Jamaica’s Forgotten Parish!! Ultimate St. Thomas Food Tour!!

This is the easternmost point of Jamaica in the parish of St. Thomas, the Forgotten Parish. Look at this abandoned buildings, abandoned lighthouse over here, not a person in sight. Incredible. This beach extends forever, not a soul in sight. And today we're going to explore everything that makes up St. Thomas, the people, the food, and the culture. Let's go. Right now I'm deep in Jamaica in a place that no other American YouTuber has ever been. Can you imagine being here 200 years ago all this farmland the Blue Mountains behind us? It's all about this guys Open road undiscovered. I know I say it's a lot, but it's not about getting from point A to point B It's those moments in between we're on this road. We're gonna get lost and this is the moment I'm gonna remember about the whole trip. Oh My god, oh my god, I don't know if we're gonna be able to get through here slow slow slow, dude the potholes are massive right now okay so on the way over here to the easternmost point it is a dirt road for 30 minutes yeah and sometimes in Jamaica you're gonna go off-roading if you're not in the resort and you're going out looking for waterfalls and stuff this is gonna be the experience just like this and right now we're in Moran Bay the capital of St Thomas Parish my last parish in Jamaica i'm super pumped guys we're in the center of the city it's a market there's literally market everywhere they're selling clothing food there's juicy patties over here follow me let's go see they got some watches got watches glasses everywhere okay what's this Vibes Hut that looks good some chicken wings okay oh this is cool nice chains with rasta okay this is it what's up bro how you doing you good yeah man how you doing bro you good you're Yeah, man. I'm just going easy and stuff. Yeah? You're from here? You're from Montego Bay? Yeah, man. From Jamaica and stuff. Yes, sir. Tell me one thing special about St. Thomas Parish. Special about? Good question. Special about the place. Good and nice. And how we treat people and good. And how we have a lot of fun there and stuff. They're going to park and set up and they're where their people are fun. And enjoy themselves and the way they want to do their way and stuff. And this pepper shrimp? Yes, sir. Yeah, I've been thinking about the pepper shrimp. how are they good excellent how much for for one 500 for one of these you know it's been a while since i've eaten this last time i ate this on the other side of the island saint elizabeth yeah in saint elizabeth i was buying a grill i love this one and i'm gonna love it let's see let's see i'm gonna i'm gonna eat it right here with you guys let's see right here guys look oh you have some sauce and pepper sauce oh so this doesn't have the sauce yet yeah guys so look look right here we have the shrimp and you eat the whole thing, you just take off the head, yeah All right, he's just dropping a bunch of pepper in there. All right, here we go. Let's do this. Mm, it's actually really nice. It's salty, nice and peppery, nice and succulent, plus you eat the whole thing. You don't leave anything, including the tail. Are you from St. Thomas? Yeah, man, yeah, man, yeah, man. So what's one thing people need to know about St. Thomas, outsiders? Well, everybody good, man, unpeaceful I always, but food they are still good, man. That's what I heard. I heard people are very nice here. Yeah, man, very, man, nice, man. How about the food? Lots of good food around here? Excellent, man. I'm going to get some for the kitchen Some for the kitchen on the side, go right there, man Trying to get the fruit Yeah, man Yeah, what I want You need to get the fruit this early No, I'm okay with fruit right now When I finish, when I finish Okay, okay Yeah, I'm just enjoying this Nice spicy, bro Spicy Alright Some scotch bonnet in there? Yeah, man. I blend scotch bonnet You know, this is true. David's been here Oh, yeah Scotch bonnet and pepper that you don't know Oh Yo, this guy's about to hit me hard Look at the mouth, this is huge That is a crawfish right there Well, no, I'm good, I'm good I'm like overloaded right now, I'm hot Yeah, this guy's about to hit me hard, man Amazing, thank you so much Respect Yeah, no, we heard about some falls Yeah, we just want to look for some food around here We're trying to see if anything is in there Is there a kitchen? Come right okay okay let's go let's go do it as soon as you walk through here the smell of turmeric smell the Scotch Bonnet bonnet over here some nice peppers how are you everything good look what she's doing this spring onion your beans the spring onion the scallion man I feel really hot right now but where's the food of the foods in here all right let's go let's go over here let's follow them people are very friendly here so that's a corner shop he's a Rasta yeah I'm David not here but I'm a youtuber okay so you see me online okay I ate some nice Alice crabs so you sell what do you sell just beers and soft drinks yeah give me a second let me eat some food before I drink anything I haven't eaten anything today I'll be back I'll be back okay okay I'll be back. I'll be in Jamaica and try to get a fried dumpling at home. Fried dumpling over here? Yeah. Let's see. Hey, what's up, boss? How you doing? Good. What do you have? Curry chicken. Fried chicken. So, curry beef with what? Rice and beans How much is it? $900. $900? Yeah. All right. We're doing it. Some curry beef. I haven't had curry beef in Jamaica. This is my first time. With some rice and peas The curry beef? Yeah. What's your name? Omar. Omar? Put a little salad in there. Wow, looks good. We've been traveling all around. I've been here five times in the past three years. My last parish. What does family mean for you here? A lot. A lot. Family is really a lot to me. so no one knows about St. Thomas it's like the forgotten parish that's what we see online that's why we came yeah you know first time for me you know what is something special about St. Thomas for you well I'm not from St. Thomas originally okay but I live here but I really like it but I don't know much about it still but I really like and you've been living here in Morant Bay for a while yeah so what about Morant Bay what do you guys do here basically my I like cooking. You're cooking? Mm-hmm. Life? Yeah, that's it. Rough and up and down. Good, sometimes bad, but we live. Is it Peter Tosh or is it Bob Marley? Who's the goat? Bob Marley. Right here, bro? Let's do it. We're trying some beef curry. It looks like I'm in Avatar. Way of water, and right here we have it. So we have the beef curry with the rice and peas, nice fresh salad, all local. Lot of agriculture here in St. Thomas. crunchy nice and fresh rice and peas oh wow the curry oh it's actually like coconut rice it's actually delicious bro look at that it really is a vibe here guys sometimes it's hard with these markets but here everybody's very friendly you know i'm just walking through there it's guiding me it's amazing all right so i think for the beef i literally have to pick it up like that oh yeah it's like a very juicy very tender it actually reminds me of this having like literally oxtail with some curry so good the meat is soft it's crunchy it's a little spicy it's also very gelatinous you have a mix here yeah you know what's amazing about this curry you mix it with the rice it's like a nice spice coconut flavor it's a proper meal feels like i'm meeting somebody's home cooking that's basically what this is my man here taking care of me you know what he removes all the bones it's like pure meat from Miami a lot of people from Atlanta yeah we always meet a lot of people from Atlanta great place it's good bro no one wants to say i mean at this point let's enjoy it yeah i give her a feature here fresh pineapples when you're done you choose any one of the watermelons whichever one she'll feel like oh it's good for us perfect yeah we'll do that you got the spiral technique back can i ask a question about this area sure what makes it special Saint Thomas because you know it's a forgotten parish so i think a lot of people would like to think that but it really isn't the people who are from here know their roots or where we came from what made us we left everybody comes back so it's always a great place to vacation you know most americans aren't coming here right what should americans know about Saint Thomas that is the best parish there is the best parish best parish there is well i'll say one thing so far friendliest people very nice come here it's home i come here i come here for three days to reset and this is home you don't throw any spice on it right like in Trinidad oh you're gonna let me try oh you're too nice okay some fresh pineapple here in Saint Thomas oh my god the second you bite into it just burst out sorry Antigua, oh that's amazing thank you so nice so kind what else you got here I have watermelon, pineapple, ripe bananas, avocado pears, all naturally grown here in Jamaica. Let me get maybe a watermelon. Can you give me a piece of watermelon? Is this too much or is this okay? Hey, it's a lot. I can slice it for you. Can you slice it for me? Thank you. And this is from the parish of St. Thomas, right here. This is from right here? It's found in St. Thomas here. Okay, perfect. Then what's your name? My name is Mary. One Mary on the apple. One Mary? Never two. There's only one Mary? One Mary. all right so we're going to cut some of the watermelon this is fresh watermelon here i'm going to grab a slice straight from this is from saint thomas from saint thomas right here look at this dude it's like dripping already yeah i'm gonna take a nice bite oh my god yeah we got it here oh the juice no chemicals all fresh from the ground to the market phenomenal so i have to ask you we're going to go around to eat some food what do you recommend around here to me i I love home-cooked meal I don't really do fast food Look at my beauty No juicy patty Well, if I feel like, I would but I love home-cooked meal because I can cook all natural And what's your favorite dish? You're making this Yes Ackee and salt fish Oh, ackee and salt fish and breadfruit The ripe breadfruit Very good Not the green one, the ripe one Sweet with the ackee and salt fish You know that, David What is it? my favorite too come on i love it you're amazing thank you mary thank you all right this is delicious thank you she was telling me they grow avocados bananas pineapples and watermelons that's what they have right now in season so we're gonna walk through and see what else they got hello how are you this is also papaya nice look at the papaya it's like perfect nice and ripe and right next to it she has some melon some watermelon over here we have the breadfruit this is exactly how we had it with collage same look at the color you can see it's like going yellow it has to be like almost yellow all right once you pass some of the vegetables over here we have a lot of clothing beautiful shirts with jamaican flag and over here we have debbie debbie ann how you doing debbie so you do this all yourself all these crafts yes yes let's see so she has earrings she has necklaces very beautiful look at that you got some mangoes over here and what is this is honey no no no juice no no juice yeah yeah so you're from Saint Thomas yeah yeah okay so tell me about Saint Thomas what makes Saint Thomas special because i come from here Saint Thomas nowhere better than Saint Thomas to me you know i just love Saint Thomas Saint Thomas is nice in a way for me it's my my parish has it changed in the past few years yes very very very how has it changed oh the thing's slow going slow nothing nothing we come out a week and sometimes we don't sell nothing some people can't pay them fee inside here so it's slow right now so slow just because only they are putting i tried to put out a lot no yes but when you're so close to Kingston i would expect more Kingston people to come over here no no no no no no one come from town come by then you come try to sell please so wow wow two more sellers too many sellers yes and no buyer wow the money is so light you know got it got it one last question is it Peter Tosh or is it Bob Marley who's the goat Bob Marley i have a lot of Bob Marley things i just don't put them up yet Bob Marley girl that's what i've noticed she literally has Bob Marley everywhere look Bob Bob the goat right here guys look look look at the Jamaican flag right here beautiful what's what else we got everywhere you look there's I think it's all secondhand clothing it is nice especially for girls nice and loose that is cool cool wear that nice and fresh fresh air going through got some shoes hello you can see in this corner lots of people everywhere very bustling so you'll see just more vegetables everywhere just vegetables vendors hello hello wow got onions carrots non-stop let's see what else we see in here blasting the music food looks good get some curry what else we got some avocado we got coconut over here almost feel like we should ask them to cook coconut for us it's packed it's packed packed hello i love i love the yellow very nice very nice oh man breadfruit coconut lime aki look at the aki that's real aki that's that's you know it's it's safe we're gonna keep walking through here see what else we find let's see our guide well he just became our guide out of nowhere he's uh saying there's some good food over here so we're gonna see what else is available oh there's a bakery here okay okay let's see let's see what do they got in this bakery let me see hmm callaloo loaf that looks good meatloaf okay so let me get one chicken patty and uh do you have the callaloo loaf yeah let me get one callaloo loaf and then the small drink i don't know what drink is those small box drinks orange juice or cherry orange one orange one orange one 850. sounds good they also have different uh sweets here look they have like sweet potato pudding they have Rocky cake lots of different breads there's the callaloo loaf perfect so I got a chicken patty got the callaloo loaf oh wow wow look at that and this is it guys this is callaloo loaf it looked good when they cut it in as you can see it's like full of callaloo almost looks like aki in there so i think you just do like that look at that massive oh man good callaloo nice bit of greens oh yeah with soft bread it almost is like a callaloo scramble same texture oh my god no bud definitely a filling meal and this is like uh roughly two u.s dollars it's good right actually this is better than having the the meat i haven't had this before so it's a good change up yeah i'm in this place Moran Bay capital saint thomas huh i made a new friend right all right guys keep going you're always watching yeah yeah i'm david nice to meet you oh you guys are so nice so nice so what's your name my name is Loverd Loverd yes and you're from st thomas yes i'm from yeah so tell me what What makes St. Thomas so special for you? The cool breeze, the river, and all of that, you know. We have the most river, Grandpa Falls, and Reggae Falls. All of them, they are St. Thomas. Also the prettiest smiles. Ah! Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. I'll see you next time, okay? All right. All right, all right. Oh, I have a question for you. What's one thing you love about St. Thomas, and what's one thing you would change? Okay, I love the river and the beach, I wouldn't change nothing about St. Thomas, I love St. Thomas That's perfect answer, thank you Thank you, appreciate it, let's keep going, let's see if I need any other food, coconut looks good coconut watermelon man, this place is packed, oh I love how they have the flag of Jamaica throughout the whole building, I mean this is a very big agriculture uh parish, you can see just like a lot of farmers selling their goods all very similar, let's go David, I think you read my shirt right, yeah, are you from here? yeah, what's your name? Janice, Janice, St. Thomas, what makes this place so special St. Thomas is special because of the historical of Paul Bogle, you know that he marched from um Stony got to Spanish Town to tell the governor about the problem about the land problem and he was killed by governor here wow yeah, we have the historical bath fountain, we have the hot water Alongside with the river, we have Blue Mountain, which is a part of St. Thomas. We have Reggae Falls, and you also have Grandpa Falls. You're taking us to the falls. Let's go to the falls. You're welcome. You guys are so kind. Nicest people in Jamaica. Thank you. All right, perfect. So what do you got here today? You got some beetroot, cane juice, carrot. What's the freshest thing you got today? Freshest one? Yeah. Beet. How much for a beet? Three. Three hundred? Yeah. And what's the other one? Pine? no that is uh wow you know i'll go with the beet still beet by the way are you from St Thomas no Kingston oh you're from Kingston yeah we come here every Thursday every Thursday just to sell yeah every Thursday so let me ask you you've been here many years many years over seven years how is it changing these seven years not much okay that's what i was told nothing's really changed so all right i'm gonna try this some beet juice i love my beet when i think of beets i think about borscht oh that's so refreshing oh man no it's a little pungent but it's good thank you so much so every Thursday he's here what's your name how is the herbal man cleanses on these things oh wow you have the you have the good herbs though right yes we got the delicious beet juice and now we're going to juicy patties all right juicy patties my favorite patties we're doing it what's up boss whoa that's a long line and they have so many good patties i think we're gonna go with some cheesy beef or beefy cheese and uh i might go with the shrimp patty if they have it today because that's the one thing i haven't tried on this trip i don't think i've ever tried a shrimp patty what do you guys think really good yeah it sounds gonna be very uh succulent and a little salty hey hon how you doing yes so let me get uh two beef and cheese and do you have the shrimp patty today i'll take that i'll take that one good that was meant for me and then we get a water and let me get a you got irish moss some sea moss let me get a sea moss yeah mother's juices tasty which is the best why is this the best everything i mean i totally agree i think this is the best no other patty has the taste no no no i can't wait today i'm trying the shrimp patty so it's gonna be good and i need that irish moss because i need to fix my back okay all these jamaicans know what i'm talking about well Trinis and caribbean people as well wow this is cool guys so look they have all the old signs they're like old school signs i think that's like 1980s all right perfect so i'm gonna do it guys i'm gonna show you what this is the irish moss look at that that's literally sea moss like a seaweed i'm gonna open up right here the only problem with this is like it is a thick drink think of a nice uh jello-y chocolate milk that's the best analogy for this okay one other question tell me something special about saint thomas why is it so special for you because it used to be the forgotten parish but it's not known but we have a lot of infrastructures coming from the urban center we have a lot of things we have a lot of attractions coming in also it's not the forgotten parish again it's changing yes you have nice roads everything yeah so i just drove from portland and the road in it becomes like flat beautiful wide it was amazing shrimp patty look at that beautiful golden crust nice and flaky i love it this is it guys this is what i love doing eating food on the street shrimp patty my first one here we go oh that's nice notice they mix it oh with like not a curry but like almost like a potato sauce here we go look how it comes out it does remind me of a shrimp soup or like a conch soup but shrimpy how about the flakes this is when you know it's good when it's super flaky like this oh man every single patty from juicy is the best if you're in miami go up to fort lauderdale try them there they're amazing i can't stop eating it that's good and peace is coming to the Morant bay market on friday july 31st come out here we have the sign of paul bogle one of the seven national heroes of jamaica who was he well he was a minister but he also led the uprising of morant bay a lot of free slaves here and he fought for their freedom and sadly they got him they executed him but he's a hero and when you come here you're gonna hear all about him all right check this out Rosselle Falls right here on the road that's incredible right here you have the Caribbean Sea the road passing through connecting St Thomas with Kingston and we have the falls see how it is oh it's nice and cold look at that the falls coming out of there i don't know can i drink this water i won't risk it all right guys let's see what else we find let's go now we're in Yala's Bay and this place is famous for jerk chicken jerk pork and soups literally on this strip you see soup over here jerk pork jerk chicken over there like five different jerk chicken spots follow me let's go eat some jerk how are you doing you got some jerk chicken yeah You got some spicy sauce, some jerk sauce? How much for a half? I'm going to a jerk pork festival I bought this for eleven Okay, let me get a quarter. I'll get a quarter dog Dark meat or white meat? Dark meat. It's $11.00 sauce for sure You want ketchup? Eh, no ketchup. Just sauce. It's good. How many festivals? Two festivals? Perfect. Good. All right, guys. We're going to eat this right here on the street. This is our takeaway. All right, this looks good. Nice jerk, smells great. Look at that. I got some brown meat, and is this better than Boston Bay? I'm here to find out right now. Oh, you know it's good. Oh my god, good meat, nice and smoky. I don't know if it's better than Boston Bay. but definitely tastes good That's pretty damn nice, spicy too. You got the scotch bonnet. You literally see the scotch bonnet right there. Look at that. Oh yeah, look at the seasoning, just like falls off. Oh, it's spicy, very tender. Oh yeah, super juicy. Think about this chicken is that you could taste the smoke throughout the whole thing. Good guys, mm-hmm, and the festival right here. This one, you can tell like it crumbles easier I personally like it when it's not too hard. Nice and sweet, mmm, crumbles. All right, now it's about the rain man, so many jerk spots. Hard to decide on which one's next. Let's go over here. There's a nice soup, chicken soup. It was nice and thick, good stuff. Oh wow, Wow, come here, look at this. There's a chicken right here. Wow, smoky. That is fire. It's better than the one I just had. What do you have here? I've got a million, I've got pineapple million, I've got turmeric and carrot. This is turmeric and carrot? Yeah. And how much is the turmeric and carrot? $3.50. $3.50, I'll take one. All right, this one here? It's ginger. All right, let me get a ginger as well. How much, $7.00 total? Yes, sir. Tell me about Yala. What is Yala? Yala is a striving town. It's a hustling ground, yeah. So when you come to Yala, just find yourself doing something and you will achieve. So it's a lot of chicken spots, a lot of jerk chicken. Chicken soup, jerk pork, yeah, and the small stores that are around, yeah. But everything compact. Go out there, you'll find a beach, a fish beach. Yeah, so everything in park. How long have you been here for? Not a full year now. Not a full year? Yeah. You from St Thomas, yeah yeah? So what's special about St Thomas? It's like you have fun, that's a fun ground, fun yeah, it ain't cost full to me yeah, with a boat here going cost me guys, I'm gonna try this, this is a turmeric, you said turmeric, and uh carrot, turmeric and carrots good combo, orange, that's so good, that is pure carrot juice you know, what you know i love about these juices they're all fresh and real literally just like he extracted today ice cold it's definitely my system especially after everything i put in my belly today patty beef curry chicken watermelon all right i think we go for some more chicken i'm the one at kenya yeah and you taste all that food it was it was good yeah man hey now you're nyama choma nyama choma thank you look yourself man we're on taxi he's a taxi operator all right awesome are you from here yeah yeah yeah yeah so what's something special about Yala Bay Yala Bay uh Yala Bay is very good yeah peaceful you know very peaceful yeah yeah the food is good jerk pork and the soup yeah jerk chicken yeah man so you can check it out tell me one special thing about st thomas ah why are there so many special st thomas is very nice and peaceful all natural so we have to pick up Saint Thomas all the while. One Saint Thomas. Yeah man, big big big car I don't know how they do it yeah yeah nice You understand? That's pork man. Let's do the pork. I just need a little portion. 700 per quart of pork. That's all we need. Look at that juicy pork. We under the umbrella. Under my umbrella. You have some good sauce? Put it right here on the side. He does, he does. A little pepper. anything you might eat more spicy maybe a little bit on the side here we go nice pork with spice cool a little hot yeah all good hey nice no it is nice crust i love how smoky it is but also it's super best pork best jerk pork in Dallas Bigs i think it's the best man yeah it's that Maillard effect on the outside it's that browning oh yeah that was like juicy a little meaty a little spicy oh i'll tell you guys i love the pork more than the chicken yeah yeah all right take as much as you want yeah man respect of course i love it here guys nice you know yeah and it properly properly look bones you know spice to the bone no dude spicy smoky as well yeah let's do those i eat a pork every day memories memories yeah man yeah man thank you i feel that spice though dude okay so over here he has different soups he has chicken foot goat head cow skin and uh crayfish and over here we have the prices so eight ounces 400 and then you get bigger bigger bigger up to 1200. here we have the chicken foot looks good oh wow look at that it's amazing the boba claw looks good nice and spicy like peppery so i think he's doing a mix right you can do mix eight ounces of crayfish uh spicy dumpling right there a little spicy that's what i like your shop is James foodstuff oh this is James foodstuff we heard a lot about it yeah it's amazing all right let's try this right here all right guys i'm gonna open this up right here look at this it's still super hot oh my god that's good it reminds me of like a chicken soup with a little saltier a little fishy nice and thick oh that's a refreshing vegetable soup you can see the crawfish sticking his claws out how do you eat this just put it in your mouth yeah the best thing to do is pull out the dumpling thank you look at that beautiful dumpling still super hot Yeah Mmmhmm What's up about dumplings? Mmm, and breadfruit You eat here a lot? Yeah man, all the while, all the while Always drink a cup of soup, you know? It's a phenomenal soup Nice and thick This one's a little more seafood-y Mmm Sometimes you have a busy, busy day, you know? Yeah, sometimes days I'm busy I guess you get the whole thing? Yeah man Yeah? You're supposed to get that? Definitely crunchy I've never really eaten crawfish like this they eat the whole thing as soon as you bite into it explodes in your mouth the shell very soft i think as he boils it for a long time nice it's like a soft shell crayfish the closest soup that it reminds me to is one i had in uh in nicaragua called levanta muertos the seafood soup james soup stuff delicious you can get a mix you don't have to just get the crayfish the goat or the cow skin you can ask for a little bit of each hey phenomenal The crayfish is good so we're here at double scoops and they have the famous devon house ice cream always supporting devon house yeah it's good all right let's go all right i'm gonna have the single cone let me get a rum and raisin so that's one yes let me ask you i heard this place has good breakfast 10 out of 10 yeah okay so come here for breakfast right all right thank you over and enjoy the ice cream there's There's a rum and raisin right here. Love me the rum and raisin. Rum and raisin? That's massive. Yo, I love my rum and raisin, especially when I'm in the Caribbean. It's all about that rum and raisin. And dude, it's so hot outside, it's melting. Mm-hmm. Oh, that is cool, but I can taste the rum throughout the whole thing. Incredible raisins. This is what it's about in the Caribbean. That's real Jamaican ice cream. Yo, if you're in Kingston, go to Devon House, go to their ice cream. So good. Better right here because it's melting too quick. I love my job.