6 MUST TRY Puerto Rican Dishes. What's a Mofongo? 😋Eating Puerto Rican Food in San Juan
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- In this week’s vlog we head out into San Juan, Puerto Rico to try authentic Puerto Rican food.
First up we head to a more local restaurant called Bebo’s Cafe. Here we try an array of smaller Puerto Rican dishes including:
Bacalaitos
Empanadillas
Tostones
Asopao
Later in the evening we head out again to try a couple of more dishes at a restaurant called Orozco’s. Here we tried to authentic and must try dishes:
Mofongo with chicken
Arroz con Gandules (chicken with pigeon peas)
ABOUT PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island and unincorporated U.S. territory with a landscape of mountains, waterfalls and the El Yunque tropical rainforest. In San Juan, the capital and largest city, the Isla Verde area is known for its hotel strip, beach bars and casinos. Its Old San Juan neighborhood features colorful Spanish colonial buildings and El Morro and La Fortaleza, massive, centuries-old fortresses.
ABOUT SAN JUAN
San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital and largest city, sits on the island's Atlantic coast. Its widest beach fronts the Isla Verde resort strip, known for its bars, nightclubs and casinos. Cobblestoned Old San Juan features colorful Spanish colonial buildings and 16th-century landmarks including El Morro and La Fortaleza, massive fortresses with sweeping ocean views, as well as the Paseo de la Princesa bayside promenade.
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Wow Puerto Rican food is delicious! OMG 😀Don’t forget to hit the 'thumbs up' button if you enjoyed the video and hit SUBSCRIBE ✅ (and that little bell 🔔) to follow along on our travels. Stay Delightful!✌️- Anna & Trevor
the sauce that you tried with the bacalaitos is what we call mayoketchup, the most common ingredients are mayonnaise, ketchup, garlic, vinegar.
Thanks for visiting us. Your vid made me even more proud of my island. Hope you really had a good time. God bless you 😁👍👋👋👋👋👍
The Mofongo is made out some kind green bananas
Love ya'll videos 😁🇵🇷
You need to go back and visit the center of the island!!!
The sauce is mayo, ketchup and garlic
Alexandra Morales, I add a pinch of adobo for an extra kick of flavor.
Squirt of mustard
He said spicy and Puerto rican
@@Ms.takenlee No mustard! Like Alexandra Morales and Luis Aymerich said: Mayo, ketchup, garlic (or adobo, which has powder garlic in it), and if is spicy it most likely has hot tabasco sauce. That's it.
1:57 Also, it is Not meant to be dipped, but some people like something to dip it in, hence the mayo-ketchup, as we call it.
@@76irodriguez so my grandma has been making it wrong for 60+ yrs?
No Cuz everyone has their little variations.
Estoy en México, y aunque digan que la comida mexicana es un patrimonio mundial o la mejor del mundo, para mí nunca se comparara a la comida de mi islita como extraño comerme un buen plato de allá con una malta bien fría!!.
The food in PR is great! But Anna and I are suckers for good Mexican food. It's our fav! 😋 - Trevor
Emily mexican food is very vast depending the area of the country... way to different also of gringos twisted versions.
Bienvenidos a Puerto Rico, nuestra comida es deliciosa
The dip sause is call “Mayoketchup” is mayonnaise and ketchup together with a little of garlic! is very good, most of the people of Puerto Rico eat that with everything! 😅 specially when you have a “Surtido” in your table 🤩
I'll have to look up a Surtido...thanks for watching Carlitoo - Trevor
It used to be called “salsa rosa” (pink sauce) when I was a child. Now it is called mayoketchup. Time is a funny thing...
Arroz con gandules is fabulous with everything... pollo asado, pernil, chuletas. We (puertoricans) don't eat the rice with the pique/ hot sauce but if you like it that way,go for it. Glad you guys like it.
I totally agree. The food in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 is delicious. I’m heading back this Summer... I can’t wait!
So good right? Those mofongos are the best - Trevor
NOTHING LIKE PUERTO RICO FOOD, I MEAN NOTHING, IT'S A COMBINATIONS THE DIFERENTS FLAVORS. LOVE IT!! 🥰
TREVOR! BA- CA- LAI-TOS
BACALAITOS!!
YOU ARE CLOSE!
ANNA, ASO-PAO
ASOPAO!
That's the thing about Puertorican food.
It just hits every tastebud and food sensors .....and all you can say is Wow.
YAAS! The food surprised us honestly. I know we ate a lot of it in this video but we ate even more off camera 😋- Trevor
Hello my favorite travelers!! Yessss... you guys are right. You can't go to Puerto Rico and not have mofongo. Mofongo is always made with green plantain. It is cut in pieces and fried...then mashed and you add crushed garlic, pork rinds (optional). Since mofongo can be dry, it always goes perfect with some type of meat with sauce. It makes the mofongo very moist. Now the stuffed cups that you had at the first restaurant were made of green plantains too. They are made the same way as the mofongo, but shaped in cups as appetizers. We can also use it yucca or breadfruit. The pink sauce used for dipping is Mayoketchup and it's a little spicy because we add crushed fresh garlic. You guys are totally right that we don't like spicy food at once, instead we have the condiments on the side or the homemade hot sauce to add as we eat. This gives the opportunity to people who don't like or tolerate spicy food to enjoy their meal. I was so excited watching this video, because I am taking my family for Christmas and New Years to the island. Keep traveling....I travel through your eyes!!! Hugss!!
Daribella's Journey what an amazing comment! Thank you 😀 and wow such great info on mofongos. The food in PR is so so good. It’s blowing us away! We also can’t believe we’re your favourite travellers! Yay! - Anna
Puerto Rican food...the best!!!!
I literally just told my husband we need to take a trip to PR soon.. lol
I’m sooooo hungry right now!!!! Enjoy!!!
You better show him this video then 😀 sorry for making you hungry 😂 - Trevor
The first restaurant that they went to called Bebo's, in San Juan was my husband's favorite restaurant. We used to eat there often. He died three months ago.
Rebecca Gutierrez we went there the first time we went to PR.. right after the airport.
Condolences
There's a lot to eat we have some good food and it's worth trying most things sadly there's not many Puertorican restaurants in the US so I too would have to go back there to see my family and also eat some good homemade food
SleepyJoonie 022518
In Florida you can find some good ones!!!
wow!!! made my mouth watery watching all that great puerto rican food!!!!
I would love to go to Puerto Rico it’s supposed to be gorgeous and the food looks wonderful 😍 I have a few UA-cam friends that are Puerto Rican and they do mukbangs, one of them made mofongo and it looks tasty. Great video guys
Definitely put it on your travel list Angie 😃It's worth it for the mofongo alone .. so good! - Anna
Great Puerto Rico series!!!!! Really enjoying it
Thanks Yung! We have one more on the way... and we’ll be doing some serious eating again! - Anna
When I go to Puerto Rico the place I enjoy the most it Guavate for traditional Puerto Rican food and atmosphere
Ujuuuu que buen que nos visitaron!! Pero deberían de ir a piñones los bacalaitos y demás frituras son riquísimas!
Gisela Perez maldonado tienes razón y a la Mallorca para q prueben unas mallorquitas boricuas
la comida de piñones no es original de Puerto Rico , los dominicanos q tienen negocio alli no cocinan con recetas originales de Puerto Rico. los dominicanos cocinan con recetas dominicanas alas alcapurrias le hechan de todo . La alcapuria de Puerto Rico es solo de platano .
@@Jasmine_00117 me alegró allás echo tu tarea nadie dijo que lo que se cocina en Piñones es comida típica de Puerto Rico segundo en piñones no solo viven nuestros compatriotas Dominicanos viven gente de loiza y demás pueblos de Puerto Rico por ende hay varías comidas, varios sazones y diferentes FRITURAS por eso indique que son las mejores frituras así como en Fajardo no hablo de que le echan a cada comida si no que sepan que tenemos pueblos aparté de San Juan o lugares que siempre visitan para mi ver que vienen a PR y mas en esté canal que lo ven muchas personas de distintos países así los Puetorriqueños podemos dejar opiniones sobre lugares diferentes para sonas turisticas pero gracias por la información pues así sabran que tienen distintos platos de distintos Paises juntos a la hora de comer frituras o mariscos y demás. O y si van al Puertorriqueño comeran de todo incluyendo las barrigonas en loiza ahí si se cocina rico y de aquí gracias por el dato😉👌 asumo lo sabes por que solo un Puertorriqueño defiende sus platos thanks
I love the abstract American Flag Painting at the 2nd place you guys visited much more than the window painting.
There is mofongo basically from green plantains, but also you can ask for” mofongo de yuca” , mofongo of ripe plantains , it is sweet, and Trifongo that is a mix of green and ripe plantain and yuca.
So good to know. Thanks for the great little tip! - Anna
I had so much fun trying different kinds of Puerto Rican foods while there a few months ago. You guys did a good job 👍 One of my favorite experiences was at Deaverdura in Old San Juan; the wait was really long, but the owner was so sweet and gave me a couple shots of PR rum to apologize. She then brought out my order, which was a large sampler platter full of traditional foods. The only one that didn't go down well was the black sausage, but the rest was oh so good! I wound up buying some of that rum to bring home ♥️
My beautiful Puerto Rico 🇵🇷❤️, the mofongo it’s the best here and the arroz con gandulez uff... so tasty 😋.
I LOVED Orozcos mofongo when I went to San Juan with my Italian American husband. Just like my moms!
Thank you for visiting my beautiful island
I saw the title of your video, so I first ordered a pizza, and now I can watch the video 👌✌🍺🍕
Danny DvD that’s the way to do it right there! Good strategy Danny! 🤣 - Trevor
Loved this video. Makes me a little homesick. When you're in Old San Juan, please try a piragua from the cart. Cherry is the best flavor in my opinion. :)
We’ll keep an eye out for that thanks. We’re so glad you enjoyed the video 😀 - Anna
@@DelightfulTravellers Piragua is like a snow cones but with distinct flavors to choose.
Mofongo made is with green plantains....my fav Boricua dish but with a garlic lime mojito sauce. There's wooden kiosk in Arecibo right next to the entrance of Cueva Ventana they make the best Mofongo hands down- crispy & semi mooshed at the same time.
Great video guys.
Thanks for the tip WJ. We're glad you're enjoying the videos - Anna
@@DelightfulTravellers Yes I am and sharing with friends and fam. Thank you! You guys are really great.
Yummy!! Glad you guys liked it.
I eat Mofongo once a week... Its just so good. I loved your vlog! Greetings from Morovis PR
Oh I wish we could eat it once a week. That's not something we have in our part of Canada. We're so glad you like the vlog. Lots more on the way - Trevor
You vuys are cute. Glad you enjoyed our delicious n tasty food. 🙋Thku for shating
It was soooooo good! - Anna
My new subscriber. God bless you. I like your channel. Omg mofongo unm yummy food delicious 😋. Puerto Rican in the 🏠. House. 🇺🇸 🇵🇷. Saludos desde Fort Lauderdale Florida. 🇵🇷 🇺🇸.🙏🙏🙏❤💕🍷🍹😘
Welcome to the channel! Woohoo... we're glad you're liking it. So much more on the way! - Anna
Cheese Empanadillas - now you re making our mouths water!!!😋 It's great that vlogging encourages you try foods that you may not have tried otherwise👍 Nice😋
Jamesyboy Experiment - Travel Channel we’re always into the local food either way. But when we film a video around local food it pushes us a little further! We love it 😊- Anna
Why am I watching this at 3am? Now I’m hungry...I’ll have to make this tomorrow for dinner.
haha.. sorry about that Maria 😉 - Anna
Some of the most flavorful food you can ever eat. I was raised on these delicious dishes.
To think we're just learning about all these great dishes now! PR is the best - Anna
ANNA AND TREVOR, YOU GUY'S REALLY LEARNING ABOUT PUERTO RICO 🥰🙃
Thanks we're trying 😃
Bebo's is good eating. We always stop in the one near the airport when we arrive. It's ALWAYS so busy that you always get fresh food.
I’m so excited and proud to see that you enjoyed the food of my people 😄🥰
The food in PR was 👌
My favorite is mofongo with garlic shrimp! Yumm❤
Yum.. that sounds delicious
Nice, really enjoyed this video you guys are so sweet and funny but the best part of your video was am I saying it right well yes you did say it right,thanks for sharing this video with us. 😉🤗👏🤚👍✌
So glad we were saying everything correct Migdalia. Thanks for watching! 😃 - Anna
THE SOUP! MY GRANDMA MAKES IT EVERY TIME WE COME TO HER HOUSE :DD
The chicken soup with rice is called 'ASOPAO'. So tasty!
Back in the day, everything was fried in lard making it even more menacingly delicious.
😯 Yum!
saludos desde puerto rico🇵🇷👏😍
My PR 🇵🇷❤ welcome!!
The deep calls mayo-ketchup
El dip* is called *
Mouth is very watery right about now...nothing like our Puerto Rico food the best....buen provecho.
Sorry for making you so hungry ... hehe 😋 - Anna
loved your video, just saying hello from Puerto Rico hope you had a great time
Hello Jovian 😃
Soy de Puerto Rico like si tu tambien
I’m in Puerto Rico in Loiza St now! This is so awesome. Thanks for posting! I’ll say hello if I see ya. (:
Thanks for watching! Hope we didn’t make you too hungry 😋 - Anna
Spicy 🌶? Our food 🥘 is not spicy 🌶 you have to add the spicy 🌶 😆
That's what we said. - Trevor
Glad you liked it, welcome to the club!
You guys are awesome! Great food, great info and great personalities so I loved it ❤️❤️❤️
Awwwee.. thank you 🤗We have a lot more vids coming to get ready - Anna
Delightful Travellers you’re very welcome Anna. Keep up the great work!!!!!!!!!! You both seem like very likable, fun and kind ppl👍🏼
So enjoyed your video . Found a new restaurant I’m wanting to try and you gave me a hint of what to order . Can’t wait looks so good ! Will be watching ❤️
Woohoo.. glad you found us too. Hope the restaurant works out for you - Anna
Saturdays and Sunday people spend the day outside drinking and eating!! the whole island is busy in the weekends!! 🇵🇷🇵🇷👌🏼😂
Ana u don’t know how delicious Puerto Rican food is!!!
I really enjoy your videos. Great content keep it coming
Thanks you! Lots more on the way as well Demetrius - Anna
His reactions are the proper reactions to have lol, 3:41 “mmm...ooh...YEAA” and 6:51”oh yea...mmmm.. oh WOW”, that’s me every time I go back home.
There’s a place in Añasco called Kaplash and they have amazing seafood empanadillas (octopus, conch, shark, different fish, crab, etc.) very tasty. It’s on the side of the road and the sitting area faces the sea.
PR food is amazing! I don't normally get this excited about food. haha. - Trevor
I almost died watching this video. lol. I want all that food !!!!
Haha sorry about that Rebecca 😋 - Anna
If you add the hot sauce to sancocho which is the soup you had in the first restaurant!!! OMG!!! Amazing Favorite time to eat it is on a rainy day and then you take a long nap!! Maybe that’s why you guys went into a food coma hahaha Sancocho is no joke!
I’m so hungry and homesick right now 😫
Good tip! Hot sauce is our fav too. I like the idea of napping afterwards. We almost did that on the day we filmed haha. Thanks for watching 😃- Anna
Puerto Rican food is not spicy like Mexican or Indian food
it is a choice....also when it comes to tourist ...you'll find that they usually offer fried options street food all over the place
and it's very unhealthy but good lol ... we do have healthy cuisine usually sea food options lol ... but also Our Island grows amazing produce really fertile soil ...I think you really have to get into the towns and out of the tourism areas for all places ...to taste it's culture...drive drive around 🌺... Great video guys 💛 I love the positive perspectives you both have your beautiful people
Puerto Rican food is full of flavors!
Love this video! :)
Currently in PR in Carolina/San Juan looking for places to visit and remembered this video. Thanks
Yes! Hope it helps you out. Try Mofongo! - Anna
Go to Fajardo on the east coast and check out the Bio bay, sea food (carrucho), the mini boat to off shore little island of icacos, palominito. Oh, the Bio bay has to be at night because that's when you can see the Mother Nature at its best, it's going to blow your mind only a few around the world like it. If you guys like zip line go to Toro Verde.......wow!! Don't forget El Yunque Rain Forest too.
Thanks Ben.. we'll put all these on the list for our return. We know there is so much more to see of PR - Trevor
Love your videos!! Great content and your charming personality.
Awwweee.. thank you Claudia 😊 - Anna
Wish I could give three thumbs up to this video 😋😋
3 google accounts? 😉 thanks for watching as always Bunts - Trevor
So funny, as a puertorrican listening to them saying: wow wow, the flaaavors, etc. This is what I am talking about 😂😂😁
It was hard not to say things like that 😃 So tasty!
I’m commenting on your first meal. It’s not potatoes it’s plantain first cooked and the it’s fried . Very good!
Guys!!!
I just saw the vid!!! 😂😂😂😂😂 great food. The mixture that you had with the bacalaitos fritters is pretty simple.
Just mix some ketchup and mayonnaise till’ you get a pink’sh or orange’sh color...and BAM! There you have it.
If you want it with a twist you xan add a couple of drops of hot sauce or my favorite...mashed fresh garlic!
Have fun guys and travel save!
Ricky thank you! We've mixed ketchup and mayo in the past and I can tell you there has to be some secret ingredients in there. It's way too good. Lots more on the way! Keep watching - Trevor
Try the mofongo with shrimps it has a different sauce name "salsa criolla" it tastes sooooo good
Sounds good but we don’t eat shrimp 🍤
itzzericv2 I love mofongo with shrimp and that sauce
Omg you walk in front of one of my favorite restaurants in Puerto Rico, Latin Star ⭐️ it’s so amazing and good prices too!
asopao is like a gumbo! so good!
It was delicious! - Anna
Wow! Yummy. ☺👍
You guys are great!
😌thank you
Hi guys. Im puertorican but i live in Michigan. Im on vacations in Puerto Rico and recommend you to drink malta, piña colada and mabí. Amazing puertorican drinks.
Happy you guys enjoyed the Island. Next you go check Guavate for the roast pig, Luquillo Beach ,Piñones.
You HAVE to go to Guavate, Cayey. You’ll find the best pork-and other traditional dishes- there!
It's on our list!
Thank you for trying our food next time you guys should go to Piñones 😍
Looks delicious
EN PUERTO RICO TAMBEIN SE HACEN TOSTONES DE PANA.
IN PUERTO RICO PEOPLE'S ALSO MADE PANAPEN TOSTONES, THAT PROBABLY WHAT YOU GUY'S WAS THINK WAS POTATOES FLAVOR AND TEXTURE.
IT'S ALL GOOD!! 😋
Breadfruit
I am a Puerto Rican American, raised in PR but been here a little longer. And I wanna say I really love to see when my fellow white brothers and sisters show interest and get to know and enjoy our culture. It's a beautiful thing to see, I hope you guys enjoyed the island and definitely the food. And my heart melted when he tried to say "bacalaitos" 🤣🤣 next time you guys go I would recommend to visit Pinones which is an area where they have a strip in front of the beach with lots of local little places that sell fried fritters and foods, so many different ones, and sea food, they are so cheap and so delicious you can eat and drink beer all day and spend little. Also I would recommend to find an old school old fashioned restaurant in the mountains where they cook the old fashioned way on what we call a "fogon" foh-gohn, so the food is basically cooked over a fire how they use to cook in the past, totally delicious and better than anything, you definitely need to try it, but find the right spot.
Thanks! We really loved PR and especially the food. We know we'll be back at some point to visit more of the island - Anna
Thanks for the video love it👌👍 nice couple 😊🙆,She's Beautiful 💘
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The sauce is mayo,ketchup maybe garlic and some people make it with hot sauce.
Knowledge Science ah good to know thanks! 👍
It's something similar it's what USA call fry sauce.
Ik no Puerto Rican puts hot sauce in it
You too are so clueless is awesome😂😂😂😂😂 wish you guys had a good time!!!! 🇵🇷
Thanks? I think... ha - Trevor
Quien a comido un buen fricase de conejo !!!! Los del campo saben lo que hablo 😉
You Guys went to the perfect place to eat. I got all the time there to have lunch. I work in the metro area and this is the place to go. In the 80's down the street to the left there was a pub called Shannon's...I you think you like La Placita you would love this place. It was an Irish pub and I use to get so packed that people were gagging out on the street.
So good to know that we're doing it right Eduardo. That pub sounds like our kind of thing as well. Thanks for watching - Trevor
My mouth is watering. Will be in PR in 3 weeks!
Get ready for all the yummy food 🥘
I used to eat at Bebos I worked there on Loiza st. Mofo go the best!!
Bebos is so good!
Guys get Alcapurrias they are great.
La proxima vez que coman empanadillas. Mejor comprenlo en la calle y no en los restaurantes por que el sabor y la forma como las preparan no es igual 😂❤
We'll keep that in mind. Thanks! - Anna
Am from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
As a big time foodie I was waiting for this video and you did not disappoint. The high definition quality of the new video camera is evident. A major upgrade! Montreal and San Juan are at the top of my list of non-European destinations, and your "foodie" videos from both are major inspirations.
Keep up the great videos. Looking forward to Old San Juan.
We're so glad you are noticing that the new camera is better. We're getting the hang of it now haha... The food in PR is delicious. So so good! - Trevor
Awesome 🇵🇷
Thanks to stop by in our Island Thanks enjoy we are in US missing all that beauty around in some place
Thanks for having us Jayden. We had so much fun in PR - Trevor
Mofongo with lobster is very delicious!!
Now that's something I'll need to try - Trevor
I ate at orosco in the summer of 2018 an the food is delicious. You guys missed mixing the mofongo with mayo ketchup with a little bit of garlic.
Your sauce there is most likely "Mayo-Ketchup," which is just like the name suggests, mayonnaise and ketchup blended together, perhaps with some garlic in there as well.
There's definitely some other spices in there! The thought of ketchup and mayo together is overly appealing to me. ha - Trevor
I don’t know the name of the place but somewhere around the west or southwest there’s a place that serves empanadillas but the dough is corn flour instead of regular flour so it’s much crunchier and thicker.
I truly like this video. Not only do you engage in my culture with showing the sorroundings cost and location name but also attempt to speak the language even if it's food names and titles. I like the way you attempt in recognizing flavors and ingedients. Keep up the great work. Oh btw IMHO hot sauces or sauce in general don't go into our foods becuase of all the natural spices and flavors. It would take away whats great about that dish, that's why it's always on the side. Keepp up the vids.
Venture outside of San Juan to other cities for a complete experience.
We're heading to Ponce next! - Anna
@@DelightfulTravellers In Ponce you need to try the 'quenepas' 😉
The "queso" is mayo-ketchup with garlic
The Dipping sauce is a Mayo-ketchup combo. You can ask Puertoricans are united states citizens and many know Inglish.
Actually, the tostones can be seen at 4:07, right beyond Anna's hand on another plate. Tostones are, indeed, fried green plantain slices that have been flattened after frying. What you were trying was more than likely a chicken fricasee.