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Grand-Béréby, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) – Today we’re still on the coast of West Africa in Côte d’Ivoire where we’re going to see the entire process, cooking and eating, one of the best West African foods; palm nut soup.
Palm Nut Soup (known locally as Sauce Graine) is one of the great West African foods, but there are many ways to make it. In Grand-Béréby we met up with Léon who is part of the Krumen tribe. In this coastal area they make palm nut soup with the nuts of the African oil palm, and the heart of the same palm tree. The first step was to harvest all the ingredients, and it was also a huge education on where the ingredients came from and the work it takes to harvest them.
The palm nut soup was made with the boiled palm nuts, pounded into an soup and oil, and then boiled with a huge variety of local seafood, and the fresh heart of palm chopped into small pieces. They also added in tons of fresh chiles and a huge amount of dried chilies to make it extremely spicy.
Before eating we were greeted by a representative of the Chief of the village to customarily greeted us with a kola nut, chili, and a drink of local distilled sugarcane.
The palm nut soup was one of the best dishes I’ve eaten in West Africa, truly a complex magical flavor and combination of ingredients. It was a once in a lifetime food experience. And truly the amount of work it took to prepare made me even appreciate it more.
Thank you to Leon and his family for hosting us and preparing Ivorian style palm nut soup!
A huge thank you to my friend Mo Soumahoro from Belle Côte d’Ivoire (https://www.instagram.com/bellecotedivoire/) for arranging my trip and setting up everything.
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Amazing food! Incredible!!! Love your videos, Mark!
Mark always great👍👌
SALIVATING! Thanks, Mark 🙂
Classic 30:35 " Oh Wow Oh Yeah" a must moment! Everyone else is just calmly eating.
Hello wow, thank you to go to my city. Mine is sassandra, after san pedro and grand bereby. I missed that food. Thank you so much. You will see a nice place for holidays. Have fun
Imagine, this man just went up another notch in my books so much respect!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥next level food channel
I love that Leon's trying to spread the love and peace between humans and monkeys
This video was better than the previous ones about that community. You had your own plate this time. The last videos showed people licking their fingers and putting them back into food. You always give your guest a separate plate, regardless of your culture.
Just beautiful! The monkey whisper💞💞💞💞
Congrats on 10 mill subs!!
Thank you Mark. I don’t know that I’d ever try some of these foods but I really do enjoy seeing how other humans get on in their corner of the globe 🌎.
We call it Banga soup. That's the raw material for palm oil, don't you know 😄 Burn the oil for a really delicious smoky aromatic oil. Add it to milled dry corn kernels wrapped in banana leaf for a sweet savoury and peppery snack called Qwaka (Jemi Jemi)
What did the dish taste like? Isn't the heart of palm kind of a bland taste like a white potato? You said it smelled like ginger and had seafood flavor. I guess due to the peppers it was a little hot/spicy. What were the predominant flavors? Could you taste nuttiness? Was there a strong ginger flavor? Did they use salt? Were there any other flavors like mustard, oregano, fennel, cilantro or coriander or cumin for example?
he cut through the palm heart like it was so easy. props to west africans great culture
those monkeys are so cute!!
I grew up in sierra Leone west Africa and this video was amazing
10 milli! Big congrats, holy cow! Also, is Mark making some gains? 💪
27:43 I'm pretty sure that was betel nut
I love you Mark
I applaud Mark on bringing different foods and cultures around the world. His descriptions on every food is invisible to the tastebuds.
Mark stomach can switch and adjust to ALL types with JOY/HAPPINESS!
Totally cool with eating with your hands in a lot of cultures. I just can’t do it like that. Unless it’s pizza or something. But the food looked amazing.
I would absolutely love to come to West Africa there. Every person was so welcoming. Not to mention the incredible palm nut and seafood stew. Thank you for sharing Mark! I can't wait to see what's next. Susie in Ky.
Mark just say ivory coast, Sounds better.
we loveeee your wife. South African in Thailand….sawadeekah
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Wow Mark it was amazing a trip and the food looks delicious and the hospitality’s is great
Congratulations to rich 10 million I hope you will be the first in traveling videos
what a great video!
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Great video as always brother Mark!! Congrats on 10 million subs
Looks delicious. Thanks for sharing Mark and Ying. I appreciate all the new foods and new preparations you teach us about.
why would you boil that fresh seafood for an hour? 🙁 travesty
Cordial congrats for well deserved 10M
outstanding thanks
10 Million congratulations Mark….so happy for you
Bon appetit Marc Wiens & Ying in beautiful Cote Ivoir, West Africa😍! I congrate the amazing Vlog🎬 for 10 millions subscribers✌!
I really believe that people should explore more natural foods in nature. In a world of highly processed food people have lost touch with there taste buds and nutrition.
have to treat it with so much respect…. Proceeds to chop it up and eat its flesh lol. silly they didn't say this at all lol
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Neat a proto gumbo!
Africa is such a beautiful country. What a lovely man who took you to see the monkeys. This is a delight to watch.
Cullinary Sophistication and complexity to bring out Deep African Flavours. Would love to taste that dish! Great job Mark and Team, and Blessings to the Locals!
Mark wiens is right 👉 next to pleebo- Maryland County ( Liberia 🇱🇷) literally- wow and congrats on 🔟 millions subscriber
Atter best, Mark, tommelen opp, Ying er bare best og må familien Wiens kun ha lykke i livet.
What was the guy doing to the crabs?
Also, congrats on 10 mill
Mark, not bad for an American to speak a few words of French. But I thought you spent time as a young man in the Congo where they also speak the French language.
Hi Mark. It's Wayne. Thanks for your video. They always are informative and neat to watch. I'm near Hershey Pa. Not to far from shady maple smorgasbord.