The story, not just the steps
Every dish carries the history behind it. Why the onions cook for forty minutes in a yassa, what the bitterleaf is doing in a ndole, who was making this before it had a name.
Every dish has
somewhere it came from
Recipes from Africa, the Mediterranean and Asia, with the history behind them and the chefs who grew up making them. Cook along in your own language.
Cooking from
Features
Everything a recipe leaves out
The part that gets lost between a kitchen and a printed page: why the dish exists, and how it is actually made.
Chefs who grew up with it
Recipes come from people who cook them at home, not from a test kitchen approximating them. Follow a chef and their reels land in your feed.
Video that shows the hand movement
Some things do not survive being written down. Short video from the chefs themselves, tied to the dish it belongs to.
Kitchens you can talk in
Every country has a group where people cooking the same thing compare notes. Ask the chef in the open, where the answer helps everyone.
Six languages, one set of names
The interface speaks English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. Dish names stay in their own language, because Ndole is Ndole everywhere.
Free to start, properly
Five countries with a recipe each, free forever. A week of everything to see whether it is for you, then back to free if it is not.
How it works
Four steps, and one of them is eating
From the map to the pan to the group that tells you what you got wrong.
Step 01
Pick a country
Start where you are curious. The map opens on Africa, the Mediterranean and Asia, one country at a time.
Step 02
Read why it exists
Before the ingredient list, the story: where the dish comes from, what it was for, and which part of it people argue about.
Step 03
Cook along
Steps, ingredients and video from the chef, in one place, in the language you set.
Step 04
Say how it went
Post a photo in the country kitchen. Somebody who has made it fifty times will tell you what to change.
The whole table, in your pocket
Ten countries, the chefs who cook them, and the conversation around every dish.
Plans
Start free, stay if it earns it
One free plan that is genuinely usable, and one subscription that opens the rest.
Free
€0/ forever
Five countries with one recipe each, and the kitchens around them.
- Five countries
- One recipe each
- Country kitchens
- Reels
- Six languages
- No card needed
Full
Most popular€4,99/ per month
Every country, every recipe, and everything the chefs publish.
- Everything in Free
- All ten countries
- Every recipe
- Offline saving
- Follow any chef
- One free week first
The catalogue
What is in there today
Growing a country at a time, because a country takes a chef and a chef takes a while.
10
Countries, each with its own kitchen
3
Regions: African, Mediterranean, Asian
6
Languages, interface and recipes
Voices
What people say it changed
Cooks who came for one dish and stayed for the country behind it.
FAQ
Questions people actually ask
And a few we would rather answer here than in an email.
What do I get for free?
Five countries with one recipe each, and the community around them. New accounts also get a week of everything, and when the week ends you drop back to the free plan rather than being locked out.
Are the recipes translated?
The app is in six languages, and everything you need in order to cook is in the one you chose: the description, the cultural story, the quantities and the steps. Names are not translated, because a name is a name. Ndole is Ndole in every language. When a name is written in a script you may not read, it keeps that name and carries an English one in brackets beside it. An ingredient with no equivalent in your kitchen keeps its name too, and we explain what it is rather than swapping it for something more familiar.
Who writes the recipes?
Chefs who cook them, and the Meymi kitchen. Every chef is reviewed by a person before their work appears publicly. Some dishes are also sourced from open recipe databases and then checked and attributed by hand.
Can I message a chef directly?
No, and that is deliberate. Conversation happens in the country and dish kitchens, in the open, where the answer to your question helps the next person with the same one.
How do I cancel?
From your App Store or Google Play subscription settings, the same as any other app. You keep access until the period you paid for runs out, then you return to the free plan.
Can I cook something and share it?
Yes. Post photos and comments in the kitchens. To publish recipes and reels of your own you sign up as a chef, which unlocks the tools straight away, and your work becomes publicly visible once our team reviews the account.
Taste the world
Ten countries, the chefs who cook them, and the story behind every dish. Free to start.