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🇦🇼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.

🇧🇶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.

🇨🇼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.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Venezuelan Empanada

Empanada

Half-moon of maize dough — not wheat — filled with cheese, shredded beef, black beans or shark, and deep-fried until the shell blisters.