You might cook a meal whose recipe you can perfectly master. Personally, I’m not a professional chef, so I cook something quite simple, just using different kinds of vegetables (at least 3) and make an effort to have the plate look well composed. Or, if you’re more experienced, prepare something like you’re personal interpretation of a local dish.
If you try it, you’ll find that this moment where you share your own food with your new friends is the achievement of your journey: that’s the moment when you feel you’re not only a visitor, but, for a few hours, you can also be the host.
Here’s how to go about it:
#1 Find food in the “ordinary world”
Let’s say your new friends are not wealthy, and they don’t go to a restaurant every other day, and they don’t have a cook at home. So a few times a week, they go to the market to buy their food, so why don’t you go with them?