Zambia Dining and Restaurant Guide

In the cities, British-style cooking dominates, but you can also find Chinese food and plenty of barbecue. The local food is somewhat bland with few spices added, but the local customs around dining make it an interesting experience. Also, the local cuisine makes use of plentiful yams and tropical fruits, and most meals come with a large helping of the local staple nshima, a dense, somewhat dry mush of ground corn. Also try ifisashi, a traditional staple resembling a thick peanut-butter sauce, served up hot. If you have a nut allergy, the paw-paw fruit, sorghum, okra and pumpkins are flavorful substitutes. Mosi, the local beer, is good, especially after a long, hot day of traveling. Don't be alarmed if the bottle doesn't have a label—they stopped printing labels as a cost-cutting measure (just be sure the bottle cap says Mosi).