Fry Fry

Are you concerned about what to eat as a snack in Sierra Leone? Well, Fry Fry is here to reduce your appetite for a snack. It is essentially street food and comes in a variety of flavors. It includes any type of fried item served with bread. It could be Akara, fried chicken, or fried plantains, among other things.

Fried plantains are sometimes the best thing ever, especially for a quick breakfast. Fried plantains are served as a snack or starter as well as a side dish to foods such as jollof rice, roast chicken, or grilled fish throughout West Africa. In Sierra Leone, it is sold as part of the popular street food "Fry Fry —Bintu."

Fry fry is a catch-all term for a variety of (usually fried) foods—plus spaghetti, at random—served with bread on the street. You order and pay à la carte: fried plantains, akara (fried black-eyed-bean fritters), gari (shredded cassava) cake, bongo (smoked herring served whole), french fries, fried chicken, a bowl of spaghetti, hard-boiled eggs, possibly some binch (black-eyed beans), and always nice loaves of fluffy Fula bread and spicy pepper sauce (a.k.a. fry stew).