Port Harcourt Street Food · Fire-Roasted Plantain
Bole (Roasted Plantain and Fish)
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Bole isn't only plantain: the same stands roast yam, sweet potato and other tubers over the coals, and the fish is often mackerel or croaker.
Bole is ripe plantain roasted whole over open charcoal until the skin blackens and the inside turns soft and smoky, peeled and served alongside a whole grilled fish and a fiery pepper sauce. 'Bole and fish' stands line street corners across Port Harcourt.
Why it's made this way: It's considered Port Harcourt's defining street food, so central to local identity that the city has held an annual Bole Festival celebrating it since 2016.
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