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The dinner is a group effort, and while some stay in the kitchen cooking sides like rice and yuca, others are outside roasting the pig, which was seasoned days in advance, in a caja china, a roasting box used to bury a whole pig in coals.—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025 The Jamaican restaurant is known for dishes like jerk tofu, yuca fries, conch fritters, and Key lime pie, among other crowd favorites.—Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2025 The menu includes main courses like lobster and mussel sancocho (a stew); beef loin con pan and turbot Encendido, served with sides like yuca cremoso with rosemary tostones, sazon spinach and green peas and rice.—Miami Herald, 14 Nov. 2025 Raw chicken stored above ready-to-eat yuca fries.—Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for yuca