South Africans love their meat..

In these last few weeks I've noticed in the grocery store more variety in terms of meat, lots of meat dishes at restaurants..just more meat in general than in the States. Not to mention they have Braiis (BBQs) every other day here! Well, this past Saturday, a group of us from Jubilee went to Mzolis, a massive meat restaurant in Gugulethu, a township on the edge of Cape. Myself, along with 3 new Fyp-ers (frontier-year project, a intern program run through Newfrontiers that serve the Church), were first-timers, and those who had gone before couldn't wait for us to experience it!


So we get to this township, and its packed with outside tables, live music, and lots of people wearing yellow hats. There was a stage where people could get up and dance, and man, the people here have serious moves! When it came to ordering, you go to this counter inside loaded with raw meat (vegetarions, stop reading here). Chicken, pork, beef, lamb, sausage..you name it, it's there. You pick out what you want and how much you want, and they put it in a big bowl. You then take it back to this insanely hot Braii room, where these fun guys take it and fire it up. 20 minutes later, I was carrying out a big bowl of cooked meat. And then you eat! It was incredibly messy but incredibly good. You had white pieces of bread you used as "plates", but you just dive in. It was a very cool cultural experience; there were all kinds of people there!


After we ate and watched more dancing, Liam and Holly (2 Fyp-ers) and myself wanted to walk around a little bit. We could only go down the street, however, before we started feeling unsafe and headed back to the crowd. It was crazy how a packed event could be going on, but just a block away could be really dangerous. All in all it was a really neat and fun event! I think I'm set on my meat eating for awhile now though...

*side note* I was gonna put pictures on here, but it takes awhile to upload with this bandwidth internet...you'll just have to look at them on facebook :)