>>2856434
Need the redpill on what there is to do there

>>2856434
>cuisine is top tier
Why did you post a pic of chicken, rice and banana then?

>>2856454
It looks nice but it also looks like the kind of food I cook at home every night

>>2856459
if you don't fry your own bananas, you can't flex.

>>2856494
If you fry the bananas before throwing them at players in UEFA-sanctioned matches, will you still receive a stadium ban?

>>2856454
not OP but I have been there. Their method of seasoning isn't really subtle, but they are clever with their peppers, usually habanero, and can make boring veggies pretty nice. I like one thing they do when making thieboudienne (fish stew) which is to deliberately burn the seasoned rice and then use those caramelized crispies to top the dish. Also the soft drinks they make and sell in the streets in recycled coke bottles: minty hibiscus, fermented cashew juice, sweetened baobab milk, shrivel-your-nuts strength ginger ale.
Go down to any beach in the country and someone will try to feed you some kind of fish.

>>2856515
Is it the kinda place you get sick easily?
>recycled coke bottles
I'm guessing shit like this is hard on the stomach, as i guess they're just washing em out?
Or is it generally quite hygeinic?

Also, do you know if a Senegal (or Mauretania) to Ghana trip is viable oveland? Or realistically a hassle? I've heard African land borders are ogre.

>>2856519
I dunno mane I drank tap water up and down west africa, only got sick a couple times in Morocco but that could equally be the food. Like I'll buy bottled water for general consumption, but I won't refuse to drink when someone hands me a glass of something.
I never been to Ghana but overlanding there is of course viable, in fact much the better way to travel. Many visas are difficult to obtain in your home country, but easy to obtain locally, for example you can get the Bissau visa in just a few hours at the embassy in the Casamance. Unfortunately Mali is shut down thanks to the orange man, so you're stuck navigating the jungle nations and their strange ways. Morocco and Senegal require no visa; Mauri is easy to get visa at the border.

>>2856515
>>2856434
Sounds really nice but what does one actually do in Senegal, beyond eating and roasting on the beach?

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>>2856605
That's about it; I'm curious whether OP is going to elaborate on what he meant.
I liked it so much I went back a 2nd time, but I can't really explain why. It's a very comfy country but it isn't special at all; no megafauna or anything like that. It only stands out because it isn't a corrupt shithole like everywhere else. That's why it's often listed with Ghana as "Africa for beginners"

>>2856434
>cuisine is top tier. J
do they even eat vegetables here?

>>2856619
do you speak french there?

>>2856434
What do they charge white people for lodging & dining over there? Is it at least cheaper than Panama or Colombia? Being a non-French speaker would make it difficult to talk with people, I assume.
>>2856530
Water offered at restaurants is usually filtered.

>>2856454
You laugh but it's way better than it looks, as a born and raised white guy from america we just can't compete when it comes to making good food. It's really good and I like it a lot. It tastes better than most anything I could think of back home, African culture really knows how to make good food.

>>2856434
Can OP or anyone else tell us more about Senegal? I might go get an ESL job there.

>>2856619
>It's a very comfy country but it isn't special at all;
Based on your picture, I can see what you mean and I mean that in the best possible way. I'd love to chill at a place like that for a few days assuming the food is good.

>>2856641
They know how to make the best everything. I was looking at their wedding videos recently and they have such beautiful fabrics and outfits.

>>2856656
>was looking at their wedding videos recently and they have such beautiful fabrics and outfits
Brother, what?

>>2856434
>unproblematic
Totally agreed. Senegal is great. Lots of laid-back, cool people.

>>2856642
They have the best democracy in West Africa.

>>2856633
Only problem is it's expensive. Very expensive..

>>2856692
>They have the best democracy in West Africa
Who gives a shit? I'm not a fucking think tank

>>2856434

Their average IQ is low and act and talk like retards.

You may feel at home there.

>>2856698
Do they reddit space?

>>2856696
Me.

>>2856620
In the inland villages no there are very few vegetables or meat, people generally eat peanuts and rice with little peppers.

>>2856621
Of course. Only tourist touts will speak English, and the odd Ghanaian immigrant.

>>2856633
Transport cost is about on par with Colombia. I think the least I paid for a hotel was $30/night, and that was in a backpacker town. Otherwise I camped because I'm not paying $50 for a dismal hotel or a glamping hut. Most tourist infrastructure is geared toward wealthy German overlanders, not backpackers. Beer still costs a dollar though.
>Water offered at restaurants is usually filtered
fuckin kek not here it isn't.

>>2856656
you fucking what

>>2856694
Looks like it's inconvenient as a stopover between the USA and South/Southeast Asia as well, with at least two African layovers required between Dakar and Mumbai/Bangkok and one layover required between NYC and Dakar for a minimum multi-city fare of $800.
>>2856763
Why can't they grow veggies? Too much work? Yeah I guess Africans drank out of mud puddles only a few decades ago, so even chlorinated river dreck is good water to them.
>tourist touts
Can't stand their insolence in demanding my attention.
>camped out
Was it hot at night?

>>2856657
Some of us really appreciate seeing women who don't get tattoos and stuff their fat rolls into a pair of stretch pants, but rather dress like a proper lady in traditional attire.

>>2856766
>watching wedding videos for ladies' fashion. Give me an hour and I'll still think if nothing gayer

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>>2856454
>>2856494
>>2856497
>calling plantains bananas

>>2857001
I really wanna get together a Senegal post-punk/alternative band called Plaintains DC. Tracklist including:
>Ba na na
>Dhaka down the line
>Fryvourite
>Boys in the Banana Land

>>2857004
is Dhaka in Senegal? why do i always get it confused with Bangladesh

>>2857058
ah it should be Dakar. good catch.

>>2856653
I'm glad you understand. Sitting under a baobab in a village courtyard looking for cool bugs is never a waste of time. And you're close enough to nature you can bail out any time you get tired of the chocolate-faces.

>>2856454
you dont like chicken rice and banana?

>>2857513
africans are living proof you don't need to eat vegetables to survive

>>2857521
Plaintains count as vegetables though.

>>2857537
are they, they're literally grass seeds, same as wheat

>>2856434
What about the fucking women? Is /trv/ collectively castrated? T

>>2857711
the beautiful women are in east africa

>>2857712
Somalia is part of E Africa for reference.

>>2857521
Wtf are you on about retard? 95% of African foods are starch+vegetable stew

>>2857923
For me, it's cassava. Underrated starch.
>You were warned
Fuck jannies.

>>2856641
Thinking America is the reference for good food, fool

On the scale of quality of food you're in the same shit tier league as Senegal and West Africa. A slightly edible banana and tasteless fufu is not a cuisine

>>2858403
Can confirm. Industrial farming the land for 100 years means food is tasteless Grown for growing fast.
In thruth good food and good cooking in america means food so overpowering in taste you can't taste the ingredient. It may related to why people slather steaks in ketchup.
This extends to mexico too. Most restaurant food is almost deep fried.

>>2858544
>Industrial farming
we are trying to outsource that to mexico and peru now and stick to growing corn and basedbeans. requires less labor for picking. so maybe we will start getting good veggies again soon.

food sucks in west Africa because poverty and lack of supply compound each other. Chinese factory ships plunder the oceans so badly locals are reduced to fishing with gill nets, which means that fried fish you are eating was dead in the water for 3 days. River fish are all tainted with mercury from illegal mines, tasty though they may be. Normal meat animals like goat or chicken are too valuable to be eaten unless they’ve died of old age. Palm oil is used in great quantities and with a disgusting zeal. As for seasoning, although as I said earlier they do have a knack for flavors, Maggi seasoning cubes are cheaper than local spices, so they use that to season everything, absolutely everything. Tastes nice but not exactly subtle.
If you want quality, heart-warming home cooking go to Morocco and make friends with someone whose mother can cook; their cuisine isn’t tainted by globalism and all the produce is locally grown.

>>2858544
Just grow your own organic veggies bro it’s not hard
For the record, I’ve ordered quality steaks at nice restaurants abroad, and I’d still have put ketchup on if given the option, the reason being ketchup is tasty

>>2858544
>>2858637
I can't believe you people eat steak with ketchup

>>2858637
>Chinese factory ships plunder the oceans so badly locals are reduced to fishing with gill nets
you do know that all countries enjoy 200 miles exclusion around their coasts right?

>An exclusive economic zone, as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind. It stretches from the outer limit of the territorial sea out 370.4 kilometres from the coast of the state in question

>>2858714
>you do know that all countries enjoy 200 miles exclusion around their coasts right?

yeah and the Chinese are like "fuck you what are you gonna do about it stupid African nigg country you don't even have a navy "

>>2858714
Chinese ruthlessly violate those borders with their fishing fleets. They turn off their transponders and dive in and bring hauls back to their factory ship.

If you are chink shill don't reply to me I don't want to hear your propaganda.

>>2858713
I don't believe people really do this, or at least not that enough people do it to be worth talking about. I think it's just a meme and I can't be convinced otherwise.

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>>2858714
lol dipshit I've seen them with my own eyes. I used to go out in the boats with the guys in cap skirring and you could almost hit the factory ships with a rock they were trawling that close, big fucking tankers with -- this may surprise you -- chinese writing on the hulls. and I guarantee we weren't 200 miles offshore in our 20-foot canoe. There must be a special classification for the level of retardation needed to think your greentext laws are gonna apply in Africa, esp. where the Chinese are concerned.

>>2858780
if they are there, it's because the national government of whatever shithole you are talking about allows it

>>2858780
ig fucking tankers with -- this may surprise you -- chinese writing on the hulls.
you probably did see chinese boats coming in towards port to resupply or deliver shipments, but you were probably too retarded to tell what kind of boats they were

>>2858835
>>2858836
Wumao shills. Actual vermin.

They are in every thread, every board, every website. An army of little faggot slant dorkers who will "correct the record" in favor of China.

It's so disgusting. Putrid vermin shitting up everything with their bullshit. Just like Indians, the only thing you can really do is mete out collective punishment to other random nationals you meet irl.

Know this wumao turds: your abhorrent violation of our spaces will henceforth be met with corporal punishment to Chinese citizens abroad in the form of beatings.

>>2858870
Calm down dude.