Eating Chambo

Chambo is any one of four species of cichlids which inhabits Lake Malawi - and it is growing rare, due to over-fishing and water population.

Not knowing any of this, I had guilt-free chambo for lunch, last Tuesday, en route to Lake Malawi:

Admittedly, it looks a little horrific - but man, was it good! Well, the slim slices of fish I was able to dig away from the fish bones were delicious - tasted like freshly caught lake fish - perhaps a very young pickerel?Linda, who doesn't like her lunch to ogle her, opted for the sanitized chambo fillet. Larry and Miriam settled on chicken - perhaps seeing a fishing string line of slick, glassy-eyed chambo dangling from the driver-side mirror for an unspecified time, put them off. Now that my stomach has settled into a generally peaceful rapport with the African cuisine, the sight merely piqued my appetite.

And for dessert - ice-cream which was, according to a wall sign "The best ice-cream in Africa."

Guess what - it was!