An evening out

We went for a walk last night to THE stationary store in Khartoum. While its not the only one, its the only one with more than 15 square feet of its store dedicated to office supplies. This shop may only be 15 sq feet, but with all walls mirrored, it at least gives the impression of options.
We didn't find quite what we were looking for. Of course.

But afterwards, we did find a fish market. Feeling brave, we went inside. It was a very clean shop with fish under ice. The six workers were all watching TV, and I suspect the one with the most English was forced to get up and deal with us. "What's this?" Red Snapper. "What's this?" Red snapper. "What's this?" Red snapper. The fish didn't all look identical to me, but we played along.
We picked a whole fish, and he slammed it on the scale. 18 Sudanese pounds a kilo. That pretty fish brought us to 16 pounds (8 US dollars). He placed it on a tray and passed it through a whole in the plexiglas for his buddy to clean it for us. The cleaning and filleting is apparently included in the price. Beautiful.
We paid the nice guy in the front, made chit-chat and just as our fish was about to be passed again through the plexiglass hole... ZAP! The power went out on the street. We nervously looked out the window as we hear the grumblings of generators getting to work. Other shops lit up again. Prettty soon, there were 8 guys and one flashlight crowded around the generator out front of Two Brothers Fish Shop. Including the fish cleaner. We tried not to think about that.


Finally- it works! They congratulate themselves and got back to work. First washing their hands. I checked.