Legendary Guyanese FOOD TOUR in Georgetown, Guyana!! Exotic Cow Heel Soup and More!!

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My third morning in Guyana dawned bright and early and kicked off with an unforgettable food tour of iconic Guyanese favorites!
My guide Stacey from Visit Guyana and I started at Sunny & Sweetie Roti Shop, which is known for having some of the best Creole food in Guyana. It’s a nice, open-air shop that offers saltfish and bake, chicken curry with coconut choka, dal, provisions, okra, and more. We ordered a bit of everything!
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We had a mix of breakfast and non-breakfast items, including pachownie (curried sheep belly) with roti, saltfish and bake, fish choka, baigan choka, and chicken curry with dal and rice.
We started with the bake & saltfish. The fish is fried with onions and tomatoes and you eat it with the bake, which is a fluffy bread. It’s the perfect breakfast on the go. I could eat it every day!
The baigan choka is a smoky roasted eggplant. It was amazing! Eggplant is my favorite vegetable in the world. I loved the pepper in it! Next was the fish choka with roti, which contained a splash of lime juice. I tried a wiri wiri pepper with it, which added a nice kick. I loved the green onions and diced fish!
The pachownie was so meaty, tender, and soft! You pair it with roti. I loved Guyanese roti, which is flakier than the roti I was used to having everywhere else. It had a very organ-like flavor.
Next was the chicken curry with the dal and rice. Everything was incredible together. I loved the coconut choka mixed with the dal and rice. It was perfect together. Adding a bit of pepper sauce gave it a kick, but not too much! My favorite of all the dishes was the pachownie!
Next, we drove 15 inutes to the most famous bakery in the country, Maggie’s Snackette. Inside, they were making tons of pastries, including pine tarts (pineapple pastries). Simon showed me how to fold one properly! They also made cheese rolls with a cheese spread inside. They make between 1000-1200 pastries per day here!
Then, I attempted to make a cheese roll before it was time for us to try them. This place has been around for over 20 years and they’ve perfected their recipes.
The pine tart was flaky and buttery, with the incredible pineapple filling adding a nice sweetness and acidity. I loved it! The cheese roll had the same dough but the filling was hot and cheesy. It had melted right into the pastry! I liked that it was fresh and piping hot, but I liked the pine tart better.
The chicken patty was basically a little pie containing shredded chicken, corn, and other vegetables. It was small but overloaded with filling!
After that, we headed to our final stop of the morning, German’s Restaurant, which is a buffet-style restaurant. They’re famous for their soups. They had three: chicken soup, cow heel soup, and beef soup. You can also have dumplings and provisions, or you can mix the cow heel and beef soups if you want.
I started with mauby, a drink made from tree bark. It was fragrant and refreshing. I followed it with their cow heel soup. It’s a thick, hearty soup containing potatoes, cassava, duff, and cow heel. It’s a great pick-me-up! I really liked the gelatinous cow heels.
Finally, we ended with metemgee, which contains fried fish, duff, plantains, steamed onions, and coconut broth on the side. We added the broth, which blew my mind. The duff was nice and soft, and I loved the cassava. This was real comfort food!
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[@wendyhestick8514]

Glad you enjoyed our Guyanese food, every dish is usually great! I am a Vegetarian, but my childhood memories of my Mum's excellent cooking!

[@wendyhestick8514]

Please visit Grenada, (seasonings unlimited) Carriacou(Everything Corn) and Petit Martinique (fish,lobster at hands reach)! Food flavors Galore!

[@supremekeroncleaningservices]

Why you take away the bake out from her hand bro u think you're slick 🤣

[@karinthorn2400]

Would like to know how to contact Brenda who made pudding and souse in Barbados

[@salsasoul4112]

David is in my home country. YESSSSSSSS!!!!! Thank you for showcasing Guyanese food. I love you for this. Our food is full of love! ♥️♥️♥️🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾

[@kandacyholder1984]

Stacey did so well in showcasing the Guyanese cuisine!

[@sandymiller5509]

David has to return and experience a Guyanese Christmas for sure. The best.

[@kandacyholder1984]

@@sandymiller5509 I agree girl!!! He might not want to leave😂😂

[@ShabanandHailey]

The breakfast chokas/veggies breads/rotis and the dhall rice and curry chicken with hot sauce looked really delicious. And the lessons you got in pastry making...nice...Also the soups looked very nutritious . This was a very informative video of a lot of Guyanese foods. Thanks David.stay safe on all your travels.

[@1baccslap]

The Indians of Guyana and Trinidad are the descendants of India, so there definitely will be similarities in the dishes just different cooks.

[@hildahenry6665]

The meal brings back memories just loving it.

[@sharonjeffrey9545]

And of course the Guyanese version always tastes better 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@chupidcreole5632]

@@sharonjeffrey9545 Ha ha, you ain't sounding too confident..🤣😂🤣

[@JudyT868]

Baccslap: that's what I have been saying and some people got offended. I have been making comparisons between Guyanese and Trinidadian food and some people were downright nasty. There are a lot of the same kinds of food but called by different names: cookup/pelau, metemgee/oil down, coconut cake/coconut drops, salted beef/saltkind, saltfish dish/similar to buljol etc, etc. You make the same kind of comment and you haven't received any backlash. I just wonder if they want to beat up this female. 🇹🇹🇨🇦

[@roseyrose_jadiebelle]

@@sharonjeffrey9545 always one of you to ruin the vibes

[@tonychang3080]

David you and Stacy did an amazing job introducing us non Guyanese to Guyanese food and the country and you did so authentically with spice and joy .Congrats .

[@suddie1215]

I haven't been back to Guyana since I left in 1980. I stumbled across these videos and now I'm really determined to go visit in the near future.

[@roshanalall124]

Such a shame. I wasn't even born then.

[@suddie1215]

@@roshanalall124 It was a really bad time back then and it caused an entire generation of Guyanese to migrate. I have a complex love/hate relationship with Guyana but it's still my home.

[@wendyhestick8514]

Hotels will break the bank, but food is good and tasty! People there don't eat enough greens there though. So I go for the calaloos, ochre, bachoy, long bean and coriela.

[@oceejekwam6829]

Bakes and saltfish takes me back to my childhood. The soups remind me of my late Mum. She ate it along with provisions and edos.

[@bevon287]

I'm so happy that you got the chance to visit my country Guyana and try our delicious food. I hope that your really enjoying yourself. 🇬🇾 🇬🇾 🇬🇾 🇬🇾 🇬🇾 🇬🇾

[@theclavers]

The favorite I saw there are the roasted eggplants. Look amazing

[@neter8445]

Your food is not delicious! Trinidad food is superior 🇹🇹🏆

[@4riversgd]

Nice tour, I love Guyanese food. I think David's getting an accent there. lol

[@jaisinghpriya50]

I love how you pronounced our Guyanese cuisines lol gosh everything look sooo good, as a Guyanese I’ve never had German’s or Sunny and Sweetie foods. I will have to change that the next time I’m there 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@kurtydhan]

I am trini.. cant wait to visit guyana .. just for the food

[@smack8531]

I hope you do visit. You'll see how culturally similar we are. 🇬🇾

[@wendyhestick8514]

Trinis are next level with your chows!! Guyanese secret sauce is our unique Amerindian, wiri, wiri cherry pepper!

[@neter8445]

😂 why ? trinis make all of this food and we make it way better ! I’ve been to Guyana food is not good majority of them cannot cook ! Anywhere in Trinidad food is good in Guyana u have to know where your going to find a decent dish

[@neter8445]

@@wendyhestick8514actually we next level in every and anyting we cooking

[@auntyo3541]

Love how you two are featuring Guyanese cuisine ❤ I saved these restaurants on my phone for places to visit when I visit Guyana.

[@Papa_Bolingo]

Let's go visit Guyana Aunty O. I'm game.

[@oceejekwam6829]

That's a good idea, thank you.

[@Sherirose1]

Yes

[@jasmineesawhramroop]

Sunny and Sweetie was one of the best restaurants I visited while in Guyana. Love their bigan choka and salt fish and bake. 🇬🇾 🇬🇾 🇬🇾

[@KissFromTheWorld]

If you really want to learn about a country, eat and cook the way they do. Nice food tour! Cheers, Domenico.

[@Papa_Bolingo]

Love that African-Caribbean-Indian food fusion. That roti looks like chapati of East Africa. That flaky bread is called Mandazi. I saw a photo of sambusa/samosa. Next time to you visit Guyana, please invite me. It's one of my dream countries to visit. Love your videos bro. Would love to attend a reggae festival as well.

[@jabaltariq4606]

So called "chapati" is not indigenous to east Africa! It is also roti made by the Indian people brought to East Africa by the British

[@oceejekwam6829]

Don't forget to try Amerindian dishes the most famous being "pepperpot".

[@indrajasodrabhadaiaziz1248]

Yum yum 😋 I love Metem!

[@Davidsbeenhere]

Thank you so so much Indra! I'm so thankful for your longtime support for the channel!!

[@finkumar2465]

Mouth watering delicious Guyanese food!!!! All my favourites for sure!!! Haven’t been back for over 35yrs-need to surely plan a return trip!!!

[@owp1688]

I can't wait to go to Guyana and try those pastries omggggg

[@mahindrapersaud992]

Thank you so much for visiting our beautiful country Guyana 🇬🇾

[@JustCookAndDrinks133]

This is it! Wooohh. Yummy. Watching & always support u 🇵🇭🇰🇼.

[@jaypersaud8021]

Nice..way to go Stacey show casing some true Guyanese restaurant and bakery ..a true guide..

[@engr100viki5]

my best bro david thank you for your huge respect against cpec friendship countries lot of love from your best bro viki 💙

[@sandrabailey289]

David love how u enjoying really healthy Guyanese food

[@islynmercurius3338]

The best in Guyana food looks delicious thanks for sharing David and friend

[@naliniheera1135]

Everywhere in Guyana has authentic delicious guyanese food and those are few places you went and visited

[@wernerboshoff6246]

As usual the food looks absolutely mouthwatering! 🤤

[@shameenamohamed853]

Thank you for visiting beautiful Guyana You are welcome anytime

[@winslowpadmore6378]

Thanks for this exposse of Guyana culinary businesses and food on your visit David..

[@lisas.1681]

I need to visit all of those spots - looks amazing 😍

[@tj_other_onejordan463]

Love her...she literally gave the details of everything 👌🏽

[@shellys402]

U am drooling here, thanks to u guys! Man that bygan choka I can have for breakfast, lunch and dinner....my favorite. Hope u enjoy in Guyana 🇬🇾

[@sisterafiaskitchen478]

Wow the food are looking amazing and yummy 😋😋😋 too.

[@reshmajagdeo8122]

So glad u enjoyed Guyana 🇬🇾 David

[@AM-xv3jx]

Mr. Hoffman nice to see you enjoying my beautiful country Guyana

[@user-kt3rc8wv3q]

i love when people try food from my home country

[@lolitadanylchuk463]

David, I'm so happy that you had a chance to visit my country of Guyana, I love the way your show showcase different culture, I am a big fan of your and your show, good vibes coming from Winnipeg, Canada

[@gooniebush]

Dhal is good to drink on its own, very healthy and nutritious.Guyana serves up some of the best pastries in the world.Enjoy David

[@robjag4419]

Yes David!... was great to see how you enjoyed Guyana and all our dishes, everything in terms of food is very tasty in Guyana, I loved the selection that stacey picked out for you. My favourite is always Bigan choka and roti, must go back.one Love ❤🇬🇾🇬🇧

[@ameeliaramotar8450]

Introduced too .All that choka were introduced by Indo Guyanese, peas and lentils like dhal, (soups) all the bakes and rotis types, Curries of meats and vegetables , sweet and salty dishes made with wheat flours , rice .The chinese came along with their culinary arts and yes, a truly wonderful delightful mixtures of cuisines from all of our Anscestors. GOD BLESS THEM ALL AND GUYANA. 🙏👏🇬🇾❤✝️🕉☪️🛐☮☯️🌹🌻😁

[@ameeliaramotar8450]

I endorsed your comment. That's because, the people take pride in cookery with delightful fusions of all the ethnic groups, taught at the beginning of time in Guyana . The British taught us to bake cakes and pastries and this practice was predominantly sustained by Afro Guyanese along with their ancestors meals like cornmeal porridge, plantain chips, fu fu and root vegetables rice were all fused . The Indeginous people had their own kinds of cookery and dishes such as pepperpot, cassava bread, and piwarie drinks and the Indo Guyanese have a rich array of dishes as rice was introduced by the Dutch, Indians and Chinese. Wheat dishes were very much

[@Will.iamthong]

I really like the dishes you recommend. Looks delicious.

[@SC-ou9gm]

One of the best hosts I have seen. She was great.

[@italianlifestyle7911]

Wow.. you surely go to the most remote, unthinkable places to make us discover the most interesting flavorsome dishes!😍

[@fmss6694]

Guyana is not remote. It’s in South America at the border of Brazil and Venezuela.

[@Adelle4045]

@@fmss6694 I laughed at that comment... Oh shoot

[@solid1378]

Guyana is now the richest country, per capita, in the world. They have massive amounts of oil & gas. It ain't remote, only remote to people that never heard of it. There are over 1 Million Guyanese living in NYC, and in-fact, there's a section in NYC that the city renamed as Little Guyana...😏

[@jayrockstedy9890]

Sheep belly and balanja choka is my two favorite dish and you got it at my favorite place to eat lol

[@leoncarter3469]

Glad u made it to guyana bro..real good food in guyana....I really will like sunny food show visit guyana..all yall guys do great food shows

[@kapildeendyal7460]

Good stuff enjoyed buddy missed those kinds of dishes OMG 🥂🇬🇾🇨🇦

[@chandanieomasankar807]

Am enjoying every video from Guyana thank u Devid

[@karminiparsan9256]

Great spread...looks delicious🤗

[@OSS-bf4qv]

These Guyana videos make me happy 😊

[@christinechance7663]

GREAT VIDEO!!!!FIRST I LOVED YOUR SHIRT ,THE ROTI LOOKED MOUTH WATERING!!!!ID LOVE THE SALTED CODFISH !!!,BUT ALL THE FOOD LOOKED AMAZING!!!!!!WHAT AN AMAZING PLACE AND STACY IS JUST A JOY TO WATCH!!!!LOVE U DAVID ANOTHER AWESOME VIDEO!!!!!!👍🤩✌🤗🥰💙💕💋😜❤😍😘

[@marianbhim1q834]

OMG!!!! you are in my country, enjoy your time there. Hooray from Toronto!!!

[@TheHarpreet303]

I am loving and salivating. Love my Guyana. David the Sri Lankans do sambal the same way we do chokas.

[@ingridbee9192]

Yummy breakfast choka. I see eggplant and tomatoes. 2 of my fav. Pine tart I had as well. As you know David, I love pineapple😊 beautiful food and country.

[@ld872]

I'm in Guyana right now and pass by this place (Sunny & Sweetie's) every other day while I'm here on vacation visiting family. The juices here are really good. They have passion fruit, cherry, soursop, watermelon ginger etc...

[@mda1coach1]

I luv it😋!! Great job guys 👍🏽

[@TundeEszlari]

You are a very good videographer.😁❤

[@paullawson2830]

David, I love your content, BIG BIG fan brother!

[@vishanramnauth6457]

Love it, great content

[@manuelpenche8477]

amazing David!!!

[@bibibacchus8534]

David I am very happy to see you enjoyed my country food and their great hospitality! One way you could have enjoyed all the different dishes is to take one place put rice with dhall then put all the different choka on top of the food you would have enjoyed it better rather than eating the roti alone with choka. Just a quick advice good luck on your next adventure ☺️

[@denesestanley7011]

Pine Tart is my favorite ❤

[@clouds5927]

My homeland 🇬🇾❤️🇬🇾💛🇬🇾💚

[@Tammy.50]

excellent love it!

[@shenjay4]

Great content! Make me wanna book a ticket right away 👌🏽😋

[@peacefulsoul81]

Maggie's pine tarts are the best. The white pudding is great too

[@ahteshaikh1193]

No matter where in the world David is he always finds Indian cuisine anyways..Chokha is a Northwest word in India for smashed/grounded food. Amazing cohost with apt info!!

[@TariqHussain-nr8sh]

Yee.. thats cuz the majority of guyanese are indians....

[@cherylbarker6256]

Guyanese cook other dishes than Indian cuisine !!

[@tracyi9152]

​@@TariqHussain-nr8shThe metemghee he ate was African from the Afro Guyanese

[@tracyi9152]

​@cherylbarker6256 yes true cook up rice and metemghee is African Guyanese origin food and so is the salt fish and bake plus the Guyanese patty.

[@elizabeth16598ee]

Oh yes Roti Shop. What a feast. I will take the Salt Pachownie, Fish&Bake, Fish Choka, Baigan choka love eggplant! And of course Chicken curry!!! and rice so love this dish. Coconut choka so yum Everything looks really good. I would even try the sheep curry. :) now the pastries oh yes I love this series. Guyana is lovely place I love how they let you make a pastry(cheese roll ) :) Now get eating. Wow i bet that pineapple filling was the bomb YUMM!! have some that with coffee ♥ Cheese roll oh yess yum Patty looks amazing to Lunch/dinner dessert all one place :) Im a big soup person so this would be great place to eat Lets sample them all :) Metemgee looks so delicious :) I love the series. Would love to visit Guyana. Everyplace you bring to light the great people history food how can you not help but want to go see for yourself. Thank you again for the adventure :) Would really love to try the

[@dwaynerattan6749]

If I move to Guyana I thinking will never get home sick. Everything is so similar to what we have in Trinidad.

[@neter8445]

Please Guyana is nothing like TT🇹🇹 nothing to see in Guyana I used to work for airlines . Forest place the food cannot touch Trini🇹🇹 food with a 10 foot pole..

[@forhadahmed4643]

really good show...keep doing it

[@rastashiw8875]

My country!!! Love the breakfast food!!

[@StreetFoodSection]

Hello David, The food you're trying in this video looks super delicious, try to upload as consistent as possible, we desperately wait for your videos 🙂

[@qqq829]

I just discovered tbis channel. I loveee that you're showin' GUYANESE food ! Just wanted to tell this brother that I know it looks like it would be pronounced like it's spelled- "Roti", but it's pronounced "ROOTIE.. Rooty". And my favorite is "Patty".. which is basically like the Pine Tart, only has seasoned ground meat and vegetables.. I could eat so many. It's like a meal in a flaky crust pocket! You got me hungry now.

[@donnajulliet]

Stacy always make me so hungry 😅 for some good food 🤤

[@violetwheatley2381]

eggplant is your favorite fruit anything with a seed inside of it is usually a fruit. if it flowers to seed it's usually an herb or a vegetable or a flower. the food looks delicious.

[@nickiramnandan5453]

I love watching this dude eat caribbean food...

[@annmarieb987]

Stacey is definitely out eating David.. Great vid

[@foodlover-37]

Guyanese food is the best 👌 but I am surprised I just found this channel hmmm and saw this guy was in our country wow hope u enjoyed Guyanese food

[@neter8445]

TRINI 🇹🇹 food is superior 🏆

[@nickbandit2359]

My mouth is watering

[@tomyhh]

great video bro!!

[@urbieneklein1320]

Great vid! Obviously reminds me a lot of the (neighbouring) Suriname cuisine

[@seemahernandez432]

Absolutely delicious 😋

[@Samuel33777]

I love the salt fish. Aka bakeljauw... it only needs madam senet... and what vinager cucumbers.. roti is also one of my fav.. eat well David.. jang sweety

[@theclavers]

I would obviously eat that roasted eggplants. Thank you, Dav. I will visit as well.

[@laurabaharally3562]

I love your videos . I am getting homesick

[@crabmusic1]

David I would definitely try that I make pea soup when I have a a ham bone and I put potatoes in it and big chunks of carrots and some deal and you know I if I had a little bit of cabbage left over I sliced it to unminster and put it oh my God it is so delicious and onions and some garlic and I would definitely try this soup cuz it resembles my pea soup and you just got to forget how they made the soup most people would think it is no it just sounds good and sometimes so please enjoy and it's a pleasure seeing you so happy in that country I'm enjoying every video and I've seen them all peace 🥄👍🇺🇸🥕☮️🍜

[@shampersaud2763]

Maggie's pastry looking delicious.,,,Missing Guyana, oh beautiful Guyana. We cannot resist these foods. Sweetie and Smiley 's foods look so much mouth watering......,Lovely.😍😍❤❤❤❤

[@ronaldagard6244]

Great food experience 😋

[@suecolbert1047]

Mon Repos: Close to my Blood Line!' So Proud of you All Guys!

[@andyragobeer7800]

Nice video 👍👍🍗🍗Guyanese foods is always special 🍗🍚🐠🌾🍗

[@neter8445]

Guyana is not beautiful 😂

[@denesestanley7011]

Best pastries ever❤

[@Shichman]

Looks so tasty!!!!

[@michaelbaptiste3405]

Trinidad now Guyana David your always making me hungry 😂

[@lilhoncho7157]

Yoooo big up GT 🇬🇾 Was wondering when you were gonna come here ❤️

[@mariahfolkard929]

Jerman was my father brother but they passed away 23 years ago but my cousins continue from where the father left off thanks for talking him there Stacy❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@chrisoreilly3134]

Which is the next Carribean country will you visit? Loving the videos bro...

[@nell1343]

Love pachownie!

[@sandysbackyardfoodtravelvl3726]

Watching 👀

[@turanalli9418]

Love it/Amazing.., Guys..,So.., When we come to/Guyana..,We know where to.., Thanks/Guys.., Another/Great Video..,

[@dhanraj7523]

Public comment. Fresh and taste great .I enjoy watching. Keep something to drink. Enjoy guyana food.

[@Sherirose1]

Seriously? Teasing us. 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤. From March, BA will be flying non stop to Guyana. I'm booking to travel in Sept 2023 for 3 weeks.

[@christinemahadeo3184]

David we taught you well, curry chicken ahahah 😆