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Trinidad Cuisine is ethnically marked.
A typical Creole dish is stewed chicken, white rice, red beans, fried plantains, and homemade ginger beer.
Indian food consists of curried chicken, potatoes,channa (chick peas), white rice, and roti, an Indian flatbread.
Chinese food is typically chow mein and fried rice.
However, all of these are simultaneously regarded as national dishes and food metaphors are made to stand for the nation. Trinidadians are said by Creoles to be ethnically "mixed-up" like callaloo, a kind of soup made from dasheen leaves and containing crab and ochroes.(okra)
Crab and dumplings is said to be the typical Tobago meal.
A society-wide concern for cleanliness is revealed when concerns over food preparation are voiced.
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