Barbados Going Out
Food and Drink
National specialities:
• Cutters (large flying fish sandwiches, often served with coucou (seasoned cornmeal topped with spiced tomatoes, onion and peppers)).
• Conkies (cornmeal blended with coconut, pumpkin, raisins, sweet potato and spices steamed in a banana leaf).
• Rice'n'peas (made from a local bean and usually flavoured with coconut).
• Sea eggs (devilled sea urchin roe).
• Souse, or Pickled Pork (brawn with tomato).
• Other local specialities include crane chubb, grilled pigtail, conch fritters, plantains and breadfruit.
National drinks:
• All types of rum-based cocktails including rum punch, planters punch and pina coladas.
• Top rum brands include Cockspur’s Five Star and Mount Gay (the oldest rum blend on the island).
• The local beer is Banks.
• Falernum (rum, sugar, lime and almond essence).
• Mauby (non alcoholic, made from the boiled, strained and sweetened bark of a local tree), tastes like an extremely potent sarsaparilla.
Legal drinking age: 18.
Tipping: Allow for 10 to 15% in restaurants, round-up taxi fares and tip porters at around a dollar a bag.
Nightlife
Shopping
Shopping hours: Mon-Fri 0900-1700, Sat 0830-1600 (supermarkets are open longer on Saturdays).
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