The Mdantsanians like the good things in life. But they also like it simple and not complicated.
All Mdantsanians are first of all South Africans and there is nothing a South African likes as much as a good braai (barbecue, the Afrikaans word for grilling meat on a fire) in decent company with a couple of ice cold beers.
If you give a South African the option to to choose between a braai and a gala evening at the Bolschoi theater or the Dresden Semper opera, he would choose his braai - not because he is not interested in culture and the arts but because a braai is the core essence of South African entertainment. In simpler words : outdoors, fire, friends, drinks, music, meat!
With a fire going like this....
and an experienced grill master like him nothing can go wrong
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| Thandile was playing the braai master just for us on this day |
Braaing at the Endaweni open air restaurant works like this. You got to the butchery right next door buy your meat and you prepare it yourself on one of the many fire places. Easy? Isn't it ?
The meat comes from the Mdantsane abattoir and the owners of Endaweni sell it at a very reasonable price.
"People are always surprised how cheap well sell the meat" says Thandile.
The meat was not only cheap but it had flavor.
The grilling process...
and even the tools are kept simple
which shows you that the good things in life do not necessarily need a lot of money but rather the right attitude.
And if you feel like having more meat you can just go back to the butchery!
There is more than one friendly lady willing to help you.
Somebody asked us the other day: How did this all start? How did you come to write about all the important small things in life?
The sum of all the small and so important things, and the way you do them make really up your life.
So it is important to discover how to enjoy life.
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