We take to Wolverhampton streets to find out what are peoples choice foods to eat.

Express & Star

We ask the people of Wolverhampton what they like to eat best.

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00:00okay so tell me about what your favorite foods are I mean what is it that you

00:04traditionally like to eat I particularly like to eat traditional foods like I

00:10really like a lot of meat so more like a beef pork and chicken so it's more like

00:17meat and potatoes for me so just like starch and nice and hearty yeah I mean

00:25what's your heritage I'm African Nigerian to be precise

00:29okay so a lot of obviously I'm guessing does Nigerian cuisine have a lot of

00:31spice to it yeah it does it has a lot of spice and I've got a very good spice

00:36tolerance so I like spice food and living around this area what's the stuff

00:40that you like to eat around here around here that's not because we've got a lot

00:46of African stores around so I'm still very much into my African cuisine so I

00:50tend to buy things like you know tomatoes peppers and chickens and just

00:56make a normal African stew and then rice on the side I eat a lot of rice

01:01okay you've not been quite as adventurous to say maybe going out for a

01:04curry or a kebab or a pizza or anything like that I have been I have been but

01:08not as I would have want to because you know it's not everywhere that you find

01:13and you like so you need it's a when you're doing something new you need to

01:17find somewhere that it's that they actually know how to make it so I've had

01:22peri-peri I've had lamb chops I've had shrimps prawns and seafood just a seafood

01:30platter and I've also been to the Bentley Bridge side of things and Costco

01:35and I had like an all-you-can-eat so I tried a lot of different things some I

01:39loved some I hated so it was just that I have been adventurous

01:46sometimes people can say cuz I've tried a lot of good stuff I remember this is

01:51the weirdest thing I was in Amsterdam and we ended up going to an Ethiopian

01:54and Eritrean place you know eating with the sourdough bread and then picking up

01:59the food with that yeah it was good it was spicy but it worked out quite nicely

02:02so tell me about what your favorite foods are I'm gonna have to go with some good Italian

02:07food something like spaghetti bolognese or maybe like a lasagna or something

02:12man up in my own house what is it about Spag Bologna that you like? I just love

02:15Mediterranean foods I visited Amsterdam last year and there was a really nice

02:19Mediterranean food restaurant so I just had a lot of Mediterranean food whilst I was there

02:24and something about the food and the spice and the culture of that as well

02:28oh absolutely mate I'm really big on wanting to go back to the Mediterranean

02:32in this area as well there's plenty of options well not just that but also I

02:35can see that you've been to Hasty Tasty Pizza yeah what is it that food in this

02:39area that you like? oh food in this area we're talking like just West Midlands in

02:44general? well yeah I mean you live around here I'm assuming so I live in

02:48South Staffordshire actually okay well that works as well but I just thought

02:51that the whole sort of region this it's a wide range of different foods aren't

02:55they? oh completely yeah yeah I'm quite partial to a bit of a chips and curry

02:59sauce myself yeah that's got you thinking now haven't I? pork

03:07scratchings in the nail yeah real okay so when you think about your favorite

03:14foods what are the things that you like to eat? I like to eat some African traditional dishes

03:22soup exactly, I like palm oil soup, that's the Bangda soup

03:28is there anything sort of special you do with it? is there a special type of soup that you like?

03:31yeah that's what I do, that's Bangda soup, I love Bangda soup, it's a palm oil soup

03:35because I can eat it with starch and I really like eating it with rice as well

03:41living in Wolverhampton have you sort of found something similar to that or have you tried to change your taste as you've been here?

03:46no not at all, I think the cultural difference also extends to food nutrition

03:53sometimes some of their soups are still less spicy than I like it

03:59you personally like a bit of spice then? yeah so would a vindaloo curry be up your street as well then?

04:05I don't know, I've never tasted it but I'd like to try it, I hope it's fine

04:10so is that the thing about living in this region, you'd like to expand your taste a little bit?

04:14yeah I think there should be some more infusion of some other tribes, some other cultures

04:22because we mostly have Asian meals, there's not enough African food

04:32so tell me what are your favourite foods? Chinese, Italian, chips

04:37so you're someone who likes a lot of everything basically, is there anything specifically within Chinese cuisine that you like?

04:42more of the authentic stuff like dim sum, some of the evening dishes and stuff, nothing like the take away

04:52oh so it's more down to the authentic taste and flavour and things like that?

04:56yeah it makes me feel like a back home

04:58what about the Italian stuff, are you a spaghetti bolognese person or are you more pizza?

05:02both, depends on the mood

05:07in fairness we've all been there with that

05:09so tell me about living in this region, is there anything from this region specifically that you've tried and you've liked?

05:15battered chips

05:17I ask this about a lot of people, what is it about orange chips and battered chips that you like?

05:23the crunchiness, texture, flavour, that sort of thing

05:26have you ever been a curry person as well?

05:28yes but because my family isn't into spice as much I've kind of had to fall back on it

05:36we go to Indigo once in a blue moon

05:39you're more of a chicken korma person than a vindaloo person then?

05:43yeah

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