thanks, brother. when you get to the DR, send me a pm. i can arrange some for you...
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"Little Jamaica" in Boca Chica
thanks, brother. when you get to the DR, send me a pm. i can arrange some for you...
I don't eat goat or oxtails but love me some good jerk chicken and pork. If they play reggae rather than bachata big plus, even though I dig bachata. Bigger plus would be red stripe, even though I dig presidente more.
Looked at location. Not bad but something about reggae and jerk chicken that almost requires a beach. Will do my best to support them so maybe a beach side move can be in near future!
Never tried Jamaican Food, but I'm really looking forward to it!
BTW if they are still looking for a place, there is a empty spot were a Pizzeria was before on Calle Duarte, right on front of were Zanzibar used to be.
BTW if they are still looking for a place, there is a empty spot were a Pizzeria was before on Calle Duarte, right on front of were Zanzibar used to be.
http://www.amazon.com/A-Taste-Caribbean-Rustie-Lee/dp/0954851854#reader_0954851854
Worth getting Rustie's book if you want to try authentic Caribbean food. Her Jamaican restaurant in Birmingham used to be a favorite in my earlier years. And what a woman.
Rustie Lee's Caribbean Cookbook (1985)
The original all Jamaican recipies
And a snippet of info..........beloved Queen Elizabeth 2 considers 'Ackee and Saltfish' as one of her favorite dishes....those ackees just melt in your mouth
The original all Jamaican recipies
And a snippet of info..........beloved Queen Elizabeth 2 considers 'Ackee and Saltfish' as one of her favorite dishes....those ackees just melt in your mouth
I know the spot you talking about. Used to have good pizza there. That is an excellent location because the location the OP mentioned is out of the way. Unless you already knew of the restaurant you would never know is was on the little side street. Most tourists, regular and mongers, never venture much further than the little park.
Running a restaurant in Boca is tough enough, but when the masses are unaware of your existence it is that much harder.
because there are very few people here who know how to season food. sopita cubes and tomato sauce are the chief ingredients, and cilantro is a must. that makes pork taste like chicken, taste like beef, taste like fish, taste like....
Many find the food bland because other Carribbean countries use heavy or pungent spices and HOT
compared to the Dominican cuisine which is mild in flavor.
A person used to flavoring their foods with such pungent spices for instance curry will find Dominican
food lacking in flavor or bland.
Dominicans grow up with bland food and tend to dislike, well, flavor.
I know kids who consider onions too spicy and pick them out of the arroz.
The DR is the only place I know where there are people who like unspiced, unseasoned Tilapia.
I know kids who consider onions too spicy and pick them out of the arroz.
The DR is the only place I know where there are people who like unspiced, unseasoned Tilapia.
Show me a kid who likes onions.
On the contrary I am used to both Dominican and other cuisines where spices are heavily used
and still I do not consider Dominican food bland.
Dominicans do season their talapia with spices but the problem is that unless it is heavily spiced
like most other people from other islands in the Carribbean it's considered bland. Simply because
that is how they are used to eating. On the other hand Dominicans consider their food too heavily
spiced.(pungent) Or I should say the majority.
Both my boys love them as kids and, now, as young gentlemen although they always cried when eating them. hahahahahahah
I was a kid who liked onions. I never liked pickles on hamburgers, but like them elsewhere.
There is a tendency among Dominicans, as some other Latinos, to cook an unfortunate fish into a charred crisp.
Tilapia has practically no flavor, and it tends to taste when charred in this way, rather like charcoal.
There is a tendency among Dominicans, as some other Latinos, to cook an unfortunate fish into a charred crisp.
Tilapia has practically no flavor, and it tends to taste when charred in this way, rather like charcoal.
Every day we sell a couple of hundred ham and plantain (politos) Most of the kids ask for the hot sauce, which is a vinegar and pepper mix not unlike tabasco sauce. I'd rather have my food bland with the condiments to spice it up according to my taste requirements.
Yes, I do agree with you on the charred fish.(grilled)
But Talapia has such delicate meat that heavy spices is not required. I mostly cook mine with
a few sprigs of dill ( chopped), freshly ground black pepper ( a must!), garlic and gently saute
in butter.Then a good splash of lemon at the end to create a butter sauce! Yummo! You really taste the flavor of the fish!
If I want to taste a fish, I buy anything but talapia. Talapia is for me the ocean's answer to tofu. Scallops have a delicate flavor: tilapia is flavorless, though I suppose lemon, dill weed and pepper would improve it.
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