Asafo Restaurant (Brixton)

• We could smell the food outside and it was fairly busy on a Sunday evening
• I eventually went for banku and okro which was a spicy stew cooked with okra with a side of jollof rice (the okra had disintegrated which made the stew a bit slimy)
• It had various pieces of meat and fish inside and was served with a white pillow called banku which is made from maize apparently
• The flavour of the stew was pretty good
• The meat inside was a bit hit or miss
• Some of it was nice but some was really chewy although I think it's meat to be like that
• The banku had a similar texture to firm polenta with a slightly sour flavour to it
• The jollof rice was good but not the best I've had
• They said they were particularly busy that day
• I eventually decided to go and the okra soup was worth the visit
• Everything was what I expected
• The restaurant was quite small but nicely presented

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