Soweto Banquet

Living in South Africa is proving to be somewhat frustrating these days. From power cuts and water cut-offs to non working land lines and internet I have over the holiday period had to find alternate ways to entertain myself. Which has been fun.

I had a friend from England staying with me who wanted to make a 5 minute short film for current.tv which is an online channel for short films started by Al Gore. So, on our way back from the airport we came up with the idea of getting "western cultured South Africans" to eat the craziest, stomach churning Sowetan cuisine we could find. At the end of the day it was quiet a scene when the platter consisted of :

3x cups of chicken intestines
1x Ox Heart
1x pack chicken feet
1x packet Mopane Worms, and then this...


If you are interested in seeing the full story then check out current.tv (link above) in a week or so. Title will be Soweto Banquet.

Oh, and compliments of the season.