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Aruba
Local fare can be enjoyed from varying sources including restaurants, street vendors and beachside pushcarts.
user ratingThe southern Caribbean island of Aruba blends the cuisines of neighboring South America with those of Europe, most notably Dutch from the colonies that settled on the island. Local fare can be enjoyed from varying sources including restaurants, street vendors and beachside pushcarts.
Popular dishes include pastechi (similar to an empanada), a fried pie filled with meat, potato or cheese; tosti, which, as the name suggests, is a toasted cheese sandwich filled with any combination of ham, pineapple and pepperoni; and keshi yena, a soup dish with Gouda cheese, meat or seafood, spices and a rich brown sauce and sometimes served with pan bati, a shaped corn pudding, or funchi, a cornmeal cake. Offerings of mahi mahi, grouper, red snapper and shark make up the seascape, and are often prepared simply pan-fried in Creole sauce.
For dessert raspao is an exotic "snowcone" of shaved ice flavored with guava, passion fruit or tamarind. The Aruban national beer Balashi is frequently enjoyed along with tropical fruit juice and rum drinks. –Leska Tomash
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