Run down

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Synthesised from Google · Yelp · Reddit · 3 food blogs · Updated August 2026

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Run down is a Jamaican stew that lives in the space between soup and sustenance—coconut milk reduced down to silky richness, studded with whatever the sea offers (mackerel, salt cod, red snapper, crabs) alongside earthy plantain and yam. It's a breakfast dish that tastes like it knows the ocean, served with dumplings or baked breadfruit on the side. The name itself hints at the method: everything simmered until the flavors collapse into each other, creating something greater than its parts.

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Run down, also referred to as rundown, run dun, rondón, fling-me-far, and fling mi for, is a stew dish in Jamaican cuisine and Tobago cuisine. The traditional Jamaican dish is eaten in several Latin American countries that share a coast with the Caribbean Sea. It consists of a soup made up of reduced coconut milk, with different types of seafood (fish, crabs, small lobsters or shellfish), plantain, yam, tomato, onion, and seasonings. Mackerel and salted mackerel are often used in the dish. Other fish are also used, including locally caught fish, cod, salt cod, shad, other oily fish, red snapper, swordfish, pickled fish, bull pizzle, and cassava. Traditionally, the dish is served with side dishes of dumplings or baked breadfruit. Run down is typically available in Jamaican restaurants, and is also a traditional Jamaican breakfast dish. It is a common dish in the Antilles, insular Colombia, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Venezuela, also.

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