Gaborone Slang

Charlie teaches Mma Makutsi some modern words: 

Spinza = beer

Zaka = money 

Clipper = one hundred Pula note 

Chilla = relax

Bo-4 = police

Majita = guy

Brazene = brother

Frying pan = liar 

* Information taken from 'A Song of Comfortable Chairs' by Alexander McCall Smith *

Akiko cooks dinner for Tomoko

A wonderful meal of:

• Glassine mung bean noodles served cold with crumbled bean curd and julienned vegetables in a tart savoury sauce

• Sliced lotus root lightly fried with chilli peppers in peanut oil then steeped in soy sauce and mirin wine and finished off with a dash of Szechwan pepper

• A sweet sesame goma air mad with steamed chrysanthemum leaves mildly bitter to off set the sweet

• A piece of cod marinated for three days in sake and wild white miso then broiled until the skin was crisp but the insides were still succulent

* Information taken from My Year of Meat written by Ruth L. Ozeki *

Becky Thayer's B&B, Magnolia Springs

Sample dinner menu

Southern style filet mignon served with black eyed peas and a puree of collard greens.

Chicken fried steak orientale marinated in seasoned soy sauce the dipped in a delicate tempura-style batter made with free range eggs, cornmeal And Szechwan peppers.

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Served with a salad garnished with nasturtiums and daylilies from the kitchen garden.

* Information taken from My Year of Meat written by Ruth L. Ozeki *