This Is Fast Food in Jamaica!! I Tried the Biggest Chains!!

This is the ultimate Jamaican fast food tour. I'm trying everything from KFC Jamaica to Juicy Patties, Tasty, Mother's, Chicken and Tings and Island Grill and at the end I'm ranking them all using my David's Been Here fast food rating scale. Let's go eat. Fast food in Jamaica and I'm starting off right here at KFC Jamaica. Oh guys this is one of the best KFCs on the planet. People come here, they get their KFC, their zinger sandwich, their fried chicken, they get on the plane and go back to New York, back to Miami. That's how good it is. I'm so excited. I got here 15 minutes before they open. It's 9 45 in the morning and we're here at KFC. Let's go. Zinger sandwich. Let's do this. Yeah they got the screens. This is like, this is the whole world now. Dine in, let's do this. All right so I'm going for, let's go for the zinger. Zinger's right here. Let's see so I think we go spicy zinger right? Yes. All right zinger, spicy zinger combo. Okay that sounds good. This is next. Let's go. You can jump this. Let's go regular fries. We don't need a mega fries. Regular drink. You can, you can pay an extra buck for a bigger one. I love this. What else? Let me get a ginger beer. I think the biscuit is a must though. Biscuit's a must. Biscuit's a must. What else Nate? What do you think? I think that's it. Fries, biscuit, drink. The zinger, spicy zinger. Order summary. Let's do it. $1,450. I think it's like a 10 US dollars. Something like that. I think so. Wow. These are all the chicken box. They have some new items. Dessert looks good and here we go. KFC Jamaica. I think this is the biscuit. Yes it is. Over here we have the fries and right here we have the zinger sandwich. It's gonna be so good guys. I'm so excited. That's it. Nice spicy zinger. What do we have in it? Some lettuce, some tomato, nice piece of American cheese on top. Let's get some mayo. So I'm gonna open this. I'm gonna pour some of these fries out right here and then on the side a little biscuit. Crispy chicken sandwich is one of my favorite things on the planet. Spicy zinger. Yes. Oh yeah. Juicy, crispy, a little spicy. A nice crunch with tomato and the lettuce. You get a little bit of that mayo on top. Really nice. It reminds me of so many times I've been in Jamaica eating this. Close my eyes. It's good man. First thing I gotta mention is this is washing away that bad taste from the KFC in Bucharest. That was bad. This is fire. KFC Jamaica, KFC Trinidad. Those are my top two rankings in terms of KFCs around the world. Maybe after this bite it'll be just Jamaica. That juicy chicken sandwich hits the spot every time. So fresh. Very meaty. Now I gotta try some of the fries. So I'm not a huge fan of KFC fries. They are sometimes soggy, sometimes too crispy. These actually look pretty good. Like fire. So this is how I do it. I usually just grab like three of them. Salty, very hot right now. Still soft inside. Not so bad. Wow. What's amazing is we're eating this for breakfast. There's no one here. The staff is super friendly. I love this place. But if KFC Jamaica doesn't sponsor me soon, I might change my opinion. I'm just joking guys. And right here we have the biscuit. A nice fluffy biscuit. Like to open it up like that. Pure biscuit. Fluffy, a tad bit salty. The only thing that can make this better is probably some honey or some maple syrup. KFC. So what makes KFC Jamaica so special? Well guys they are locally owned and the chicken does not come from a different island or from the U.S. It is locally sourced. So you get it super fresh. Definitely smaller chickens. That means it's real right? Oh god. Every time I look into this zinger, I'm in heaven. Jamaica does it right. So the David's Been Here fast food ranking scale for value, this was like 11 U.S. dollars. So I'd say it's like a I'd say it's 6.8 out of 10. You know it's not extremely expensive, but it's not extremely affordable. I mean you get full for $11. You get really full actually. And then in terms of taste, the zinger tastes amazing. Zinger I'd say it's an 8.2 in terms of taste. It's super juicy. It's everything I want in a crispy chicken sandwich. A little spicy. The biscuits are really good as well. And the fries this time actually surprised me. Here you go. KFC. KFC Jamaica. Yes. You want one? Yes. Juicy patties. I've done the patty tour throughout all of Jamaica. I've tried every single brand and personally I think this is my favorite. I mean the beefy cheese with a nice crust. So crunchy and flaky. It's amazing. And they also have some breakfast items and we're here early. 10 in the morning. So let's go inside. Let's see what we ordered. A bunch of patties. Here we go. Here we go. This is how it works guys. You walk in. You get in line. You order. It's pretty quick. And then they literally serve you the patties in two seconds. They have the patties sitting right there. By the way guys, it is always packed. No matter what time you get here. It's juicy. It's gonna be packed like this. It's gonna be good. And over here look. That's the breakfast menu. Today's menu. They got curry chicken, brown stew fish, stew chicken. They have two different porridges. They have fried dumplings. They also have a callaloo sandwich which looks good. One chicken cheese. A cocoa bread. How much cocoa bread do you want? One? Just one. Just one. Then we're also getting the ackee sandwich. Okay. And then we're gonna get I think the cornmeal porridge. Yeah it's small. We literally got the menu. Here's the beefy cheese, beefy chicken. Let's see what else is in here. Oh my god. So much. All right. So here's the cocoa bread. I think this is the ackee and salt fish sandwich. And then here we got cornmeal. Now cornmeal is interesting. This is a huge thing to have in Jamaica. It's one of the oldest meals on the planet. Over 30,000 years old. The Romans ate it. So many people ate this. Here it's evolved. So what they did is they it's cornmeal but they add condensed milk and some spices to it. The cocoa bread right. So fluffy cocoa bread like that. I'm gonna show you how you eat this. This is interesting. I've never seen the ackee salt fish sandwich before. Oh so it's like stuffed. There we go. No it's just ackee. Just ackee. So there's the ackee sandwich. So if you guys don't know, ackee and salt fish is the national dish of Jamaica. Whenever you ask any Jamaican what's their favorite dish, it's ackee and salt fish. It's not jerk chicken. It's not curry goat. None of that. It's this. In a sandwich form, first time. Let's try it. It's actually amazing. It's creamy, fluffy bread. Ackee has such a distinct taste to it. You know ackee, it's a fruit. Can't eat it when you see in the tree. You have to wait for like the poison to go away. It's very complicated but people here know how to do it. And then you mix it with salt fish always. But it reminds me of scrambled eggs. You can see it looks like scrambled eggs but definitely not. Different taste. Yeah so it's like chopped up. I think they put some onions in this one. Look at this line guys. You know this place is popular when you see that. Crazy. If you haven't tried ackee and salt fish, come to Juicy's and try their sandwiches. Alright here we go. The patties. Oh yeah. This is the chicken and cheese. Look you can see it's like an amazing crust. Nice and flaky. This is this one and then next to it we have the beefy cheese. Beefy cheese is my favorite. Wherever I go in the world, I want a beefy cheese patty. And this is not empanada guys. This is a patty. In Haiti they do something similar but not the same. Alright so guys let me know. How do you eat this? I mean this is the way you eat it. Oh my god. I died and went to heaven. The cheese just comes out with the beef. Look at that. It's like gooey. I mean love the spices. The cheese is like running throughout. Nice and flaky. You can see that. Flaky, crispy, lots of layers. Next up we got the chicken and cheese. I've had all the patty brands in my life. Mother's, Tasty's, Juicy's. But what makes them all different is that flaky crust. You can see this is how you know it's Juicy's. Just want to hold it. Alright let's do it. You know what it reminds me of? Almost like a chicken pot pie. Best analogy for this one. Yeah as soon as you bite into it, you just feel the cheese and the chicken just ooze out. Look at that. Oh yeah it's so creamy. Alright now this is the classic thing you have to do. You have to get yourself a coat of bread, open it up and just shove one of these guys in there. Look at that. That's how we do it. This is the definition of a bite in Jamaica. Full bread, the patty inside. Imagine you work here and you're hungry. You don't have that much money. You come to any patty spots. I recommend Juicy's. You come here, you get this like this and you have a meal for pretty affordable. I think each patty was like $3.20 so like two US dollars. I'd say it's five bucks and you have a meal. Beef and cheese is outstanding. And guys I got two different soups to try. The porridge and the red bean. The red bean this was with meat but you can get it without meat if you want if you're a vegetarian. So that looks like some beef and then also some dumplings and over here we have the porridge. Again porridge is something you must try in Jamaica. It looks good. It actually looks nice and thick. Yeah they already added something in here. It's nice and sweet. It's thick. I mean I feel like this is an easy meal for anybody who's really hungry. I mean that's how it evolved right? And back in the day people were starving. They'd have an entire cup of porridge and you'd be good for the day. Yeah maybe for a few hours. I think there's some nutmeg in here, some cinnamon. You can really taste the condensed milk as well. By the way that was the first time I had porridge in Jamaica so I'm happy I did that. Now we're gonna jump into this. Is that beef? Yeah it's beef with the red bean soup. Oh it's super hot. Oh my god the beef melts in your mouth. It's an amazing stew. Nice and hot. They're all about the hot hot soups and hot weather. Over here we got a dumpling. This is what you consider a dumpling here in Jamaica. That nice thick dense dumpling. You know what gives it all the flavor is the red beans in the soup. You can see you put it all out. It's full of red beans. Some vegetables in here as well. I think there's some garlic. Look at that meat. It's a lot of meat. There really is something about hot soup in the Caribbean. You eat hot soup, you don't feel the heat outside. On the David's Been Here fast food rating scale value I'd say this is pretty good. It's like an 8.5. I mean you get a patty and you get a cold bread for five US dollars you get full. Same thing like you get this for around four. I don't know the exact conversion there but it's a good deal. In terms of taste I'd say it's gonna also be up up there like 8.9 in terms of taste. I think when you're thinking about patties this is the taste you want. The juicy patty. It's so juicy inside but then outside nice and crispy, buttery crust, flaky. Oh man with the cold bread it's always a good jam. Fast food in Jamaica we have Island Grill. This place started off as a burgers and ice cream spot. They rebranded and they started doing more chicken and jerk seasoning. They got so many things on the menu. Looks really good. They have drive-thru of course here in Jamaica. They love their drive-thrus. We're gonna go inside. We're gonna order some food. I love this. Y'all good? I'm good. So she's from Canada. She says she comes here. She has to get this place. Why? Because it's just enough. It's all right. I mean the food is good and it satisfies you and everybody loves this place. Island Grill. Island Grill. Everybody loves Island Grill. I don't have this good a festival in Canada. Maybe in Toronto. Maybe. Maybe. What is the most popular item? Is the yacht style satisfaction? Yeah. I'll get one brisket wing. How's that? It's good? I'll try the pumpkin rice. So you're from Kingston? Yeah man. Yeah. Well where's Trenchtown? We want to go to Trenchtown. We heard Trenchtown that's like um that's where Bob Marley grew up. You know that? Yeah. Yeah. Trenchtown is like um when you go crossword because we're north of Kingston right now. This is like more north. That's like way more south. Yeah. It's the thing about Kingston. It's like a big sprawl. Inner city. You're amazing. You're awesome dude. Thank you. Here we go. Okay. Let's try it. Yacht style satisfaction. Here we go. Let's open this up. Wow. Look at that. What a beautiful bread. So we got there the green plantain. You have the pumpkin rice. You got the festival as well. You got chicken breast all with the jerk seasoning and then over here on the side I think you have some spice. So we've got some spicy sauce right here that they said this is good with the meal. Pour it on the meat. That's what he said. Yeah look at that. So it's like a jerk sauce but this one says spicy. All right here we go. So for this we gotta pick up the wing. I personally love wings and if you're an American I'm sure you like wings too. It's pretty good. Smoky and juicy. All the sauce. I'm gonna tell you it's like a cross between like a jerk and a Carolina barbecue. I'm gonna go in here and get some of this pumpkin rice. Yeah I decided to go pumpkin rice over the rice and peas because it's something different. Nice. Lots of flavor of pumpkin. A little seasoning in there as well. Some spices. Over here we have the sweet plantain. For all my latino americanos this is a maduro. Oh I love sweet plantain. Grew up with this. My mom's from Venezuela. We ate this a lot. Now when I eat I need to have some vegetables, some sides. I feel like if you don't have it you don't have that roughage that cleans your system. Definitely need it. The cabbage, the carrots. Oh yeah that's crunchy. Right here we have a festival. This is basically fried dough in Jamaica. It's gonna be a little sweet. Break it in half. You can see nice and doughy. That crumbles. This with some coffee in the morning. Perfect morning. No it's a good mix of savory and a little sweet. It's a good piece of chicken. That's a lot of meat huh. I won't lie it's pretty hard to eat it with the fork. I'm gonna pick it up like this. You know there's such a difference in taste from the chicken here in Jamaica compared to the states. So if they're getting it all from farms here locally grown they're not injecting anything into it. This one's nice and juicy. Oh and the skin. Gotta get the skin because it's smoky and crispy. That's a pretty good meal. I'd say this is like the most equivalent thing to like Jamaican comfort food. You got your chicken, you have your rice, you have your provisions on the side. Festival always. All right for the David's been here fast food rating scale for value I'm gonna give it a nine out of ten. For taste I'm gonna give it a 7.3. Now why? You know for value it's been like roughly 10 US dollars for this massive meal. I mean it's a great comfort meal. You get everything you want. You got the chicken, you got the rice, you have the provisions. Super tasty, healthier than other options. Nothing's fried except the festival. And then in terms of taste I'd say it's definitely up there. You know 7.3. This is the best you're gonna get in terms of healthy fast food so far. Hi welcome to Island Grill. I hope you enjoy your meal and thank you for your hospitality. Thank you so much. It's too nice. The whole staff, everybody's so amazing. Island Grill, that was actually really good. I mean from outside doesn't look like too much. It doesn't look great but inside awesome. Especially the people. Yeah people are nice, food's really good. Jamaican fast food is not complete without Tasty. Tasty is the first big brand patty spot to open in Jamaica back in 1966. Before that there was Bruce Patties in the 1930s but they closed in the 1990s and that was the original right? What is a patty? A patty is an English Cornish pastry mixed with an empanada. Colonialism at its finest. Alright so let's go into Tasty, let's order some patties. I'm excited. Let's do it. They also have breakfast. They have a lot of good stuff huh? Yeah so it's a really big line. As soon as you walk in you see how packed it is. This place must be really popular because look at this. A lot of people waiting for their patties. We got the line here. They got sandwiches, they have patties, they also have fried chicken, chicken nuggets but we're here for the patties. She was telling me, the manager, beef is good, chicken and cheese and then also cheese and cheese is basically a beefy cheese. That's what they call it though. It's cheese. There's also a lot of smelly greens. Alright so I'll have a cheese which is beef and cheese right? And then I'll get, you have a jerk chicken patty right? Alright let me try a jerk chicken patty. That sounds good. Alright $7.50 so we're talking about like three US dollars. A little more, four US dollars. Alright thank you so much. Yeah and then over here guys this is something very special that you don't see at the other places. They have a lot of sweets. Berries, cake, just a bunch of cakes, cookies. Alright jerk patty. Perfect. Cheese. Thank you so much. Let's go outside. Let's do this. Oh nice and hot. Thank you. Hey thank you. Appreciate it. Alright guys we're gonna do this outside. See different from the last place we went to from Juicy's. There's no seating inside so we're gonna do this around the hood. Alright guys so we really weren't welcome in there. They basically kicked us out. Told us to just go outside and eat so it's okay. Tasty. We still love you. I'm gonna see how this patty is. It's a nice flaky. Oh and then I'm gonna open it. This is the jerk. Jerk chicken patty. Oh still nice and hot. Oh yeah. Jerk seasoning is actually amazing. Nice and flaky. Definitely different from Juicy's. You can tell right away. Now this one's definitely less flaky than theirs. It doesn't crumble as easily. Yeah I mean in terms of jerk chicken it's pretty tasty especially with the patty. It's a good combo. You can taste the pimento wood right there guys. Wow. I actually love it. There's a big difference between having something that's very cheesy and something else that's more like meat and spices. And you just fold like this. So I don't know. Some of these layers at the end there's nothing in it. So I like to fold it and just eat like this. That's a good patty. This is called the New York pizza method. Copyright DBH. Now guys we're going for the super hot cheesy. Again this is cheese and beef. See this is a big difference. You can actually see. You can open it up. See look how hot that is. Nice spiced minced meat with cheese. This is good. It's hard to go wrong with a patty in Jamaica. Especially if you're getting the beef and cheese. Always delicious. Wow you can see it like it just oozes out. Look at that. Hard to explain the difference between juicy and tasty in terms of crust. I just think Juicy's is more flaky and buttery. This one is not the same thing. But hey in terms of taste it's still up there. What So I'll say like in terms of the David's been here. Fast food rating scale value and taste. Value I'd say it's there. I mean like a seven. It's good. I mean you're spending like two bucks two three bucks per patty. Definitely good value. In terms of taste I'd still say I'd say like a 7.5 in terms of patties. You know I don't want a bad tasty but Juicy's was better. Today I'll say that right away. This is just a different taste to it. It just feels way more umami in a patty. This is good though. What's up Kenroy? Doing pretty good and you? Hi David how are you doing? Very good very good. So I have a question. You're from Kingston? You Kingstonian? Well actually I'm from Trelawny but I've been living in Kingston for the past 17 years. So if I had to ask you is it Juicy's tasty or Mother's? Which is your favorite? Juicy's tasty or Mother's? Yeah. Well for me I like Juicy's. I think that's synonymous. When you think about Jamaican fast food you have to put fried chicken at the centerpiece of it all. And guess what? Chicken and Things is all about chicken. Fried chicken. There's like six seven different chicken styles. We're going with the fried chicken for sure. Maybe another one. Let's see. All right hun so looks like a lot of good chicken stuff. I think I'm going with the fried chicken and then the chicken steak. And how's the callaloo rice? It's nice? I like it. She's like it's nice. Okay we'll go with that as well. Yeah. Yeah I guess. Yeah let's do rice and peas. All right chicken and things. Let's do this. A little red stripe. Guy that had no idea it was gonna be this big. So here's the fried chicken right here. But it looks like it comes with so much more than just the rice and peas. They put some gravy in the middle. Over here you have some mac and cheese. And over here the chicken steak. Oh and they also put a sauce on top. Looks good. All right so they put like a sweet and sour sauce on top of the chicken steak. And the reason it's called chicken steak is they cut it like they cut the steak. And then on the side this is the callaloo rice. It looks really nice green. As you can see it comes with some mac and cheese here. So I'm gonna grab a piece of chicken right here. It almost looks like a like a Nashville hot chicken spicy sauce. Nashville hot chicken. Reminds me of it. Here we go. This sweet and sour sauce. Oh it's actually amazing. Hey chicken and things. You're doing things right. Things things. Yeah sorry this is Jamaica right. Look at this. Huge. All right I'm gonna use my hands to break it up. Oh it's good. So juicy. Oh my god. That sweetness. This is the ultimate sweet and sour. It definitely has that Asian influence. We're gonna find out all about that later. But look at this how juicy that is. All right they're doing it right. And over here we have the fried chicken. This is their staple. So they threw some gravy on the side. It's like soaking into the rice and peas. Oh it's a massive chicken. Oh my god. A little seasoning inside this batter. Whoa I don't even know how to explain it. But it's so big. Such a juicy piece of chicken. Put it like that. Wow. When I think about fried chicken it's like this teleports me to every good moment I've ever had with fried chicken. It's so good. Okay let me jump over here to the mac and cheese. I haven't even tried this yet. It's like a mac and cheese with looks like carrots. I think it's a potato salad. It could be a potato salad. No it's a mac and cheese potato salad. Creamy. It has a few different herbs so it's like very herbaceous. Yo the sauces. All right so this rice and peas is like literally flooded in the sauce. Oh yeah it's like a sweet rice and peas. Okay I'll say right away one of the best chicken meals I've had in Jamaica. Chicken and things. Things. This actually makes me so happy this meal bro. It's good. Chicken and steak so good. Fried chicken. One of the best ever. David's been here. Pass with rating scale. Value I'd say definitely a nine. This is what you're getting for 10 bucks. It's a big big plate and it's delicious. It's a nine out of ten. In terms of taste I probably give it up there. 9.2 out of 10. Very tasty meal. Every bite has been so packed with flavor. I love the sweetness. I love the crispness. Super juicy. I was gonna tell you guys I'm actually gonna enjoy this one a little more. KFC you should sponsor me. Chicken and things. Fast food in Jamaica and we're here at Mother's right in the center of Kingston. Look at this bustling strip. We're gonna go inside and get a patty. Oh wow it's a big line. There's a lot of people here. This might be the busiest patty spot we've seen. Look at this massive line. Huge restaurant. Can I get two waters and is it cheese is beef and cheese? Yeah. Can we get one of those? $7.90. $7.90. Thank you. Alright let's go outside. Let's eat this. So she was actually telling me there's many more locations like over 10 in Kingston but we only found one so we came to this one. Alright guys this is the famous Mother's patty. We tried Juicy's. We tried Tasty. Now we're trying Mother's. Look at this. A little different. You can see the crust is completely different from Juicy's and then it does remind me of Tasty the way you can just open it up like that and see the inside. Look at that. So you see it's some minced meat. You got the cheese throughout. You got some onions. Alright so for this one I feel like I gotta jump in the middle. Okay not so bad. I'm gonna open it up like that. It is flaky. It's pretty good. Not gonna lie the meat is not the same taste as Juicy's. I think it's not as flaky and buttery crust. Still a golden crust. See it's just like just a little stale. I mean I'll tell you something. What do we pay? Three US dollars? I mean you get pretty full of one patty. But I mean I wouldn't really eat Mother's unless I had to and it was really hard to find to be honest with you. We put it on Google Maps and we only found this one. So in terms of the David's Been Here fast food rating scale value I'd say 7 out of 10. Still I mean it's affordable. And then in terms of taste I'm gonna give this a 5. Maybe a 5.1 because uh why not. 5.1 in terms of taste. Maybe I'll have a little more. Mother's not my favorite. And that's it. We did Jamaican fast food. I'm gonna tell you my ranking starting with the best to the last. And I have to say number one is my favorite patties of all time. Juicy patty. Oh so good. That beefy cheese. The ultimate with the cocoa bun. Nothing better than it. Wow I love it. Number two. This one's gonna surprise you guys. Chicken and ting. That fried chicken. The chicken steak. The fried chicken itself. I love the rice and peas. Good sauce. I mean what a value. Delicious. Number three. Hey this is another surprise. Island Grill. First time trying it but that is like a home cooked meal. Fast food style. Really delicious. Number four. I mean this is a hard list guys but I gotta say KFC Jamaica. Still up there. Still part of my favorite foods in terms of Jamaican food. It is a whole different taste compared to any other KFC in the world. KFC Jamaica. KFC Trinidad. Still top two in the world. Number five. Tasty Patty. I mean it's good but I think the crust isn't my favorite. And then obviously the last one Mother's. Wasn't great. The experience in there was a little crazy. They had no air conditioning. There was a little fight breaking out. It was pretty crazy outside but you know what Mother's. Not so bad but still not my favorite patty. And that's all the fast food in Jamaica. No other brands are included because there is no other ones. And I hope you guys enjoy this video.