Girls Just Wanna Have Fun......

I don’t get out much, well I like to have fun...sitting with my crew and gisting is my idea of good fun. But sometimes you just want to go out dancing and let your hair down..you know.

Anyway, so I dragged my friend (let’s call her M) out with me on this Friday night and we hit a couple of spots. We got tired after a couple of hours and decided to go home. Just one problem, all that dancing had left us hungry, well me more than her (stop rolling your eyes joo). I had burnt a few calories from all that dancing so I needed some food. (Lol)

Now at that time in Lagos, your options are quite limited and we were craving something with a bit of spice. Then we remembered that one of the spots that we went to, Autolounge, had an Asun (pronounced Ahh-suhn - barbequed goat made with spices and lots of chilli) dude outside. The Asun smelt delicious and it just kinda made sense to go for it.

So off we went to Auto Lounge to look for the guy and he was still there. We ordered two packs and went home. The drive home was fun as we were wacking (pidgin English for eating) the Asun with so much glee, well me more than M, she was driving. By the time we got home we were knackered and slept off on the couch.

So woke up in the morning (well not exactly, more like noonish, hehe) feeling very hungry and at that time just craved something with pepper. Then suddenly I remembered that there was asun left over and went to get it. Problem was I would still be hungry after wacking the asun but then I spied something with my little eye – freshly cooked white rice. I took a bit (huge) of the rice and spooned some asun over it and wow...it was like food heaven. It was just what I needed, the spicy and peppery asun mixed with the rice was like the perfect pick me up needed after a night out on town.

So since then, I have added that dish to my list of favs. I remember having it in Robert’s Cafe with my friends and they were like that looks weird, I said “don’t knock it till you’ve tried it”. A few spoonfuls from mine and instantly asun and white rice got a few followers.

There’s also somewhere in Victoria Island, a nice hotel called Josh Bryan, where they serve asun with dundun (fried yam). I ordered mine with some dodo (fried plantain) and trust me it was the ish. I ordered it while with a friend who was on a diet and had ordered just a bottle of water because she didn’t want to ruin her diet. But after her first bite of my food, she was hooked. The yam was well fried and the dodo was just right, you know the type that is not too ripe or too hard and tastes delicious when fried properly, yes that one. The food was yummy and before we knew it we had finished the meal. (sorry FO, i promise to support you on this diet – you are looking good already).

Asun is typically eaten alone and guys usually enjoy eating it when they are drinking alcohol. But I have seen some other combos - asun with french fries.

So what other combos are there, please share them with me ...it will be nice to try them. Also you could try asun with rice, dodo or dundun and let me know what y’all think.

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Josh Bryan  - 317A Akin Ogunlewe Street, off Ligali Ayorinde Street, Lagos