Food in Jamaica
Prior to going to Jamaica, I haven’t tried any of the country’s cuisine—unless you count the pseudo-Caribbean faire served up by Rasta Pasta or the Island Grill in Fort Collins. Hence, eating in Jamaica was a real treat.
Some of the classic Jamaican items we ate or drank included:
- Bammy: a Jamaican cassava flatbread
- Festival: Jamaican-style sweet fried maize dumpling
- Sliced and fried breadfruit
- Akee
- Jamaican apple: looked more like a pear in both shape and texture than an apple
- Jerk chicken: very spicy!
- Patties (usually filled with chicken)
- Ting: a popular grapefruit soda in Jamaica
Check out the photos to see how the above looks like.
![The colorful fish we picked out to eat at Hellshire Beach.](https://felixwong.com/gallery/thumbs/j/jamaica_food0213.jpg)
![Ting, a popular grapefruit soda in Jamaica.](https://felixwong.com/gallery/thumbs/j/jamaica_food0213-001.jpg)
![Eating a fish lunch at Hellshire Beach.](https://felixwong.com/gallery/images/j/jamaica_food0213-002.jpg)
![Fried bammy, fried fish, and festival (sweet flavored fried dumplings).](https://felixwong.com/gallery/thumbs/j/jamaica_food0213-003.jpg)
![Pineapple and Jamaican apple, which had the appearance and consistency closer to a pear than an apple.](https://felixwong.com/gallery/thumbs/j/jamaica_food0213-004.jpg)
![Fried breadfruit.](https://felixwong.com/gallery/thumbs/j/jamaica_food0213-005.jpg)
![Wheat bread with jerk chicken.](https://felixwong.com/gallery/thumbs/j/jamaica_food0213-006.jpg)
![Breadfruit.](https://felixwong.com/gallery/thumbs/j/jamaica_food0213-007.jpg)
![Chicken patties from Devon House.](https://felixwong.com/gallery/thumbs/j/jamaica_food0213-008.jpg)
![St. Marty's Banana Chips and Wata (water). Leanne knows the Johnson family who makes the banana chips and as a result of their fortune, "own half the island."](https://felixwong.com/gallery/thumbs/j/jamaica_food0213-009.jpg)
![Tamarind balls with seeds inside.](https://felixwong.com/gallery/thumbs/j/jamaica_food0213-010.jpg)