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Alright so this was a hard one, there is hardly anything online about CAR cuisine. Top google searches show the Wikipedia article (which is sparse), blogs doing the same thing I am doing (some claiming that shrimp is really popular in a land locked war torn state), and crappy AI summaries sourcing the first two. I tried contacted the CAR Embassy in DC with no luck. Because of my Peace Corps days I have a lot of friends who work in development on the continent, they were able to get some information through friends of friends. I was able to find a handful of you tube videos as well. There were some things that I was not able to recreate, like bush meat. But these are very narrow sample sizes and I hesitate to claim this is a reflection of CAR cuisine as a whole, though all of my dinner parties have these issues to some extent.

What everything is:

(starting on the top right, going left to right)

Plain white rice (made by a friend)

Hibiscus juice

(just below) Spinach and peanut stew (made by a friend)

Puff Puff: Fried Dough Balls (made by a friend)

Egusi Stew: a melon seed based stew

A peanut stew (made by a friend)

Saki Saki: Cassava leaf stew

Papaya

(bottom row)

Moamba Chicken (made by a friend)

Perch cooked in banana leaf

Fufu

(just above) Fried Plantains (made by a friend)

Roast goat

Mangos

more rice (made by a friend)

Kanda: Meatballs made with beef and pumpkin seeds (made by a friend)

Alphabetically next is Chad, but I might do Aruba or the Azores instead.

[Homemade] I like to read history books about countries, then host dinner parties honoring that countries cuisines. Here is The Central African Republic. Dishes include Moambe Chicken, Puff Puff, Fufu, Saki Saki, Egusi Stew, and Kanda, among others.