Dakar, Senegal – Food
Senegalese jollof is truly the definition of happiness in your mouth. Local to the region, ceebu jen or thieboudienne is the ancestor of today’s jollof rice. Broken rice is cooked in fresh fish and tomato broth. The fish is stuffed with a spiced parsley and the cooked rice is the garnished with the fish and loads of large cut root vegetables like sweet potato, carrots, yucca and cabbage.