Nicaragua

I loved tostados, which were platanos, plantains that were smashed and then fried. I also loved the fruit there. All the tropical fruit was really good. I enjoyed eating all the fruit, and when they would make shakes and different smoothies with the fruit, it was my favorite thing. I also liked, I had shark once, and that was very good, but it's very rare. So if you can find shark, I would definitely recommend trying it.

My favorite food from was from Nicaragua was their gallo pinto and so it was they would give me gallo pinto which is rice and beans um cooked with oil they would give me uh eggs but they would fry the eggs and then with this cheese and um some beans it was simple and it was fast and it was I don't know I really like um it really filled me up and I really liked the taste so that was my favorite food and um also the um these anything these things they call enchiladas the ones from Nicaragua are really delicious too.

They do have some really good dishes. My favorite one is frittanga, so that's basically it's like a steak. It comes with plantain chips, which are really good, and then gallo pinto, which is like rice and beans. But you can just get it on the street. It's like a nighttime food. It's super good and it's cheap too. It's like five bucks or even cheaper than that.

I think when asked what my favorite food is, I'd have to probably say just the generic gallo pinto. It's rice and beans specially made together with a special kind of oil that they use, and it's just always tasty. Whatever else they put in it. My favorite drink has to be la pitaya. La pitaya, it's in English, I think it would be dragon fruit. It's my favorite. It is so good. Mixed with sugar, of course. They have lots of different types of chicken, but it's all very basic. It's all very basic food, so I was very excited. I was able to find all types of food like burgers and even sushi and steaks. The only thing I never found that a lot of people find curious is Mexican food, but as to my favorite food, it'd have to probably be the beans and rice mixed with what would be essentially sour cream.

It's like their typical meal. It's gallo pinto, which is like rice and beans mixed together, but it's so good. That sounds so plain, but it's delicious the way that they cook it. And then they fry cheese and it's so yummy. I love it. I miss it so much. And then they also fry plantains when they're like ripe. And so it's like this super sweet, greasy thing of deliciousness. Oh, what else? They had so many good foods there. I just loved it. They also have arroz a la Valenciana, which is something that they do for birthdays a lot. And it's just like rice with just everything mixed in. They mix in hot dogs and peppers and ketchup and spices and tons of vegetables. And it sounds gross, but it's so good.

Your gallo pinto, that was pretty much like, that was standard, you know. But there was also stuff where it wasn't so standard. You had your carne asada and that was different from like a Mexican carne asada. It was really good. It was an awesome steak. My favorite food though would have to be the naca tamal. Naca tamales were awesome. They were delicious. They were usually prepared at holiday time. They were these tamales that just ate like a meal. I absolutely loved, loved, loved naca tamales. Crazy thing though, they had bones in them, some of them. So, you had to be careful. But otherwise, naca tamales were my absolute favorite.

There's a really awesome drink in Nicaragua, it's called fresco de cacao and it is based with like chocolate milk but like way better and it's like a seed, it's a cacao seed that they mix with some sort of milk and it's really good. I highly recommend it and they also have fried cheese that is addicting and they sell it everywhere so definitely try that out when you're in Nicaragua.

My favorite food from Nicaragua is gallo pinto. It sounds really fancy, but actually it's just rice and beans mixed together. So they fry rice and then they fry some red beans and then they mix them together and they almost toast it on the oven. They put onions, they put pepper, they put a few other things to give it flavor and it's really good. It became a staple of my food in Nicaragua. I would eat it almost every day. It became my comfort food and I still have cravings for it because it was just something so good. Another thing I loved was pinolillo. Pinolillo is the classic drink in Nicaragua and the first time I tried it I thought it tasted like dirt because it's literally just a bunch of powder and water, but it's really good. It has like a cacao flavoring almost and that's just kind of the typical thing, gallo pinto with pinolillo.

I loved chalupas, which was like a fried flat tortilla, and it had chicken, it had beans, lettuce, if you want a tomato on it, and they put the the cheese from Nicaragua there. It was so good, I wish I could have it right now. My second favorite food that I want to mention is called a manuelito. It's kind of like a crepe, but different. It's like a flat breaded crepe-like thing. They put cheese in it. I usually got mine without the cheese, but it had this like cinnamon flavor to it. I don't even know. There was no cinnamon in it, I don't think, so I don't know where that flavor came from, but it was so good. I could eat those any day of the week, let me tell you.

They have these little stands out in the streets and they basically sell fried foods. They sell different types of fried foods, they sell like tacos which is basically like taquitos, they usually put like chicken or they put pork in it or beef and they usually put like some ketchup, some cream and they put some like chili sauce and some slaw on it and they have like enchiladas which is basically like it's like a sandwich where they put like chicken and rice and carrots and celery and things like that and they put like the slaw and they put the chili sauce on it and they also have like deep fried plantain chips and they usually put like fried cheese in it and they put like the slaw and the chili sauce on it and they also have like ajo pinto. So avena, it's an oats drink and usually when they make the oats drink they either put it with water or put it with milk but the best avena is when they have it with milk. The oats are usually in the bottom of the drink, you have to like mix it up to drink it all.

One of my favorite foods in Nicaragua is gallo pinto. So it's this mix of rice and beans and they cook it all together and then they'll give you um these like fried bananas on the side and they'll put this cream on top of the rice and beans and it is so so good. Like everything you'll eat involves rice just there's so much rice just accept it it's just rice every meal but gallo pinto is like so good and at the beginning you're just like what's the big deal it's just rice but then you eat it so much that you start craving it and it's so good and now that I'm home I wish that I'd learn how to make it just like they did because it's so delicious. Jamaica it is the best drink I'm a huge lemonade drinker and so it's kind of like lemonade but it is so good and they have it everywhere they even have it at McDonald's there and it is just the best drink ever it's so refreshing because it's so hot there it's the best thing to drink to cool down other than water but if you need a little flavor it's so great