it's time to do some serious eating on this island we've been on turks and caicos now
for a little while but we need to eat more food yeah we are in providenciales
we've been eating some really great food and it's time to actually show you some of the great
dishes they have here because the food is pretty amazing for those of you that are familiar with
our channel and used to watching our food videos you know we often go out and seek a whole bunch of
very very local type foods it's all about the dish rather than the destination today it's gonna be i
think a little bit different there's really really good food here and there are certain dishes that
we should try but in general it's gonna be a little bit more about the destination and the
types of restaurants they have here now they might be wondering why we're just in a random parking
lot the thing is it's not quite random is it it's not we're headed over there yeah there's something
really cool over there the first stop today is a place called coco van and take a look at this
this is an airstream here so cool the space is absolutely gorgeous and look at the food we got
two different kinds of tacos and some mac and cheese balls yes mac and cheese balls
but this taco over here is a mahi himachi fried taco on a flour tortilla and this one is a peking
duck which is something we've not had in a very very long time i'm going to start
here with one of these mac and cheese balls i mean who doesn't love mac and cheese and then
deep fry it and it doesn't really get any better than that take a look inside oh yeah there's
like some herbs and stuff going on in there it also comes with a dipping sauce um on the menu
it just said it comes with truffle oil but this looks more like a aioli of some sort let's try it
so so so crispy on the outside like did you hear that crunch when i bit into it
soft and kind of say mushy on the inside but the way mac and cheese should be i love that there
are some little herbs in there so it has a little bit of flavoring i'm not quite sure what's going
on with the aioli but it's like kind of citrusy very flavorful but not spicy there's certainly no
shortages of tacos on this island and i went for fried mahi mahi as i already said the cool thing
is they come in sets of twos and we asked to get one maki mahi and one of the peking ducks which
is greg's reading a lot of food today we have to pace ourselves but on this guy we got tomatoes i
see green onions i think there's pineapple on there and yeah it smells delicious let's do it
that is what i call a perfect caribbean taco i think it's the pineapples that help with that
such a nice contrast with the green onions and oh that fish i don't know if you can
see the inside of them the fish is fried perfectly very fresh probably caught today
well that taco sounded absolutely amazing i can't wait to try this one which is peaking duck trying
to remember if i've ever had a duck taco and it's also been a very very long time that i've even had
peeking duck we've actually tried it before in beijing many years ago and it's so amazing when
you have it very very authentically to see how this one is so the meat is probably thigh or
dark meat not a breast anyway got green onions and i think just some hoisin sauce so it's
relatively simple the question is is it good oh yeah that's definitely really delicious really
the prominent flavor that you're gonna taste here is that hoisin sauce you guys have never
had it before it's obviously like asian inspired it's very very sweet but also has like kind of
soy sauce flavor to it i don't even know what you call that a little bit salty but not really
the green onions add a little bit of flavor and crunch to it it's definitely fun to eat
and i agree with trevor on the flour tortilla i think when i'm eating like authentic mexican
tacos i want to stick with corn but when i having other like more interesting tacos
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creators like us all right now back to the ball we've come over to the next location and as you
can see it's in a parking lot it is right next to a gas station and then now that we're here i
believe it's only takeout huh yeah i think it is only take out and as we've talked about in other
videos and i'm sure you noticed in the last place food here does not come cheap no but this place
is very very inexpensive and it comes highly recommended for fried chicken by both locals and
tourists so this is the five dollar combo that is taxes in so it's straight up five dollars you get
three pieces of chicken handful of french fries we got some hot sauce and uh ketchup with it that you
just poured out of a big bottle but they kind of mix together so we're gonna have maybe some
spicy ketchup to go with it smells good looks really good it's nice and crispy on the outside
it's funny the first thing i kind of tasted was the oil and i thought maybe there's not
a whole lot of flavor to what they make up the um batter with but after afterwards the aftertaste is
spicy i don't know if i accidentally got hot sauce on there but i don't think so so there
must be like some cayenne pepper or something like that in the batter and i was about to say
that we just spent eight months in the dominican republic where they do fried chicken so well
that i thought this wasn't going to hold up to all the great fried chicken we had there but
this is really really good it's kind of funny we're just standing here next to the side of
the building because there's nowhere to sit got the fried chicken and it's got me a little bit
excited there's nothing better than fried chicken in hot tropical weather am i right let's go for it
there is a nice zing to that and it comes at the end i've never had fried chicken that does
that how do they do that how do they do that you guys it is really good nice crispy chicken's fresh
gonna recommend this place mainly because of the price itself five dollars for all this food i
don't think you're gonna possibly get a better deal on this whole island because this island
is expensive you guys probably heard us say this before but this place is not this place is very
affordable all right next up we're on the hunt to go taste some craft beer and we think we found the
place but this wasn't easy huh it wasn't it was on the map but there's actually a gate that is
locked that you need to get through so we thought we were in like the wrong place like the warehouse
or something but we are in fact in the right place and the security guard opened the gate for us
it's loud yeah there's airplanes check it out
well we made our way in here and they led us right back into the brewery area and you can see just
exactly how they make the beer i always forget how much of an operation it is to
do so so all this does is make me want to try beer can't wait to try it out
so we are here in the tap room you can actually come and do tours as well
i think they do a couple a day but we just timed it wrong with all the eating that we're doing
today so this beer you can find all over the island it's basically like their domestic beer
but it is craft beer too i love that you guys don't know we happen to love craft beer we've
done many many tours visited so many breweries back home in nova scotia and around the world
here on the island there's about four different beers that you find generally in most of the
restaurants but here in the tap room they have about 10 different ones that you can try so went
for a few different ones that we haven't had yet the first beer i'm going to go for here is
the weiss i'm so stoked i'm just still so stoked that there's craft beer on this island being from
canada nova scotia like anna said we're used to this kind of thing we were in the caribbean
before turks for like eight months and it was hard to get this stuff so let's quickly try this out
i love the color of this it's like banana flavors it's a typical kind of german weiss
always so good but the one i'm dying to try honestly is the ipa i can't even tell
you the last time i had an ipa how exciting is there like good ipas on turks and keigo
totally different in color nice and hoppy i forget the percentage on this one but it is so good it's
still very very refreshing one thing i highly recommend that you do when you're traveling is
this is an actual tasting room because yes you can go try the beer in the different restaurants but
here you get to try so many different types and in a flight so just in little tiny portions another
thing i'm also impressed with here is their list of gears sometimes when you're in hot climates and
you go to tasting rooms they have like all like really heavy beers like stouts and porters which
i'm not a big fan of in general i don't really like dark beers but especially in hot weather i
just want light and refreshing beers everything here is pretty low in percentage and generally
pretty light alright our next stop and final stop of the day is no it's not this beautiful ocean
behind us i wish we were going swimming right now maybe later but we got more food to eat we do and
we are at a place that is very very very famous it's probably i guess an institution here on the
island it's called dakonjac the conch the conch check well how about this setting right here on
the beach in the most adorable little spot called the conch check the water is crystal clear we have
a lemonade in hand we got some delicious food on the way as well can't wait deep the cool thing is
we're actually in the sand right now like our feet are in the sand just like it was in cabaret in the
dominican republic well i'm told when you're coming to a dakong shack you've got to order
conch fritters so that's what i did i went ahead and got these crispy little kind of like they're
in the shape of balls now here's the weird thing about this we ended up filming out of
order so this is not first time i've ever tried this the next video is going to have that it
just came down to our limitations on time but if you don't know what these are they're like
basically like a giant sea snail that sounds so gross to me but i do have some yummy sauce it
looks like a chipotle so i'm just gonna dip it in and see what these are all about you ready
all right these are good now just so you guys know i'm not a huge kind of shellfish seafood eater so
it always takes me a minute to kind of figure out like if i like this or not i love how it's crispy
golden and the inside of this is very good as well the thing is about conch is it has that
kind of poppiness like if you're eating like shrimp or something like that you bite down
and then later on it kind of like pops in your mouth so sometimes i'm not a big fan of that
but i don't actually taste like the sea in here it's not very fishy it's actually pretty pretty
good funny thing i asked if it was the portion was like a kind of a small size because i'm the only
one eating these today like oh yeah it's tiny here it is there's like one two three four five six
crazy six of these things and they're just like giant meatballs basically but they are good well i
told you guys we might have more tacos today and i was not lying i mean this is sort of a taco that's
what they say on the menu they're called peppa joy chicken tacos they actually come deconstructed so
in that way i guess it sort of feels a little bit more like a fajita kind of looks like a fajita as
well so peppa joy is apparently a hot sauce that comes directly from here in turks and caicos it's
made here i don't know if you can even buy it anywhere else not quite sure what type of peppers
or anything go into that but it's a hot top so hopefully there's a little bit of spice to it
smells really good i can tell you that so i've just put one of these together it's now ready
to eat i also added some coleslaw i don't know if that's the way you should do it but that's the way
i'm doing it there's also some rice and peas on this plate as well maybe you could add that
to the taco but that seems kind of weird so i'm just gonna eat that on its own but let's try this
so there's definitely lots of flavor going on it is very very peppery very very salty
a little oily and maybe a little like tomatoey definitely not spicy though i'm not getting any
fire or any heat from this and actually maybe add some extra from that jar just because
i might add some little it could definitely be spicier they told us it was going to be
spicy though didn't they yeah i wouldn't say it's spicy at all so i just added actually a
whole bunch of the jarred peppa joy sauce just to give it a try see if it adds a little kick to it
oh yeah that actually makes the world of difference definitely has a kick to it
nothing too too crazy if you don't like spicy you won't want to add any of that on there
but if you're looking for like a super super super kick like burn your mouth off it's not that either
it's a really nice nicely balanced hot sauce i really like it a little bit of sweetness to it
lots of flavor it's a little bit different than most hot sauces that i've tried before
i'd be interested to know what's in it but this is definitely definitely add the pepperjoy if you
like hot so rice and peas is a very very typical dish that you're going to find on turks and caicos
and i think in a lot of different caribbean islands when we were in the dominican republic
it was rice and beans i think the peas that they use here are more similar to like a lentil or
a bean rather than like a green pea that you think of let's try it it's a way to finish off
i guess it's one of those like really typical dishes here as well it seems to come with
everything i think really good one of those like staple dishes that you have to have here
it will be extra good with some of that hot sauce on it it's kind of cool because you can see all
these kind of conch shells yeah right here huge pile of them i thought it was rocks but they're
actually all conch shells right here and i just found this one here on the beach you can see on
the inside it's all pink and pretty see why people i feel like people often have these on display in
their houses and on their shelves and stuff like that well i think it's safe to say we're
absolutely full now and this was the proper way i think to end this video coming to the conquest
yeah it's a very very famous place here we can see why i think we also have a lot like some nights
with uh live music and loads of people but we came a little earlier in the day to skip the big brows
it's cool i like that the the tables are in the sand you can obviously go swimming here this
water is so so turquoise as everywhere is in turks and caicos but guys have you got this far in the
video it's trevor and anna we're the delightful travellers thank you for watching if you're not
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for now we might go take a nap huh yeah i think we might need a little nap by the pool yeah it's not
a bad idea all right guys that's it from turks and caicos wishing you delightful travels see you soon
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