here we go this is the dish that everyone has recommended
we try this is sankocho and it's about to go down
oh my
hello everyone and welcome to the channel if you happen to be new around here my name is trevor and
this is anna we are the delightful travelers make sure to click on that subscribe button to follow
our dominican republic adventures today we are going to be eating more dominican dishes you might
recall a couple of months ago we were in santos domingo we did a full day of eating dominican food
and you guys came through with so many great recommendations for stuff we haven't tried yet
so that's the goal of today so for those of you that are new around here we are in cabarete which
is on the northern coast of the dominican republic we've been here for like two months now we have
intentions to stay for quite a bit longer we're here on the beach right now if you're coming here
you're definitely going to end up here there's loads and loads of restaurants so we're going
to try one place here and the goal then later in the day is to go to a place off the beach a little
bit more typical a little bit more traditional so we're just coming up on one of our favorite
sections of the beach see all these restaurants look at the water behind there huh it doesn't get
old i think we say that in every video because we've been here as i said a couple months now
but every day we come down here and it's just like it's just as beautiful as it was the previous day
so the place we came over to is called oho it's in the main section on the beach but you can tell
it's in a very good location you can see the beach in the background it's quite the spot we have two
dishes right down here we're gonna go for today this one is a very typical dominican
republic lunch and then over this way we have an incredibly typical dominican breakfast and we're
going to tell you all about them right now so this dish came highly recommended by many many of you
it is a traditional dominican breakfast the main staple of this is actually plantains you can find
plantains in a lot of dishes here in the dominican republic it's basically a mashed plantain dish
they call it mango i think that's how you see how you say that i have to come inside to it because
it's very interesting yeah it looks like a kind of like almost like a casserole or something like
that uh along with it and i think this is usually the staples that come with it some fried eggs
you got some avocado i don't know if that's normal with it or not but you can find avocados here a
lot it's also fried salami and then fried cheese lots of fried things today for us yeah but i want
to try i really want to try this mangu let's get that so i don't know if there's anything else in
there maybe corn looks like there might be some mashed corn maybe in hopefully there's some like
uh salt and pepper or something just to make it a little bit more flavorful than
just plain plantains but we'll see it's going to be good if not it'll be good with all the sides
okay that's delicious it's so good there is a little bit of savoriness in there it reminds me
a lot like i said it's very like casserole so it reminds me of like kind of like mashed potatoes or
something similar to that and it almost has like a cheesy flavor but i don't
think there's cheese in there i think it's just the flavor coming off the plantains
but wow it's really really dense really starchy and this is super delicious this is gonna be
maybe one of my go-to breakfast dishes from now on let's try the other stuff as well so this is
fried cheese it actually looks a lot like um say like halloumi or something like that which is
maybe i may guess it's probably a similar thing because if halloumi you would eat often fried
totally similar it's just like a very very fresh white cheese and some crunch to it
because it is um it is fried very very good salami i might dip this into my eggs because
they're just waiting over there being a creative now look at those beautiful yolks
wow this is a delicious breakfast salami is a really really good not
too spicy so if you don't like spicy food you will definitely like this
not too thick it reminds me a little bit of like having breakfast sausage with your breakfast
again this is i think i'm going to start ordering this from now on it's really really good so the
dish i have right here is called la bandera now it is the colors of the flag it literally translates
to the flag red meaning the beans white meaning the rose the rice and then blue meaning the
meat in this case i have a chicken thigh but of course it's not blue in color but you get where
we're going here we're trying to stretch that out first thing i want to try here just on its own is
the beans beans here in the caribbean in general are always so good and in the dominican
republic we did have them a few times they're always so fresh so good so let's try them out
oh man every time every time we try beans down here we always say how do they do
this and why do we not make these back home where we're from in canada these are so good
nice and creamy bit of a tomato flavor and just the juices are just so flavorful so good
so what i'm going to do i'll take a bit of this and of course mix it up with the rice because
that rice is going to need a bit of uh well it's going to need a bit of flavor let's go for this
perfection nothing like that nothing beats rice and beans sitting on a beach with your feet in
the sand except maybe this chicken let's try this beautiful looking chicken shall we hmm look
at the skin there you guys it's nice and crispy it's got some little uh burnt chard marks around
the chicken looks nice and white and fork went in there very easily so it must be pretty tender
oh yeah oh that's the jacob we have said this before but if there's one thing we've learned
about the dominican republic when it comes to their food in general is dominicans know how to
do chicken they just have chicken mastered some of the best chicken i've ever had anywhere in the
world it has to come down to the spices i'd love to know the secrets to this and just the way it's
cooked in general i'm just going to hold this up for you guys so you can kind of get a better
look at it but it is just a beautiful looking piece of chicken and the skin on this is so good
so crispy so so flavorful oh my this is definitely one of my favorite dishes so far as well and funny
enough it is one of the typical dishes here in the dominican republic oh my that was an absolute
ton of food i'm stuck me too i can't imagine like waking up in the morning eating the mango
having that whole breakfast and then a few hours later eating la bandera oh my very filling very
hearty hearty food and i guess that's kind of the point is that it is really filling food and it'll
keep you full for the rest of the day but you guys probably noticed that the portions are extremely
big and we've said in videos already that we've been filming on our channel that usually we split
meals here we just find there's a lot of food on the plate when it comes but today we just
had to go for it you know we had to go out we had to go get it and we kind of accomplished
it so the best part about eating on the beach is the fact that you get to come right back to
the beach we're just always basically always on the beach now we have to make the big decision
of do we want to chill on the beach for the afternoon go back to our pool either way i know
i want to hang out in a lounge chair and basically do nothing because i have a lot of digesting to do
well the thing is we have to eat more in this video we do so either way we're going to go
chill out for a few hours and we'll pick you up very soon all right it's now the next day the plan
originally was to go eat in the same day but that didn't work did it yeah it was a little bit of a
fail we ended up going out in the evening it was a very very very busy night there was lots of people
out it was really loud so we decided probably not the best filming conditions that we're picking up
today but hopefully it'll be more successful we're gonna go to town right now all right
trying to cross the road here sometimes it's like taking your own life into your own hands
so we just came over to a place called happy family dominican restaurant and it's on a very
busy corner the busiest corner in cabaret there's also a car wash next to us so it's
going to be a little loud we did get a presidente light right away and we ordered way too much food
there's too much food coming for two people but we're going to do our best also check out this
i've never had a beer in like a teacup before i like it we just got a quick little glimpse into
the kitchen where you can see them cooking up our meals but our appetizer has arrived it is chicken
croquettes oddly enough when we were in punta cana where we started off our dominican republic tour
i guess or where we flew into we spent a couple weeks there they seemed to have chicken protests
on all of the menus we haven't seen them that much here in the cabaret or on the north coast so
kind of excited to see them on here comes with a little dipping sauce often chicken croquettes
are like circular forms these are more like i don't even know what you want to call that yeah
this is a different shape what is the sausage i'm going to guess it's probably like a ketchup and
mayo mixed together or something like that or something along those lines but let's try it
that would be my guess it's a little bit meowy a little bit sweet a little bit savory
take a look at the inside of that a little bit of a crunch on the outside because i believe they are
probably deep fried and then it's like almost like pureed chicken which is typical for
a chicken croquette on the inside so almost a creamy consistency on the inside with the
crunch on the outside all right on to the main attraction this is called san cocho an oh my
word this is just a medley of meat in a medley of vegetables so out of all the foods in the
dominican republic this has been at the top of the list for recommendations everyone told us to try
san cocho so if you don't know much about this i don't know a whole lot to be quite honest we're
gonna try today but we do know this it's a very typical dish and it's one of the most popular
in the country dominicans love this dish and as you can see it is intense but we're
gonna go right for it i don't even know where to start look at the chunks of different vegetables
and i'm just gonna go for this i think there's pumpkin i think this might be pumpkin or a carrot
oh yeah there's so much happening here first off it's completely rich in flavor
and now that i kind of stir around a little bit all of these vegetables
are the heaviest of vegetables that that you can find the broth is perfection it's like
it tastes like a bit of lime i think there's a bit of cilantro maybe
some onions boys that are allowed on the street um so it's almost like a stew
as i stir around here it's like a surprise every time i find something
here is the sausage just in this i'm gonna try this soaked in that broth
oh baby man that is good it's just like a punch of flavor right across the face all at once
it's so interesting because you get the broth is on top of everything with veggies and all
the different kinds of meats i think there's pork chicken and goat in here and i believe there could
be seven meats i'm not sure if that's the origin of the dish so as i make my way through this i'm
gonna find out but so far this is living up to the height so i am going for my second plantain dish
in this video this is called mofungo which we have actually had before in puerto rico and then we had
it again as a very fancy version in santo domingo that was a view a couple months ago so you could
go back and watch that if you're interested in watching more food videos it's basically
mashed plantains you can get it with various usually meat toppings you can get a shrimp beef
pork i went with chicken it also comes with a little bit of sauce on the side i think it's like
a sort of a gravy type um frothy sort of thing and i'm not sure quite how i'm supposed to do this but
i'm just gonna put some over the top it's such a really really interesting presentation because it
almost is like the plantain is the bowl i'm not quite sure how to approach this so i'm just gonna
get my knife in and grab a piece that's dense take a look at that yellow yellow
plantain i'm not sure if there's anything else in there if it really is just mashed
plantains it looks like there could be corn but it might just be the consistency i'm not sure
so that plantain is quite simple it's very very um almost heavy and dense but combined with the
chicken it's a really really great combination the chicken is very very tender very soft
it's got some really nice seasoning on it i'd say probably like some oregano and parsley and basic
stuff like that and then adding on the brothy gravy just adds a little bit extra flavor to it
and it the wetness of it really balances it out because like i said the plantain is quite dry and
dense very good it's very loud outside sorry guys it's so loud hopefully you can hear everything but
i think you can alright i am absolutely stuffed me too i don't think i will ever eat again it's only
a few hours a few hours or maybe a few days but oh my dominican food is quite special yeah i know i
i know i mentioned before that we did kind of a dominican food video in santa domingo but
today it felt extra special everything we ate was super delicious if i've learned anything
about dominican food today is that it's very very hearty i feel like it's based on finding
food that's readily available not too expensive and then making like the heartiest meals possible
oh so good i just want to thank all of you guys for recommending the dishes so
because of the previous food video we did in santa domingo yeah everyone started to reach out and say
you have to try this you have to try this and we just today we took your recommendations and it's
been awesome yeah but if we did miss anything go back and watch that other video watch this video
and let us know are we still missing anything really really important in the dominican food
spectrum yeah we're up for trying it that's for sure so if you got this far in the video
make sure to hit the thumbs up you know the drill that helps us out trevor anna delightful
travelers if you're new if you're not new it's great to see each and every one of you again
as always but now we're probably just going to go and take a nap to be honest we're just too
much food too much food all right guys that's it from cabaret wishing you delightful travels