Price of Meat in a Typical Kenyan Butchery

I have been hanging out quite a lot with my brother in the Thika road region! Clearly not the high end of the market.

For a start i have noticed that most butcheries have differentiated themselves. The Butcheries with a pub adjacent to them are almost always more expensive that the ones not adjacent to the pubs. A kilo of mutton goes for 480 shillings whilst that of cow goes for 380 and that of pork goes for 320. A kilo of chicken goes for 360 in kenchic raw meat butchery but goes for 560 in the kenchic chips joints. The kuku sama has no spices no salt just plain roast/oven chicken - pretty tasteless and dry if you ask me.

I have also noticed a hotel ( new to me but not sure how old it is) called sports view in Kasarani. There is no such view as it is heavily build but once out of their compound you can see Kasarani on the about 500 m away - suppose that is where the name comes from. Anyway they have a tiny swimming pool, i mean more like 20 m long and maybe 10m wide and the deepest point is about 1.6-1.7m deep. But then again this doesnt matter as most people i saw swim in there were kids who all stuck by the railings as their parents/guardians couldnt be bothered getting in the water themselves.

To swim, it costs an adult KSH 200 and KSH 100 for a kid; there are two live guards but i witnessed a couple near drowning moments for some of the kids. Interestingly the parents were not even in the pool area - they were busy chatting or eating in the nyama choma area of the hotel.

A plate of nan, rice and Tandori chicken goes for KSH 650 in this hotel; i am not a hater but i think it is plainly overpriced. This has nothing to do with affordability. Oh yeah and they have what they call salad - grated carrots and cabbage and a hint of onion - talk about selling soil at the cost of gold!