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. 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 jamaica we're gonna 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, man. All right, he's just dropping a bunch of pepper in there. All right, here we go. Let's do this. Mmm. 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. So what's one thing people need to know about St. Thomas? Outsiders. Well, everybody good, man. And peaceful away. For food, they are same way, man. That's what I heard. I heard people are very nice here. Yeah, man. Very, man. Nice, man. How about the food? Excellent food. Very strong kitchen there Some kitchen there on the side, go right there, man Trying to get the fruit dish Yeah, man Yeah, what I want I think you need a fruit dish already Get the fruit dish 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 Some scotch bonnet in there? Yeah, man. I blend scotch bonnets You know, this is true. David's been here Oh, yes 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 over here some nice peppers how are you everything good look what she's doing is a spring onion yeah you're being some spring onion the scallion man I feel really hot right now but where 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 saw what he saw his beers and soft drinks yeah well 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. Fried dumpling over here? 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. 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? Yeah. Yeah, 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 it 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 cooking cooking life yeah that's it rough on 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 a 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 uh very juicy very tender it actually reminds me of this having like literally oxtail with some curry oh it's so good the meat is soft it's crunchy it's a little spicy it's also very gelatinous you have a mix here oh yeah you know what's amazing about this curry you mix it with the rice. It's like a nice spiced coconut flavor. It's a proper meal. Feels like I'm eating somebody's home cooking. That's basically what this is. My man here taking care of me. You know what? He removed 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 else to say. I mean at this point, I'm just enjoying it. whichever one she'll feel like oh she's gonna do fresh pineapple for us perfect yeah we'll do that she's 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 St Thomas that is the best parish there is, the best parish, best parish. Well, I'll say one thing: so far friendliest people, very nice. Come here, it's home. I come here, I'll come here for three days to reset and this is home. You don't throw any spice on it, right? Like Trinidad, right? that, 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 a maybe a watermelon, can you give me a piece of watermelon? It's too much. Okay, hey, it's a lot, I can't slice it for you? Can you slice it for me? Thank you and this is from the parish of Saint Thomas right here this is from right here in Saint Thomas here okay perfect then what's your name my 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 gonna cut some of the watermelon. This is fresh watermelon here. I'm gonna grab a slice straight from. This is from St. Thomas. From St. Thomas, right here, look at this. Dude, it's like dripping already. You want me to take a nice bite? Oh, man. Oh, my God. Yeah, we got it here. Oh, the juice. No chemical, no chemical. All fresh from the ground to the market. Phenomenal. So I have to ask you, we're gonna go around to eat some food. What do you recommend around here? To me, 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 Yeah 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 Yeah Very good Not the green one, the ripe one Sweet with ackee and salt fish She know that, David What is? 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 some 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 kalas 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 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 holiday i put in i tried to put out a lot no yes and you're so close to Kingston i would expect more Kingston people to come over here no no no no no one come from town come by then you come try to sell please wow too much seller 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 he got look everywhere you look there's i think it's all secondhand clothing it is nice especially for girls nice and loose it is cool to 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 can see just more vegetables everywhere just vegetables vendors hello hello wow got onions carrots non-stop let's see what else you 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 uh the small drink i don't know what drink is those small box drinks orange juice or cherry orange one orange one orange one 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 half you can see it's like full Callaloo almost looks like ackee 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 bun definitely a filling meal and this is like uh roughly two us dollars it's good man i just think 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 lover lover yes and you're from saint thomas yes i'm from yeah so tell me what makes saint thomas so special for you the cool breeze the river and all that you know we have the most river grandpa falls and reggae falls all of them they are saint thomas also the prettiest smiles thank you thank you thank you i'll see you next time okay all right all right i'll have a question for you what's one thing you love about saint thomas and what's one thing you would change okay i love the river and the beach and i wouldn't change nothing about saint thomas i love saint thomas that's perfect answer thank you thank you appreciate it let's keep going let's see if i finding 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 parish. You can see just like a lot of farmers selling their goods. All very similar. Let's go. I think you read my shirt, right? Yeah. Are you from here? Yeah. What's your name? 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 Stony Goat to Spanish Town to tell the governor about the problem, about the land problem, and he was killed by governor here. 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 saint thomas you have reggae falls and you also have grandpa falls you're taking us to the falls let's go to the falls 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 the freshest one yeah beat how much for a beat three three hundred yeah and what's the other one pine no that is June plum you know i'll go with the beat you still be 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 good herbs though, all 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, it'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 juices, why is this the best and everything flavors cleanliness everything I mean I totally agree, I think this is the best no other patty has a 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 the jamaicans know what i'm talking about well Trinis and caribbean people as well 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 it's 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 uh analogy for this okay thanks and enjoy one another question tell me something special about st thomas why is it so special for you because it's used to be the forgotten parish but it's not known that we have a lot of infrastructures from the urban center we have a lot of attractions from you know so it's not the 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 um oh that's nice notice they mix it all with like not a curry but like almost like a potato sauce here we go look look how it comes out it does remind me of a shrimp soup or like a conch soup but shrimpy how about the flakes that's 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 it'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 roswell falls right here on the road that's incredible right here you have the caribbean sea the road passing through connecting saint thomas with kingston and we have the falls see how it is oh it's nice and cold look at that the fog's 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 Let's go eat some jerk. Ray, how you doing? You got some jerk chicken? Yeah? You got some spicy sauce? Some jerk sauce? Okay, let me get a quarter. Get a quarter. Dark meat or white meat? Dark meat. It's $11.00. Oh, that's hot for sure. You want ketchup? Eh, no ketchup. Just sauce. It's good. How many festivals? Two festivals? Perfect. Good. guys, we're gonna eat this right here on the street this is all 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 especially pretty damn nice spicy too you got the scotch bonnet you can literally see the scotch bonnet right there like at that oh yeah look at the seasoning just like falls off oh it's spicy very tender oh yeah super juicy thing about this chicken is that you can taste the smoke throughout the whole thing they're good guys and the festival right here look at the festival this one you can tell like it crumbles easier i personally like it when it's not too hard nice and sweet it crumbles all right now it's about to rain man so many jerk spots hard to decide on which one's next here's over here there's a nice soup now so that's some chicken soup it's nice and thick good stuff oh 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 got pine and turmeric i got i got two american carrots this is turmeric and carrot yeah and how much is the turmeric and carrot 350. 350 i'll take one all right this one here it's ginger all right let me get a ginger as well how much 700 total yes sir tell me about Yala what is Yala yeah this 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 um jerk pork and the small stores them around yeah but everything compact you go there you'll find the beach fish beach yeah so everything in park how long have you been here for not not a full year now not a full year yeah are you from Saint Thomas yeah yeah so what's special about Saint Thomas it's like you have fun just a fun ground fun yeah it ain't causeful to me yeah work about you're going to cost me because i'm going to 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 what i love about these juices they're all fresh and real literally just like he extracted today ice cold is 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 from Kenya. Yeah and you taste all the food. It was it was good. Yeah man. Thank you man. You run 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 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 specials? St. Thomas is very nice and peaceful All natural So we have to pick up St. Thomas all the while One St. Thomas Yeah man, big big big car I don't know how they do it Yeah? You understand? That's the pork man Let's do the pork Yeah man, yeah, yeah I just need a little portion 700 for a quarter pork 700 man That's all we need Look at that, juicy pork We're under the umbrella under my umbrella he has a good uh good sauce put it right here on the side here here look for the other side he does i love pepper anything spicy maybe a little bit on the side here we go nice pork with spice oh 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 yes 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 you know yeah and it properly properly look bones no spice to the bone no dude spicy and smoky as well yeah especially those catspanic everyday memories memories 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 Look at that. It's amazing. The pork bone looks good. Nice and spicy, like peppery. So I think he's doing a mix, right? You can do a mix? Eight ounce of crayfish. Look at that. Is it spicy? The dumpling right there? A little spicy? What's your shop? It's James' Soup Stop. Oh, this is James' Soup Stop. We heard a lot about it. Yeah. It's amazing. Yeah. 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 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 It's all about dumplings and breadfruit. You eat here a lot? Yeah man, all the while, all the while. I always drink a cup of soup, you know? It's a phenomenal soup. Nice and thick. This one's a little more seafood-y. 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 it like that? Definitely crunchy. I never really eat any crawfish like this. I eat the whole thing. Mmm, as soon as you bite into it, it explodes in your mouth. The shell, very soft. I think it's because he boils it for a long time. Really nice. It's like a soft-shell crayfish. The closest soup that it reminds me to is one I had in Nicaragua called Levanta Muertos. It's a 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 but we're gonna enjoy the ice cream 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. You know, if you're in Kingston, go to Devon House, go to their ice cream. So good. Better run in here because it's melting too quick. I love my job.