Bonaire

🇦🇼Aruba

Aruban Cornmeal Pancake

Pan Bati

Pan bati is a soft, thin Aruban cornmeal pancake made with flour and sugar on a flat griddle, eaten sweet at breakfast or savory with soups and sauces.

🇦🇼Aruba

Aruban Fried Empanada

Pastechi

A traditional Aruban breakfast and snack: a deep-fried crescent pastry filled with cheese, chicken, beef, tuna, or vegetables, seasoned with onion, green pepper, celery, raisins, cumin, nutmeg, and hot pepper.

🇦🇼Aruba

Aruban Fried Fish

Pisca Hasa

Pisca hasa is fish fried until crisp and served with creole sauce; Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire each have named island forms, including Piska Korá and Bonaire Piska Hasá.

🇦🇼Aruba

Balchi di Carni

Balchi Carni

Balchi di carni; Aruban meat balls; a traditional snack and side dish; deep-fried; a feature of roadside snack-bars; a staple of Aruban street food

🇦🇼Aruba

Banana Hasa

Banana hasa (fried plantain); a popular Aruban side dish; plantains fried as a sweet accompaniment; never eaten raw; served with stews, fish, and meat dishes; a staple of Aruban cuisine.

🇧🇷Brazil

Batida

Batida di Coco

A blended cachaça cocktail shaken with fruit such as coconut, passion fruit or lemon plus sugar and ice, Brazil's casual bar classic.

🇦🇼Aruba

Beef Stew

Carni Stoba

Carni stoba; a classic Aruban beef stew; beef slow-cooked with potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, and chili peppers in a tomato-based gravy; a staple of Aruban cuisine; served with funchi or pan bati; requires 2-3 hours of braising; a hearty, comforting dish; a feature of everyday Aruban meals.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Bitter Balls

Bitterballen

Small round version of kroket made with beef or veal ragout, popular bar snack served with mustard, traditionally with liquors.

🇨🇼Curaçao

Black Cake

Bolo Pretu

Bolo pretu (black cake); a traditional Curaçaoan festive cake; a rich, dark fruitcake; a feature of celebrations and special occasions; a reflection of Dutch and Caribbean influences

🇦🇼Aruba

Black-Eyed Pea Fritters

Cala

Cala; black-eyed pea fritters; beans soaked overnight in water, peeled, ground, and fried in ball shapes; a popular Aruban snack; a feature of roadside snack-bars; a staple of Aruban street food

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Baka Stobá

Stoba di Baka

Beef stew with an Antillean twist; made with beef cubes, vegetables, and spices in a hearty sauce; often served with rice or tutu (funchi with black beans and brown sugar)

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Black-Eyed Bean Stew

Stoba di Boonchi Wowo Pretu

A vegan stew made with black-eyed peas (zwarte oogbonen), onions, celery, garlic, tomatoes, cumin, coriander, paprika, cinnamon, and basil; served with rice and crispy bread cubes; a traditional Bonairean dish

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Blond Beer

Bonaire Blond

Bonaire Blond is a branded blonde ale associated with Bonaire Blond Brewery in Kralendijk, made with locally harvested aloe vera flowers and brewed with a Netherlands partner.

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Funchi Hasá

Funchi Hasa

A fried version of funchi; thick cornmeal pudding sliced and fried until golden and crispy on the outside

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Kabritu Stobá

Stoba di Kabritu

Bonaire's national dish and food; slow-cooked goat meat simmered for hours with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, local herbs (yerba di hole, oregano, thyme), lime juice, and spices; meat falls off the bone with rich savory flavor; traditionally served with funchi and bana hasa

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Li Ice Cream

Li

A typical local ice cream that is a cross between water ice and ice cream; made in different flavors including peanut butter, pistachio, pineapple, and fruit mix; sold at Toko's or by locals from home

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Mispel

Mispel

Mispel is a small brown local fruit found on Bonaire and eaten as a seasonal island specialty.

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Palito

Palito

A cousin of pastechi and a popular Bonairean breakfast or snack; same batter as pastechi wrapped around hotdogs or cocktail sausages, then fried; compared to a corn dog but with pastechi batter; a Bonairean street food

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Pan Bati

Pan Bati

A savory pancake made from cornmeal, thicker than Dutch pancakes with a slightly sweet taste from added sugar; traditionally made from leftover funchi; can be eaten with jam or butter for breakfast or with savory stews; means 'smash bread' in Papiamentu

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Pastechi

Pastechi

Bonaire's street food; crescent-shaped deep-fried dough with a sweet hint; fillings include cheese (traditionally Edam), chicken, fish (tuna, red snapper, mahi-mahi), beef, and vegetables; dough lighter than empanadas; sold at early morning stands along Kralendijk boulevard; a Bonairean tradition.

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Pika Siboyo

Siboyo den Pika

A classic Bonairean condiment of pickled onions and chili in a spiced, salted, sweetened vinegar base; literally 'onions in hot sauce'; made with onions, Scotch bonnet or Madame Jeanette, salt, sugar, pimento seeds, and vinegar; adds a burst of flavor and heat to any meat or stew

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Sea Salt

Saliña di Bonaire

Sea salt harvested from Bonaire's historic salinas, where salt pans remain a defining landscape and part of the island's working heritage.

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Stoba di Karko

Karko Stobá

A traditional Bonairean stew made with conch (karko), vegetables, and spices; conch is tenderized before cooking

🇧🇶Bonaire

Cadushy of Bonaire Liqueur

Cadushy

Cadushy of Bonaire Liqueur is a 20% bottled spirit made from kadushi cactus and lime at Bonaire's Cadushy Distillery, marketed as a taste of the island.

🇧🇶Bonaire

Captain Don's Whisky

Captain Don's Whisky is a single-barrel whisky aged and bottled by Bonaire's Cadushy Distillery, named for diver Captain Don Stewart and sold as a Bonaire product.

🇦🇼Aruba

Cheese Balls

Bolita di Keshi

Bolita di keshi are crisp fried balls of grated Gouda or Edam bound with flour and egg, a cheese-forward snack sold at Aruban bakeries and roadside snack-bars.

🇦🇼Aruba

Chicken Stew

Galina Stoba

Galina stoba; a traditional Aruban chicken stew; chicken slow-cooked with potatoes, onions, garlic, tomatoes, and spices; a staple of Aruban cuisine; served with white rice and beans (arroz moro) or funchi; a hearty, comforting dish; a feature of everyday Aruban meals

🇦🇼Aruba

Christmas Tamale

Ayaca

Ayaca; a Christmas staple in Aruba with as many recipes as families; cornmeal dough spread on banana or plantain leaves; filled with chicken, pork, prunes, raisins, olives, cashew nuts, ham, and piccalilli; folded in leaves, tied with string, and boiled for an hour; families come together to prepare it listening to Christmas music

🇨🇼Curaçao

Coconut Cake

Bol di Coco

Bol di coco; a traditional Curaçaoan coconut cake; a sweet delight of Krioyo cuisine; made with fresh coconut; a feature of celebrations and gatherings; a reflection of the island's tropical ingredients

🇦🇼Aruba

Conch Stew

Calco Stoba

Calco stoba; a traditional Aruban conch stew; conch meat simmered with onions, green peppers, tomatoes, hot peppers, and white-wine vinegar stock; conch is a shellfish like an oyster with firm, white meat; a popular local seafood dish; a staple of Aruban cuisine; a feature of coastal dining.

🇦🇼Aruba

Cornmeal Polenta

Funchi

Funchi; a cornmeal polenta-like side dish; one of the three core ingredients of Aruban cuisine; served with nearly every stew; a legacy of indigenous Arawak corn cultivation; a gluten-free corn-based side; designed to balance strong stew flavors

🇦🇼Aruba

Cornmeal with Black Beans

Tutu

Tutu; a cornmeal and mashed black-eyed pea side dish; a gluten-free corn-based side; beans and sugar cooked into funchi; a staple of Aruban cuisine; served with stews to balance strong flavors; appears at traditional meals

🇳🇱Netherlands

Croquette

Kroket

A Dutch breadcrumbed ragout croquette, served alone or in a soft roll with mustard.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Dutch Advocaat

Advocaat

Creamy Dutch liqueur made from egg yolks, sugar, brandy, vanilla, and cream, smooth custard-like consistency with 14-20% alcohol.

🇳🇱North Holland, Netherlands

Edam Cheese

Edammer kaas

Semi-hard cheese with mild sweet to piquant flavor depending on maturity, spherical shape with red wax coating, PGI status.

🇨🇼Curaçao

Empana

Empana; a traditional Curaçaoan stuffed pastry; filled with cheese, meat, fish, or chicken; a popular snack and street food; a feature of roadside snack-bars and bakeries; a staple of Curaçaoan cuisine; a grab-and-go treat; similar to pastechi but with its own distinct preparation.