It is not a busy restaurant and this has very much to do with their location, not the food.
Even those coming from the Uganda Revenue Authority headquarters exit point can easily miss it as it is on the wrong side of a one-way street. Aber Luo Food Centre can hardly appeal to the large student community from
Makerere University Business School (Mubs) who rarely dine on local delicacies. But the truth is Aber Luo offers tasty cultural meals from Acholi sub-region in northern Uganda – a complete spin off the usual meals that you have been used to.
They pride in being a healthy food centre and seeing all the natural foods therein with hardly any unnatural oils, you are tempted to agree. Try their menu of 19 different sauces ranging from smoked fish pasted in odii (pasted groundnuts mixed with sim sim), smoked chicken pasted with odii, fish fried with okra, Lokorokoro (smoked beef or fish with ground sim sim), Lapena agako (ground brown peas with groundnuts paste served with shea oil) to the smooth sailing boo which is pasted in groundnut paste.
They love groundnut or sim sim paste here, and nothing is beyond pasting, which creates a natural pairing with just about any food. Admittedly, their matooke is not cooked with the smooth flow of the central region, but it still pairs well with boo or pasted fish, pasted chicken but so does the melt-in-your-mouth sweet potatoes (of the highest quality).
Their millet bread (kalo) has a rougher and darker texture than that from western Uganda and this could be due to the addition of sorghum, but it still goes down smoothly. It can also perfectly pair with any sauce.
The meals here are going to leave your stomach and brain in conflict. You will feel full but still want to eat more – a clear vote of confidence to the chefs.
fkisakye@observer.ug
Source: The Observer
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