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So I feel really productive during our trainings: this is about one of our favorite restaurants in Nairobi, which is in the bottom floor of a parking garage next to the hotel we used to stay at in the big city…

Subterranean eatery held in high esteem
The kitchen so odoriferous you’ll think you’re in a dream
But for the architect’s design, he must’ve been so tired
And the decorations inside leave something to be desired.

Despite the colored streamers we cannot be fooled
We know that we are eating where valet parking ruled.
And as for entertainment they’ve got a good routine,
They employ the finest dancers that Kenya’s ever seen.

The live band is quite lively with a keyboard and some drums
The naan is so delicious I would never waste the crumbs
Though there are no windows to offer you a view
The belly dancers are equipped with not one gut but two

The patrons that you find at this fine establishment
Give the dancers money as if they are for rent
the sums that they are giving are twice my monthly check
they’re not even great dancers, so we wonder “what the heck?”

You can search through all of Kenya and won’t find better paneer
And the chubby cherub’s voices are the clearest that you’ll hear
So if you’re in Nairobi and you feel a hunger pang
Get yourself to Westlands and get some sweet sweet Tang

You know we’re not referring to a powdered space juice drink
the gravitational pull of Tang is stronger than you think
You won’t regret the best damn food you can find in a light year
So blast off to this parking space: the final food frontier…

3 Responses

  1. kat

    still not sure what Tang is (is it beer?), but you have painted an intriguing picture of this food frontier. and with live music, good paneer & double-belly (too much Tang perhaps?) dancing – i’ll be there tomorrow night!

    August 21, 2010 at 12:56 am

  2. kat

    BTW I like the new header image, what is it of?

    August 21, 2010 at 12:56 am

    • kenyabelieveit

      Tang is an indian restaurant in Nairobi that is literally in the bottom level of a parking garage. They just wrapped colorful tissue streamers around the concrete pillars, it’s pretty classy.

      And the header is a photo I took in Loitokitok. It’s both peaks of Kilimanjaro, Kibo is the big plateau one on the right that is the famous one, and Mawenzie on the left which is much less famous, but also pretty. It looks taller but only because it’s closer.

      August 21, 2010 at 9:05 am

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