My three weeks on Aruba flew by and I’m back in the Netherlands. I did my best to do and eat everything I wanted but once back I realize it’s never enough. But I did enjoy and took photos to remember it all.
I wanted to eat mostly seafood there, because Caribbean seafood is not the same as seafood here in west Europe. Getting a lobster dinner was the real challenge; finding a restaurant where it’s nice to eat and also serves quality food. But lets go through the seafood I enjoyed there.
The first week I went to Driftwood restaurant where I had dorado fish with creole sauce. It was superb as they fish their own fish everyday so they only serve catch of the day. Another day I ate for the first time homemade conch stew. I never ate conch before, although when I dinned at Driftwood I had conch fritters but I thought it was something else. In any case the conch stew was real good, conch has the same texture as squid, so it was quite chewy.
Another night my mom and I went to dine at Peanuts, where they serve local food at very good prices. I had the fish balls platter with creole sauce, fried polenta, and a local bread which is called “pan bati”. Although the sauce wasn’t good the fish balls where very tasty.
My uncle invited me over for dinner and he made pan fried red snapper with creole sauce and polenta. The red snapper was extremely good, there wasn’t any leftovers. It was a simple meal but real good.
And then on my last friday we went to Fishes and More where I finally had my lobster meal. I started with a ceasar salad with was like a meal on itself and then I got my lobster, four medium sized lobster tail, pan fried with garlic and served with melted butter with vegetables. It was real good, so good that I now can live with being allergic to shrimp, because fresh lobster just tastes way much better.
I tried to take photos of my meals but sometimes I was so hungry or just wasn’t thinking about photos that I didn’t take one every time.
The first photo is of a conch stew that I found through Google as I didn’t take a photo. This one resembles the one I had most. The second one is the fish ball platter, the third is the simple but finger licking good red snapper that my uncle made. And last the Lobster tails, the photo says it all.
