Late-Night Lime · Cumin Pork Bites
Geera Pork (Cumin-Crusted Pork)
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The name comes directly from the Hindi/Bhojpuri word for cumin, "jeera," reflecting the dish's roots among Trinidad's Indian-indentured laborer communities.
Cubes of pork or chicken are dry-fried with heaps of toasted, ground cumin, garlic, and pepper until dark and intensely aromatic, served in small cups as a bar snack along Ariapita Avenue.
Why it's made this way: Port of Spain's Ariapita Avenue "lime" (late-night hangout) culture turned this fiery cumin-crusted meat into the city's defining after-hours street bite.
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