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Thursday, 1 April 2010

Bo Kaap Kombuis — warm hospitality and the best Bobotie ever

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Bo Kaap Kombuis

Bo Kaap Kombuis

The only com­plaint I have with The Bo Kaap Kombuis is that we went for din­ner and because it was dark we could not appre­ci­ate what must be an incred­ible view of Table Mountain and the City Bowl below it.

Bo-Kaap is the old­est set­tle­ment of the South African Malay com­munity.  The hall­mark of the Cape Malay people is the warm hos­pit­al­ity they extend to vis­it­ors and we def­in­itely exper­i­enced this first hand when we dined at The Bo-Kaap Kombuis on Friday even­ing.  Yusuf, the owner met us on the street and his wife, Nazli was just as wel­com­ing as we entered the res­taur­ant ... Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues
Friday, 11 December 2009

Follow your nose, spice up your life

posted to: Activities and Things To Do, Western Cape
Cape Curry

Cape Curry

On the list of things to do in a life­time; finally learn­ing how to fold a sam­oosa can be sat­is­fied. On a list of things to taste in a sip; a soft rose-scented milk (faloodah) will soothe. On a list of things to mas­ter in a pot; a Cape curry will cure.

Enrol in a hands-on Cape Malay Cooking Safari seasoned with hand-selected spices that splinter the sea salted air of the his­toric Bo-Kaap dis­trict ... Continued

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Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Bo Kaap — A Visitors Perspective

posted to: Reviews and Visitors' Perspectives, Western Cape
Bo Kaap

Bo Kaap

Bo Kaap’s loc­a­tion, just above Cape Town’s busy CBD, may be expli­citly stated in its name (bo mean­ing ‘above’ in Afrikaans), but that’s just about the only thing obvi­ous or bor­ing about this quarter of cul­ture in Cape Town. Tucked into the slopes of Signal Hill, the area is steeped in a rich history.

Many of Bo Kaap’s inhab­it­ants are des­cen­ded from the slaves brought to the Cape by the Dutch in the 1700s, hail­ing from India, Malaysia, Africa, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. The people mak­ing up this rich mix­ture of cul­tures were uni­ver­sally, though incor­rectly, labelled ‘Cape Malay’, as was their flour­ish­ing archi­tec­ture and cuisine.

Today Bo Kaap is home to just over 6000 people, 90% of which are Muslim (a res­ult of the area’s clas­si­fic­a­tion as a Muslim Residential area dur­ing the country’s apartheid regime). This seem­ingly homo­gen­ous demo­graphic makes for an incred­ibly robust cul­tural exper­i­ence for any­body vis­it­ing the lively sub­urb ... Continued

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