Roadside eating and drinking
I admit that in some countries we visit I’m cautious about eating food from roadside stalls, but you need have no worries on that score in Jamaica, and we had some delicious meals from such places. The best of them are the jerk centres, and some are now as established as more conventional restaurants. We loved Scotchies, near St Ann’s Bay, for instance. There’s also good seafood to be had, although when we stopped for a meal in a seafood shack near Montego Bay we chose jerk pork – again!You’ll never go thirsty while travelling around either. There are so many of these little drinks shacks selling beers and soft drinks, and prices are much cheaper than in the tourist establishments. We both liked the local soda, Ting (a grapefruit-based fizzy drink) and the Red Stripes also went down rather well. One of drivers told us that it’s not illegal to have open bottles of alcoholic drinks in the...
