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"Some foods open up parts of your brain you didn’t even realise were there. They react with your taste buds in eye-opening ways and, in the case of Alhaji’s yaji, eye-watering ways. The northern Nigerian takeaway’s homemade spice mix of chilli, peanut, ginger, and garlic is one of these foods. It covers their freshly grilled suya—get the tozo—and it’s the reason you’ll likely find a new appreciation for raw tomato and white onion." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna, daisy meager, riaz phillips