And how you eat. You go up and select what you want, as much as you want, and they cook it over the coals right there and then. The accent is on the ethnic, but there is much else on offer to succulently satisfy even the least adventurous palate. Including mopane worms. Fortified by good food, good wine and good company, I turned my attention apres-dinner to what I was assured were very good worms.
Mopane worms are a delicacy in Zimbabwe.
Salted, they are eaten just like that, as a snack, or boiled up with a tomato relish. The Ndebele people call them 'macimbi' and they love them to bits. Well, we made a deal at our table that we would all eat a worm, to qualify for the 'been there, done it' certificate to show the folk back home. I nominated myself as the bearer of the bowl, so that I could pick out the 'juniors', and then the serious stuff began. At the first attempt some managed to get it past their lips, only to less than politely spit it out on the side plate, and some managed to keep it in the mouth.