18.08.2025 - Dinner at the House of Happiness

Eating here is much more than just filling your stomach – it is community, tradition and a piece of home.

I am often asked: What do the children and we actually eat here?

Our cuisine is varied, nutritious—and often very traditional. 🥗🍖🍎🍛🍗🫛

Breakfast:

• Boiled (sweet) potatoes with hard-boiled egg

• Cassava (manioc root)

• Chapati (flatbread)

• Mandazi (similar to a donut, but without filling and not as sweet)

Lunch and dinner:

• Wali Nyama (rice with meat)

• Wali Maharage (rice with beans)

• Makande (beans with corn)

• Ugali (corn porridge) with meat or fish, sometimes with small dagaa fish, often supplemented with mboga (vegetables)

• Pilaw Kachumbari (spiced rice with tomato, onion, and cucumber salad)

• Ndizi (cooked plantains)

On Sunday lunchtimes, there's a special treat: fries with chicken . The meat and fish portions are rather small, but there are plenty of vegetables and filling side dishes.

Here are just a few impressions:

And at least once a month everyone is especially happy – then we celebrate the birthday children and there is cake 😋

Bon appetit!