JUSTICE MALALA: Forget Noakes folks, dig in
Some call it the township hamburger, but the kota, filling and delicious, is better than that. You can get them in many variations all over Gauteng
I was biting into my fat, wholesome, huge kota when suddenly the image of the low-carbohydrate diet guru Tim Noakes flashed before my eyes. It was a bad time for this to happen. A kota is a township invention: a quarter loaf of bread, the soft inner bit cut out and the crust left open like a bowl into which atchar, chips, egg, sausage and cheese are stuffed. My mouth was wide open, and the kota looked so appetising. But. But there was a humungous amount of potato chips in there. On bread. I hesitated. I thought of Noakes. Then I thought: nothing ventured, nothing gained. I was here for the readers of the Financial Mail, and they want to know what it is like to eat at the most exciting new chicken outlet in SA that I have yet come across.It’s a bit like the Gupta family, you know. They didn’t give President Jacob Zuma’s wet-behind-the-ears kid a quarter of their business for free. They expect a big payback — a coal mine here, political cover there, and perhaps even the opportunity to...
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