 this is the place I will always love to spend my money because it belongs to my own brother and it feels like I'm back again in the East African community Hi Nyama Choma How are you? Nakhula East African real authentic food Nakhula No this is not cuckoo This is cuckoo Nakhula cuckoo but if I'm here I just have to let you know who is the one behind it I mean who is behind the queer two I mean if you say queer two in East Africa which means home a brother come on you're trying to hide away from me I'm not hiding again man How are you doing? I'm good bro very very good This is very... I'm so sorry now it's okay I can't even use my hand So my name is Kambarisadi and I'm from Rwanda Rwanda Exactly if you got it From Rwanda what brought you to Mozambique? I think that life brought me to Mozambique I can specifically say what brought me to Mozambique but I find myself here visiting my brother and I fell in love with this country and here I am four years after Four years after So like you've got this beautiful East African restaurant in here actually came to eat and we found out the owner he's from Rwanda Murakose Murakose Rwanda How long have you been operating this restaurant? So this restaurant is three years old now Three years old and it started from home to a little kiosk just around here in the neighborhood and then we came here looking for bigger space and trying to give more comfortable But as a young guy like you should have been in the bank or you should have been in your office let's take it that way Why a restaurant? A restaurant came out of the necessity of job because I couldn't find a job here as a night engineer it was very difficult for me language barrier and stuff like that I figured out that I could cook and people liked the food that I made so it all started from the chapat that I used to make from home and distributed them to shops like Rwanda's owner shops because I didn't know any other person who could take my food and then from that people started asking me for food if I could make food and from YouTube and my mom's on the telephone I learned to cook East African food and with the love and passion it became all of this that we have here because when I came here I realized that more experts come in here to eat how many people often come in here which people normally come in here majority of the people that come here are travelers or other experts who live in Mozambique and that is because we happen to be a reference of an African restaurant in Maputo and it has been a very very good journey through this and an experience and today is Saturday it's a Saturday special exactly where we people get to try all the food that we make here the East African food that we make here so we have pilau here for anybody who knows East Africa this is like a very common food for parties and big days chapati we have kachumbari but we try to make it we have here it's called shima but back home it's called we have matapa commonly called sombe at home we have bean stew we have okra I think you also love it in Ghana we have chicken we have fish which is very plenty in Mozambique but then we cook everything that you see and we cook it in the East African way so which means it has spice but not very spicy like Indian food how has the experience been like living in Mozambique how has the experience been like I would say that it's very challenging first of all the language barrier as I said and the food that we make here is very unusual apart from the people who live in the north of Mozambique try to connect to it but in the south of Mozambique this is very uncommon and that's why we have more expats clientele than Mozambicans here so the whole experience is that people are getting to know this through Kuwaitu through our cuisine apart from cooking like what else do you have in here or any program any special thing that oh as a traveler I come in here this specific day I can come and enjoy or anything like that in Kuwaitu so we have a monthly event called Kuwaitu Neighborhood Market where we the whole concept is about food music craft art fashion and just people meeting together bringing out good vibes and it always happens once a month at the first Saturday of the month so it's a very good event that has even changed like the face of entertainment in Maputo if I may say so so it has become I think that people look forward to like people are always waiting for it to happen as a young African if you should give your fellow brothers and sisters out there I mean an advice or choosing a career or choosing something for yourself I mean that's a big brother what advice are you going to give to the young Africans out there I think that people should get out of their comfort zone first of all people shouldn't think that life is about working in an office and looking for those jobs that sometimes are not even available because we are many educated with very very few jobs and I believe and I think that if everybody gets a chance of getting out of their comfort zone there is a lot of opportunities out there, out here like in the nature you just need to be creative everybody needs to be creative there's plenty of opportunity and we just need to get out and you know like you came all the way from Rwanda now you're based in Mozambique definitely people who cook in here are all of them from Rwanda or they are from here? one is Rwanda but the rest are Mozambicans because we need to give opportunity to everybody else to be able to show what they can do so we have two cooks one is Mozambican and another one is Randy's and I'm also a cook so which means you are also creating jobs in here what was your biggest challenge when you started this biggest challenge? my biggest challenge was for people to understand this food and start eating it but then I didn't give up I just kept on forcing it and now we have we have this and people enjoying it I just want to make sure I try this food before I do it's a place and please I love meats people who follows me know that I love meats I think you start from this side I know my camera guy is really staring at me because definitely he knows that when I see meats we are no longer friends you know yeah I don't like using spoons but there's coronavirus right now I need to protect myself are you just telling me? no just meat and tell them how it tastes like you know that I've been to so many East African countries and I would definitely tell you that it really tastes East African so whenever you come in here you can come to Maputo Maputo Rua Martyr de Mashaava number of the 33 I'm saying it in Portuguese but then you can just go through our social media pages our pages called Quito Maputo on Instagram and Facebook can I put your number so that people can see it our telephone number is plus 258 844155 558 I see for that I don't know if I can repeat it no that's okay I'm gonna put it there thank you very much brother and enjoy your meal I'm sorry Elvis and I'm sorry for each and everyone who is watching this video I'm really happy to be here to see a brother doing something like this you need to spend your money your money from your pocket goes to another black brother's pocket this is all I support I keep on dropping my spoons man you just need to use your hands thank you