Port Harcourt has a strong suya culture — the spiced, skewered meat that is the quintessential Nigerian street food. The best suya spots are informal roadsides where charcoal fires are lit around sunset and crowds gather to eat standing up with sliced onions and tomatoes on the side. Trans Amadi and the roads around Rumuola are the best areas to find suya spots with a serious following among locals.
Beyond suya, the street food scene extends to roasted plantain with groundnuts (a classic combination), fried yam with pepper sauce, akara (black-eyed pea fritters) sold from large pots in the morning, and fresh palm wine tapped from raffia palms and sold by the roadside in plastic containers. Eating well in Port Harcourt is cheap and largely a street-level activity — the best food is rarely in the formal restaurants.