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The organisation runs a weekly community meal on Tuesday for about 60 adults and Mr Price said attendees will see beef and oxtail soup become part of the menu.

And the prevailing wisdom counsels late night oxtail soup at the California Hotel, an off-Strip spot catering to Hawaiians, who are so populous in the city that they call it the Ninth Island.

Home to many people originally from Jamaica, Bermuda, Trinidad and Tobego and other West Indies communities, local dishes include jerk chicken, oxtail and rice and beans made with coconut and cacao.

When they added a Haitian food truck, people drove from an hour away for freshly cooked oxtail, fried plantains and marinated pork.

There was the customer in his late 70s who for years packed his cart with ingredients to make his wife’s favorite dishes, including short ribs, oxtails and mac and cheese.