Fiesta Food

A hearty side dish that consists of potatoes, eggs, vegetables, and mayonnaise.

Fresh seafood that is sliced and eaten with a soy sauce and spicy Japanese horseradish (wasabi) dipping sauce.

An appetizer that consists of shrimp and vegetables; it is deep fried and very similar to a corn fritter.

A dessert made of vanilla custard sprinkled with cinnamon with a sponge cake base.

A whole pig slowly spit-roasted over a fire.  Basting yields crispy skin and moist meat.

Chopped chicken, meat, or seafood prepared with lemon juice.

Pacific ocean fish, grilled over a barbecue pit.

Fritada, from the Spanish verb “fritar”, means fried dish. In Guam, fritada is more a blood stew than a fried dish and is made up of chopped up internal organs of pigs, cattle, or deer cooked in fat and blood with onions, vinegar and spices.

A method of boiling starchy foods such as tubers, plantains or breadfruit, in the cream produced by squeezing grated fresh, ripe coconut with water to make “lechen niyok”, or coconut cream.

A sweet mixture of various fruits in a thick sweet cream.