SLC26-W1 | Street Business Diaries: Street Food and Snacks

Hello friends

Am a lover of food and seeing this challenge drew my attention. Food is a necessity to life and street food helps us out in our daily busy schedules.

What kind of street food is available in your city or area?

Food is very essential to life, imagine a world without food? Street food may not serve it better than we do in our homes but they sure saves us some time and energy. Sometimes I even call these streets food by the name fast food.

In my country and city, there are several kinds of street food available ranging from;

• Spaghetti joints,
• Noodles,
• African salad,
• Bread and Akara(beans cake),
• Tea and coffee joints,
• Shawarma stand,
• Barbeque fish joints,
• Pop corn,
• Snacks stand,
• Rice and stew joints
  and many more.

We see street food as one of the fastest means to get our tummy filled up with energy, food and vitality for the day.

	Road side Barbeque fish and chicken seller

I know families that these streets food has helped a great deal. For instance, a neighbor of mine in my formal apartment, she works in a bank and usually leaves for work as early as 4am in order to beat traffic while her husband leaves the house by 6:30am. Her husbands drops the children off to school before leaving for his work but before then, he must patronize a particular street food vendor just to get breakfast and lunch for his kids. This has been on for the past 5 years.

	Road side fried Noodles seller stand

In my area Street food offers us opportunity to explore several kinds of meals, enjoy their flavors. It may come as appetizers, snack or complete meal. When am coming home sometimes I usually branch at a particular joint to purchase cooked corn and pea I guess you have not tried it before. It's like an appetizer even though it's ends up filling my tummy for hours.

Have you eaten these foods yourself? Show their taste and price in pictures+videos

Oh yes I have eaten these street food many times, even though I prefer to eat a proper meal at home, I still love to patronize snacks, popcorn, barbecue fish and chicken.

I enjoy several street food like bread and Akara ( beans cake), boiled and roasted corn, Shawarma and many more snacks they all tasted great. I prefer street food because it's seem less expensive.

Road side shawarma with a drink	Road side cookies

Street Food item	Price in naira	Price in steem
Chicken shawarma with one hot dog	3500	17.5 steem
Chicken shawarma with two hot dogs	4000	20 Steem
5 pieces of Akara(Beans cake)	500	2.5 Steem
Fish Barbeque with chips	6000-12000	30-60 steem
Fried noodles	1,000-3000	5 - 15 steem
Egg roll	500	2.5 steem
Donuts	500	2.5 steem
Cookies	500-2000	2.5-10 steem

My Contact with mr Moses

I was opportune to meet one of my street food customers. Guess what? He is a man. His name is Mr Moses. He is a hard working married man with 3 kids. He owns a street food stand inside bariga market in the city of lagos.

When I first met Mr Moses, he does POS business on this particular stand. I thought the business was doing well because I always go to his place to withdraw money from my account instead of going to the bank only for me to pass by his stand one day and discovered he has moved into another line of business of frying Akara(beans cake) and bread.

His new business the sells of Fried Akara(beans cake), fried potatoes and fresh bread got surprised and decided to ask him why the new decision. He told me that he decided to do this new business because the other one was struggling, he said sometimes he doesn't have cash to give to his customers and when he goes to the bank to collect cash needed for his business, the banks ask him to pay for the money. He says he buys money with money.

Mr Moses business stand

That was when he told me he has a wife and three kids to feed so he can't stay idle. He said this new business is far better although it's stressful for him. He says his wife helps him most times with washing of the beans and pealing it off and grinding it. He says he mixes the ingredients together and fries it himself.

He fries this stuff and sells it along with bread, this type of bread is called agege bread, only common in this part of the city. He orders the bread from a local bakery, he doesn't bake it himself. He still maintains his post business although he focuses more on this ne business.

I asked him if he is not shy doing a business popularly known to be done by women? He said as long as it puts food in his table and money in his pocket he doesn't mind doing it. I was amazed. He told me the business is not easy because it has to do with fire, frying and frying

His business starts as early as 6am and closes at 8am from Mondays to Saturdays. He says he uses Sundays to rest, wash up and prepare for the week. But guess what? He still does this business along side his POS business.