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A meal by The Hill ko Café Dijo

Chicken and Mushroom Lasagna
Chicken and Mushroom Lasagna

Gongwe I watch too much TV because here I am making yet another reference, being the hit TV sitcom Friends. Perhaps I was just a huge fan of the franchise.

I got into Friends in high school, where I was youthful, fun and already a social butterfly. The comedy show is centred on a group of six (20-30 years) old friends living in the New York City and spending a lot of their time in a coffee shop.

I loved the sense of comfotability amongst patrons and coming together of different individuals in a common space. Finally in my varsity years in the Western Cape, I was old enough to drink coffee and experience a coffee house like Central Park on Friends.

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