Zach Selch tries Kampala's Rolex, a chapati rolled with farm-fresh eggs, onions, tomatoes, and chili cooked over charcoal at a roadside stall. Four people work the motorcycle-side stand to make each sandwich. He calls it the best egg sandwich he's ever had.
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There are plenty of fine restaurants in Kampala. Well, no, that's probably an exaggeration, but there are plenty of places to eat in Kampala. On the other hand, sometimes you just want to have an egg sandwich on the street, and street food in Uganda is pretty unique. And really, you don't want You don't want to pull up to a little street-side stand where they're making fried egg sandwiches in a hotel sedan. So the only real way to go is on the back of a motorcycle.
Farm-fresh eggs. Charcoal fire.
Four different people are involved in making this sound, and I made it through traffic in one piece. Look at that! They put the chapati on the egg. It's beautiful. Little onion, tomato, cucumber.
Then some chili and some masala powder. It's pretty salty. It's a little hot. Hence the name.
So this is actually the Rolex of Ugandan street food, right? That's what they call it, the Rolex. It's an egg sandwich, rolled egg, Rolex, right? It's basically a chapati with egg, vegetables, Very fresh, really delicious. Far above normal. That's just about the best egg sandwich I've ever had in my life. Fantastic.
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