If we were to visit you, what is the one "must-do" in your hometown?
Would it be something to eat, a place to visit, a person to meet, or something else?
Everyone and even every state know one particular thing about Akwa Ibomites and that is, we know how to cook and have various local mouth-watering delicacies that can make anyone not want to return to his or her state anymore and that is one of the reasons why I am proud to be an Akwa Ibomites.
We not only know how to cook delicious delicacies but we are best known for making a visitor feel at home and enjoy their visit here to my hometown. Starting from our various sit-outs to our malls filled with exquisite greenfield parks and many more.
So, If you all were to visit me, one of the "must-do" in your hometown would be to eat my local delicacy called Afang Soup and Fufu. Afang Soup is prepared with a leaf called Water Leaf is called Ceylon spinach, Florida spinach, Surinam Purslane, or cariru and its botanical name is Talinum triangular or Talinum fruticosum. Other ingredients include stockfish, beef, oil, crayfish, pepper, Maggie dry fish to make the soup sumptuous.
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Afang leaf or Okazi leaf as popularly known is a dark green leafy vegetable with little bitter taste used in cooking Afang Soup and popular in the Southern part of Nigeria. It is called Wild Spinach in English and the botanical name is Gnetum Africanum
Afang soup is a local dish of an Akwa Ibomite and we always make our visitors feel welcome with such dish because it is our pride and a visitor welcome isn't complete if such delicacy isn't presented to them for a taste.
The truth is no visitor ever tastes this dish and wouldn't want to come back for it or look for a place such delicacy is cooked when he or she returns to their state.
Unfortunately, I do not have a picture of this food on my phone so I decided to take the picture from Google as no free site will have such a picture.
I invite @glotokens and @glowie to participate in this contest.
