Trinidad and Tobago fare was brought from different cultures by the wide variety of immigrants over the centuries. So you will find strong African and Indian influences, with a good dollop of Spanish, French, Syrian, English, Chinese and American traditions alongside.

Hope to try local dishes calaloo, buljol, pastelles, roti, shark and bake, flying fish, crab and dumplin, corn soup, breadfruit, and fried plantain, but not all at once.

Local fruit is great, with a large choice of mangoes (don't eat too many), watermelon, pawpaw (papaya), pineapples, custard apples, passion fruit, guava (try guava cheese), soursop, sweetsop, sapadilla, chenet, carambola (star fruit), citrus, avocado and many more too numerous to mention. Stop at a roadside stall and see what you can find