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What to eat in Namibia

The 10 best dishes in Namibia

Game from the bush, German bakeries and cold Atlantic oysters.

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Kapana

Best: Windhoek

Beef cut small and grilled at Single Quarters market, dipped in chili salt and eaten off newspaper.

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Oryx steak

Eaten all over Namibia

Lean gemsbok fillet grilled rare, on almost every lodge menu.

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Walvis Bay oysters

Best: Walvis Bay

Fast-growing oysters from cold Benguela water, eaten with a squeeze of lemon.

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Potjiekos

Eaten all over Namibia

Meat and vegetables layered in a three-legged iron pot and left over coals for hours.

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Biltong

Eaten all over Namibia

Air-dried spiced beef or game, the road-trip snack.

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Oshifima

Best: The north

Stiff pearl-millet porridge eaten by hand with stew.

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Mopane worms

Best: The north

Caterpillars dried and fried crisp with tomato and onion.

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Kalahari truffles

Best: The Kalahari

Desert truffles dug after the rains and fried in butter.

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Smoked snoek

Best: Swakopmund

Atlantic snoek smoked or braaied with apricot glaze.

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Apfelstrudel

Best: Swakopmund

German pastry from bakeries left by the colonial years.

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Photos: each dish's lead photo on its Wikipedia article (license and author on Wikimedia Commons); "a photo like it" is a food photo of the same kind, not that dish. Cook it opens a recipe in Chef Amazing, or Chef writes one for you. Picked by Chef Amazing, November 2026.