to buy chicken from the market to eat at home were some Bantu family. Fish is also a rare commodity to eat at home but it isn’t as uncommon to see as chicken

 

[AbrahamFreedom]

Your correct. No one eats chicken at home in Somalia. Only family on my road that used to buy chicken from the market to eat at home were some Bantu family

Whenever I am on Somali platforms, people say the opposite and want to spread fake news. This is common information. Somalis like to argue for the sake of arguing. It's been very clear to me for years.

 

[Ragaasi]

You guys are children fr smh

Grown ass niggaz complaining about veggies on there plate is crazy :silaanyolaugh:

 

[Abdisamad]

Not all of us eat cambuulo for lunch.

 

[Periplus]

Arabs call it aseed, I've only seen somali Kenyans eat it and its called ugali to them

Somalis eat it also, it’s called soor.

 

[Prince of HS]

Somalis eat it also, it’s called soor.

I love soor. Especially with spinach

 

[Periplus]

I love soor. Especially with spinach

Spinach and soor is a Kenyan innovation. It’s nice but doesn’t belong to us.

Somalis eat soor with maraq, traditionally.