The Food Enthusiasts of Sudan and South Sudan
When comes to Sudanese and South Sudanese cuisines, there is much to explore and experience with their various unique spices, flavours and smells. With certain dishes, you’ll truly put your taste buds – as well as your other senses – to the test. The two different cuisines bring Arab and African cuisines together on one plate.
If you’re looking to learn more about either the Sudanese or South Sudanese cuisines, here are the food enthusiasts and bloggers you should follow:
A3bdin
Ahmed Abdin is a popular Sudanese blogger based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). He has more than 84,000 followers on Instagram, more than 209,000 followers on TikTok, and more than 56,000 followers on Facebook. He shares videos of the delicious food he makes, including traditional Sudanese dishes. He also makes appetising desserts, quick bites and drinks. He cooks, bakes, and takes pictures and videos of everything he posts on her page.
Social media: Instagram @a3bdin, TikTok @a3bdin, Facebook
Cooking with Shahd
Shahd is a popular Sudanese food blogger based in Dubai, the UAE with more than 65,000 followers on Instagram. Her speciality is making delicious traditional Sudanese dishes, including the sweet and savory, but also popular Arabic dishes. She also cooks, bakes, and takes pictures and videos of everything she posts on her page.
Social media: Instagram @cooking_with_shahd
Habi Makes
Habi Makes is a popular Sudanese food blogger with more than 41,000 followers on Instagram. In addition to being a talented cook and baker, she is a food stylist and photographer. She makes, styles and photographs everything she posts on her page. She makes Sudanese dishes as well as dishes from around the world, including Arabic, American, Indian, Korean, Italian and more.
Social media: Instagram @habi_makes
Keto Sudani
Spoken word artist and foodie Khadega Mohammed along with her mother Intisar are a popular mother and daughter duo on Instagram who together make videos of delicious traditional Sudanese dishes, merging Sudanese cuisine with the Keto diet. Based in the US, they have recently launched their own freshly packaged and prepared Sudanese meals brand, Mayrum Sudanese Products.
Website: mayrum.co
Social media: Instagram: @ketosudani @thekhadegamo
Make, Eat, Repeat
Make, Eat, Repeat is a vegan blog run by UK-based South Sudanese-British vegan blogger, Bachay Akolawin. Akolawin is a relatively new vegan. She became vegan about two and half years ago, which then motivated her to create the vegan blog, Make, Eat, Repeat, showcasing her new lifestyle as a vegan and sharing vegan recipes, reviews and lifestyle tips. Vegans avoid all animal-derived foods such as meat, chicken, fish, eggs, dairy and even honey. They also exclude animal by-products.
Read 500 Words Magazine’s interview with Bachay Akolawin of Make, Eat, Repeat.
Social media: Instagram @make.eat.repeat, Twitter @makeeatrepeat, Facebook, YouTube, makeeatrepeat.co.uk
Moweezy
Mohamed Omer, better known as Moweeezy, is a UAE-based Sudanese food and travel blogger. He mostly reviews restaurants, cafes and other eateries in the UAE and in countries he travels to. He has traveled to at least 25 countries. With more than 44,000 followers on Instagram and more than 39,000 on TikTok, he has recently been honoured by the Sudanese Embassy in the UAE as one of top Sudanese content creators in the UAE. He is represented by Reach, a marketing agency in Dubai, the UAE.
Social media: Instagram @moweeezy, TikTok @moweeeezy
Rajaa Britannia
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4qyRbsss6y/
Rajaa is UK-based Sudan food blogger with more than 20,000 followers on Instagram. She makes videos of her cooking delicious Sudanese food as well as popular dishes from other cuisines. She also a talented baker, making mouthwatering desserts from Sudan and around the world.
Social media: Instagram @gift_of_food_and_baking_, TikTok @gift_of_food_and_baking_, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/GiftofFoodBaking
Rufy Eats
In addition to being a mathematician, Rufy is a Sudanese-American foodie, mukbanger and ASMRist in the US. She posts videos of herself performing the Korean trend, mukbang, where her followers watch her eat a copious amount of food. She also runs a successful YouTube channel with more than 125,000 followers. Her YouTube videos have garnered more than 1 million views.
Social media: Instagram @rufyeats; YouTube @RUFY
Sudanese Kitchen
Celebrating Sudanese cuisine and culture, the Sudanese Kitchen is a cookbook project by UK-based Sudanese-British food enthusiast Omer Eltigani. The cookbook showcases and profiles the fascinating culture and history behind Sudan’s dishes. Eltigani also hosts and attends events around the world to introduce and educate non-Sudanese about the Sudanese cuisine.
Social media: Instagram @sudanesekitchen, Twitter @sudanesekitchen, Facebook, sudanesekitchen.com
Sondos’ Kitchen
Sondos is a talented 18-year-old foodie and food blogger with more than 6,000 follows on Instagram. She specialises in the sweet more than the savoury, baking cookies, biscuits, cakes, cupcakes and more. We also see her make snacks, appetizers, drinks and favourites such as warak enab, pasta, chicken wings and more. She makes, styles and photographs everything on her page.
Social media: Instagram @sondoss_kitchen
Taste of South Sudan
Run by US-based South Sudanese-American anaesthesiologist and food blogger Noela Mogga, Taste of South Sudan showcases South Sudanese cuisine, culture and beauty with tasty food recipes, traditional customs and natural beauty regimens. Taste of South Sudan has recently released her own bakhoor collection that consists of several house fragrances.
Social media: Instagram @tasteofsouthsudan, Twitter @tasteofsouthsud, Facebook, YouTube, tasteofsouthsudan.com
Taste of Sudan
Taste of Sudan is run by a sudanese food lover and student known as Maryam Bahoudashi based in Birmingham, the UK, who, with her blog and Instagram account, brings you the flavours of the Sudan, one plate at a time. In addition to highlighting Sudanese foos, she posts about Sudanese culture and has recently launched her own Sudanese bakhoor brand.
Social media channels: Instagram @taste.of.sudan
Other honourable mentions:
- Bake with fostog @bakewithfostog
- Bilad Al Sudan (Sudanese Food UK) @sudanese_food_uk
- DAKWA @dakwa.official
- Eat With Yasmin @eatwithyasmin
- Ola Elsharef @ola_elsharef
- Sudanese Pantry @sudanesepantry
- Tarteel Eats @tarteeleats @tarteeleatsdmv
Who are some of your favourite Sudanese and South Sudanese food enthusiasts or bloggers?
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This article was originally published on 23 July 2019. It has recently been updated to include new food enthusiasts and bloggers.
