40 Great Street Snacks You should Try Whiles In Ghana 1. [Prices Included]

40 Great Streets Snacks You Must Try Whiles In Ghana [Prices included]

Here are Forty popular street snacks you will find in Ghana (in no particular order).

01 to 05

#01 Yogurt

Yogurt ice-cream is very common in Ghana and every loves it; kids and adults alike. This on a hot afternoon is dream come through. You can take this with Ghanaian meat pie, bofloat, rockbands, springrolls etc. (These are not recipes you are familiar with).

The ice cream has other flavours like vanilla, mango, passion, chocolate, cocopine, etc. Enjoy wide variety of these here in Ghana.

GHC 3.50

These are fanyogo (mango and passion flavour), fanice(vanilla flavour) and fanyogo (strawberry flavoured yogurt).

This is the hawker of these snacks. Most times, you will see them like this together with the pastries you can enjoy the ice-creams with. He has there meat pie, rockbands, spring rolls, bofloats.

#02 Asaana

This is drink made from corn and brown sugar. Served chilled with ice cubes and milk. You can eqaully take this with any of our Ghanaian recipe pastries, bofloat, bread etc. Another name is aliha, liha, ekudeme.

It is sweet and refreshing. You can see this nationwide.

GHC 5.00

This is a typical asaana seller. Selling from the calabash the highly concentrated and icy cool asaana through the funnel into you ‘take-away’ plastic. Ice-block is what you see floating on the asaana.

Rebranded serving of the famous asaana in glass with milk.

#03 Lamugi

Lamugi (drink) is made from millet/rice and ginger and sugar. This has sharper taste. It is served chilled. You can enjoy this with our Ghanaian pastries too. It is off white in colour, served in rubber with straw or traditionally in a calabash.

GHC 5.00

Lamugi served with ice in a calabash

Pouring lamugi

#04 Sobolo

Sobolo (hibiscus) drink is made from the famous hibiscus flowers, special spice blend with or without sugar. This is packaged in a bottle and served chilled. This tastes spicy sweet or sour depending on the unique recipes. You can enjoy this with any of our local pastries or bread. I recommend meat pie or bofloat

GHC 10.00

Mostly, this is how you will meet sobolo in the streets. Packaged in plastic bottles.

Traditionally, this is how you will meet sobolo at social gatherings. Served in disposal cups.

#05 Palm-wine

This is locally and manually extracted from the mother palm tree. This technology is called ‘palm wine tapping’. This is alcoholic but the alcohol can be detected because freshly tapped palm wine is sweet. Don’t follow the natural sweetness, you might get drunk without realizing. Aged or a day old palm wine has fermented taste. You can enjoy this from the rural areas in Ghana. Be advised that buying this from the urban areas may not give you the unique taste of palm wine since they refrigerate it and add extra sugar to dull the sharpness produced by the fermentation.

GHC 15.00

Serving palm wine in calabash.

Palm wine sold in bottles. This is exhibition.