Senegal: Dakar – Plage de la Pointe des Almadies Shellfish Overload

The westernmost tip of Dakar is the area called Almadie with many simple seafood restaurant – right on the water, simple tables, and seafood fresh as it gets. And I have never seen so much variety of shellfish on the menu. First it took some figuring out what is what as the menu was in French. After the waiter brought out one of each shell type, I oscillated between trying a sampler of everything or just ordering a whole order of each. The latter idea seemed crazy enough to try. So here we go…