Food and Culture
Tabora's streets are lined with century-old mango trees planted by Omani traders. Tabora is known as the fruit capital of Western Tanzania, and markets are often filled with local produce.
Tabora has many small local restaurants offering typical Tanzania restaurant food like Ugali (a thick maize porridge), chips or rice with either beans, beef or chicken. For breakfast or lunch there is usually chipsi-mayai (chips and egg) which is basically a couple of eggs fried together with some chips. Although the food is bland, it is usually served with Tanzanian chili sauce which gives the meal some character.
A local specialty is pumpkin in peanut butter sauce. This goes with the rice pilau served widely throughout the region.
For snacks there are local sambusa (samosa), some goat meat on a stick or some freshly roasted corn of the cob, all widely available in Tabora. There is a choice of fruit in the large regional market of Tabora, including pineapple, watermelon or bananas.
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