The Jamaican-and-Chinese pairing makes culinary sense, because most of the Jamaican food is spicy, and almost all of the Chinese is mild.

Very basic but very good Jamaican food served through the kitchen window, with garden gazebos to sit and eat in.

Jamaican food plus almost everything else, including pizzas, any time of day.

"Basically," Mr. Josephs said, "it is typical Jamaican food, but while Jamaicans generally use a good deal of salt, Rastafarians avoid salt completely."

We bring cooks but when I smell Jamaican food here, it is not the same.

"Chinese food and Jamaican food are tight-tight," said Monica Lambert, a customer who was eating the dish.

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Brawta, named for the Jamaican patois for "something extra," offers top-flight Jamaican food in a colorful room.

But the city's best Jamaican food is concentrated in Brooklyn, along Flatbush, Nostrand and Utica Avenues.

If we hadn't liked Jamaican food she would have made us something else.