Matoke AAA-EA), are known in the Bantu languages of Uganda as "matoke". Cooking bananas have long been and still are a common staple crop around the Lake Victoria area of Uganda, and in the West and Kilimanjaro regions of Tanzania. "Matoke" are peeled using a knife, wrapped in the plant's leaves (or plastic bags), and set in a cooking pot (Swahili: sufuria) atop the banana stalks. The pot is then placed on a charcoal or wood fire and the "matoke" is steamed for a couple of hours, water is poured into the bottom of the cooking pot multiple times. The stalks
Three Times directing only one of the segments. The producers were unable to rustle the financing to be able to hire three directors, so instead, Hou took over production. "Three Times" received generally positive, sometimes ecstatic reviews when it was released in North America. It currently holds an 86% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.' Most critics agreed that the opening segment, "A Time for Love", was the most successful, and that the final segment, "A Time for Youth" (which was frequently compared to Hou's "Millennium Mambo") was the least successful. Response was somewhat mixed for the second segment, "A Time for Freedom",