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Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by oncolor: 5:26pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
claremont: I'm surprised anyone can talk about buying foodstuff from African Stores when someone is coming from Nigeria with all the opportunity in the world to load up on cheap and better quality foodstuff. The African stores sell egusi and crayfish in such little sachets and so expensive you wonder how they expect you to make a decent soup without emptying your account monthly. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by macmoyor(m): 5:32pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
@ all am getin the input,lots of experiences to learn from, Nija rocks 1 Like |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by coogar: 5:34pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
claremont: they don't sell a tiny tuber of yam for £10. . . . . do you buy them from sainsbury/waitrose? all y'all tight-fisted nigerians hoping to get yam at the same price they sell @ oshodi markets are comedians. for example, avilauk sell fresh tubers for as little as £3. http://www.avilauk.com/Tubers-Grains-Flours/Tubers-Plantain/Fresh-Yam-Medium i buy my african foods from this site and they are fresh and deliver to your kitchen. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by macmoyor(m): 5:35pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
lannre mix your red oil with Egusi how ? |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by Nobody: 5:35pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
coogar: . I admit that I'm spoilt o, I make about 3 trips a year. I have a family of four and 3 of us can carry 2 suitcases each and my lil' boy gets 1 piece. That is 7 pieces altogether. My hubby carries garri, he only eats Ijebu garri. I carry beans - 15kg split between my two cases. My snails and eja osan (correct dried fish) and correct dry crayfish go in one of my daughter's pieces and our clothes go in the last two cases. Shikena!!! i.e. one basket of snails and I mean big, gianomous snails sets me back 12-15k naira ( about 22 pieces) and I have bought two measly snails for £5 here once. Abeg make UK border do whatever, I no send dem jare. coogar: Claremont lives in toon town, yam na luxury for dia |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by erico2k2(m): 5:40pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
guys have you tried buying garri from Uk shops, half of ot are bare shaft theother half sand lol, my I will carry 2 sacks lol |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by coogar: 5:41pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
naijababe: [img]http://shechive.files./2010/05/1272348532_original-lol.gif?w=238&h=211[/img]
i am sure avila-uk can deliver in toon town. |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by Nobody: 5:44pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
erico2k2: Abeg help me tell coogar o. I have not bought garri in UK that does not have sand in it. Everything I bring is not contraband and I will continue to carry go. Laugh all you want cooger, if I invite you to my house for dinner once, even you will continue to beg me to continue to do my ashiru |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by coogar: 5:46pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
naijababe: you guys need to relocate to london. the african shop near me sells correct ijebu garri. no sand, no chaff. even their red beans have been carefully picked(no chaff too). they sell everything i see in nigeria(even maltina and star lager beer). |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by Nobody: 5:49pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
^ Move to London ke? God forbid bad tins o. 1 Like |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by armyofone(m): 5:52pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
Kai, this one na waya, you beat average traveler see as she do division of labor for all the travelers involved . naijababe: 2 Likes |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by Nobody: 5:55pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
armyofone: Na so my sister. When I finish my egusi soup laced with snails, eja osan and panla finish nobodi for house my dey complain |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by armyofone(m): 5:57pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
i love snails too, so i dey ya side o. |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by claremont(m): 6:00pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
coogar:Coogar, may your days be long! I never knew an online shop existed where one can order 9ja food from, and @ good prices too. BOOKMARKED straight away! 1 Like |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by Andrew3(m): 6:06pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
and you better not carry that thing yoruba call iru, it will scatter the airport 1 Like |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by juman(m): 6:20pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
I think you should go and buy the stuffs in Canada. |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by Finecat(m): 6:29pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
Don't even bother with yams, they will take it. They took mine without even entertaining any questions. |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by ayomifull(f): 7:14pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
::Andrew::: lol one of my colleagues brought iru for me from Nigeria and left it on my table in the office, by the time i came in 2 of my colleagues had gotten sick with the smell and my precious iru had to be relocated to the ground floor outside by the smoke area, my manager apologised for the relocation and i had to apologise too but i could not help laughing 1 Like |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by 2CatWoman: 7:17pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
::Andrew::: |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by Nobody: 7:21pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
infact the issue with african stores over here is seriously vexing although the ghana mkt i go to actually have very fresh and clean stuff but the price na war ordinary epa,$2 equals 300 naira abeg shei epa don reach 3hundy for naija? |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by Nobody: 7:22pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
As long as you declare what you're bringing into Canada, you'll be jest fine. It also depends on your point of entry into Canada. Some ports are more food friendly than others, and as long as you also don't carry in commercial quantities. But there are good African shops in Canada which are not expensive and which sell 'correct' stuff |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by Nobody: 7:24pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
that website only sells in uk,any for us?been searching for a while |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by Princek12(m): 7:34pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
naijababe: With that kind of cooking, will you marry me? |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by Nobody: 7:49pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
ehn, we don learn all of una tactics. make una come cross again, u go pay |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by okadaman2: 7:52pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
Shey they allow fresh Ugwu leaves? |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by premechaz: 7:57pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
@OP Besides not bringing any food here, please leave your breadi Agege accent, ara oko style of dressing and primitive behavior behind please. We are sick of you people. What are you coming here to do? Why cant you just stay in you goddamn country. Too much of you guys here anyway. And yes, like Coogar already intimated, there are African stores here, they have everything you could ever need. No need embarrassing us as a group with those smelly egusi or whatever crap you are bringing. Leave all your Senegalese, agbada, aso oke, iro and buba behind, we don't need you all to come here wearing your demeaning, dirty attire. For god sake, this is a first rate country, you need to behave like a first rate person, not licking egusi soup with your hand, and then afterwards use the same hand to "tamba.' And drop that your phocking accent ASAP. And if you are coming here to sell food, please please learn the basics of food preservation. I am sick of eating Nigerian foods and having to call out from work the following day because my diarrhea which I seldom get with other ethnic foods would not let me 'gbadun' my life. And would you please not speak your language in public, and if you absolutely have to speak your stupiddd yoruba or Ibo language, for the love of everything civil, KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN. |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by premechaz: 7:59pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
okada_man: No. Those are for animals. What is for goat, leave them for goats. What is wrong with you people? It is a phocking 19 hours flight, what do you think would happen to your ugwu leaves? There are better leaves here if you are bent on eating goat food. Just leave your dorty ugwu leaves for the goats you are leaving behind in Africa, your parents and siblings I mean. |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by flofashon(m): 8:06pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
y travel wit foodstuffs at all, haba, |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by cosemiha(m): 8:11pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
Hey, this is my opinion based on my experience, palm oil should be packed in flexible rubber bottles and padded to avoid compression/ bursting. Crayfish, egusi, ogbono, should be ground, dried and packed in nylon bags preferably double so the odour is not conspicuous. At Nigerian airports, you will be asked aboutbthe contents, they wil try to dissuade you from taking palm oil but, if it passes, great, in the uk for example, if you travel thru BA, most likely you would go unscathed but if you travel via arikair, ethiopian air, your bag must be searched, in us airports, dogs do the sniffing, but most likely your foodstuff will pass, my greatest trick, use a soft low weight bag and then wrap it all over in cellophane at the airport, nobody will you to tear it open for inspection and then odour is further masked, safe trip 6 Likes |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by Nobody: 8:31pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
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Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by thelgran: 8:33pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
you can carry anything grounded packed in a transparent bag and boldly labelled eg ur egusi labelled grounded melon and ur Ata gungun labelled chilli for easy identification. As for nija airport all u ve to do is to pay ur way thru or days b4 ur trip take d foodstuffs to quarantine office for test. |
Re: Traveling With Nigeria Food Stuffs by coogar: 8:34pm On Aug 29, 2011 |
chaircover: you are so nigerian! |
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