Indian food with a Jamaican twist

Jewel of India, which is located next to East in the fancy food court in the Market Place, is one of the best Indian restaurants that I have been to in my life (note: I have never been to India). Their food is savory and has rich complex tastes. I especially like their mutton curry, which is always made very tender. This time, however, I was with a person who doesn't eat meat, and we ordered seafood.

I couldn't manage to fit the dishes in the camera frame very well because of darkness, but from the top, vegetable bullets (695JMD), shrimp angarry (1645JMD), Madras fish curry (1235JMD), and garlic nan (275JMD). I normally prefer grilled fish over cooked fish, but I was impressed with the fish curry. It wasn't spicy at all but very tasty, and the meat of the snapper - if you order a fish in Jamaica, it is always a snapper - was so soft and juicy at the same time. The shrimp curry was also very good. The sauce was mildly spicy and velvety, and the shimps were crisp. The appetizer vegetable bullets are supposedly their original. The separate sauce is a clear liquid type. It is vinegary and has cilantro in it.

Indian people began settling in Jamaica around the same time as Chinese people came, in the mid-19th century. As in the case of Chinese people, Indian people first came as indentured labourers. To know more about how Indian people came to Jamaica then, see Out Of Many Cultures: The People Who Came - The Arrival Of The Indians from the Pieces of the Past series of the Gleaner.