Making fufu is not easy. It is one of the staple foods and is usually made from cassava and plantains. Although Charity also adds sweet potatoes to it. It is a long and hard process. After boiling the ingredients, they all need to be pounded separately and then mixed together and pounded again. I find it a dangerous process as one person has to turn the fufu in the mortar while the other person pounds. There is a rhythm to it and if the person with the pestle misses it surely means no fingers left!! So you have to trust the person a lot. 
Once the fufu is pounded it is steamed and eaten with a hot and spicy soup usually made with fish or meat. So we have great difficulty finding vegetarian fufu as the basic ingredient includes shrimp paste. We have to order it a day in advance to make sure we get vegetarian soup. This means we cannot just walk into the local "spots" as the restaurant stalls are called and order anything vegetarian.
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