Nassau food - always to remember
There is a wide choice of restaurants and bars in Nassau. Fresh fruit is available from the Out Islands, including sweet pineapple, mango, breadfruit and papaya. Local drinks are based on rum. Table service is usual in restaurants. National specialties include: grouper cutlets, rock lobster, baked crab and red snapper fillets in anchovy sauce; peas are used a lot, in the token peas & rice, and also in pea soup; an unique soup called souse (purely of onions, water, lime juice, celery, peppers and meat); fish n' grits (fish cooked with salt pork, onions, and green peppers served with grits as a morning meal); chicken and dough (dumplings); conch is everywhere, and is popular in chowder, fritters, salad, scorched (raw and washed with seawater and lime juice, then rubbed with hot pepper, topped with fresh tomato and onion slices, served on a knife or skewer) and stew; Johnnycake (mildly sweet bread served as a side-order); curried mutton (either goat or sheep); racoon stew; guava duff (dessert specialty of The Bahamas, made with sieved guava pulp, served with hard sauce - a blend of butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla, and rum). National drinks include: Nassau Royal (the local liqueur, served alone or in coffee); coconut water, sweet milk and gin (a refreshing alcoholic drink); Kalik (the beer of The Bahamas); rum punch; cocktails like Bahama Mama (Vat 19, citrus juice, bitters, nutmeg, creme de cassis and grenadine), Goombay Smash (coconut rum, pineapple juice, lemon juice, triple sec, Vat 19 and syrup) and Yellowbird (creme de banana liqueur, Vat 19, orange and pineapple juice, apricot brandy and Galliano). Legal drinking age: 18. Tipping: 15 per cent is usual for most services including taxis.
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