Ghanaian Man Takes His Own Food to the Hotel: "I Don't Want to Order Anything From Them"

Ghanaian Man Takes His Own Food to the Hotel: "I Don't Want to Order Anything From Them"

  • A Ghanaian man is trending on social media after it emerged that he had taken his own food to a hotel
  • In the video making rounds on social media, the man was seen arranging the food he had packaged on a table in the hotel
  • Many Ghanaians who chanced on the trending video seemed surprised by his action as they trooped the comment section to react

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A young Ghanaian man has done the unimaginable by taking his own food to a hotel he booked to lodge in.

The young man, in a circulating post on social media, packaged about six balls of banku with pepper and fish in his hotel room.

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A Ghanaian man takes his own food to a hotel and causes reactions on social media. Photo credit: @bowenwaah/TikTok.
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While talking to a female acquaintance, the young man, whose name has yet to be identified, claimed he made the decision to take his own food to the hotel to save cost.

The video sighted on TikTok showed the unidentified man arranging the food on a table inside the room.

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"He literally didn't want to order anything from the hotel. Ghanaians never disappoint," the caption on the video read.

Besides the banku and fish, the young Ghanaian man also took along his plates, spoons and a microwave to warm the food.

It's unclear how many days he intends to stay in the hotel, however, the lady in the video said he booked it for a day.

"It's only a Ghanaian who will do this. A hotel room that he booked just a day, look at him, he brought his own banku with pepper and fish," the lady said.

Netizens surprised by the man's actions

The young man's actions left many netizens perplexed after they chanced on the trending TikTok video.

As of the time of drafting this report, the video had garnered over 1.8k likes and 185 comments.

@its_alpha said:

"Ghana 🇬🇭 fuo de3 yahyɛ yɛhu bone. I'm here planning how to take banku abroad when my luggage is 23kg."

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@Charlotte2naana replied:

"Hmmm Ghana for u. Our luggage is all inclusive... Everything dey inside."

@priscilla also said:

"And you will tell them not to come and clean the room, because you know what you got in that room."

@ani_ bee commented:

"This is me in an expensive hotel because I can't pay for an expensive room and buy food oooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo."

@F-BABY also commented:

"I think NANA did business at university de Economy x working. U do all Boss."

@Lianda Cutesy wrote:

"I used to do this with my ex when we go on vacation. I'll cook 3 days of peppered goat jollof, ukelele and extra chicken, then he gets wine and snacks, and we are fully sorted."

@Tricia also wrote:

"Hubby n I always do this, we even have the camp stove."

Man travels to Ghana to eat kenkey

Meanwhile, YEN.com.gh previously reported that a UK-based man travelled several kilometres to Ghana to enjoy his favourite Ghanaian food.

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The young man, known as the Gabrit said he had been craving Ga kenkey and needed to travel back home to satisfy his cravings.

A video shared on TikTok showed the man in the company of his friends eating his ball of kenkey at a local eatery in Accra.

Proofread by Samuel Gitonga, Copy Editor at YEN.com.gh

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Salifu Bagulube Moro (Human-Interest Editor) Salifu Bagulube Moro is a Human Interest Editor at YEN.com.gh. He has over five years of experience in journalism. He graduated from the Ghana Institute of Journalism in 2018, where he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Studies with a specialization in Journalism. Salifu previously worked with Opera News as a Content Management Systems (CMS) Editor. He also worked as an Online Reporter for the Ghanatalksbusiness.com news portal, as well as with the Graphic Communications Group Limited as a National Service Person. Salifu joined YEN.com.gh in 2024. Email: salifu.moro@yen.com.gh.