Living on a Sailboat exploring the world
The Puerto Ricans know how to eat! We have been exploring this island and enjoying the wide variety of food and drink on offer here. Another in my series of travel food guides, here are some of our favorites so you know what you should eat in Puerto Rico.
If this isn’t the national dish of Puerto Rico, it should be. Mofongo is on almost every menu and there are so many varieties of it, it’s like the Puerto Rican version of poutine.
In our few weeks in the friendly and wild Dominican Republic, we had a lot of good meals. Here’s some of the highlights of the food and drink of Dominican Republic.
The rum in the Dominican Republic is plentiful and inexpensive. The main local brand is Brugal and it’s fine. The base rum is less than $10, and there are a few varieties. But we were introduced to something we like better in Luperón. It’s called Columbus – his name is all over the place here since he claimed to “discover” the island – and it’s delicious.
Columbus rum is smooth and good for sipping. And the bottles we bought in Luperon cost $275 pesos, about $6 US so its good for mixing too.
The rum drinks here varied: my favorite so far has been the piña coladas served in pineapples. One at a time though, of course.
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It’s not far from the states, and there are a lot of Canadians and Americans here, so the food and drink in the Bahamas isn’t very different from home. As long as you are willing to pay, you can get almost everything you want in the shops and restaurants.
The national food of Bahamas is conch for good reason! The shellfish is so plentiful here and they make some delicious dishes with it.
Here is my ranking of the conch dishes in Bahamas:
