I've been to the D.R. 100s of times, lived there for 2 yrs. The food is not unigue. Nothning special about it. Some of it is prepared unsanitized and there is no telling if it is safe food. I see recently kiiled animals hanging from outside posts all the time in the D.R. with flies and other insects flying around it.

These images give the history of the food a bad name. Thats why they do'nt get the same respect. How long has it been since someone you so called dominicans actualy been to the dominican republic?

ladronaso, i am not in a position to discuss these culinary matters at the level you can, so , i will defer to your superior knowledge. as to receiving a tongue lashing from Manny; i do not see him as the lashing type. JEM; that is an entirely different case , altogether.

brasilenos states

These images give the history of the food a bad name. Thats why they do'nt get the same respect. How long has it been since someone you so called dominicans actualy been to the dominican republic?

brasilenos, that is one great question. the most vehement, thin skinned defenders of the DR are the ones who come here once every two years to visit abuela. most of them were not even born here, and spend the week or ten days gallivanting from pillar to post in the rented Suzuki. they try to cram their lifetimes into a few days, and party hearty, spend like drunken sailors, and show the villagers how large they are living, gaily bedecked in the latest air jordans and DG handbags. some stay at luxury resorts, and make sure they only drink Dasani, lest they should get some bowel disorder which besets the rest of us who actually live here. they are the same ones who shit bricks when the ligyts go out at the Antony Santos concert, or the beer is too warm at the colmado. they piss and moan when the local constables detain their rental to extort some dollars, or when the customs guy pockets the Hugo Boss cologne they had exposed at the top of the suitcase." why is the guy behind me honking his horn?", they ask. "can't he see that the traffic has stopped?" "do not look over there, Marisol", they advise their 6 year old daughter. " a guy is taking a leak in the parking lot". and where is the internet repairman who was supposed to be here last Tuesday? yes, they experience some of the things residents go through, but, God forbid you mention it. they want to rip your face off.

Mr Brazil fortunately the DR has two very different kinds of worlds. One of them is the place where you can buy street food with flies and the other world is a very sanitary, clean and respectable place, with high quality food establishments which caters to a different class of people. Apparently Mr Brazil I see very well where you have spent most of your time. I am amaze to see that you are still alive and have not died of botulism after those 100's of trips you have made to the DR. What is the matter you can't afford a meal at Hotel Lina or at Vesuvio? I guess Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, international singer Julio Iglesias, and famous designer Oscar de La Renta all permanent residents of the DR just love their meals with flies. These famous and well known personalities have all previously lived in France, the mecca of Culinary Arts, but they prefer and developed a taste for fresh Dominican flies. The natural flavors reminds them of wild hickory nuts. You should import them to Brazil and you might make millions. Oh, I am sorry, Brazil also has street vendors with their very own Brazilian flies, particularly in the outer states which also sell a lot of their foods with flies. Bahia cooking with flies is one of my favorites. Oh I forgot, you guys are so civilized, that the guys in the Amazon jungle, you know the ones with the loin clothes and the females with out a shirt that run around in the jungle, their flies are very clean and natural, fresh wild life. Brazilian flies are so tasty with Brazilian monkey meat. Oh too bad we don't have stone age people in the DR. Oh well, but we have Haitians, that is pretty close isn't that true Mr Brazil? Oh how about the Brazilian Favela, they have plenty of flies living there, didn't you not know that Mr Brazil? more kids died in the Favelas by gun fire then pakistan,irak and afghanistan and more then Dominicans have died from food poisoning. Maybe Mr Brazil you need to go back a 100 more times to the DR, but this time try to go to the other Dominican Republic, the one without flies and insects. That is if you can afford it. But you know what, after trying Dominican food with flies and insects, many that have attempted to go back to clean, insect free, regular food, have said: "Once you try that, you never come back. "

dreadlocks couldnt have explained it any better! just one thing though....many of the diaspora dominicans that leave at a young tender age spend just as much time back at the homeland an have a strong grip culturally in the dominican frontier. just an informational fact from me. lol

Miraabal, i am bewildered that you agree with what i say on this subject in this thread, yet you attack me for the same sentiments in another thread. do you have split personalities? or do you oscillate between logic and nonsense on a regular basis?

... as in any Third World country.


... does not much have to do with 'Dominican cuisine'; it's international cuisine (of course, including some 'bandera' dishes which are normally much better in a good 'comedor' round the corner.)

Yet, there are plenty corrupt officials, drug people and newly rich who can afford to dine in those 'first world restaurants'. *
The table manners are only slightly better than in the barrios, where the majority of the Dominicans eat from tins with a sole spoon...
Watch out you flies!

Bottom line: Very few gourmets, the rest gourmands.

m'frog

*)
In one of the two restaurants mentioned I asked the waiter for butter.
Several attempts were made, each time they called it 'mantequilla', a horrible smear of butter oil and water emulgated.
All those VIP's apparently eat that stuff.....

mountainfrog, get ready to duck!

You mean, people from 'Nueba Yol' could tell me how to observe things more clearly here?

m'frog

well, if they have roots in the island, yes...or so i am told.