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Local food: Fricassée de Lambi

by Pieter11

Fricassée de Lambi: absolutely the best meal I had during my three months on Guadeloupe. Unfortunately it's not available all your long, and it's pretty expensive as well: all due to its main-ingredient: the Lambi. This is a sort of snail/shell that can only be caught in specific period of the year. The shells are sold as a souvenir, and the meat goes into this dish.To make the Lambi-meat ready to eat it takes muscles: you have to beat the meat for at least half an hour to make it soft, and after that it has to cook for about an hour. It is being mixed with vegetables like carrots, tomatoes and onions and also with refreshing lime-juice.The result is a dish with white rice, fried plantain or yam and of course the pieces of lambi in a very, very tasty red paste. In a restaurant you'll pay about 18 euro's for a dish like this. A great place to try this is at "Chez Hugues" in Sainte-Anne.

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Local food: Colombo de Poulet

by Pieter11

A very special meal that you really should try when you are on Guadeloupe is the so called Colombo de Poulet. The local people are very proud of this specialty and you'll find it in every restaurant on the island."Colombo" is a dish that is a mixture between the Caribbean-Creole cuisine and the Indian cuisine. Because there are a lot of Indian people that moved to Gwada after the end of slavery, curry was introduced in this era. This is one of the prime-ingredients of the dish. The Creole influences are the lemon and the coconut-milk.In the end you'll have a big plate with white rice, with soft pieces of chicken and a yellow curry sauce with onion and pieces of potato in it. The sauce is somewhere in between being spicy (because of the red pepper that goes in it) and being fresh (because of the coconut and the lemon). One tip if you want to try this: the more local the restaurant is, the...

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Local drinks: Fruit juice

by Pieter11

One of the specialties of Guadeloupe are its fresh fruits. Because of its perfect climate, fruits tastes magnificent here, and therefore they are great to make tasty juices of as well. Unfortunately you don't see real fresh fruit juice that often: most of the time it is fruit juice from a bottle (also called local because it is bottled on the island), but if you manage to get a real fresh one you won't regret it!The most popular fruit juice on Gwada is the home-made guava-juice: a pretty thick, and very sweet drink, but very tasty. Another personal favourite is the grape-fruit juice, and more examples are the pineapple-juice, mango-juice and orange-juice.To find real, good juices the best place to find them is a local "boulangerie" are a local restaurant. But make sure to look for a small place that is not packed with customers, because generally that is a sign that they serve the...

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Local drinks: Planteur

by Pieter11

Another typical drink that you can get on Guadeloupe is the delicious Planteur. When you're flying to the island with Air France or Air Caraïbes you can already try it in the airplane, but this pre-mixed version is nothing compared to the real thing!The real thing is a fruity cocktail with rhum, orange juice, guava juice and passionfruit juice. Sometimes other juices are added too, but these ones are pretty much standard. This mixture results in a fresh drink with a decent alcohol percentage of about 15%. When drunk cooled this makes a great refreshment on a hot Caribbean day.A good Planteur is pretty hard to find. Often the juices are not cooled, or the amount of rhum to way too high. The best option is to go to a local bar and try it there. I had a few great ones in Bar Karibik in Sainte-Anne.

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Local drinks: Ti-Punch

by Pieter11

Ti-Punch: you simply cannot say you've been to Guadeloupe without having drunk at least one Ti-Punch. This "small-punch" is the most famous traditional drink of the island, and is very popular.The Ti-Punch tradition is a difficult one. There are at least 5 typical moments on which you can drink them, there are several recipes, and every different variant has its own time on which it should be drunk. Also important: officially no one is allowed to prepare a Ti-Punch for you: you should do it all yourself according to your own taste. The most special moment of drinking a Ti-Punch to me is the early-morning one: a punch for breakfast is called "décoller" which means "taking-off".However, most of the times there is only one type of Ti-Punch offered, already prepared for you and you can order and drink it whenever you want. It's a small glass filled with strong rhum (50%), a slice of lime and...

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Local food and drinks: Introduction

by Pieter11

Because it is impossible to make a list of all the places where I've eaten or drunk something during by stay on the island, I thought it might be interesting to just make a list of special, popular or traditional dishes, fast food or drinks you'll find on Guadeloupe.In this "restaurant-chapter" you'll find a lot of local food and drinks that make the "cuisine" on Guadeloupe to such a special one. The mixture of Créole, Indian and French influences resulted in a lot of delicious meals, and when it comes to drinks: of course the Caribbean rhum has a strong influence!Most of the food or drinks you'll find here can be found in every restaurant, bar or fast-food stall on the archipelago. If there is a place where I 've tried an exceptional version of it, of course I'll add it to the tip!

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La Porte des Indes: Indian Food

by indeez

If there remains a place not to miss when it is about Indian restoration in Guadeloupe, it is indeed the Door of the Indies which is located at Saint-François. Felted environment and traditionally guadeloupean for one of the most beautiful restaurants Indian of the area. The dishes are learnedly cooked by an excellent local indian chief. To taste in Duet for one evening Romantic with wish. You can find the environment of this restaurant in this clip:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab_ZQsnjZck Tikka massalaCheese Nhan

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in Deshaies: La table du poisson Rouge

by grovier

It's the restaurant of the "Habitation Tendayou"The restaurant is largely opened on the sight over Deshaies aand the bay...Birds are every where and fly and eat in plates...Crazy.The director is also a fisherman and the kitchen is done by his wife...It's very good and tasty. For aperitve you can drink-each one serve himself- a"planteur" or adelicious "mojito", then you can eat"poissons cru mariné aux epices et au lait de coco"Ragout de poissonsand so on

cant remember but there is only one restaurant.: fresh seafood

by sylvie-uk

if you pass at "port Louis" town at lunch time and fancy some local fresh seafood then it s the place to go. There is not much choice on the menu, it all depends on what the fisherman brought back that day. No fancy plates or decoration but you are sure to have some very good fresh seafood. seafoods

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Foods to Try: Guadeloupe Cuisine

by seagoingJLW

Try:Matoutou de crabes--crabs sauteed with onions, garlic and lemon juiceCrabe aux ti bananes vertes--boiled crabs and green bananasLambi--conchBlaff--stewed fish with lemon or lime, garlic and hot red pepperCalalou--stew containing ham, bacon, or crabTi nin lan morue--green bananas, cod, sweet potatoes, green peppers, cucumbers, and bits of pork

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