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Pain Omelette

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One of its most famous vendors cooks the whole thing — omelette, potatoes and chili — inside a single minute, flat.

An omelette fried in plenty of oil, often with onions and sometimes fries, gets stuffed into half a baguette with a spicy pimon sauce. It's Dakar's classic grab-and-go breakfast, cooked to order at makeshift roadside tables called tanganas as commuters wait.

Why it's made this way: Tanganas, Dakar's informal roadside food stalls, turned the French baguette into a canvas for fast, cheap Senegalese breakfasts, and the omelette sandwich became the city's default one.
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