I have had an overpowering urge for the past week to eat proper buka food. Not the type you get at New cross, I mean the proper amala that as they are preparing it, sweat is falling into it with proper abula( ewedu plus gbegiri) and ogunfe meat.

I love buka food. There was a time, that every saturday saw me at Shitta eating amala. My mother never could understand cos I refuse to eat amala at home. But apart from the amala, I love bukateria rice. In school there was one rice we used to eat, with orisiri meat. It was something else.

I do know that If I go back home, one of the first places am going to go is one amala joint on the way to my house. Every morning about 7 am, you see them killing the Ogunfe and damn does your mouth water.

I chop buka food sotay I chop one special rice for Ikenne, amala for Ibadan.

Feel free to comment and share your buka experiences

Unfortuntaley i do not have many buka experiences.

But You may want to try Tomi's kitchen on Deptford High street if you  still feel like it - i think their cooking is close to the real Nija one.

Sorry oh...

But some things are impossible to duplicate...

It's the atmosphere...

I agree with cimonJ, the atmosphere just cannnot be reproduced. For one, anybody cooking over a gutter would be closed down in an instant. Dablessed, you have really missed. Can you imagine two women, no make that sweaty women, roing amala or guing iyan with the sweat from their brows even adding extra vitamins to the food?

I think I know that place on deptford high street. At lest it might be the one I saw one time like that.

When you say Buka all i remember is my first and last time of eating in one, it happened in Osogbo *Osun state, and the more i recollect all the pain i under went, it scares the creeps out of me, "I got food poisoned !!", and from then on, i kept a safe distance from anything with the name Buka.

Jogego, this is the first time I am hearing that dripping sweat from the body of a cook adds extra vitamins to the food.

But I can see where you're coming from. You've been eating "white man's food" for so long that even unhygienic food at home now appeals to you!

LOL!! Seun so you wan talk say u no dey chop buka food? Abeg dont let them hear you call it unhygienic oh!!!! And all those bukas for central london where you will balance on bench with gutter running underneath.....oh the memory.

@Kazey, sorry oh!! You be proper butter. If you be paki you go chop the thing and your body go acclimitise one time.

Even without the "gutter" atmosphere...

One definitely gets nostalgic about sitting down with a plate of dry fish pepper soup and a bottle of star... or a plate of Nkwobi [just in case the pepper soup is not available..]

Socializing and sololloquizing with people you've never met before in your life.. all under the umbrella of "beer palour gist"...

Asking *or torturing.. rather* Mama Chi Chi for that plate of hot "tortoise"...

[I miss them dayz... I miss the fun... ]

I am happy i also have memories.

I love buka foods...but i don't see myself eating them again.

the buka food i can remember eating was the last one i had. We went to Eko IDumota with my cousins, and we were as hungry as hell. We sat down there and i was looking at those women sweating and cooking and the Amala was steaming and the smoke...(oh..i smell the atmosphere). We ate, Amala , gbegiri and ewedu with pomo and so many meats. Oh it was sweet. My best meal ever...yes, buka food. I can see the picture of how i was licking my hands that day..and oh wait.. you then order two 5 naira "pure water" ((yeah---very pure )) from the passers by. Oh it was sweet....and the pomo was strong that i spilled it on my dress...and i didn't even bother because the food was going down!!!!!

Oh buka foods are sweet....Anyone want to enjoy buka food, bye Amala gbegiri and ewedu. I never knew gbegiri was sweet (that was the first and last time i ate it, i am willing to eat it again---i heard it's beans ).

Oh there's this other day where my aunt bought buka rice home, the rice was with beans and the stew was sweet. I ate and ate till there was no grain of rice on the plate... (oh you thought i was going to say till i could eat no more uh?? Hell NO) I finished the whole plate.

I must agree i love buka foods...but the thing is I didn't eat much buka foods while i was in Naija, but from the memories i have, buka foods are great, but like i said ealier, i don't see myself eating them again.

Please try amala and gbegiri and ewedu..it's sweet.

Hnmmm Idumota, damn Hotangel, you brought some more memories. I used to work somewhere on Nnamdi Azikiwe street, and there is this car park on Martins street( I think) where there are some women who sell Saro rice. That is jolloff rice that has been cooked till its somehow burnt. I remember my Manager didnt like us eating it in the office cos the smell lingers.

But the minute she steps out, we send someone to buy it and rush it b4 she comes. Once she enters, she goes " Talo ti je rice jijona ni ibi" Who has eaten burnt rice in here.

I think the rice is sold in leaves. Remember the leaves used for for making moin-moin

And who remembers the dundun and dodo - fried yam and plantain? The sauce for that thing is hnmmm outta this world

Jogego.. You make me cry. I ain't taste that kinda rice before.. but talk about dun dun and akara and plantain. why these memories now. I tried frying dundun here and it didn't work. it tasted like poti.

Just come to Fingerlicking in Houston,and you go think say na Broad street u dey.Enough buka food!

Hell NO loma. My dad was talking about somewhere like that in houston(i am sure it's the same place u r talking about) he said the food is still like ordinary home made $h!t. They don't pound their yam, they still use the flour thing.

we have several places here,dont think thats where he is talking about,Better still,come visit me make I pound original iyan and efo elegusi for you!

yeah right.. What are you going to pound it with?? You erm.. (you know).

Big pounding stick and mortar.U never see am for this side?

I haven't seen punding stick and mortar here. Do you really think people do that? American house's aren't strong you know?

If you live in a home,just go to the back of your house,and pond, no wahala.

true talk. But where's the strength?

Sometimes condition put you into things especially when you are a student at a university.You are broke and need to feel your tummy just go to the nearest buka and get the best and exotic nigerian dishes at affordable price.YOU FEEL GREAT

Hnmmmm. talking about buka food, the fact that i work on the island (broad street) in lagos makes it very easy for me to enjoy the buka stuff - there is this place called under bridge in Marina - am telling you just the site of the amala, ogunfe, eja dudu will make u go gaga. come and see how Bank Executives que for amala and abula soup.

Hot-Angel, gbegiri is made from beans.... so delicious

Under bridge.!!!! Yeparipa, aabeg when is the next available flight oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Men, i remember seating down and you fling your tie over your shoulder so you dont get any badge on it. Man, na wah oh!!!

You be correct person jare. the fact that you have to hold ur plate and que makes it even more interesting.
Well lagos Island gets enough buka wey one go fit enjoy correct abula and amala (dudu) food

omo no try mi oh

"jogego":

There was a time, that every saturday saw me at Shitta eating amala.

correct guy!
SHITTA na the headquarters of all BUKAS

i love it b'coz the taste is always different,there is no way you cook at home and it would taste the same way as a buka food, but i hardly take it sha.

I know of Olaiya for Shitta, that buka na correct place ooo

Am talking of Amala shitta.Its somewhere in the LSDPC estate, weda dem dey call am Olaiya, I cant realy recollect.

Thumbs up Nairalanders! I've never experienced so much excitement and unison on any topic on the forum like this.

Call it buka or mama put, nothing compares to it! That is why Nigerians abroad spend so much to obtain something close to the real thing they miss back at home.

All the thing wey I dey read for here just make my mouth dey water..Jogego and co abeggii take am easy o cos pple they salivate even on the net.....
All these made me to remember when I was still at the university..OAU precisely..there's was this woman called Iya/Mama Egi at Old Buka...we do queue on the line just to eat her iyan..hot one I mean and which ever soup you like..egusi..abula..just name it..I cant to without remembering "Iyan Phamacy" as well.And to crown it all there is this Buka at Mayfair.,,Mama Shola..where I used to eat Iyan and "Orisirisi"..it was fun while in school..I feel like boarding the plane now,cos all these grind rice of a thing don tire me self...
Home sweet home!!!!!!!!!!

Wo, you be better person. I think say na only me taya for this ground rice of a thing. Nothing like better ogunfe with serious ewedu and gbegiri. Especially if you chop am on a hot day, just reach house, on AC and sleep. Meanwhile nobody mention ewa aganyin oh!!! Abi unna dey pose?

Ohhhh,how come I forgot that self..how person go dey pose for ths kin thing....it is a serious matter u know especially when the stew is thick and not watery with slight pepper...have you ever imagine ewa aganyin with hot bread..ohhh goodness!!!I remember during my IT,I eat ewa aganyin every morning with hot bread even though my Manager said we shouldnt eat the bread,but I and my colleague will still take one hot bread cos we know the Elewa Aganyin will always come knocking..it...is...delicious!!!
But one food I dont go for is FufuI'm sure men do eat it alot.....