As my trip through Guyana continued, I headed out to try something special: Guyanese Chinese food! Come with me and let’s see what Chinese food in Guyana is all about!
Guyanese Chinese food is Chinese food made using Guyanese ingredients and cooking techniques, so it’s a true fusion of the two cultures. To try some, my guide Stacey and I would be heading to the New Thriving Chinese Restaurant in Georgetown. It’s a massive restaurant and we’d be having roughly a dozen dishes there!
Inside, we headed back into the kitchen, where I saw the cooks preparing Peking duck, steamed vegetables, paradise fried rice, and more. The paradise rice contains pineapple, diced chicken, and vegetables. They serve it in a pineapple!
Next were Singapore noodles, which are like glass noodles. They pan-fry them in a wok with a sauce and then add vegetables. Then, they also made a sweet & sour chicken. They batter and fry the chicken and then stir-fry them in a sauce with vegetables.
We tried the sweet & sour chicken right in the kitchen. It was sour and sweet but also had some heat to it. The chicken was perfectly cooked, and the sauce was like a nice glaze.
Then, they fried some eggplant they’d cut into spirals and skewered. They deep-fried them, plated them, and then added a sweet chili sauce on top.
The sweet chili eggplant was phenomenal! It was so soft on the inside but crispy on the outside. It was the best fried eggplant I’ve ever eaten! The sauce was insane! They followed that by making pinecone fish, which they batter and fry until it looks like a pinecone. Then, they top it with sauce and vegetables!
They also made some lightly fried beef and some rice with vegetables. I was loving the Cantonese cuisine with a Guyanese twist!
At our table, we had all of our dishes on a lazy Susan. I started with my coconut water and then jumped on the Singapore noodles, stir-fried vegetables, steamed dumplings, Peking duck, and more.
The Singapore noodles were beautiful and light, and the stir-fried beef melted in my mouth. The sauce was incredible and sweet, with a bit of heat. I also loved the lightness and tropical flavors of the paradise fried rice. The pineapple was fantastic!
I also loved the pinecone fish. It reminded me of a similar fish dish I’d had in Suzhou, China back in 2019. The sweet and sour sauce on it was delicious. The batter was perfect. The steamed garlic prawns were also incredible. There was garlic flavor, but it wasn’t super potent.
Then, we grabbed some of the wraps and placed the Peking duck and sauce inside, along with a crispy rice cracker. Everything together was heavenly. The skin of the duck was nice and crispy, just the way I like it!
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Good evening everyone, I hope you're all doing amazing.
This is David Hoffman from David's Bin here coming at you from beautiful Georgetown, Guyana.
Tonight I'm so pumped because I'm taking you to eat Guyanese Chinese food here in Georgetown.
Now what is the Chinese Guyana flavor?
Well it's a little different, right?
So it's like a fusion.
It really is Chinese food but using techniques and produce found here in Guyana.
And today we're here at the new thriving Chinese restaurant.
We're going to go inside.
It's a massive restaurant and we're going to have like a dozen dishes.
I'm excited.
We're going to go into the kitchen.
Let's go.
Stacy, you there?
Let's go.
Let's eat.
So what do you like here?
What's your favorite thing?
Um, a lot of stuff.
I like a lot of things here.
I love the traditional mixed fried rice.
I love sweet and sour chicken.
I love the duck.
Oh.
I love the crispy pork.
Man, there's a lot.
It's a lot.
It's too much.
Too much to list.
Oh and I love their Szechuan soup.
I personally love Szechuan but this is Cantonese style and this is the restaurant.
Look over here to the right we have a bar and look how many tables.
Huge round tables.
That's how the Chinese eat in the Canton, Cantonese area of China, right?
Huge tables.
They have the turntables.
The little turntables.
Like a DJ.
You know when it's Chinese it's for sharing, right?
The portion sizes are so huge.
So this is perfect for sharing.
You're going to love it, man.
I can't wait for you to taste.
It's going to be awesome.
Chong, how are you doing?
Good.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you too.
Kitchen?
Yes.
Let's go.
Here we go.
Straight into the kitchen.
I love this.
Oh yes.
Look.
The pecking duck right here.
Duck.
Oh.
We have to have some duck.
Oh yes.
Here we go.
Hello.
How are you?
Everything good?
How are you doing, Chef?
Perfect.
Alright.
Look at that.
Straight to the wok, huh?
This is the wok, right?
What did you say?
Just steam a bunch of vegetables.
That's all you did, right?
Non-stop here with the wok.
Oh my god.
The fire behind us.
And now we're going to do a sour chicken.
Have a nice night.
Oh.
First he started off by steaming all the vegetables.
Then he added some oil to the rice side.
Now he's going to dump all the vegetables back in.
It's going to be amazing.
Paradise fried rice.
Paradise.
Tasty.
That looks so good.
a pineapple.
Literally, they just cut it open, shove it in.
Amazing.
I love it.
Oh, I can't wait for this one, man.
Next up, we're doing Singapore noodles.
So as you can see, super thin, like glass noodles.
You got a curry right there.
We have more vegetables.
Alright, we're ready.
The sweet and sour chicken.
So the chicken is breaded and they're going to throw it in there and fry it, right?
I think this is hard.
Start there.
They're putting it in.
Okay.
And then they're going to...
The delicious chicken.
Oh.
Stacy, what does it smell like to you?
That's it.
It's good.
So now that he fried the chicken, he's going to add the sauce and then the chicken.
Now I'm getting the heat.
Now it's hot.
Hot.
I'll let it sit for a second.
Right here.
Perfection with some sesame seeds on top.
The sauce is something else, right?
The sauce, the egg lazy sauce.
Eggplant dish.
As you can see, these are the eggplants on a stick.
Like that.
And then they're going to coat it with this batter and we're going to fry it.
So once he was done making the eggplant and then he added the sweet and chili sauce.
It looks like sweet and sour sauce, a little different.
Obviously, there's chili in here.
Oh, but this looks phenomenal.
The inside is so soft.
Mmm.
Wow.
Best fried eggplant of my life right here.
My life.
Yeah.
The sauce is out of control.
Fish.
So as you can see, they're putting some batter on it, flour, right?
They're going to put it into the fryer and once it's done, it's going to look like a
pine cone.
Amazing.
The fish has been the one fish that compares to this thing.
That's huge.
All right, guys.
Thank you.
Xie xie.
I'll see you guys later.
I won't lie to you guys.
I ate a lot in that kitchen.
But I can eat some more right now.
Definitely.
Love the restaurant, guys.
It's like a truly Cantonese restaurant.
Massive.
Look at this.
Huge.
The ceiling.
You got the clouds up there.
Right?
The floor, the tables, everything.
And then you got right here.
And because we're in Guyana, we need air conditioning.
Definitely.
Right over there.
Well.
Bring your wedding party and come.
Stacy, you ready?
Say hi, guys.
Hey.
You asked me if I want one.
I know, right?
So what are you drinking?
I am having a Xandi.
A Xandi.
So it's an alcoholic beverage but not very high in alcohol.
Okay.
It's really nice and sweet.
And this one, I think it's champagne flavor.
And I'm having the national drink.
Coconut water.
Of course.
Yum.
Super refreshing.
Right now, we're just waiting for the last dishes.
We currently have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 dishes.
Yes.
We tried 2 of them already.
We're waiting for about 3 more.
3 more.
About 10 in all.
It's amazing.
So you guys come join us.
Help us to eat all this food.
Please.
I think I'm most excited about that fish.
The pine cone?
Oh, yeah.
That's a winner all the way.
I love pine cone.
And I love the beef.
The beef.
Wow.
I mean, everything looks so good.
Oh, the noodles.
Not everything.
I can't choose.
The noodles are good too.
This is my favorite.
Every time I come, I order this.
Yes.
So let's try some.
Incredible Singapore noodles.
Woah.
Look at that.
Bunch of veggies.
Nice steamed vegetables.
I love those mushrooms right there.
Yeah.
The rice.
Tropical rice.
The amount of food that we're about to eat is just unreal.
Oh my gosh.
And over there, we have some Peking duck.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Peking duck, right?
And steamed dumplings.
Steamed dumplings and Peking duck.
Are you ready, Stacy?
Yes.
I am ready.
I can't wait to dive in.
Look at that.
This is too good.
It's too good.
We've got rice, noodles, fish.
We've got prawns, beef.
I think we got stir noodles.
Yes.
Let's do the noodles.
I love this type of noodles.
Look at this.
Beautiful.
I love that it has like a little bit of curry in there.
Oh my gosh.
This is such a beautiful fusion.
The Singapore style noodles.
I love it.
The curry is lovely.
Yeah.
Nice and light.
Yeah.
These are glass noodles, basically, right?
Rice noodles.
Those are rice noodles.
Very fine and light.
The beef is melt-in-your-mouth good.
Oh my gosh.
Oh yeah.
Mmm.
Nice.
The sauce.
The sauce is incredible.
Mmm.
Oh my gosh.
It's light.
It's almost sweet, this one.
Mmm hmm.
Yeah.
Just a little bit of heat.
Mmm hmm.
A little bit.
Good.
And here we have the...
The rice.
Tropical rice.
Super tropical.
It's like barely any rice.
It's like more vegetables in here, right?
Vegetables, seafood.
Mmm hmm.
Mmm.
The pineapple.
Burst of freshness.
It's incredible.
Sweetness.
Lovely.
When you think tropical, that pineapple is number one for me.
Mmm hmm.
You probably noticed we use a lot of fruits in our cooking, right?
Mmm hmm.
A lot of spices too.
I mean, of course, you're using everything that's like natural to the area, right?
Exactly.
Oh yeah.
Mmm hmm.
Love the butter.
Love it.
Really light.
Flavorful.
So in the kitchen, I mentioned that I had a similar looking dish in Suzhou, China.
Almost the same.
Really?
Yeah, because the taste of that sweet and sourness together, that glazy sauce.
Mmm hmm.
Light butter.
Mmm.
Yum.
Literally, it feels like I'm in China right now.
Amazing.
I mean, that's what you want, right?
That's what you want.
Authentic flavors.
All freshly prepared.
Fresh ingredients.
And you can taste the freshness, right?
Mmm hmm.
Everything tastes so fresh and good.
So fresh and good.
Yeah.
And then we have the...
Oh, you're going to do that one first?
Yeah, let's do that one.
Yeah, I'm going to do the garlic prawn.
The garlic prawn.
I'm going to cut it in half.
Yeah.
Gosh, it smells so good.
Mmm hmm.
Smell the garlic.
Wow.
Nothing like steamed prawns.
Mmm.
Garlic.
It's not too potent?
No.
So good though.
I mean, I'm a garlic guy.
I love garlic.
Garlic every day.
Love it.
Mix in some of the noodles in the end, right?
On top.
I'll tell you, Chinese food, even though we're in America, people are like, Chinese food,
Chinese food.
There, it's a little different because we literally have like certain dishes because
it's been so Americanized.
Right, right.
But Chinese food, for me, is up there top five in the world in terms of cuisine.
I agree.
Mmm.
And they do such an amazing job here.
This man got to try some more of this beef.
I love this sauce.
Mmm hmm.
I haven't even got to the vegetables yet.
I'm going to have a little bit of vegetables.
The mushrooms.
Mushrooms.
Mmm.
Nice and tender.
Very fresh.
Mmm hmm.
Fresh.
Cleanse your palate.
Wow.
I destroyed this.
Oh yeah.
Look at that.
I feel bad now.
Yeah, you.
Hahaha.
It's okay.
Don't worry.
I'll finish it.
It's clean.
Off camera.
I'll tell you.
I was full getting to the table.
But once I saw the food.
Mmm.
It opened up.
And listen.
This is not all.
You have duck to try.
Right?
You've got dumplings to try.
Oh, we have dumplings too?
Yeah, right there.
Let me show you.
No, no, no.
That's the wrap.
Oh, this is the wrap.
Oh, sorry.
That's the wrap.
No, no, no.
It's wrap.
Okay, okay.
The wrap and the duck.
Yeah.
So we'll do that.
Oh.
It's super hot.
Let me see.
I'm just like touching up.
So next sauce.
Right?
Throw some of the sauce all over.
Just mix it in with this.
Right?
Like that.
Then after that.
We get.
The prawn chip.
The prawn, prawn cracker.
Okay.
So get one of those.
Yeah, put it up.
Yeah, good.
Get one for myself.
And if you want to be extra naughty.
Two.
And then you got to get some freshness in there.
Some freshness.
Okay.
Some crispiness.
The texture.
Crack it in there.
That was good.
And what's that smell?
Is that like onion?
Yeah.
And then more sauce at the end.
Right?
So at the end, you just go with this.
Yeah.
Same with you.
How did you get some of this?
I did not.
Oh.
Just like that.
Try, right?
It's like everything's coming out.
Maybe I overdid it with double duck.
Double the duck.
Just shove it inside.
Alright.
Like that.
Yeah.
I think mine is like a.
Mmm.
Yeah.
The sauce.
The duck.
The vegetables.
Nice crunch.
Mmm hmm.
The saltiness from the prawn cracker.
Mmm.
This is nice.
I've never had a Chinese wrap before.
Oh, no?
This is a first.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
It's how we do it in Miami.
You know, the.
Is it?
Yeah.
Peking duck.
Always with that.
Their sauce is like a thicker, glazy sauce.
Sometimes they say it's the blood of the duck, but I think they're lying.
The duck skin is amazing.
Mmm hmm.
Best part.
Juicy.
It's so juicy.
Oh, wow.
This Chinese wrap.
try it.
The Guyanese Chinese.
You've got to try it.
You've got to try it when you come.
Mmm.
And the moment you landed you had some and since then you've heard people say it's the
best in the Caribbean, right?
Mmm hmm.
No lie.
Truth.
No lie.
Best Chinese food in Guyana, in the Caribbean is Guyana.
I don't know.
I can't.
I can't make this.
I can say that.
I mean, I had Trini Chinese food.
It was amazing.
This is a different thing, though.
Careful.
Oh, yeah.
I'm kidding.
I know.
Okay, one more of these.
This is good.
The pineapple with the sweet and sour.
Look at that.
Whoa.
I'm done.
I hit a wall.
No dessert, right?
No, sometimes in Chinese restaurants they'll bring you the lychees, right?
You know the lychees?
I love the lychees, though.
That wasn't the first time I ever tried lychees.
It was in a Chinese restaurant in Miami.
After that, I have a, I got a tree at home, so let's get it, you know, when it's season.
Oh, good for you.
Yeah.
And that's it.
Guyanese Chinese food at the new thriving restaurant.
What an experience here.
The best in the Caribbean.
Tell them I said that.
Oh.
I think it was epic.
We started in the kitchen.
We saw like six dishes being made.
We ate there.
Then we came.
We had this huge spread.
My favorite, I think it was the fish.
The fish.
My favorite was the beef.
Amazing food, guys.
When you come to Georgetown, Guyana, you have to come to this restaurant.
Try the food.
It's huge.
Come with a family.
And if you have extra, yeah, you have for tomorrow, right?
You always, there's always take away.
The portions are so good.
They're so good.
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