Eating soup with your fingers

The staple meal in this part of Cameroon is Achu. Most restaurants serve it and some serve nothing else. The local people love it: but it's an acquired taste, especially for westerners who are not used to eating soup with their fingers. It consists of a paste, the consistency of dough, made from coco yams. You use your hands to form into a sort of bowl on your plate and then pour a thick yellow spicy soup inside. By using two fingers you scrape some paste from the outside of the "bowl" and dip it in the soup. It is the eaten with whatever fish or meat is available. We went to a place in Bafut today and that was all that was available to eat so I screwed up my courage and waded in. Its something that everyone who comes to Cameroon should do once.