Jesse
James is alive and running the Members Only taxi and tours service
based in Power Boats yard. He's not a bank robber. He's a very nice
man who does a full day Taste of Trinidad tour for groups of
cruisers. It's an island tour with history and stories and multiple
stops to pick up samples of as many different flavours and dishes as
you can possibly eat. We began the day with bakes at 8 o'clock from
a stall at the entrance to Peake Marina and ended at 7pm with pork stew,
chicken, beans, vegetables from a restaurant in Port of Spain.
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in the mini bus |
How
it works is Jesse give each couple, or single, a plastic plate,
plastic cutlery, a plastic cup and napkins. When we reach the
roadside food stall he hops out and buys one or two portions of each
food which is then divided between us. Sometimes it was a mouthful,
sometimes two mouthfuls each. On the day we went we tasted about 70
items from breakfast, through to lunch sitting by a sargassum covered
beach on the east coast, fruits, drinks (no coffee) afternoon
pastries and cakes, pre dinner fried chicken and dinner. The cost
was was TT 585 (£67) each. No one said Trinidad was cheap.
Here are the photographs with captions where I can remember what it was. Apologies for the blurred images - not easy to take a shot on a moving mini bus.
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coconut bake, pumpkin, chow mein |
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Salt fish bread, salted fish |
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Chickpea double |
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meat pie |
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chapati, calaloo, beans, chaote |
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cow heel soup |
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macaroni pie |
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potato pie, beef pie |
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fried salt fish bake |
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fish pie? |
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aubergine, chick pea and? |
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tapioca ball |
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Jesse collecting the next taste |
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cassava, pasta, pork |
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sorrel drink |
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veg, barbecue pig tail, and ? |
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sweet and fizzy drink |
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lunch of duck, pork, chicken, provision |
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sweet, liquid peanut butter |
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watermelon on the east coast |
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doughnuts in spicy mango sauce |
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sugar, ginger and sugar |
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snack between meals |
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local Topic bar |
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fruit cale |
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shredded coconut cake |
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red and sweet |
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fried chicken wings |
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chocolate and coconut balls |
And finally, for those who still had room, dinner from a restuarant eaten on your lap as we drove back to Chaguaramas at 7pm; stewed pork, stewed beef, pork ribs, mixed vegetables, chick peas, pasta salad, potatoes.
After this I couldn't eat another thing, not even a wafer thin mint, until lunch next day. Burp!
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