Here I am yesterday in Cotonou’s newly-opened answer to KFC. It serves a variety of chicken meals, accompanied by the mandatory fries and fizzy drink!

I say it’s Cotonou’s answer to KFC, as it’s actually called ‘DFC’, which is not a central African country, but actually stands for ‘Denny’s Fried Chicken’.
Who Denny is I didn’t dare ask! Here’s Lois admiring the freshly-painted exterior:

So, why is it only almost fast food? Well, probably because it took 20 minutes for our food to arrive! That’s not bad for Africa; once I waited 1 hour 45 minutes for my lunch elsewhere! So maybe it ought to be known as Fast-food on African time, that could work!

The best thing about it is that there’s a FAB kids play area there (arguably the best Benin has to offer). There are climbing bits and slides like this:

…and this:

Then there are a couple of small climbing walls:

…and best of all – for our kids at least – was the ball pool:

It’s well worth a visit, especially if you have kids. The only other ‘western-style’ fast-food place in town is ‘Steers/Debonnaires Pizza’, which is also very good (and does whippy ice-creams!!) but no play area.

The food at Denny’s was good (I had a chicken tikka burger, which was very tasty) and the fries were okay. Plenty of ketchup available and polite staff in matching uniforms (and – of course – baseball caps). For local blog-visitors, here’s how to find it: it’s on the same road as ‘Bangkok Terrace’ and on the same side of the road, and more or less opposite the ‘Pharmacie Camp Guezo’. Here are the Google Earth co-ordinates:

6°21’18.91″N
2°25’1.99″E

For other information about what’s going on in Cotonou, click here for this informative site.

Other news:

*Micah’s birthday party is tomorrow.
*Madelaine’s birthday party is next Saturday.
*Junior school shows are being performed on Friday.
*End of term, 19th December.
*Micah is off school today with a sore throat.
*Rob’s getting an acoustic piano tonight (first time here) and is really excited!