Category: Featured Recipes

So today here we are, comparing two flatbreads that confuses almost everyone the first time they hear about them, they are buss up vs roti. And I get why people mix them up. Buss up shut is a TYPE of roti, not some other food category for its own shelf space. I made this mistake the first time I ordered from a Trinidadian and asked for “buss up” like it was something different from roti. The guy behind the counter smiled and said, “That IS roti.” And there I learned that it is the same. Since then I’ve eaten more

I get this doubt many times when people are confused between fry bread vs sopapilla. Because they think they are almost the same but No. And let me tell you, I used to think the same thing before I ate both, side by side. Both are fried dough, puff up and golden and look like they rolled out of the same kitchen. But when you take a bite in, the story changes fast. Fry bread comes from Native America, it is flat, dense, chewy, built to hold up a taco. Sopapilla comes from New Mexico’s Spanish and Indigenous. It is