Bahir Dar Local Customs

The injera, thin Etiopian pancakes, are made of tef. Tef is an Ethiopian indigenous grass cultivated as a cereal grain.

At the market of Bahir Dar Roberto showed me the many sacks, filled with tef and how you can discover the different qualities. The whiter the tef, the higher the quality and the price.

The injera is served at a communal tray on a mesob. The mesob is a colourful mushroom-shaped table, made like a basket.
The taste of the injera can be a little sour. To eat, you tear off a piece of the injera and wrap it around the food served with it, like vegetables, meat and sauces.

At the market of Bahir Dar you have also a lot of local pottery.

I didn't wonder, that I saw a lot of coffee pots, in this land, which is the original home of coffee. It's peculiar Ethiopia is also the land, where coffee has another name, namely buna.
At one hand Ethiopia is very known because of its traditional coffee-ceremony, but at the other hand, as result of the Italian influence, you can order cappuccino and macchiato in nearly every town.

Except the coffee pots you can find also the big trays for the local injera. The injera is a thin pancake, served as base for every meal on a large communal tray.