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class="infobox-full-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible" style="text-align: left; border: none; padding: 0;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Current restaurant(s)</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0; text-align: left; margin-left:10px;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">4Roomed eKasi Culture</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://4roomedekasiculture.com">https://4roomedekasiculture.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Abigail Mbalo-Mokoena</b> is a South African <a href="/wiki/Chef" title="Chef">chef</a> and <a href="/wiki/Restaurateur" title="Restaurateur">restaurateur</a>. She is the chef, owner and creative director of 4Roomed, also called 4Roomed eKasi Culture<sup id="cite_ref-:6_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or just eKasi,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Khayelitsha" title="Khayelitsha">Khayelitsha</a> township, 30 kilometres (19 mi) outside Cape Town, South Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019 4Roomed was named in a combined project by <i><a href="/wiki/Food_%26_Wine" title="Food & Wine">Food & Wine</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Travel_%2B_Leisure" title="Travel + Leisure">Travel + Leisure</a></i> magazines as one of the 30 best restaurants in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abigail_Mbalo-Mokoena&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mbalo-Mokoena born in <a href="/wiki/Gugulethu" title="Gugulethu">Gugulethu</a> and grew up in Khayelitsha.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:7_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She worked as a dental technologist for 17 years before opening the restaurant and in 2014 was working at <a href="/wiki/Cape_Peninsula_University_of_Technology" title="Cape Peninsula University of Technology">Cape Peninsula University of Technology</a>’s Dental Sciences department.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culinary_career">Culinary career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abigail_Mbalo-Mokoena&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Culinary career"><span>edit</span></a><span 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id="cite_ref-:7_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The restaurant opened in 2014 as a food truck parked next to a <a href="/wiki/Shisa_nyama" class="mw-redirect" title="Shisa nyama">shisa nyama</a><sup id="cite_ref-:4_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and three years later moved into a four-roomed house.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The restaurant is named for the four-room, multi-family<sup id="cite_ref-:5_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> bungalow typical in South Africa's <i>eKasi</i> (townships<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>).<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mbalo-Mokoena was raised in this type of home.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the house where she grew up, "every room was a bedroom, the kitchen, the lounge."<sup id="cite_ref-:5_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The restaurant specializes in modern interpretations of traditional African dishes, and especially South African dishes.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 4Roomed serves a five-course tasting menu at a single communal table.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Customers are approximately 30% local residents and the remainder tourists.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Saveur" title="Saveur">Saveur</a></i> called it "backyard fine dining."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Times_(South_Africa)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sunday Times (South Africa)"><i>The Sunday Times</i></a> said it was "disrupting the South African food scene with its re-imagined township cuisine that challenges notions of what constitutes fine dining."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mbalo-Mokoena also has a casual restaurant and carryout a few blocks from 4Roomed.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014 Mbalo-Mokoena competed on the third season of <i><a href="/wiki/MasterChef_South_Africa" title="MasterChef South Africa">MasterChef South Africa</a>,</i><sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where she reached the top six.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019 4Roomed was named in a combined project by <i><a href="/wiki/Food_%26_Wine" title="Food & Wine">Food & Wine</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Travel_%2B_Leisure" title="Travel + Leisure">Travel + Leisure</a></i> magazines as one of the 30 best restaurants in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is one of only three restaurants in Africa to make the list; the others are Johannesburg's <a href="/w/index.php?title=Le_Wine_Chambre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Le Wine Chambre (page does not exist)">Le Wine Chambre</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Ruined_Garden&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Ruined Garden (page does not exist)">The Ruined Garden</a> in Fez, Morocco.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philosophy">Philosophy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abigail_Mbalo-Mokoena&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Philosophy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mbalo-Mokoena and her husband, who were living in the Cape Town suburb <a href="/wiki/Melkbosstrand" title="Melkbosstrand">Melkbosstrand</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:7_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> moved back to Khayelitsha because they "realized that by moving out of the townships when we got our qualifications and our degrees, we were actually depriving the economy of the townships."<sup id="cite_ref-:5_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They believed that when educated members of the community leave for the suburbs or urban centers, "the kids have no one to look up to."<sup id="cite_ref-:5_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She decided to open a restaurant because she felt that South Africa wasn't celebrating its own food heritage.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abigail_Mbalo-Mokoena&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mbalo-Mokoena trained as a dental technologist.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She is married to Sam Mokoena.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The couple have two sons and one daughter.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-1"><span 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