Lloyd Mensah and Adwoa Hagan, Jollof Pot, Monday to Friday at Exmouth Market, London EC1, Saturday at Broadway Market, London E8, and Portobello Road, London W10, 020-7254 5333

Lloyd I was born in east London, Hackney, and my parents are Ghanaian. I went to university in Manchester and studied electrical engineering. I knew it wasn't something I wanted to do for ever.

Adwoa I was born in Accra. My father worked for a charity and travelled a lot. So I ended up here, at boarding school in Reading. I had to start cooking at an early age. In Ghana, anywhere in Africa really, if you're a woman you have to cook. I went on a catering course in Derby, worked everywhere from McDonald's to upmarket hotels.

Lloyd We met in London five years ago.

Adwoa We're getting married in July.

Lloyd From the get-go we enjoyed having friends round to dinner, that kind of thing. We started playing around with the idea of starting a restaurant, and Ghanaian seemed the obvious thing.

Adwoa We knew immediately it would have to be a stall. A restaurant is a huge investment. And what we love when we go to Ghana is all the stalls out on the street.

Lloyd Apart from a few Ghanaian postal workers who come to us, for most people it's the first time they've experienced Ghanaian food. The food is less spicy than you'd find in Accra. We're having to cater for the western palate.

Adwoa A lot of people think we're a stall and that's all. But we're a catering company: Jollof street food, Jollof catering, Jollof delivery. We're expanding.

Lloyd I like this much better than anything else I've done. I work six days a week, I'm tired all the time, but I'm still enjoying it. Of course, we think we're going to be rich.

Adwoa The restaurant is our first goal.

Lloyd It'll be somewhere mainstream - it's not going to be Mayfair or High Street Kensington.

Adwoa That'll come down the line ...

Signature dish: Nkatenkwan (chicken and peanut stew), £3.50