This is the ultimate curry festival in Miami, and today I’m eating my way through one of the wildest Caribbean food events in South Florida. From rich curries and spicy stews to jerk, doubles, roti, fried festival food, sweets, and everything in between, this is a full celebration of Caribbean flavors.
We’re trying dishes from across the islands, meeting the cooks and families behind the food, and seeing how curry changes from country to country. Trinidadian, Jamaican, Guyanese, Indian-influenced Caribbean food, fair food, street food, and huge plates are all on the menu.
And of course, we’re settling one of the Caribbean’s greatest debates once and for all: is it curry goat or goat curry? This is Miami food, Caribbean culture, curry, music, local people, and festival energy all in one massive food tour. Let’s eat.
A food vlogger explores the Miami Curry Festival, sampling a diverse range of international and fusion dishes. The journey spans Caribbean, Indian, German, and Korean flavors, highlighting the cultural significance of street food. Alongside the culinary tour, the creator shares his personal health and recovery routines, all while settling a linguistic debate over the term \"curry goat.\"
This is the curry festival and I'm here in Miami
and we're going to be trying everything today.
Thai curry, Indian curry,
Caribbean curry and we're going to find out once and for all
is it goat curry or curry goat.
Don't get mad at me, but let's find out.
Man go to Guyana, I saw you.
Oh yeah in Guyana, you saw me there.
Uh-huh that's our stand.
Oh it's yours?
It's a mixture of Guyanese, Jamaican.
Whoa nah you got it wrong there, it should be goat curry.
No no no.
That's the Jamaican part.
Sushi? Look at that. I've never seen that. Curry goat roti sushi.
That's a jerk. Goat curry, some chicken curry.
Alright, so right now she's grabbing the curry goat.
She's going to put it into the roti,
and then she's going to make a roti sushi.
I'm excited. So many curries. It looks like 50 different ones.
This is what they call a goat curry sushi roti.
oh bro it's gonna be fire right away super tender meat i love how
the roti soaks up
the curry oh this is a unique style
so scotty bonds jamaican and guyanese guyanese is all about
the goat curry not the curry goat phenomenal very tasty
so the goat curry sushi roti is amazing but
they also have jerk chicken poutine
so for my canadians they also got that so right next door
have easy grills and over here what do we have
this is uh pork belly ceviche pork belly ceviche
it's all that pork rind right there
the ghetto oxtail that's the braised turkey neck
it's supposed to be an imitation style with oxtail
then i got the jamaican sloppy joe that's a beef
patty filling with a homemade cocoa bread i think you should try
That one on me. Are you Jamaican?
Of course, why not? From Miami Gardens, family.
Jamaican. I love Miami Gardens, bro. Bread so I
take the beef patty filling
and I just turn it into a sloppy joe vibes, a sloppy joe, it's like
a deconstructed beef patty without the crust here
we go, oh it's good, oh wow, this does make me like
back to my childhood, bro. Nostalgic, yeah, sloppy joe
with the cocoa bread, fire, nice and soft still
super hot, just get that like that, it's like almost like
a chili right there, look at that, wow, so good
man, it is a hot day, huh? Humidity. Well, we call it ghetto oxtail
that's a turkey neck right there
yeah, but it's supposed to look like
an oxtail, you know. Oh wow, you can't afford oxtail, you try
the turkey, wow, but guys look at this, it's
a massive piece turkey neck right there, that
right there is the bone, turkey neck, oh
my god, it melts, man. That's the ghetto oxtail for you
the ghetto oxtail, I love it, definitely more
of a gamey meat, falls off the bone still, so hot
oh luckily not too spicy, thank you. Sometimes you're eating others
and it's like a spot in heaven
turkey neck oxtail, and when it's not too hot, just grab
the bone like that, oh the meat, Chef Kofi
Chef Kofi, yeah, we're gonna visit you, yeah
my restaurant is on 441 and I'm on Second Avenue
curry goat or goat curry curry goat man curry
goat curry goat curry goat Nah this is curry
We make our own curry.
We make our own curry.
It's Indian curry.
Like that.
Give us a follow on Instagram too, man.
Mmm. A lot of flavor in here, man.
Yeah. Oh, not too hot.
If you cook, my friend, this is the flavor.
This is the guy.
Willy's Indo Curry.
This is the guy.
He started 1980 during the crack.
Yuri Koki.
Where is he from? Where is he from? Jamaica.
Jamaica. Where? Where in Jamaica? Westmoreland, Jamaica.
Chicken curry. You might move me a little bit.
Wow. Look at that. Yeah it's super tender meat.
So that's what we're trying right here.
This is the curry verse. And then over here. That's
actually schnitzel. That's schnitzel.
So Vienna schnitzel from Vienna. Take some onions and then
put spätzle on there and flip them with cheese.
Amazing. Yeah. Oh wow so right here we have the
curry verse. Look at this.
But there's like brown sugar in there, some ketchup, some tomato sauce,
and i think apple juice and some other stuff yeah is it go curry
or curry go go curry whoa
yeah that's like a mix right away you feel the curry
but you also feel the ketchup
super juicy sausage how
do you feel about it i feel good i feel like if i go to germany and
this is all i'm eating hey thank you i'm sorry what's
your name Lorraine Lorraine
Lorraine visit Lorraine
and her family schnitzel spot yeah in Wynwood come visit us german food
Tour, let's go, so right here
in this corner we got top 10 cuisine and we're
doing some jerk chicken wings, how you doing? You good? What's
your name Jermaine
Jermaine, yes, what
are we doing here? I got some jerk chicken wings here and on
this grill over here we got some jerk chickens
the honey jerk wings, maybe I
have a like a honey jerk wing, I'll try it
and we're over here we have this chicken
curry right here, that is phenomenal, located
in Homestead, we go everywhere
where nice, yeah, amazing, yeah, we
from I'm originally from Jamaica I've been living
here since 19 years old, so wow, we're in Jamaica
from Clarendon and we're the part of Jamaican country boy
but we've been we
love it out there, yeah, awesome, awesome, I gotta go back
for this year and I haven't
been back like three years
so so I have one question for you, is it goat curry or
is it curry goat? Curry goat, man, don't
say good curry curry good Arnie's are
It's very hot, don't say I didn't warn you.
Flavor of the already jerk chicken and jerk wings.
And it's just awesome.
Do you think, do you think that hurts the chicken?
It enhances, it enhances, it enhances the chicken.
I think they love it.
Look how they look.
Yeah, they love it.
I think they love it.
They're enjoying that little butter up.
Definitely.
This is the honey jerk sauce or no?
This is the jerk sauce.
I actually have the honey jerk sauce separate.
It's separate.
Okay.
And you're from Homestead, so that's the best honey
got in Florida oh yeah oh look at this this wing
is hot it's gonna be nice and smoky
oh wow okay so right away i love the sweetness a little spicy smoky
and juicy it literally has
everything i want wow so good jamaica i love you
thank you jamaica always top 10 cuisine one of the
best Caribbean cooking that you'll ever get here in South Florida.
So support the business. We're
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We're everywhere. We go everywhere. So if you want
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Just a family event called Top 10. We'll take care of you.
he's gonna serve the funeral but he might raise the dead with this one
oh it's so good oh man spice level
is perfect like i'm savory but i love sweetness
wow guys come visit him great things
for every country thank you thank you and you're honest
i love that always keep doing what you do man hey guys thank you
so much for watching this
video for the past 20 years i've been traveling around
the world making videos on youtube eating
like crazy i eat everything i love food
but everybody asks me how i stay in shape well when
i'm in miami my hometown i do pilates i go running
and do jiu jitsu roughly one to two hours every
single day i do not miss a day plus i watch what i eat
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the video you make this here Miami yes
sir we had two flavors blueberry and the
original flavor that helps with high blood
pressure it gives you a lot of energy
that's where erectile dysfunction it helps
with your eyesight it has I guess
it gets your back right it definitely definitely aid
in the bedroom most
definitely I have some samples if you'd like
to try it let's do it let's do it
Thank you.
So, this is the original flavor, this is the blueberry.
Original flavor.
Yes, sir.
So what's in the original?
Moringa, lime, water, and agave for the sweetness.
You said agave?
Agave.
Agave.
Oh, agave.
Agave.
You can drink this as a pre-workout, as a post-workout.
So right before jiu-jitsu, just like get nuts?
No, definitely, definitely.
That's good.
I drink this, and I'll run a 3.5 miles, honestly.
Wow.
Yes, sir.
I go to the run club in Brentwood,
So, and I'll run straight right after I drink this.
Oh, I'm going to join you in the run club.
Definitely.
I think it's Wednesday nights?
Tuesday nights.
Tuesday nights.
Tuesday nights.
All right.
Yes, sir.
Do you want to try another one?
Try another one?
Yes, sir.
All right, so this is the blueberry.
I think this one's definitely going to be a little sweeter.
Definitely gives you a lot more anti-oxidant and also.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah, it's like a blueberry potion.
Yes, yes, yes.
It's good.
I like that it's like a little potion, guys.
It reminds me of Harry Potter, you know?
Definitely, man.
I'm glad you like it.
Is it goat curry or curry goat?
Goat curry, man.
Now I just messed with you.
Curry goat.
Curry goat.
I like that.
Moringa man, that was great.
Moringa man, you can follow me on Instagram.
Definitely DM me.
Everything we do here is fresh cane juice.
Looks amazing.
Wow.
Oh, this is like high tech right here, guys.
There's no joke.
Cheers, cheers.
Oh, with the ginger.
Oh, wow.
Oh, yeah.
No, that's potent.
I love it.
I mean this is like the perfect refresher for all the heat
when you're in the tropics guys i know
stay cool India Thailand Caribbean Miami
wow delicious okay now i feel good
because i was melting bro i was dying so we can't miss out on
some conch fritters Cook's conch fritters right here putting
in the conch fritter into the oil
that looks amazing Cook's conch fritters perfect you
from St. Kitts and Nevis my
grandfather he showed me the recipe
and I'm just taking it and making it a
business love it right into the oil look
at that sizzling oh man it comes nice
and thick this is a nice conch fritter it's
almost looks like almost a conch cake
curry goat curry I don't know I don't
know you tell me they're different right
And right here we have one of my favorite things from the Bahamas
the conch salad. It is Miami style. Look at that
Beautiful. It's like almost like a conch ceviche
Mmm. Oh super tasty tender not too spicy.
Oh super citrusy conch salad always a good time
Oh, dude, it's really good eh?
Nice and refreshing citrusy.
They always put a lot of like lemon and right here guys.
We have the conch fritter
This is nice and hot
It's really really hot
all right conch fritter almost looks like
a crab cake amazing amount of conch oh nice and hot
you see different herbs some vegetables in there
the conch is so tender it's perfect you know i
love all this it's like an entire meal you have all right you can get
no you get full off of this
look at that and not so oily sometimes it's too oily this is perfect
when i think about miami i
about the hummus i want to eat
a conch fritter conch salad have a collect gold nice and hot
it's humid it's not too hot though it's like
a spongy i can't eat that much more how are you
doing you good so i have a crowd around me you good
this is so much i love i love your glasses
i knew i would meet you one day thank
you you're blessed thank you thank you
my sister loves you
thank you come to my mom's house guy needs food i love you
my family loves you thank you for
bigging up all the caribbean countries yeah i appreciate it i have
a question for you one
question yeah curry goat or goat curry curry goat and your guy
my girl is jamaican and i feel like jamaicans make
the best curry goat they do they do nice
Nice and hot with that scotch bonnet.
I feel make the best curry go.
But when it comes to Guyanese cuisine,
like the chicken curry, the duck curry, we got that.
Well, Suriname, Suriname.
At the Curry Festival, come sell us out at Cook's Kung Fritters.
And it was very nice meeting David.
Always watch his videos.
W's in the chat.
He's so nice.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Well, that was great.
I'm full.
what's next what is it is it a curry goat
or goat curry come on easy easy chicken curry goat curry lamb
curry duck curry should i keep going jerk chicken looks fire nice
and crispy nice and juicy man
they're juicy jerk chicken kicks with the light we had
the curry fest 2026 man it's great everybody's
here what's your name chef troy chef troy chef troy from kicks to the light
and where are you from
jamaica you're from jamaica so is it curry goat
or goat curry curry goat he he didn't blink
i love how that guy over there has a j in the mouth i love it
kind of spicy about to watch the biryani we're going
to try some butter chicken this is my
favorite look right over here that's
the butter chicken look at that looks amazing
I have one question for you: curry goat
or girl curry, curry goat, yeah man, I thought in India it
was goat curry, we changed it now, we changed it
now we changed it, yeah everybody's laughing at
so that's why, that's why we said curry chicken, curry goat, lots
of difference, amazing, so they
also have biryanis over here, they have lamb
curry, they have vindaloo, we have another side
we have amazing butter chicken here
so butter chicken, it's a tomato base curry
is not just pure butter, oh my god, this is so good
it's like creamy, the tender chicken
oh wow, and the nice soft naan, pretty good
that's how you do it, you just drop it on top and put it
out, when I think about Indian curries
this is what I think about, nice creamy heavy whipping
so it's not about what you're eating, it's
where you're eating it, this is a massive
curry festival, tons of lines
so many people everywhere, lots of good food you can do
everything Caribbean, you got Asian, amazing, it's Christina
with dessert cookies, and I make protein
cookies and this is a coconut curry cookie 20 grams
of protein coconut curry cookie, okay
wow, so I love coconut, I do like my cookies
my daughters love them more, oh really, yeah yeah
they love cookies, and this is with a curry I've never had
a cookie with curry yeah it's like a
Jamaican curry oh wow so you have curry throughout yeah
the whole thing cardamom pistachio cookie pumpkin
cookie butter cookies and cream we do all types of flavors you
do like fusion cookies yes it's amazing all
right nice and crumbly
so coconut coconut it's really hard to get 20 grams of protein into a
cookie and it still be a bakery style cookie
so basically after i work out i eat this yes
i go to Crunch Gym and stuff
so oh i love it oh man thank you it was so good i mean i don't taste
a crazy amount of curry do you have any more coconut it
was curry i didn't want it to be like
overwhelming i'm so happy thank you curry go go curry here we go
that's what i say so all right
so she said it right decide let us know in the comments
so this is yours dessert wow this is
good one question for you is it curry go
or go curry here we go here we go here we go here we go
you're british right yeah whereabouts london
london yeah brixton brixton's my favorite spot
you have a massive line you're very popular my name is chef cat
and what do you do here i am
the chef and creator of Sugar Dumpling
so are you Trini i'm Trini and Jamaican and my
grandmother is from Saint Vincent
so i'm just caribbean wow it's a perfect caribbean mix so
we got some black fish in here i mean we got
black fish we have jerk we have Trini doubles
we have everything yeah so is it go curry
or curry goat it's curry goat curry goat there's
a huge battle in the Caribbean i've been to almost every KFC
in the Caribbean who has the best KFC
Trinidad has the best KFC jamaica does
not have good KFC maybe the jamaica miami KFC is good but
no trinidad fried chicken is better at KFC yes
the zinger down there is the best yes it is delicious
jamaica is pretty good and i'm not even
a chicken eater i don't even eat chicken but
when i go to trinidad i get KFC don't tell
anyone don't tell anyone so right now she's
gonna make some doubles for us
so she's making the dough for the bara i can't believe how busy
you are you're the most busy of all
so chef you've been making doubles for a long time
while i think i've gone to trinidad so many times
and i've tasted the doubles in trinidad
and i come back to miami and it's like i get
a little feeling of it but it's not really like
you know really good trinidad doubles
but you know i'm just getting started with my food truck
and i'm trying to find like all the trinnies here in south florida
so they can come to me
like last night i have a permanent spot on 633 northeast 79th street
so i'm there wednesday
through sunday and i'm just really trying to build my clientele
and introduce people to doubles
because some people don't know what doubles
are so yeah now she's grabbing the two pieces of dough
she's gonna flatten them perfect nice
and then i'm gonna flash fry this Steph you're quick
you're from miami born here oh wow like me
oh i love that perfect yeah yeah it's good
tuna nice thick piece salt pepper perfect
guys so right here we have some tamarind perfect
our miami sugar dumpling doubles what's your name
i am copper copper yes wow it's all organic comes
from jamaica it's premium juice this is for you
guys just for all of us oh my gosh thank you all right
so we're gonna do the doubles right here
look at this she did it just like they do in trinidad all right
so let me see which one is
on top this one oh it's still
so hot amazing bar nice al dente chickpeas i can see it all right so
i'm going to try some beetroot sea moss so wild
surprisingly delicious it's actually like a little
thick this one so if you guys have never had sea moss it's like
a nice thick like almost like a
seaweed they make it into a juice sometimes it
tastes like very very thick almost like a peanut
butter this one they mixed it with some beetroot
what else they have in here oh some honey as well
and watermelon yeah this is very like tropical
wow all right now we're going for the doubles
so what do you guys think the taco way put it all
in there oh yeah oh that's amazing perfect
oh yeah man the tamarind nice
and sweet right away it hits you with the heat that was not
slight pepper that was really a lot
of pepper you know i actually love the bara nice and thin
not too crispy very spongy this one my favorite
street food guys trinidad i love you i've had a
lot of doubles in my life here in south florida only
a few places mostly in broward this is really
good though in terms of sweetness spiciness has
the authentic curries the channa it's really nice
i eat this every day
that's some spicy spicy pepper
scorpion definitely not scotch bonnet
jeff what'd you do to me i like it
though i like it where are you from from jamaica
right
question
curry go go
curry go curry
it's none
of this that's
a curry
competition
i'm not getting caught within the two
no i know guys i'm i'm joking around tonight but it's all
good it's a it's a funny comment coming
from but i wasn't gonna get caught i know i know i know
so this is Xander's Lemon Lab lemonade elixirs awesome i just searched up
your name and i watched
all your videos thank you thank you bro thank
you appreciate it you remind me of myself when
i was your age i was selling mangoes on the street
crafted syrups everything is natural
and for everyone all right so what should i try
today what should i try you should try Kaiter
hey Kaiter Falls Guyana all right i'll try
one i'll try Kaiter Falls seven destinations
i still haven't had my seven curries yet wow oh
the ice cubes i was gonna say okay got it got it
here we go guys oh wow what a combination
of flavors here huh i love that look right here
okay no it's super refreshing
though especially in the heat in Guyana you know you have this
you're like oh thank the lord really cold we call it like a lime wash
or um swank is what the people
in Berbice we'll call it okay
but we brought it to miami a little bit of uh guyana to miami
so you're from Berbice like your family i'm
not from Berbice i was born in georgetown but i did
live in Berbice with my dad okay
so you had the chinese fried rice in a bag oh i had the original
original the original fried rice in the bag with a grease proof paper
and everything so good yes
so one question for you go curry
or curry goat come on now go curry because i eat it
i eat it from jamaicans i'll be honest with you
but it's chicken curry what about you chicken
curry curry yes our lamb curry lamb curry oh i
love lamb curry guys visit him we got hot cheetos
takis he's grabbing the cheese he's gonna put it
into the batter wow look at that nice batter in
there oh look at that the pull on that we're good all right
then next up he's putting it into
that's fries right that's like diced fries
and then straight into the fryer five minutes is done
five minutes is done just came out
of the fryer chicken seasoning oh you throw some spicy sauce
on top straight out of the fryer
that looks amazing i think they invented this in korea
like 100 the wild street food
and the reason you get this is for the pull watch this
it burns it's good yo actually i like the seasoning
and the spicy uh mayo but you look inside
just like it's like almost like fondue you gotta
like pull oh my gosh that's so good crispy fries
if i didn't already eat like 15 critters i would eat
the rest of this maybe i will anyways
oh yeah yeah i got a question for you curry
chicken oh that's it yeah yeah chicken and
that's my wife so she's chicken curry oh she's curry chicken
and he's chicken curry
curry chicken all the way you killed it bro you read
my mind i don't know what it was
celebrity what is this i figured i know what it
was banana pudding bananas right here and he's
number one and this is the dessert bar oh right
when you open it up so what do we gotta toss
some like cookie here all right
so we're pulling out the amazing banana pudding with that cookie
oh yeah oh my god so fluffy oh this is good the
amount of bananas you have to be a banana person
sorry nate yo it's so good i'm done with savory items only sweet now
so where are you from by the
the way so are you curry chicken
or chicken curry again you guys
don't represent in Jamaica right
and the people have spoken it
is curry goat curry chicken sorry Guyana the people have
spoken that was a South Florida curry festival 2026