During service year in Sokoto 2007/2008. There are a number of Mai Shayi joints around City Campus area I used to visit to take hot tea, plus suya and sometimes indomie in the evening, while sharing banters in my smattering Hausa.

There's a 'resident' mai shayi in the hostel where i stay and it's fair to assume that at some point in their lives everyone in that hostel has had dealings with him. Although his sanitary standards are comparatively decent i haven't and don't intend to ever have the tea he makes, but his omelets are simply irresistible. He makes the omelets so well you'd be tempted to have one framed and hung on the wall for your visitors to admire. Thankfully, the enticing aroma effectively dispels such thoughts. The eggs are usually made into sandwiches, a snack the students have given the bizarre name of 'Risky Burger'.

His name is Magaji, and in what is probably acknowledgment of his relevance, he's fondly called Dr. Magaji. Or just plain Doctor. Who said students don't have a sense of humour?

Nigerians can eat shit,thats why most of you are very short.

my only experience with mai shayi was in university. they gats to be clean by force so SUG no go pursue them . anyway, they are fast yummy ways to fill ur tummy. indomie, suya and egg or simply bread and egg(with suya if u like). salivating already

mobf:

is this necessary? calling them pigs.smh

This is absolutely uncalled for. Never mind the poster. Such a typical example of associate Ajebota and a despicable hypocrite!

muyete:

This is absolutely uncalled for. Never mind the poster. Such a typical example of associate Ajebota and a despicable hypocrite!

Later they claim Aboki's are beheading them without reason!

Calling your fellow human being a "PIG" is a reason!

Don't start what you can't finish!

How clean is the water Mai Shayi uses in preparing the tea. Typhoid dey for town o.

How clean or hygeinic are the Suyas you eat

hbrednic:

Nigerians can eat poo,thats why most of you are very short.

i'm still trying to figure out just what you are exactly, 'cos obviously you are not human

Mai Tea.

Wow! Memories. Infact, I'm salivating now. Mai Shayi was a staple source of well balanced meals for me back in the good old high school days.
I must tell you mai shayi is a global phenomenon. I have come across a couple of them in South East Asia.
They all perform the same tea cup mixing stunts if you know what I mean.

Back in FUTMINNA students created what we called 'Suyanwich' and 'Cooling' which implied the mai shayi frying egg with bits of suya in it and performing the stunts of mixing the tea (containing half cup of tin milk) until it foams, then making sure that the foaming tea gets stuck in your upper lip with the first sip.
As he is making the tea you also enjoy listening to some Hausa music or BBC/VOA Hausa news service even if you cant speak the language. When you get to the mai shayi joint during peak period the first question you ask is mallam how many people dey for line and he will reply pour, pive that means you have to wait patiently or you leave.

You also have another kind of mai shayi who sell local viagra tea called burantashi as an aphrodisiac, which the mallams call 'key starter' shayi or network service shayi

These mallams would be experts at making espressos, cappuccinos and lattes i'm sure, if nigerians were into that kind of thing.

Typhoid dey for town o.

Mai Water.

mehn i remember jumping our school fence with my friends at night to buy their bread and egg.one of my friend got shot in the leg once by vigilante while jumping back into the school after one operation.

I grew up in Jos, and my mum had a shop in terminus market/ main market, when it was still together (beautiful market>>>>> well, so i had this mai- shayi customer that hawks past our shop daily, since i was his regular cutomer, he would always pass-by by 8am and i was always ready with my cup, his tea is always very delicious, i loved the tase with bread and butter ((((hmmmmmm!!!))) you can never go wrong but that also added to the reason i was always having typhoid fever almost evrytime.

While i was serving, i used to patronise one close by in the evening for indomine and egg, it was nice with lots of pepper. He was kind of neat though, his place was besides the officer mess where i lived for a while and he sure saved me a couple of hungry nights, when i moved away from the area after 2 months, i have not being tempted to try from another Mai suya