Jamaica Kitchen
Jamaica Kitchen
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Wi Ah Di Bess
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22 years old
MIAMI, Florida
United States
Last Login: 8/9/2009
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| Movies | We will be airing late August on the show entitled Diners, Drive-ins, and Drives on the Food Network | | Television | We will be airing late August on the show entitled Diners, Drive-ins, and Drives on the Food Network | | Books | Jamaica Kitchen has been simmering down south in the Sunset West Shopping Center for 22 years. Jamaica Kitchen is brightly lit and petite, housing just a single two-seat table and eight stools. Photos of about two dozen menu items are posted high on a wall, and coolers below beckon with a wide sampling of drinks (coconut water, ginger beer, aloe juice, Coca-Cola, etc). Imported Jamaican groceries are stocked on shelves in the back.
The mom and pop here are Cheryl and Anson Chin, a Chinese-Jamaican wife/husband team. They seem to know most of the customers, a steady stream of whom stroll in, place their orders at the main counter, and exit bearing plastic grocery bags that can barely contain the foods' aromatics — all to an island beat that bounces about in the background. Diners eating in also transact their meals at the counter. The workers here, many of whom are family, couldn't be nicer.
"Wi ah di bess!" is the motto, and when it comes to low-budget dining, the boast holds merit. Lunch and dinner get served all day, the latter of heftier portion and dished into a larger styrofoam container. Both come with fried planks of green plantains plus a heaping portion of pigeon peas and rice (which I love, although I've never had a version that I didn't think could use more peas). Lunches cost $6.50 to $8.50 (a little more for market-price fish offerings such as curry shrimp or ackee-and-saltfish); dinners run $8.50 to $10.50, with the same seafood caveat. All items are also available by the pint ($8 to $9.50) or quart ($16 to $18.50).
However you divvy it up, prices are recession-friendly — especially the one-quarter jerk chicken or quarter-pound of jerk pork, with bread, for $4.50 and $4, respectively. We tried both. Each passed muster on moistness and flavor, but neither possessed much piquancy. Heat-seekers needn't sulk, though, because bottles of various hot sauces are arrayed on a shelf up front.
No need for any devilish splashes on the mahogany-colored skin of a juicy, hacked-up Chinese roast chicken, whose meat bursts with buoyant five-spice fireworks — one of the best birds in town. Other Chinese-ish dishes include a stir-fry of pork slices and ham choy (a mustard green, cousin of bok); and suey mein, a big bowl of fresh chicken broth bolstered with pork, shrimp, some of that roast chicken, mustard greens, and an "egg roll," which is a thin egg crêpe steamed with ground pork and shrimp in the center. Back to the islands: Stewed beef, stewed oxtail, and curried goat are all tendered in tender, melt-in-the-mouth fashion — the last getting sauced most provocatively.
Homemade Jamaican patties come with seven types of fresh fillings — nine if you count "mild," "spicy," and "very spicy" beef as three — each enveloped in thin, soft pastry dough with a pale orange tint. Favorites were a cabbage-dominated vegetable version, a thyme-accented callaloo-and-saltfish rendition, and the aforementioned spicy beef, which was just that. If you're hoping to grab a seat at Jamaica Kitchen, you'd better go soon — in August, the restaurant will be featured on The Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives with Guy Fieri. |
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Cancer |
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Jamaica Kitchen is located in Miami, FL at 8736 SW 72 St.
We are a Jamaican Chinese restaurant that has a goal to fill everyone up! The food is great and the atmosphere is friendly. You can go to our official website at www.JamaicaKitchen.com
The five or so authentic Chinese places in town have been done to death. Just Google "Chinese" and "Miami" and the names come up again and again. Lung Gong is authentic. Kon Chau's got dim sum on lock. But which restaurant is most Miami? Jamaica Kitchen — no doubt. Enter its nook of the Sunset West Shopping Center and find yourself in a whirl of homemade soups (made daily), patties, and a curry goat that will make you do a backflip. But something odd about the menu draws you to a totally different place: the pork and hamchoy (a preserved mustard green), the suey mein (a noodle soup featuring a crazy egg roll stuffed with pork and shrimp — $10 per quart). Or perhaps you are drawn to the simple delights of the "Chinese roast chicken." Prices vary from lunch to dinner, fluctuating between about $6 to $9. Sidle up to the long counter; enjoy the friendly banter of the mom and pop owners and the fine island beats playing in the background. Or don't. They've been around for more than 24 years, don't advertise, and have no interest in being reviewed or winning this award. Jah bless them — they know they're the bomb.
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The Best Food On This Planet!! No Lie!!
this is another reason why i need to be back in miami
What dey do? Tight page homie!
WTB curry oxtail
D-E-E-E-L-I-S-H!!! JK's food is off da chain....mm..mm..mmmmmmmmm
Best Food EVER!
Wi Ah Di Bess!!!! JamaicaKitchen. com