Kadugli Restaurants

One thing I noticed very early on was the total lack of fruit juice in Kadugli. Now, after the excellent juices in Kassala, I've become something of an addict, so this was a bit of a disappointment for me...it certainly put me off the idea of relocating to Kadugli next year. Other cold drinks, including bottled water, are more expensive too, as they have to be brought in via the same road as you arrive. So it is a good job that there are tea ladies literally everywhere, looking like mini apothecaries with all their jars of spices. Tea comes either ahmar/sade (red or black), or shay laban (with fresh hot milk). Coffee usually contains girfa' (cinnamon) and zinjibil (ginger). Both are extremely sweet. Once you're sick of tea and coffee, try kerkedeh, a bright pink tea made from hibiscus leaves. Sometimes they also provide zalabiya (fried dough balls sprinkled with sugar). It is perfectly acceptable for foreign women to sit at these stalls, but local women in other parts of Sudan wouldn't be seen dead at a tea-lady (many are said to offer more than just tea in the evening!), but in Kadugli, things seemed more relaxed, due to the heavy African influence perhaps, and once or twice we saw women drinking tea in the street, heaven forbid!