Chef Elias Thobakgale has the proper recipes for travellers once they really feel homesick by making a menu that could be a mix of nostalgia, cultural delicacies and native flavour.
The Southern Solar Katherine Road in Sandton creates a singular SA keep for its long-stay visitors who reside on the resort for as much as six months.
Thobakgale’s hospitality extends his private contact to every visitor’s desire, creating a customized menu that warms the hearts of homesick travellers and is served with subtle native finesse.
“As we cater primarily to visitors who keep right here for a very long time, they like filling meals that has a house feeling,” says the 37-year-old executive chef at Southern Solar Katherine Road.
“We’d customise dishes and make them subtle by Africanising them simply to provide them a style of native. We’d take the concept of the meal and make a meal out of it which has some native strategies and spices.”
Thobakgale’s requests from his visitors vary from home made pasta to umleqwa (onerous physique rooster/free vary) and mogodu (tripe).
“I work together with the visitors and ask them about their meals preferences,” Thobakgale says.
“Although I specialize in up to date delicacies, I proceed to analysis and study concerning the meals tradition and delicacies of various areas of my visitors. With our native visitors, I get requests from mogodu to umleqwa as they miss the meals they ordinarily have at house.”
