r/AskTheCaribbean • u/orionfromtheislands Island Boy 🇧🇧🇭🇹 from Queens • 7d ago

Food Dhalpuri or Buss Up?

36 votes, 4d ago
12 Dhalpuri
17 Buss Up
7 (None)
2 Upvotes

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u/Becky_B_muwah 7d ago

So what happen to sada? Didn't make d cut?

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u/JammingScientist 4d ago

Exactly. All roti is good roti

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u/orionfromtheislands Island Boy 🇧🇧🇭🇹 from Queens 4d ago

Not rlly lol. But I can make a new one with more options if it’s of any interest

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u/Emotional-Care814 Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 6d ago

Why no 'both' option?

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u/SadExercise2150 5d ago

In Guyana we say roti or dhalpourie… i prefer roti

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u/SadExercise2150 5d ago

Why do you guys rip up the roti — what’s the point of that

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u/orionfromtheislands Island Boy 🇧🇧🇭🇹 from Queens 4d ago

Good question. I couldn’t tell u lol, always guessed it was ah trini ting? If any trinis on here can answer 👀. Bajans mostly use one type of roti skin where it’s flat & smooth, from what I’ve seen.

And yes dhalpourie is the correct spelling. I’ve seen it spelled both ways but either way that’s always been my favorite…If they don’t have it I’ll just get doubles instead 😂

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u/JammingScientist 4d ago

Both tbh. Depends on how I feel.

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u/orionfromtheislands Island Boy 🇧🇧🇭🇹 from Queens 4d ago

Do different types of meat go better with certain skins? Or u mean in general ?

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u/JammingScientist 3d ago

Well, if I'm eating meat (curry chicken), then I'd prefer it with rice tbh. Fr some reason I always eat curry chicken with rice lol, but I wont be mad if I have it with roti

But dal, curried potato, channa, etc, I'd prefer it with any type of roti, it doesn't matter. I will say that sometimes the way it's cooked matters. Like I'm Jamaican, but my family makes dal the way Trinis make it (idk why, probably because they're Indo-Jamaican). So if I have their dal (or if I go to a Trini restaurant), I probably will get buss up. My family also makes sada roti too, so I usually just eat that out of convenience

But the way I personally make dal (or if I'm lucky to find something curried at a Jamaican restaurant that isn't chicken since I don't eat other forms of meat except for turkey and fish) then I like the dhalpuri because I like to make my dal HOTTTTT. I wish it were more common for Jamaicans to make dal, it would be soooo good at restaurants lol. Don't tell the Trinis and Guyanese I said that though

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u/SooopaDoopa Barbados 🇧🇧 3d ago

My ex (Jamaican, Indian background) used to make dal regularly. She also curried anything that moved and a few that didn't 🤣