The Blue Elephant Entrance
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything more than a few sentences or tweets so I thought I’d give it a shot again today for old times sake. I’m also trying to show the wifey a little more about Port Harcourt and what I do here since she always complains that she has no idea what my job is. This doesn’t deal with my job, (see tweet from yesterday for that) but it does pertain to Port Harcourt so I’ve nailed half of it. It also deals with food and she’s a food snob (j/k) so it should be right up her alley.
I got off work today at noon and headed for my new favorite spot in PHC, the Blue Elephant Restaurant. I’d been there before with some work folk, but never solo and never on a Saturday. Most people go there on Sundays with their family and eat, drink, swim in the pool (picture), and be merry. Today, at noon, it was a ghost town. I was the only patron and it was rather boring because there were no weird people to look at. Yes, most of the people (expats anyway) are weird. You have to have something wrong with you to work in a place like this.
The main reason I like this place so much is for their hummus with meat (picture). It sounds kind of gross but it’s great. They take typical hummus with olive oil, add some schwarma-tasting beef, pine nuts, and serve it up with some fresh, hot, pita bread for dipping. Good stuff Maynard.
The main course was next. This consisted of fried prawns (picture) and a side of Lebanese tabbouleh (picture). Normally the prawns come with chips but I was TRYING to be at least a little healthy and I opted for tabbouleh. I’m glad I did too because it was good stuff.
Since nobody eats fried prawns without sauce, I took regular old ketchup and mixed it with some Nigerian peppas (picture) for a hot-Nigerian-peppa-sauce. I was sweating by the time I was done.
So there you have it. My first solo-lunch at the Blue Elephant in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Sorry about the picture quality. All I had with me was my work cell phone and the built-in camera on it is pretty shoddy. But, some pics are better than no pics at all!
