The National Emblems Committee in collaboration with the Independence Committee and the Statistical Division is currently in the process of trying to determine the official national dish of Dominica.
The criteria are as follows:
•It should be a typical dish of Dominica and should be a popular one among Dominicans
•The ingredients for the national dish should preferably be available locally all year round
•The dish should be fairly easy to prepare and healthy
•It should be part of our cultural heritage
The Dominican population is being encouraged to give as much feedback as possible concerning which dish in Dominica they think should become our official national dish.
In order to survey as many Dominicans as possible a radio programme is being planned to be held simultaneously on four radio stations. A survey of hotels and restaurants is also being carried out and the views of some of the students in all our secondary schools are also being sought.
DNO is seeking readers’ choice for Dominica’s official national dish. The result of this poll will be used by the authorities along with the other surveys, to determine the national dish of Dominica.
There are five choices below and we are asking readers to select one. The poll can also be found on the bottom right hand corner of the homepage.
What is your choice for Dominica's National Dish? Total Voters: 3,109
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dumplings beans and pig snout
K.F.C
Our national dish should NOT be a food that we have to import, i vote for the SMOKE PORK BROTH we do rare pigs here, it should be something we can readily get without sending abroad for it, NATIONAL means home grown… Crab rice (we nah grow rice here)Dumpling (not too healthy)
a padna say ” parrot meat ” lmao …. i laugh dat whole day .. jah
Garcon make the national dish Titiwee,Tonton, and Tamados and call it the triple T
or it can be called Ti-ton-ta
lol…alu sot
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Titiwi might be perfect for the national dish.
That vote has been on for soooo long and DNO never gave the Voter’s id poll, the time of day.
what about the manicou
Why isn’t there a category for other?.Does it mean that someone at DNO is limiting our cteativity and national identity.This effort needs to be restarted and done properly.
bakes and chicken drumstick
Loubier Spring Water and KFC.
Wht about Chinese fwi wice with “Kreme of sum young boy”
Crab Rice….my grandma always use to cook that thing.
Crab (korbo)
callaloo (che dasheen)
rice
coconut milk
‘feyh pwev
cloves
garlic
chives
green peppers
cube…..
I dont know if other people cook this, but this thing taste hella good!!!!
option 2.
Crab with Dumplins
Crab (korbo)
callaloo
coconut milk
Dumplins
cube
feyh pwev
green seasoning
Option #3
Smoked Pork Broth
Smoked Pork
Dasheen (swamp/grey)
Bananas
Dumplins
Green seasoning
Cube
Coconut milk(optional)
LORD I COULD GO ON AND ON!!!!!
Cat and Iguana
But how they can say mountain chicken is the national dish i walk round roseau creol day and nobody have mountain chicken on the menu. i my self never eat mountain chicken.is only when that thing was dieing i found out is a frog.
great contribution
HELLO ROAST BREADFRUIT WITH SMOKEHERRING OR SALTFISH. NOTHING CAN BEAT THAT!!!!!!!!!!
roast breadfruit and smoked fish( bosse cannal) it tastes like smoke herring when you stew it. I can give you all a sample.
Ditto that…you make me very hungry.
At least two of the options you have offered do not fit your own criteria stated. Sanchoche includes saltfish and as far as I am aware this is imported unless the recipe is restricted to fished caught and salted on island. Calaloo involves dumplings in many parts of Dominica. Dumplings, although very popular, are certainly not healthy considering the level of hypertension and diabetes on island; AND flour is imported. Broth which meets all the criteria: health, all year round availability, local and flexible of the ingredients used, is the least popular of the three most popular. In summary the options offered could have been better thought through using your own criteria.
You’ve got a point there, E.
back to the salt fish iwas interrupted by my partner malgrasa.(nuttyboy and disoriented also poltically.)
Which salt fish you guys are suggesting.The one D/can men eat or the imported?
This salt fish
Smoke fish sancoche.
smoked meat/fish with coconut milk. Not the powered substitute in the shop, our real coconut milk from our trees grown right here, grated with love or blended for speed strained creamed and voila! YUM YUM oh! serve with ground provisions rice etc… anyway YUM YUM
callaloo with crab n saltfish
this poll is flawed, i think there should be an option for keeping it as it is… since we already have a national dish… persons who want the crapaud to remain should be given that option as well
How can the poll be flawed when the gov’t has outlawed the hunting and the consuming of the crapaud.
The reason why the Emblems committee is seeking a new dish is because the crapaud is on the brink of becoming extinct. Dont you read the news man?
Did you read DNO’s previous article some few weeks ago that the frog (crapaud) is diseased? Therefore it cannot be used as an edible, healthy national dish? Furthermore, it is caught seasonally.
How about Farin and Zaboca (Avocado), as a solid base with smoked, roasted or dry salted Flying Fish; drizzled with some gravy.
we have bouyo music which is unique so our national dish should be bouyo
I have been reading a number of comments, but one of my problem is that when someone mentions your national dish the people should form a clear picture as to how it will be presented to them on a plate. I had a problem with mountain chicken because I was never able to speak of its preparation nor presentation. Your national dish should be widely eaten. We are so late to the acceptable national dish race that most of the good ones are already gone. How can the committee even suggest some of those I see here? They already belong to other islands. One comment stood out and though I have been to other islands I have never seen them appreciate the ballaw as we do. I know some of us don’t like it, but no country has a dish that everyone will eat, lol. So my vote is fried ballaw and fig in some coconut oil. Lord I wish I had some now
KFC !!! Available all the year, and domincan love it
I meant appetizer you all
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Dominicans on the ball again! Boy I love my people we ha ha ha ha. Mamiez, Informer and Outerspace boy all you have me bursting we lol. Anyway I think titiwee sanchouche would make a good national dish with provisions, vegetables, farine and pear balls. Hooray! Callaloo is more of an appetizerer you need solid food. Don’t come down my throat now it’s just a suggestion people!!!
Callaloo could be used with mashed ground provisions and fish, baked, broiled, fried or cooked. I feel hungry!
dominicans let me tell all you people a secet hye i like callaloo so i doh now what all you talkin about all you broth,sancoch,titwee and fig and saltfish
Charles I’m wondering if you’re not confused here maybe you’re referring to the Dominican Republican. Have to be! Dominicans are jealous of their natural and local dishes.
arh Braff,a Broth,,, I choose arh Braff. send me some in good ole NY anyday.
I say calalou and saltfish. Jamaica have AKEE and ssaltfish. what’s the big deal?
When we say broth or callaloo I would like to think that the main ingredient the meat is unique to Dominica so specify what kind of meat kind otherwise any broth or callaloo would be the national dish. I would never eat mountain chicken and I am sure many others too but still it was well liked. Why not try Iguana. Many people seem to like it and it all over the west coast. Surely not many East people would not eat it though.
PELAU!!!
fig or breadfruit and smoked fish allyear round nothing can compare its traditional
U are Correct : A dish made with these Items : Fish From DA ,Breadfruit and or Banana and coconut milk .
i love fig and saltfish but saltfish comes from europe it is not ideginous to DA so i would go with crab callaoo
braff all the way. wen im on the country side i eat broth every day. fig dumplin fish yam dasheen irish potato pignout with all the green seasons i grow in my backyard or i pass by my neighbors and bwakay some seasoning peppers and thyme wen mine done and i drop everyting in d pot one time.
Callaloo nor both shouldn’t be our national dish because so many different islands make it. The good and bad thing about mountain chicken being our national dish is that it was very unique to Dominica, so unique that now the mountain chicken is an endangered spices. So my vote is for titiwee or sancouche not too many islands make those dishes. I love fig and codfish but it’s so common among West Indians that it’s easy to find even here in the states.
You have no idea how many people put coconut milk in just about everything they cook in America. Coconut milk do bring out the flavor.
Callalou all the way. That’s our local dish. Can be with smoked meat,smoked chicken, fresh meat, local chicken, imported meat/chicken but with coconut milk added.
As much as I would like to side with some of the suggestions, saltfish and fig is already st.lucia’s national dish, I think callalou and something is some other island’s national dish. Now when we say callalou we have to be careful because the way we prepare it is nt how other islands do it and may have the wrong idea so we need to be more specific. Titiwee is not year round. Red beans and pig snout is my choice.
Hi everybody,
I am a foreigner who visit Dominica twice a year for many years. And without any hesitation, I would say that the most popular food in Dominica is … fried chicken ! By far.
Very nice, but not very heathy (especially when it is freezed imported chicken from US, grown in batteries and fed with antibiotics ..)
Charles, keep visiting Dominica as often as you can, STOP buying FRIED CHICKEN it really is not a healthy choice. Have you ever asked for anything else? We have MULTIPLE choices. FRIED CHICKEN is NOT “the most popular food in Dominica” you must be CONFUSED. You have me CONFUSED.
What happened to the fresh fowls/chickens Dominica had in those days?
Charles, I do not believe you. Do you eat only fried chicken when you visit Dominica? I think you are exaggerating. Where in Dominica did you visit to see D/cans eat only fried chicken? You should know that chicken can be prepared in different ways. Did you not eat fish which also can be prepared in different ways?
Are you Dominican? !!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t know where you had chicken all the time but surely you ate something else. roast corn, smoke meat , and all we have to offer. Maybe you brought your chicken with you.
That having been said what’s your suggestion?
They can keep crapaud but allow us to hunt all year. Just make it a $10 dish, stew or fry.
Get serious my people! Everything seems to be a joke. If you have nothing to say that is productive, stay out of the conversation. MY vote calaloo.
DNO what was wrong with my crab comment? It cannot be because it was all caps. I see a number of comments in all caps.
Freaking DNO. CRAB ALL DE WAY
broth sounds way better it is local and u can gt the ingriedents all year round
truf i glad for you,callaloo is de bes,sob come and put your broth story
Crab
Callaloo is not unique to Dominica. It’s all over the Caribbean. Sancouche is not unique to Dominica, salt fish/codfish is unique to Portugal and one of the ways it is prepared. Titiwee Is unique to Dominica, hence the national dish should be Titiwee.
They did not ask for UNIQUENESS. Not everyone eat Titiwi. Personally, I only eat it in accra. Even if all the Islands cook Callaloo, Broth, Red Beans and Rice, etcetera we cook them differently; nothing beats a CRAB CALLALOO, or callaloo with any type of meat, even saltfish, yes saltfish, and coconut milk. Also a well prepared bowl of BROTH after a hard days work is enticing.
NO West Indian food is to unique to just one island …we all cook different variations of the same dish..I myself live abroad and I’m telling you as soon as I get off that plane the first thing I want is a callalou with vyan parfume lol and isn’t titiwie prepared as a form of sancoch lol cest la meme chose?!
Try coming to the TiTiwie fest one year, you’ll see the endless posibilities besides sanchoche. You might just like it.
i didnt know there was a titiwi fest….i would kill for a titiwi akra right now lool. i miss going river and catching it with my mom that was some good times…
imagine i never eat my national dish time to get rid of that mountain chicken.
lol same here linky…national dish should be a dish that is cooked ever so often. ay ay. mountain chicken is the scarcist dish i have known so it canoot be national. gimme my fig and saltfish eh.
I think every dish prepared back home is considered a NATIONAL DISH; however, because of visitors from every walks of life, we do need to prepare something that they can enjoy best. My choices are CALLALOO, BROTH, and SANCOCHE.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed, as I’m hoping for a good outcome for SANCOCHE.
My reason why and a word of advice to The National Emblems Committee in collaboration with the Independence Committee and the Statistical Division, in determining the official national dish of Dominica:
In SANCOCHE it’s:
● Authentic – using an adjective to describe it’s
of undisputed origin, genuine and made or done
in the traditional or original D/can way, and
● Original and Unique – again same use of
description for the reason that it’s one of a
kind; unlike anything else by D/can.
Me too!!! I think its simply delicious!!!
FYI buddy the Spanish Dominicans have the same dish it’s called sancochey my spelling might be wrong but I have had it in Dominican restaurants many times
So true you are I remember reading of its preparation in a book which teaches conversational spanish and it is spelt practically the same
cannot believe that Sanchoche and salt/codfish are options. CODFISH IS IMPORTED and these are the main ingredients.
If this poll came from the leading people in the quest to optain a national dish, then it is a clear case of they being ROUND PEGS IN SQUARE HOLES. and Dominicans are even choosing codfish as a national dish,CLEARLY THE BLIND IS LEADING THE BLIND
lol good observation. i agree even if i did not observe , i totally agree.is what we have in our country. thanx
The main ingredients must be LOCAL. which means Salt fish, bakes and even acras are out because we import codfish and flower. What if the boat don’t come in?
So CRAYFISH or SMOKED LOCAL FISH or TITIWI cooked in COCONUT MILK, served with local provisions, salad and FARINE and PEAR BALLS on the side.
For the drink, COCONUT WATER or COCO TEA with COCONUT MILK and TOLOOMA
sancoche this can be prepared with any relish available on island any vegetable the main ingredient is coconut which is availble year round
True. I really hope that this dish wins.
It should be a dish as a casserole. If the others aside from titiwi are already national dishes of other countries, what do we have left?
Try a casserole dish with onion and garlic, however manner it could be prepared to make it delicious.
When I once visited DA a friend made a white yam baked casserole as potato casseroles or others are made. Prior to baking it or when it is almost baked, I would sprinkle cheddar cheese on it.
Although it is stated it should not be seasonal, how about breadfruit, tanya, dasheen casserole? Why not such a dish if the others stated are already taken? A little green, red and yellow peppers could be used to make them colorful, be they sliced into small pieces or minced. Having stated that I will try them sometime.
Why not conduct an experiment? This is what people as Martha Stewart and other chefs do prior to publishing those recipes. They improve on them. Canadian Living states, “Tested ‘Til Perfect.” Therefore they test them for taste. It is worth a try.
mango salad and viyo…..and squash with brown suga
A better way to go may be pick the top ten??
Callaloo is great
It has to be mountain chicken!
Hy, the best dish I ever taste was the cray fish with coconut milk provision callalou spinach and domplain all I know in fact there many vegetable in that pot , and it was my husband
That cook that dish . I was so impress I try so many time to cook it myself but it was not same, I love that food I guess he has his little secret any way callalou with is a nice dish so please there have to a national dish callalou with cray fish.
SMOKE SNAKE AND CALLALOU
Oh please! Why was your stupid comment allowed? It is also upsetting. It does not even qualify for freedom of speech.
I did some research and ‘titiwee’ seems to be the only one that we can really call our own. It can be found year round however its peak season is September to November. I say titiri.
Titiwee is not our own. The name is unique to DA but Titiwee aka Silver Fish can be found in many food markets in North America and elsewhere in the world. I get it year round (frozen) and make accras very often. I also saw it on a Food Network.
The name not even unique titiwee, titiri as the grenadians or lucians sometimes refer to it
Quit the hypocracy man. How come mountain chicken is not one of the choices?
All my years growing up, it was pounded into us that Frog is the National Dish, all of a sudden it not even in the running?
Magwaysah…
i grew up hearing about mountain chicken, but in my opinion, the young generation will have problems with a frog in there plate. time to change for our generation. sancohe taste really good ,especially with fresh fish.
So You really not aware that the Mountain Chicken is very endangered almost to the brink of extinction?All efforts are being made to save it at this time .
The last article stated that they are diseased. You should read that article. A delicious soup and other recipes could be made with mountain chicken.
Read the previous article on this topic. You’ll see why. The animal is near extinction. Relax
put all joke aside the only food u prepare hundred different ways all kind of meat even ital and it remains the same’ lets just vote for calaloo. no.1 calaloo. no.one.good food.
dominicans please show me how to vote.cause all you people votin an me cyonnot vote
Admin: Just click in the circle beside one of the five choices listed and click on the ‘vote’ button below. That should do it.
mine aint workin. it showing like i vote already, when i never voted.
Were you able to cast your vote?
I KNOW WHAT. WE CAN HAVE SOME NOODLES(ramen) WITH SOME CAT OR DOG(very popular in the streets of roseau).and we can eat it with dem “chinee stick.” every one go by a chinne an get urs. cause when chinee hear dat is national dish, ull see chinee stick come down in kilogram. NO VARIEY.
You are out of space alright. Only those who are out of space could make such a disgusting and silly comment. Set your weird joke side.
I guess a little fun while deciding on a national dish doesn’t hurt. Laughter is good medicine-maybe it can be our national dish- Dominicans have been described as happy people.
If is not cray-fish I not in that at all….
While crayfish may be acceptable, I do not think it would be suitable and qualify for a national dish. I ate crayfish as a child but not as a dish. A few of us young teenagers would go to the river and catch them, then cook them. Hey, my parents were not aware of that.
They were fun times. Those were the days my friend, full of fond memories.
Well I dont know about allyou, but my favourite dish is PYREX!
I heard that joke; except it would be an empty dish. Many people would go hungry staring at an empty dish.
That is a good one.
lol
Cat meat,(Vian Chat), red beans, Bellos Special Pepper Sauce, and little round dombway. When you finish eat that you beat your stomach blaw blaw blaw blaw and you belch block,block, block, block,block,,,,Oh Yeah! Now you are feeling so strong that you can take on Tyson in the boxing ring, and knock him out, with a left “Upper Cut”,because the local dish was so nutritious. Vitamin X from the Cat Meat, Vitamin Y from the Dombway, and Vitamin R from the PWA Rouge.
Say what all you want, this is my local Dish not all you own! OK!
I have many other people on island who will help me to eat my local dish dish. They are not even Dominicans.
bakes and fry drum stick.
…anything vegetarian….no fish or flesh.
My choice would be Ballao any style and provisions in creole coubouyon sauce. Ever since i was small i know that Ballao and Back n neck were the two cheapest meat and seafood available. These two were consumed daily by mostly poor people. I can remember my mother and almost all the other women in the neighbourhood having their, provisions, rice and pease cooked, their seasoning water prepared and they waiting to hear the conch shell for them to run down by de bay and buy Ballao to come back and finish cooking. Bonned Ballao dipped in a batter and fried could be used as it is more visitor friendly, no bones. What do you think ??…
Nothing particularly Dominican about Callaloo which is common to the entire region http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callaloo – nothing particularly Dominican about sancoche which originated from Latin American Spanish sancocho ‘a stew’http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sancoche – and nothing particularly Dominican about broth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broth – so you are left with fig and salt fish or should I say green bananas and salt fish and lastly Titiwee! Now which dish is most exotic and unique to Dominica?
Titiwee of course!
Ha Ha Ha salt fish from Newfoundland in Canada lol
The Trinidadians and Jamaicans have already claimed callaloo. Lets be practical here folks, a nation dish is something that could be cooked any where, titiwi can’t and besides its seasonal, so does that mean it will only be cooked when in season?? Broth on the other hand can be cooked with anything and any where.
Really? I must ask my T & T and Jamaican friends about that. However, those who are my close friends are Chinese and Indians. They do not talk about those dishes. I Will ask them anyway. I will also ask a few others when I see them, hopefully soon. I just thought I could telephone a few West Indian restaurants and enquire about the T & T and Jamaican national dishes.
Callaloo is not as popular in Jamaica as Ackee and saltfish(their national dish) or at least it is not their main talked about dish. I am there now so I would know. I lived in Trinidad for four years and hardly ate callaloo there- it was roti, doubles, channa etc.
Any choice for our national dish would have something that is available elsewhere or being prepared elsewhere. We just have to find a way to make it unique to us in DA. If we choose Callaloo we just have to give it a Dominican flavor and the same thing goes for if we choose Sancoche(my number one choice).
The mountain chicken was seasonal so I believe this new dish should not be seasonal. Whenever we have visitors they should not only hear of the national dish but be able to sample it…so I say callaloo
let’s hope whatever is chosen is the original and it is not tampered with like the modification of our national wear by the CULTURAL DIVISION.Shame on them
rice and coconut water.
thats what most people will be eating soon……….at the present rate of things
@ Queen Bee. You will be eating it, not me. so speak for yourself
with all other countries haven their own.we changing mountains,street,etc.where do we stop.if there really is a problem with the frogs,we don’t just change.tomorrow we’re gonna change our names to please who? titiwe on the other hand could be a suggestion since we are one of the only country that have it.but who decides anyway.
Who tell You Dominica is the only Country with the Freshwater Gobie(Titiwi)?Also the adults are known as Loche.Bet You did not know that lol
the only other dish i rate highly is salted and smoke dowad (dolphin not flipper ).use this in sancoch or a braff . my granny use to make this and she could cook trus.
Malfini and dubwe!!…..
sancoch does not have to be made with cod fish .we can use flying fish and other fishs .this chosen dish is one dominicans must be proud of ,to the world .
I agree
bakes and kako tea…or fry dasheen with vinegar
CRAYFISH
Chinese sweet and sour chicken & egg fried rice or something else Chinese :D
why was pelleau not included?
all you people to greedy.what dey put there is dat,dat stayin there.
That is an Indian Dish
Some people call it ‘Pilau’; similar to it. Others appear to claim that dish.
we import the chicken and the rice….dahhh
DNO you are too funny. Love the voting line.lmao.
so why wasn’t Crab one of the dishes to choose from that would be the perfect National Dish for Dominica.
because we HARDLY eat crab…. calaloo includes crab
I vote for the vegetarian Version of Calalou
I thought of this as well. I recently saw a crab back recipe without the back. I saved it to try sometime. It appears other countries, be they a few have them.
smoked fish !
Well I say nothing better than yampe roti avec presson cheche or roti avec on pote cacoa. Nothing more local than that!
Toton with crayfish/titiwee and dasheen leaf
Dasheen, banana, (provision) with red beans and codfish
Fig and codfish done rule out already because this is the national dish of St. Lucia.
Callaloo is made in Trinidad, Jamaica and other islands but in a different way.
Braff makes sense because the ingredients are local,it is cultural, healthy and easily prepared. Also it is versatile. Any meat can make a braff. but not ‘broth’ because it sounds so British. Therefore if braff is chosen I recommend that we spell it as BRAFF
Sancoche is sensible because the ingredients are readily available and it has a rich cultural background. And Where else can you find sancoche anyway.
Titiwee sounds good but it is seasonal and people are very skeptical bout it
Another vote for Sancoche yaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
Callalou out of style just like Crapaud give me sancouche all the way!
only if the sanchoche is with local smoke fish
None of the above. Boring
Then lets hear your choice that’s not boring, instead of criticizing. Makes no sense identifying the problem but refusing to contribute to the solution.
what about a crapuad pizza or bread pizza with local toppings?-Dominican lets hold the tradition of the dish but modernize
Trinidad national dish is callalo
There is no relevance if we cannot feed our poor and hungry!
All you should no the vybez already! #SANCOCHE#
bread and cheese and brown sugar squash..if you from Dominica and you NEVER had that you are a LIAR!!!
Agooti and callalou, why agooti is a herbivor and callalou is diverse, one can use dasheen leaves, spinach etc.
Let us not fool ourselves. There is no Sunday Dinner without a Mac n’Cheese
callalloooooo crabbbbbbbbb
Every island is doing callaloo. We want to be different. What other island is doing Sancouch
?
Puerto Rico does Sanchocho…no difference.
What about a contest of infusing local ingredients for a new dish and let the best chef win,.
everybody talking about fig and cod fish and broth but not one person to mention breadnut or should i say gwenpee and smoke cayii
Broth Should be our national Dish because all the ingredients are all local. Saltfish is not local.
Fig Dasheen, Yams, Tanya, fish and a smoked Goti or manicou.
BROTH!!! all american eatin broth. we eat BRAF!! with dombway, gell coshon, yam an dem ting dere. NO BROTH!! that is with the chicken soup and the green beans. i go states an my cousin tell me she makin a ROTH 4 me. when plate reach is chicken soup, mushroom, an dem ting. i was expectin my dasheen an yam. we no eatin broth. we eat CALALOO WITH CRAB. international cya touch dis. FRESH!
I vote for Chicken and Chips… Most common food around
well i agree. dat every body sellin eh
rah & ck sing it long time….tonton pilay ..mama bouyon is d best……give me d bouyon
true, bouyon should be the national dish if not mountain chicken
Respect a Broth wi, ALLU MAD!!!! a pig snot and a red fish!!!!JAH BOY! just thinking of it making me hungry
what happen to mountain chicken? i always thought that was the national dish, i would not suggest calalloo because im sure other islands already have that as their national dish.
NUMBA 1: U see a mountain chicken in ur yard man. BOY dat ting race finish so long. ps. when u see d next one bring it 4 me.
NUMBA 2: WHEN last u listen to a news. u still thought it was d national dish! ou bon la.
NUMBA 3: DO more research on the national dishes of the CARIBBEAN please!!!
Calallou is too common in the Caribbean. It won’t be unique if we use it as a national dish
I choose titiwee because I am overly obsessed with this. I love all the other foods, I love local foods but I have not found anyone who prepares a good titiwee Accra like a Dominican
Roast breadfruit and saltfish no way!!! That was the meal of choice the slaves masters fed us on. Imagine on every plantation in D/ca there would have been at least 2 breadfruit trees. High productivity in terms of number of fruits per tree, low maintenance cost, and a good choice of carbs.. energy for hard working slaves (our forefathers) and then they topped it up with imported salt fish because of its long shelf life!!! Give me Titiwee
u were dere in the times of slavey man. check lenox honeychurch eh. hae haye!
u make me lerf
Considering hypertension is so rampant in DA, I say ban the codfish – too much salt and low nutritional value. Long live callaloo – it is great for every diet and available all year round although some may choose to eat it mostly at Independence time. Callaloo gets my vote!
ou say un rasta!
Titiwee would be the best choice of the above. Cod fish is not native (Fig and Saltfish & Sancoche are ruled out).Callaloo is too common among the Caribbean islands. Broth is still an option but it can be confused with other “broth” dishes from numerous different countries.
Correct! Titiwee is the only one of the above thay’s unique to Dominica.
Well call it “BRAFF” and it will not be confused with other ‘broth” dishes
that is it my broda. it is BRAFF
broiled fish in creole sauce, with dasheen, tanya, green banana, salad, avocado, white rice, red beans, and a glass of passionfruit or grapefruit juice.
Hmmm! Nice try. You are thinking of a meal rather than a dish.
Frantz Mclawerence NATIONAL DISH.. where you going with redbeans and white rice?
WHITE RICE. OU SAY UN AMERICYEN
MAL VAT!!!
Pumpkin soup
Mountain chicken (crapaud) was also seasonal as it could only be used during the ‘hunting’ season. My problem with callaloo is that several other countries use/make callaloo so that would not be unique to Dominica. Titiwee, like mountain chicken, would be seasonal but at least it is more in the traditional mode. Codfish is an imported item.
I agree. But titiwee being seasonal should not be a problem – there’s no ‘hunting season’ like the crapaud or other wildlife. When it’s in season and there’s plenty, restaurants can freeze lots of it and we can enjoy titiwee all year round. I myself would freeze some in my little freezer. lol
i strongly agree with you.
point…
just the mention of a crapaud sounds awful a lot of people will not eat frogs either which way you want to call it we all know the mountain chicken is a type of frog and to most people its going to sound gross.so I go with callaloo without the crab it don’t matter if other islands have it Dominicans make their callaloo in a special way so I think vistors would enjoy it very much
Dumbway pwa and vian parfimay.
IS DAT u cookin ur suppa
Paleau
ITS ALWAYS IN SEASON
Paleau is not uniquely Dominican.
saltfish hym dont think its local.only one i see would qualify is broth.and cant see it as national dish.
I say they should just keep the national dish as mountain chicken, regardless if its still eaten or not. If not mountain chicken, then I say breadfruit & saltfish
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LMAO!Good one!
Lol! you really made my afternoon with this one..lol
luv ur style
Love your sense of humor.
we can use crab, agooti or crayfish for meat in calaloo.
you can take any smoke meat to make callaloo,,,, callaloo all the way
Pelau!
calaloo would be the best of choice.
Callaloo and Titiwee is not all year round,
Sancouche is best all year round
Hello don’t you know the meaning of callaloo. It’s a blend so you can use anything to make it.
Why is callaloo not all year round? Everyone has their own recipe and is made in different ways.
callaloo is all year round. you can put smoke meat instead of crab when crab season closed
is so if some american come down ull tell dem:
hey men u wanna take a photograph. this is our national dish! it is a mixture of saltfish, white rice, coconuts, and water. with some green bananas and plantain! guees what its sancoche
They will tell u:
oh we sometimes have this meal in our country!
Fig and Salfish or Sancoche shouldn’t be strong contenders because Cod is not a local fish. Codfish is already so expensive, I’m not sure how often we eat it nowadays. Broth is a good one but the name broth will be easily confused by foreigners since it is common in other cultures but prepared in different ways. In that case a foreigner will not realise that our broth is unique and may not opt for a taste since they may think they know what it is.
Callaloo in my opinion is the best. It is very popular like broth but the name is unique and it is mostly eaten at our independence time when the hunting season is open.
Callaloo is a good choice because this dish is in high demand during the independence season.
good choice of dish, but not the best reason 4 havin it
Where the crab and besides fig and salt fish, titiwee and sancoch can’t be options because titiwee can’t be available all year round neither salt fish which is in both fig and salt fish and sancoch…
Why isn’t crab an option here?
Boy all you bad eh…So we just putting de mountain chicken aside…we just giving up on her..ahhhh doh do dat!!
You do understand that the disease affecting Crapaud means that if we continue to consume it or encourage people to, it will become extinct soon. How can our national dish be dependent on an endangered species?
will u marry “her”?
Mountain chicken is found in Monserrat and a few other places around the world. It is not therefore as rare as titiwi. I would certainly choose titiwi over mountain chicken for that reason.
a national dish should be a dish that is difficult to find elsewhere. lets go Titiwi
u doin as if is d/ca alone dat have riva
Well I have lived in a number of countries over the years and I have never heard of Titiwi in any other country other than beautiful Dominica. I say that Titiwi is the way to go!!!
parrot meat
lmao
MYAK!!
D SISSEROU MAN?
u can make it ur individual dish
we should be able to choose more than one..put all on a table i eating all lol
true dominican. greedy
paleau
Titiwee would be the best bet because it’s a bit unique to d/ca, whereas with the others in most of the other Caribbean island they’re are prepared.
They are all so good, it is hard to decide!!!!!
TONTON YAMPEE ROASTSALTFISH IN A NICE COUBOUYON
Pirex filled with cacadou
what about roast breadfruit and salt fish dat great dish
The problem is that breadfruit is seasonal.