- Beef, chicken or goat, cut for skewers
- Spicy peanut-based seasoning dust
- Grilled over open flame
Soya
Soya, Cameroon's spicy street-grilled meat. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Soya is Cameroon's answer to suya: skewers of beef, chicken or goat, grilled over open flame and dusted with a spicy peanut-based seasoning.
Born in the north, it is now the country's great evening street food: the smoke of soya grills is the smell of Cameroonian nightlife from Garoua to Douala.
Key ingredients
Where to try it
- Evening grill spots in every city; Garoua and the northern cities for the original style.
- Molyko (Buea) and Akwa (Douala) grill streets.