Jikoni’s Shs 60,000 buffet can overwhelm 

It is huge, blocky and looks more or less like an assorted clothing delivery.

Except it is not. It is a food delivery from Jikoni restaurant located at Clement Hill road, Kampala. At first glance, the Shs 60,000 for the buffet now starts to look like a great bargain and even more so when you open the package and find over 10 different food items, not to mention the big juice glass.

The best bit of it all is that it all comes tightly intact without any spillages It is all local foods ranging from the smoochy plain groundnut paste, to the scruffy-looking but tasty groundnut paste replenished with the smoked African mushrooms.

The ever-slimy boo sauce will knock you out with its aroma enhanced by the peanut butter sauce. It is an avalanche of vegetables as you still have the onion-caramelised and boiled Ethiopian eggplant (nakati).

The red amaranthus (bbugga) with a strong base of local ghee is arguably the standout of all the vegetable assortments. The garden eggs (entula) are boiled in a tomato puree-like sauce and also carry a strong base of ghee. The least tasty, if you are to be overly critical, is perhaps the fresh beans; they are thick but do not meet the high tasty standards of the other foods.

There is of course well steamed matooke, chapati, Irish potatoes and rice. Not forgetting the braised chicken shreds and the deep-fried Nile perch nuggets.

This is food you can’t eat alone, let alone in one single take. It might take you days. And at the end of the day, you have enough containers and dishes to recycle around your kitchen.

fkisakye@observer.ug