Eating Like The Locals In The Streets of Yaounde Cameroon

There is no better way to explore a new city in a new country than through food and this is why we are taking you around the streets of Yaoundé, Cameroon to eat everything we can find and stop at some of the most popular attractions in town.
The street food is truly ingrained in the Cameroonians culture. From grilled fish, to akra beans and of course soya of 50/50 you can find a very wide variety of food from vendors all around the city.
Our personal highlight was our visit at the Briqueterie of Yaoundé. This is a true street meat paradise. The ambiance, and the delicious skewers for only 50 franc each really made our day from the start.
Other than the food, it was fascinating to drive around Yaoundé and explore the city and there is no better way to see the big picture than from the top of Mont-Fébé. Also make sure to stop at the Reunification Monument to appreciate it's unique architecture.
To end the day, we suggest a stop at the Panoramique Lounge locate on the 11th floor of the Hilton Hotel Yaounde (The best hotel in Yaounde). Not for the food but really for the bats. Seeing thousand of massive bats flying around the building at sunset is truly an experience of it's own.
Looking for an amazing driver in Yaoundé who also doubles as a tour guide?
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Enjoy our Cameroon vlog series. More adventure in this amazing country known as Africa in miniature coming up soon.
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Chapters:
0:00 One Day In Yaoundé
1:00 Street Meat At The Briqueterie (Soya 50/50)
3:45 Local Artisan Market
4:53 Trying Some Mystery Food
5:55 Enjoying The View On Mont-Fébé
6:55 Hiding From The Rain With Corn Wine
10:21 Trying Akra Beans
10:44 The Yellow Taxis Of Cameroon
11:09 Grilled Fish & Local Beers
13:33 Reunification Monument
14:54 Trying White Peanuts
15:24 Yaoundé's BEST Driver
15:55 Dinner With Bats
20:13 What A Day In Yaoundé
#streetfood #cameroon #yaounde

[@DaveMani]

Want to see more street food videos? Watch us eating around the streets of Mombasa! 🇰🇪➡️ kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6q5o42crt6Knqcsi=ee6cjnigvjtWUVik

[@capietame5345]

Où sont mes frères du continent camerounais 🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲 Welcome to Cameroon btw

[@DaveMani]

Merci beaucoup mon ami!

[@lyvanne_]

Le continent🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲

[@myview9835]

When it comes to Cameroon 🇨🇲 you can never go wrong with food. I believe we are the greatest when it comes to food in Africa. If you want puff puff you go hunting in the morning and evening

[@DaveMani]

Agree! We had a lot of good stuff there.

[@SylvainEtienne-do4yg]

I am from Yaoundé and i can confirmé that we are enjoying our food there;)

[@DaveMani]

So delicious! :)

[@negmarron1791]

Yall did a good job showing what Cameroon has to offer

[@DaveMani]

Hey thank you so much for that! :D

[@boborigue]

Cameroon seems to be a foodie paradise. I am feeling hungry just watching you enjoy this street food ❤

[@DaveMani]

Yeah they really have a nice street food scene.

[@gracenjie2549]

Cameroons is really a foodie paradise.

[@ngabacletus9677]

I am a Cameroonian and I can confirm this 100%; you can come around some time too: you definitely wouldn't regret it 😉

[@ngabacletus9677]

Alex's English accent sounds like he's from the French-speaking part of Cameroon, but otherwise, his English is really impressive 👏

[@wonderfulworld2846]

In Cameroon you can have a different dish on every single day during a whole year 😊

[@lifehacks1019]

It helps that Dave is bilingual and a native French-speaker who can manourve the language barrier so easily with Cameroonians. Going to a foreign place where communication is seamless makes the adventure unforgettable! 👍

[@DaveMani]

I 100% agree! It really helped. 👍🏼🇨🇲

[@ORyan24]

In Yaoundé puff puff can usually be found everywhere. But they are only available in the morning and evening, not at lunchtime. The people there eat them every day for breakfast (at home and at the stall) and for dinner (especially at the cook's stall like one where you wanted to drink palm wine and in the restaurant like one where you ate grilled fish). By the way, thank a lot you for sharing this great video.

[@DaveMani]

We were just too late that day BUT we did find some in Kribi and it quickly became our favorite! So so good. 👍🏼

[@billyruita8155]

If people were open minded to other countries' culture and way of their lives instead of calling them poor, I believe the stereotypes would be kinda less.I agree there's poverty and there's also traditions and foreigners can't demistify none of it.Dave n mani are doing a good job

[@pshokolokobangoshe]

Thank you Sir !! Infact, so many people.... especially here in North America and parts of Europe, had just started to realize their ignorance and biases after KZbin and Google opening their eyes especially about the African continent! And especial thanks to D and T Mani's for your great work. Even here in Canada or the USA, there's always poverty everywhere on earth.

[@DaveMani]

I think traveling is the best way to open to other cultures and way of life. ❤️

[@olivierdesirefouda5847]

We Cameroonians are not poor bro ❤

[@Mashariki_0]

I love how chill and friendly the people are ❤❤ 1:21 Dave cooling the skewer as Alex munches his 😂😂

[@DaveMani]

Haha mine was straight from the grill! :p

[@simonsouleyeyenti7579]

This is cameroon Hospitality , food , palm wine ... This is a really good offroad trip ...

[@DaveMani]

It was a fun day for sure :)

[@lonelion8098]

Cameroon looks really green and beautiful and its interesting to hear Dave speak French with the locals hi Tracy!

[@DaveMani]

Yeah Cameroon was super lush indeed!

[@gertywilson1514]

Woooow Cameroon looks good hopefully they will be more developed soon. The street food looks amazing. You guys just gave Alex a good job idea hopefully he gets customers 💕

[@DaveMani]

Those little soya things were the BEST! :p

[@travel_and_explore_with_bip]

Beautiful!!! Seems like a really nice country, I have to add it to my list! Great video, looking forward to much more! Specially Africa! Cheers 🍺🍺

[@DaveMani]

We for sure had a lot of fun in Cameroon! :)

[@shinga61]

It is so sad that the Anglophone area is unsafe, i think zou would have loved exploring Bamenda and Buea

[@DaveMani]

Maybe next trip :)

[@paolosantiago3163]

I really hope Cameroon 🇨🇲🇨🇲 will soon develop more as a country in the next following years.

[@DaveMani]

All the best to Cameroon :)

[@hannah30430]

Unfortunately when all the 90 years old ruling the country since independence are unalived.

[@parkerchace]

i love your cameroon videos!! I want to go so bad now

[@DaveMani]

We had so much fun there! :D

[@doctorharry]

In the Building watching from Baltimore MD 😎

[@DaveMani]

Cheers mate! :)

[@dr.kashifulhaq6372]

Wow. You both are amazing, great energy levels. I didn't expect you to go to Cameroon 🇨🇲. Lovely street food and lovely settings throughout. Thanks for another exciting video.❤

[@DaveMani]

Thanks a lot! It was such a fun trip!

[@primetradixnevafomo5412]

Really professional tour you could tell the driver 1st language is french but he represented the bilingual nature of cameroon brilliantly

[@DaveMani]

Our driver was actually from the english side of Cameroon and spoke little to no French. :P

[@laboheme4]

Hello! Enjoying this video. May I add that while German settlers did arrive in 1888, it was not the beginning of this land then. There was always a rich cultural history in Yaounde, Cameroon and other colonised places in the world long before the 19th Century.

[@DaveMani]

Thank you for the extra information. ❤️👍🏼

[@DaveMani]

Thank you for the extra information. ❤️👍🏼

[@ayeahmichael]

Hey @DaveMani, so happy you have been to my country twice. As a suggestion, try Achu, Ekwang, Congo meat and Eru. You also need an authentic fish experience in Limbe. Great videos and awesome content.

[@DaveMani]

Thanks for the tips!

[@joanjune4381]

The things you eat Dave 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 nothing but respect. That could never be me. That green thing you have eaten ,It has reminded me of the blood at the Maasai homestead. All picky eaters one side. Such a great vlog. I am loving this Cameroon series. My best.

[@DaveMani]

Hahaha! Fair enough, that little brown paste in the leaf was for sure... different! But I'm always willing to try! :)

[@alexchui3511]

The start of the Cameroon series. We are here for it!

[@DaveMani]

4 more videos coming your way! :) 🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲

[@kylephillips5757]

Happy wednesday! can’t wait for all the content you have from Cameroon

[@DaveMani]

Yay! Thank you!

[@boborigue]

I love your vibes. Tracy seems to enjoy herself. I can't wait to see the rest of your Cameroon series

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so so much! :)

[@olivekeminse1918]

Yeah Nice welcoming country l love my CAMEROON but the roads are still very dusty and careless in a whole beautiful capital without talking about the other regions 😅😅😅nice content

[@DaveMani]

Thanks :)

[@harpalgajera2875]

I love how chill and friendly the people are 😊

[@DaveMani]

Same! They were awesome :D

[@bikdjbuk]

Thanks bro for this magnificent piece 🤗🥰

[@DaveMani]

My pleasure 😊

[@freementalmotivation5302]

Nice to see you came back 🎉❤

[@DaveMani]

Thanks a lot!

[@LEGACYMASTERMIND]

Cameroon is my country guys I will like to show you around limbe cameroon when next you visit 😂🎉❤

[@DaveMani]

Sounds good!!

[@billyruita8155]

I've been waiting for this documentary vlog.Congratulations.

[@DaveMani]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@billyruita8155]

Did, Videos are very therapeutic

[@evelyneodera7322]

Dave you have really high quality videos, you should do a behind the scenes one soon so we see what it's like making them

[@DaveMani]

As much as I would like, I am not sure if people would care. Maybe tho!

[@TheOriginalSpawn]

that street food looked amazing 💯

[@DaveMani]

It really was! :)

[@durutticolumn6002]

Fascinating!

[@DaveMani]

Thanks a lot!!

[@briankamau3267]

Amazing video 💯

[@DaveMani]

Thanks 💯

[@user-td2mq8fo8w]

it would be a pleasure to invite you to discovery the diversity of traditional food you can have in yaounde the next time you will come

[@DaveMani]

Sounds like a plan! ✅

[@giccelliomusic5999]

Great video exploring cameroon 🇨🇲, Africans are really resilent ,wonderful ppl Ps.is it cold over there # peace n hatmony fr jamaica 🇯🇲

[@DaveMani]

Thanks a lot my friend.

[@jameskelley7035]

Hi Dave. Thanks to your video and information, I was able to contact Alex and he gave me a tour last week. Great to have met Alex and learn about Yaounde! Was hoping I could post a picture but YT apparently does not allow. All the best.

[@DaveMani]

That is super cool to hear! I'm glad and feel free to send the photo via instagram! :)

[@youme1414]

I really like you guys. Take good care of yourselves.

[@DaveMani]

❤️❤️❤️

[@Benoni-wu2pt]

love you personality dave your a cool guy

[@DaveMani]

Hey thanks a lot :)

[@yvanalord9925]

I'm Cameroonian and I hope you had a great stay ❤❤

[@DaveMani]

Yes we did!! ❤️

[@MohammadAliji]

Nice vlog ❤ I enjoyed.

[@DaveMani]

Thank you 😊

[@parfaitbidias9899]

Yaoundé my town❤🇨🇲

[@DaveMani]

Yaay!

[@akisarllynn-1725]

Ohh i hope you guys enjoyed your visit to Cameroon ❤, you guys were around my town and quarter of residence 🥰i love Dave´s curioisity with food tasting😂

[@DaveMani]

We had the best time there!!

[@raissaphalone1624]

Hello. What you ate in the green leaf is groundnut paste or peanut paste seasoned and wrap in leaf then boiled. Pistache is a different thing though similar but pistache is egusi pudding made with egusi Also the peanut (groundnut) is white because that’s fresh and boiled peanut. Nice video by the way

[@DaveMani]

Nice, I kind of liked it. 👍🏼

[@njiahtata2267]

As a Cameroonian I like your video. It wasn't bias. When some white folks come here they film only the worse areas.

[@DaveMani]

We always go for the good stuff! ❤️

[@BMA19051]

Watching from nairobi

[@DaveMani]

Awesome! 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪

[@touchoflegends5736]

Amazing 🙂

[@DaveMani]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Sirtimothymercer]

Pistache (aka. mystery food), btw, is pumpkin seed paste mixed with spices and raw palm oil and then steamed in banana leaves.

[@DaveMani]

Oh well, I liked it! Haha

[@kemoekoke3066]

The continent❤

[@DaveMani]

❤️

[@andaglenn560]

Youande is having red ground, you should visit Douala, buea znd limbe

[@DaveMani]

Maybe next time :)

[@ashudesmond3050]

247 🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲 Africa in miniature

[@DaveMani]

Beautiful place! :D

[@takangnelsonnkongho8940]

Nice video 😊

[@DaveMani]

Thanks 😊

[@coralierobert7333]

Wow wow wowo chouette petit vlog du Cameroun à Yaoundé. Je viens de Belgique et j'ai des origines camerounaise du côté de ma maman qui est né là bas même 😅❤. Désolée je ne parle pas anglais 😢 j'espère que vous me comprendrez. Et hate de voir la prochaine vidéo de vlog du Cameroun 🇨🇲.

[@DaveMani]

Génial! Nous avons adoré notre mois au Cameroune. Nous avons fait 4 autres videos qui serons publiées bientot! :)

[@mouricewekesamunoko2839]

I think Africa is growing fast than expected

[@DaveMani]

For sure!!

[@aravind4090]

Yummy 😋😄😇

[@DaveMani]

Sure was!

[@Benoni-wu2pt]

guys are you going to cote-ivoire next ?? its a very touristic country, its in africa too and they speak french. but in cote ivoire you can find many guide cause its a very touristic country. love your videos especially the africans country one!!!

[@DaveMani]

We would LOVE to!!!

[@jessicakallen]

There’s no one I’d rather watch travel Africa than you guys 🫶🏽 hope Tracey’s stomach is handling the different food and drink ok 😅

[@DaveMani]

Wow thank you so so much Jess!

[@lynnylynne1544]

Love the video. How did you make the subscribe button light up ?

[@DaveMani]

It's a new feature! You simply have to say subscribe and it does it. Same for the like button as well.

[@edpro9332]

Yummy 😋😋

[@DaveMani]

It was 100%

[@patchristzekeng8888]

You have just covered the city capital, there's alot more to discover. Cameroon is a Africa in miniature, that's why it is call Le Continent .

[@DaveMani]

We made a full series from Yaoundé to Kribi, the West and more!

[@gudhuroroba6960]

When will you come back to Kenya again, i admire you my friend and Tracy ❤❤

[@DaveMani]

We were then just left again

[@gudhuroroba6960]

​@@DaveMani Oh.. have impressive exploration then bro.

[@princedonnellenganda5573]

Cool 👍 😂

[@DaveMani]

Thanks :)

Mon pays ❤❤❤❤❤

[@DaveMani]

Très beau! :)

[@faith6007]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@DaveMani]

Thanks for watching Faith :D

[@moodyshah007]

Thankyou

[@DaveMani]

You’re welcome 😊

[@hmatende]

Dave and Tracy please compare Nairobi and Yaoundé in terms of development and infrastructure. Never mind the fact that there are French speakers in Yaoundé to make Dave’s day.

[@Yourunclestoenail]

Why????

[@CollinsMwangi333]

Nairobi is definitely better

[@boborigue]

Cameroon has been in standstill in terms of infrastructure development for 40 years because of its political situation. On the other hand, Kenya is one of the most touristic country on the continent. Therefore, Nairobi is definitely ahead of Yaounde in terms of infrastructure. I don't think the gap in terms of human development is huge though. I have been to both countries and that's my personal take on it.

[@DaveMani]

I don't like comparing. Every country has some better and worst but is unique as well.

[@dimsafrik4227]

This is the problem with Africans always trying to compare. Maybe we should try comparing nairobi to newyork

[@laisansen3543]

That Driver didn't do a good Job seriously. Is roasted fish the only meal he could introduce you guys too. That's just a snack for us😂. Next time indicate soo that wee your fans come to pick you up and give u real food.

[@DaveMani]

What do you means loll We ate all day! :p Alex was great!

[@laisansen3543]

I just recently discovered your channel and have gone through all the videos but i haven't seen you guys eat real food. Like cameroon dishes. I felt soo bad. How i wish u could come again and eat Eru, Achu(Taro), Kondre, kok etc But Thank you guys for coming i too saw some part of Cameroon i have never being too.

[@devanshpurohit2025]

Great vlog Dave real nice food tour is this yaounde is in Africa?

[@DaveMani]

It sure is!

[@johns2260]

Hi Dave. Planning to get a7iv but realised that has 1.5 crop on 4k 60fps? Do you record on full hd and upscale to 4k?

[@DaveMani]

I do 1080p 60fps.

[@legendfoot237]

MERCI/ THANKS

[@DaveMani]

Merci à toi!

[@kylephillips5757]

1st!

[@DaveMani]

Amazing!

[@youme1414]

Wow! Is it safe out there? There is war in South western Cameroon. Be safe. Thank you, sir and ma'am.

[@DaveMani]

We felt fine in Yaoundé honestly.

[@toheebadeshina2740]

Both of y'all enjoying Yaounde

[@DaveMani]

Of course :)

[@levinjuguna2809]

Beer at 1.35USD double sized am going there 😂

[@DaveMani]

Best deal ever right! 🍻🇨🇲

[@princesalva115]

❤❤❤❤

[@DaveMani]

Bonne journée :)

[@jeromebernard2588]

For food, you have to eat with family, otherwise in Limbe, the beach, there are very good fish. viva Cameroon

[@DaveMani]

We did eat on the beach and wow that was good!

[@betternessallday7248]

shoutout alex

[@DaveMani]

He is the man!!!

[@SA-zr9nu]

Would love to know what is the 9 to 5 work you do as it seems to make you travel around Africa a fair bit.

[@DaveMani]

Its nothing interesting trust me...

[@SA-zr9nu]

Come on tell the viewers@@DaveMani

[@jevantebo4183]

Are you from Quebec? Nice video. I’m from Cameroon living in MTL

[@DaveMani]

Oui, je viens de Laval. 😬

[@jevantebo4183]

@@DaveMani C'est cool ça! Très belle chaîne. Tu as un nouveau abonné. 🫱🏿‍🫲🏻

[@heat945]

Cameroon is best for food in Africa

[@DaveMani]

I did really it! 👍🏼

[@abdoabakar3261]

👍

[@DaveMani]

Cheers!

[@mtndrone]

19:19 Imagine flying the drone inside a tornado of big bats 🤯

[@DaveMani]

Yeah that would have been cool! A bit dangerous for the bats and the drone tho! hahaha

[@baltanne]

J’aimerais aller vivre à *KRIBI*

[@DaveMani]

C'est un très bel endroit! :)

[@baltanne]

@@DaveMani MOI ça ne serais PAS dans l’immédiat, mais peut être un jour, tu as un commerce la bas?

[@cocochannel6898]

So Alex the driver is from Nso

[@DaveMani]

Possible

[@Elomoanguissa]

i am a camerounian and amazed you bought that thing in the leaf for 2500 cfa very funny

[@DaveMani]

No no no , I got bracelets AND that food thing.

[@Elomoanguissa]

@@DaveMani HOW ON EARTH can you acheive answering every comment ?? respect

[@akisarllynn-1725]

The size of alcohol in Cameroon they are not joking got me😂😂😂 As i a Caameroonian i would say alcohol is highly consumed i´ Cmr

[@DaveMani]

Haha cheers to that! 🍻

[@mandalaxxl]

very nice video just the taxi price is missing per km

[@DaveMani]

There was not a price per KM. We paid him for the day. ($40)

[@mandalaxxl]

@@DaveMani Hi, another question, how is it about mosquitos in Cameroon? You need mosquito nets? Are the mosquitos tropical ones which are so tiny so you cannot get them like in Peru? how you protected yourself from mosquitos there?

[@scrollpeace2485]

le man a tchop tous les soyas ah ah ah ah

[@DaveMani]

Soya is the BEEEST!

[@freementalmotivation5302]

Accra beans is called here beignets koki😂😂

[@DaveMani]

Aaaah. It was pretty nice.

[@thechrisngong]

Watching this in Yaoundé 👁👄👁

[@DaveMani]

Amazing :)

[@princedonnellenganda5573]

White man go cam chop 36 suya 😂 soteh add four

[@DaveMani]

I love those things loll

[@whynotyou783]

Yaoundé was founded by German traders? How? That’s miseducation. Nonetheless I appreciate the video

[@DaveMani]

My point what that Cameroon was a German Colony in the late 1800's.

[@barifanso1831]

That was corn beer not palm wine

[@DaveMani]

It was 👍🏼

[@ExploreWithCliff]

Hey Dave, I offer tour around Yaounde, and neighboring regions. Send me a mail when next you visit Cameroon 🇨🇲

[@DaveMani]

Awesome

[@billyruita8155]

You guys have a great health insurance cover then.The way you guys are foodies and never experienced stomach issues well i'd like a stomach like that.

[@DaveMani]

The more you eat around the world, the less stomach issues you get trust me :p

[@iradukundavitalien5065]

🇨🇲 still behind compared to Kenya 🇰🇪 you need to give us an honest comparison ?😅😅😅

[@DaveMani]

I never compare countries.

[@user-vm2eb9nw7j]

In terms food we are blessed with abundance of food in Cameroon as compared to Kenya which is a dessert but in terms of infrastructure, Nirobi is way more developed than Yaounde.

[@fredrickkulei3328]

the trip must have costed $200

[@DaveMani]

The full trip? Or that day? Because that day coasted much less than that. Street food is fairly affordable.

[@Twirly012]

Hi @@DaveMani how much would a day tour similar to yours cost?

[@user-th8dq1ev2l]

Pls make videos in order so that we can explore countries better with you guys.Rest ,you guys are amazing as always

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much. The videos are in order. Simply look at the date and that should help confirm.