Puerto Rican Food

For the most part, I wasn't a huge fan of Puerto Rican food. A lot of the stuff we ate were deep fried. After the first couple of days, I was just craving vegetables and something healthy! I'm telling ya, I won't be eating sweet plantains for a long while! While I can't say that I love Puerto Rican food, I did eat some things that were pretty darn good.

We ate at a restaurant along the "Santana Row" of Vieques (island east of the main island of Puerto Rico) called Mucho Gusto. One dish worth mentioning is their Puerto Rican shrimp gumbo. A little spicy and a lot yummy. Unfortunately, we went back a couple of days later for the same thing, but it didn't have the same kick.


The best thing I had during my trip is definitely the coconut flan. Oh dear mother of god. What a slice of heaven... The flan was light and not too sweet. Pieces of fresh young coconut were used. On top of the flan was a layer of condensed milk, and piled on top a gargantuan dollop of whipped cream sprinkled with cinnamon. I get chills all over my body just thinking about it. Was that a small orgasm?


Since Vieques has to import everything from the main island, it's pretty common to run out of things. I believe every single restaurant we went to, the server had to tell us what they didn't have on the menu. The funniest and most surprising was when we went to a ceviche bar but they didn't have any ceviche. That was a major disappointment!!