In Rwanda, the craze for milk bars
He has a dash of white foam above the lips.Ferdinand Mutsinzi shyly by resting his pint on the table.It is 10 am in Kigali and, as every day, this young merchant took a break and spun in his favorite bar of the Rwandan capital to chat with a friend around a glass of Ishhyushyu.This word, in kinyarwanda, the national language, does not designate a local beer but ... fresh milk.
Here, "white gold" is served at pressure, directly from the tank which sits at the back of the room and which brews in an incessant purr the approximately 150 liters of cow's milk delivered in the early morning.Everything will be sold during the day, at around 50 cents of Euro per Painte.
True to Rwandan restraint and modesty, Ferdinand Mutsinzi does not like to talk about him.But when it comes to milk bars, his tongue unlocked: "Here, it's my bar to me.I am not going anywhere else to drink my two liters of daily milk.Around him, everything, from real estate to painting the walls, pays tribute to the favorite drink of the Rwandans.In this temple of milk with blue and white decor, he feels comfortable, as at home."I grew up under the worse of family cows, making the milking, drinking milk, loving milk," says the thirty -something.
At the back table, a motorcycle taxi has just dive the nose into its glass."Caillé milk helps me for my belly problems," he said before putting his helmet back and leaving."The milk is extremely nutritious, a child cannot suffer from malnutrition if he drinks," adds the boss from the rear of the counter.
An unprecedented milk shortage
Difficult to say how many Kigali's milk bars counts.At least several hundred.Care there almost all the social classes of this small country in central Africa: taxi drivers who came to take an en-case between two races, teachers seated in front of a glass of hot milk and a mandazi, this fried donut typical of AfricaFrom the East, whispering students by sipping a cup of chocolate milk ... In refrigerators at the glass doors, we find the rest of the Rwandan dairy range: fermented milk, better known locally under the name of Ikivuguto, yogurtsStrawberry or vanilla, and small ghee pots, traditional clarified butter.
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