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Serge Ibaka once begged for food outside this restaurant. He returned to eat there with the Raptors NBA championship trophy

Serge Ibaka, who has almost 200,000 subscribers on his Youtube channel for his How Hungry Are You?food show, is used to serving unforgettable, exotic meals to his guests.

But one recent dinner will be memorable for a deeply personal reason.

Ibaka, 29, brought the NBA championship trophy to the Republic of the Congo over the weekend.

The Raptors centre tweeted that 15 years ago, he used to beg for food outside a restaurant. He returned to the same restaurant to eat a full meal along with his dinner companion — the Larry O’Brien trophy.