The local restaurant. A shed or an open-sided structure, plastic chairs, a handful of dishes, and someone who has been cooking one of them for decades.

Chop is Ghanaian English for eat.

Chop bars serve the food most Ghanaians actually eat: waakye, banku, fufu and soup, kenkey, jollof, rice and stew.

They are the cheapest and frequently the best food in Accra. The reliable selection method is to look for the one with the queue — turnover means fresh food, which is also the whole hygiene calculation.

What to eat in Accra