Try these <strong>Tobago</strong> specials Baked goods: cassava pone, sweetbread, fruit/black cake, coconut bake (often eaten at breakfast with buljol or cheese) Benne balls & sweets: a delightful, if somewhat jaw-breaking, confection made of sesame seeds. More sweets: toolum, soursop fudge, guava cheese, pawpaw balls, shaddock candy, tamarind balls, sugar cake, cashew cake, ice-cream and desserts flavoured with fruit, coconut and even Guinness! Blue food: any ground provision or root vegetable (yam, eddoes, dasheen, sweet potatoes, cassava, tannia, potatoes, topi tambu, et al) Crab-and-dumpling: a savoury dish in which the crab is stewed with curry and coconut milk and served over flat flour dumplings. <strong>Tobago</strong>’s signature; delicious and extremely filling Drinks & fresh juices: squash (made from lime and lemon juice), sorrel, mauby, ginger beer, coconut water, sea-moss, barbadine, soursop, rum punch, bush teas, wines made from local fruits, rum, beer Fillings: salt-fish buljol, tomato choka, black pudding Seafood: lobster, mahi mahi, marlin, conch, king fish, red snapper, tilapia, chip chip, squid, oysters... If you can, opt for the most sustainably produced fish, or a vegetarian option <strong>—</strong> some fish stocks are dangerously low in our local waters, and the balance of our eco-system is at risk as a result Fruit: mangoes, passion fruit, cashew, grapefruit, orange, portugals, shaddock, pommerac, pommecythere/golden apple, chennette/guineps, guava, melons, five fingers/carambola, sapodilla, soursop, pawpaw/papaya, pineapple, tamarind, peewah, chataigne Herbs and spices: nutmeg, clove, garlic, ginger, chadon beni, peppers, roucou/annatto, bay, anise, thyme, lemon/fever grass, spring onion Oil-down: breadfruit with salted meat and boiled down in coconut milk Snacks: doubles, souse, pastelles, roti Yabba & other soups: thick soup with dumpling, fish, pigtail, potato, breadfruit, cassava, dasheen, green banana and almost anything! More soups: callaloo, sancoche, cow-heel, corn soup, and fish broth. <strong>Tobago</strong> is famous for its curried crab. Photo courtesy the Division of Tourism & Transportation 128 discovertnt.com
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TRINIDAD Contents Welcome 7 A messa
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