Jamaica

Watch 12 videos about life in Jamaica—discover cultural traditions, travel tips, favorite foods, history, language tips, and more. Share your travel experiences on Lifey to help others!

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Video 1 - Transcription

Jamaica has a lot of really good fruit. They got fruit that I never heard of before I was there in Jamaica. Things like guinep and jackfruit, bunch of mangoes, star apple, June plum. So when you go to Jamaica definitely make a point of, and it's widely available, you can probably go to any um place in Jamaica and find people selling it on the side of the road. But definitely the the fruit is something you should try. Something else that's really good is something called spice bun. It's like a it looks like a loaf of banana bread, but they normally call it bun and cheese because they have it with cheese, like slice of cheese. You don't have to have it with cheese, it's really good by itself as well. Once you try it you'll know how good it is.

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Jamaicans know how to cook a chicken, man. Fried chicken, stew chicken, curry chicken, you name it, it's all delicious. Jerk chicken. I personally think jerk pork is even better than jerk chicken. They also do a thing called stew peas, which is like beans and usually pork and rice, and it's really yummy. And then the fruits, oh my gosh, the fruits are so good. Um, mongo season's crazy, like you'll have mongos coming out of your ears. And yes, that's how you say it. Don't say mango in Jamaica, you'll sound like a rookie. Call them mongos. Soursop is a really yummy fruit. The pineapple is delicious. Sweetsop, kneesberry, star apple. Man, it's the best. It's all super, super good.

Video 3 - Transcription

The food in Jamaica is really really good, but I have to say my favorite was the The patty and cocoa bread. Basically the patty is pastry with meat filling inside Like chicken and beef, but my favorite was the beef and cheese. That was so good And then they serve it with cocoa bread. It's like this soft Bread, it's really just so good and you put the patty in the bread and you eat it like that It's really filling, well for me anyway But it's so good

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When it comes to food, Jamaica has a wide variety, meaning you eat everything of every animal. The one that I liked the most was called curry goat. They do have a lot of curry, but they also have a lot of jerk. So jerk chicken is definitely very good, but they're very, very good at seasoning their food, whether it comes to chicken, goat, you know, ox, anything. It's flavored very well, but I personally love the curry goat and the jerk chicken.