Food in Sheng Dishi
Street food, home food and the words that get you fed.
- Chipo chips, fries
- Dishi food, meal
- Ugali ugali — stiff maize-meal porridge
- Kula to eat
- Madondo beans
- Mutura grilled meat sausage
- Nyama Choma grilled/roasted meat
- Chakula food
- Chapati chapati — oily flatbread
- Chipsi french fries, chips
- Chips mwitu street chips
- KDF hard, heavy mandazi
- Smokie smoked sausage snack
- Chapo chapati (flatbread)
- Gafe coffee
- Jaba khat, miraa (a stimulant leaf)
- Keroma food
- Kudimbuka to eat (slang)
- Manga to eat
- Mchele rice (also slang for a bribe)
- Ngwaka cigarette
- Sembe ugali (maize meal staple)
- Shashola marijuana, weedmature
- Kibanda food kiosk, small roadside stall
- Kushiba to be full, to be satisfied after eating
What are Sheng words for food?
The most common are Chipo (chips), Dishi (food), Ugali (ugali — stiff maize-meal porridge), Kula (to eat), Madondo (beans). Street food, home food and the words that get you fed.