It's a francophone country. There are French people teeming around and loads of French restaurants. Let me tell you what we got at the restaurant in Kaolack.
One of my courses was a French onion soup. Brook said, Are you sure? And I said, Well at least I know they have crusty french bread and guyere cheese (and onions). I said, that's practically the whole soup anyway.
so the soup comes and there is no bread or cheese (aaaawwww) and instead there are 3 pieces of potato randomly in the soup. And I also found 3 slices of green pepper too. Hmm. Sure, there are onions, but I guess they substituted the toasted bread and cheese part with potatoes and green peppers. It was tasty all in all. Just a new version of the onion soup we all know and love.
Brook's main course was supposed to be a filet of Cordon bleu. It comes out as a beef pocket. I finally goad Brook to dissect his cordon bleu since he said he wasn't running into any cheese. He opens it up and finds some canned mushrooms, a couple of diced tomatoes and beef-ham slices. I did manage to point out a small nub of something that may have been cheese.... Brook said it was like a little pizza inside of his meat. I said, Yeah, it's like a calazone but without bread.
Looks like the people in the kitchen are looking to spice up the cuisine a bit for the customers. But many Senegalese wouldn't know the difference anyway.
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