Clothes shopping is always fun. Especially in Dakar. Trillions of different colors, cuts, and types of cloth can be found throughout the city, which can then be easily taken to your local tailor and made into beautiful Senegalese and Western styles alike. While cloth is everywhere in the capital city and fashion is clearly a central element of life here, the best place to get all your clothing needs is the Market HLM. And this is the real reason why clothes shopping is even better here than anywhere else. Because at this sprawling open-air market for cloth, I have found the most delicious beignet.
The Coconut beignet.
A simple concept really, I'm pretty sure its the normal, more cake-like batter of the traditional bigger beignet for 25CFA, then rolled in shredded coconut before frying. They are incredible. You find them on the HLM's main road passing by the market, with women assembling these towers of golden-fried dough balls on small stands on the side of the road. A perfect treat to accompany your Saturday afternoon shopping.
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