(Dr HH continues to talk us through his solo trip to Paris.)

After a good few hours of touristing on a full belly of pastries, I was starting to get hungry and headed back towards my hotel to eat at Jah Jah. I’ve not got a lot of experience with Afro Caribbean food and have very few opportunities to get this, with there being nothing vegan readily available in Prague. I’m always keen to try but also have no real frame of reference to whether it is a good version of this cuisine.

I ordered a mixed plate of the day and a side of cauliflower wings. The mixed plate had some Attieke, which was made from cassava and felt very similar to couscous. There was a tempeh and red pepper barbeque skewer. The sauce was good and I’m never going to complain about some tempeh. The boiled yam and plantain were both fine, there wasn’t a lot of flavour from the yam but it worked with the other sauces and flavoursome things. There was some coleslaw and some salady bits which added some textures and a bit of sharpness. The saka saka was possibly the best thing on the plate, it was well seasoned spinach with some beans in there.

The cauliflower wings were very good. They were really tender and the coating was crisp and nicely flavoured. I think there was some coconut in the coating which worked really with the sauces it came with.

I had a nice ginger and passion fruit drink to wash everything down with too.

One of the big draws for my trip to Paris was the Paris Noir exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. This was celebrating the influence of Black artists on art in Paris and it was an excellent exhibition. I’ve spent plenty of time in big European galleries and the only person of colour I have ever seen really highlighted was when I saw a Basquiat exhibition, so this exhibition was a welcome change to the norm. Sadly, the galleries with the great permanent collection were closed but the one of the other exhibitions was also good fun and this all made for a good couple of hours of afternoon art.