Jamaica Kitchen
Jamaica Kitchen
Jamaica Kitchen Wi Ah Di Bess

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MIAMI, Florida
United States



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BooksJamaica 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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Daniel Chin



Aug 4 2008 10:48 PM

The Best Food On This Planet!! No Lie!!
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Ryan Casey



Jul 18 2008 5:50 PM

this is another reason why i need to be back in miami
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Jul 17 2008 2:53 PM

What dey do? Tight page homie!
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Jonathan Fongyee



Jul 17 2008 10:05 PM

WTB curry oxtail
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Liza



Jul 17 2008 7:27 PM

D-E-E-E-L-I-S-H!!! JK's food is off da chain....mm..mm..mmmmmmmmm
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Brandon Chin



Jul 15 2008 8:13 PM

Best Food EVER!
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Jul 15 2008 1:56 PM

Wi Ah Di Bess!!!! JamaicaKitchen. com
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