12:42 the main difference is, if it's packed with filling and thick it's an empanada if it's medium size and the filling doesn't fill up the pastry itself it's a pastelillo. Empanadas are fully packed on the inside. A lot of people confuse them though. That's def a pastelillo. SN: and unfortunately for both of them it's pretty rare to find a good one because the taste on them vary so much. Even frying it a bit too long can completely change the taste, the way the filling is made can too.
puerto rico has a lawt of issues w how pricy some things are, mostly due to shortages of food and supplies and lack of funding of several things overall over there. it’s a beautiful place, but gets insanely taxed and taken advantage of economically. but damn, 260??? hell naw miss my home island v much, but am very happy you had a great experience in Puerto Rico!!! ❤️🇵🇷
As a Puerto Rican I am also picky where I eat, not everyone , and any restaurant satisfy my taste , so I pick different places to try the food, some cooks are good at bacalaitos, pastelillos, alcapurias, others are good at mofongos, seafood, soups. San Juan is a tourist trap. Next time explore the island. Visit the Cordillera (mountain) country life, Southern part, east of the island, west of the island ask if they cook with local products. Even the eggs taste different. Thank You for visiting and Yes NYC have great puertorican food.
Mofongo can be dry or moist depending on the plaintain being used and how or who makes it. Next time you get a dry mofongo try it with some mayoketchup, might help to moist it up a bit. I like the sweet plaintain mofongo cuz is not dry and and it’s sweet. There’s also mangú which is a Dominican type of mofongo and it’s really moist. There’s also trifongo, which is made with yuca, sweet plaintain and if I am not wrong also the regular dry plaintain that’s used for normal mofongos, so there’s different flavors and textures. Loved seeing a video of you guys enjoying my home and some of our food ❤ Next time you go I recommend trying some plaintain pastelón or piononos! (piononos you usually get at lil places near the beach like the one you got the alcapurria and empanadillas)
I went to Puerto Rico over 20 years ago after my Father from Puerto Rico passed away in Ohio and an Aunt and Uncle I never met flew over here. They went back to Puerto Rico and sent me a round trip ticket. Since this is about food I wanted to share what I had there was the best tasting food I ever had. Eggs were fresh and best tasting eggs I ever had to this day. Chicken meat was prepared most often and best chicken I ever had which I think came straight from a farm. Fruit like an orange was best orange I ever had and first time having guava fruit picked from my Aunt's yard. Puerto Rican rice was delicious. I tried to make it by how I saw it being made after coming back and it was horrible. What they did was delicious. I want to visit again for my relatives but want to share I experienced food being best high quality I ever had.
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Fr home cooked PR food is where it’s at!! I haven’t been since I was a kid, but I miss it. It’s gorgeous af there, glad y’all enjoyed your vacation!! 🇵🇷🤍
For the next visit you need a Puerto Rican to help you choose the best places, Puerto Rico is much more than the metropolitan area, the food there is not the best and it is too expensive.
Ahhhh lets gooo🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 happy to see you enjoy it but ngl whoever recommended you that restaurant is def not from PR cause no puertorican is paying $35 for mofongo or $14 for queso frito(I actually did a double take at the cheese price)
Home cooking is best, we lived next door to my ex husband’s family in Chicago and they’re from PR and Abuelas cooking was the best I’ve ever had I miss that
there’s no better puerto rican food than the food you get from the elders at home. wish i could rent you my wela for a day, she’d really throw down for you
Idk if you remember the five course restaurant at the hotel, but the pastry chef who used to work there recommended La Casita Blanca to me. I still haven't had the chance to go. It looks delicious
Mofongo should never be replaced with yuka/cassava. Plantiain is the fruit that is grown and yuka is a root, totally different. Hence the dryness. I get that you went for the authentic PR experience, but if they literally could not provide that authentic experience you really should have had an entirely different fully authentic dish all together. The waiter should have recommended something else Any way bro, I'm a new subscriber. Loving the content and the editing, keep up the great work. Shout out you and Viv. Much Love ,all the way from Trinidad and Tobago
as a puerto rican, i dont like mofongo either lol. i think a lot of our food thats popular is home cooked meals, we arent known for our fine dining, but home cooked and our street food, thats where its at. puerto rico is also a giant blend of so many cultures so we dont have a lot that stands out as super original
I think yall got unlucky with the empanadas because I've been on that same el yunque forest trip and then to those restaurant booths by the beach after on a group trip and the empanadas we had with guava were SO FKINGGG GOOD like i dream about them sometimes lol Glad you guys had fun though!
It's very funny, and I love how they enjoy the food. The sad part is that maybe out of respect, no one explained that the key to this dish is when everything is combined together. Nothing is eaten separately, but in other cultures, it's probably something strange and even counterintuitive. For next time or for anyone planning to visit the island, that's a tip I give with a lot of respect. Believe me... the essence of Puerto Rican cuisine is in mixing everything on the same plate, as it's prepared with that in mind. Excellent video, I hope you come back. Best regards.
You basically stayed in the metropolitan area / tourist area Miramar where Casita Miramar is in a very pricey area of the Metro area. Puerto Rico isnt cheap. Inflation has scyrocketed prices here (i am local, born and raised still live here 30+years). There are cheaper places but its more cafeteria style spots. I have eaten many times at Casita Miramar but i dont go there looking for a cheap meal. I am friends with their ex-Chef and who was hired to design the menu. They try to source their food to at least 95% local from protein to veg which bumps prices up as well due to scarcity. Casita Miramar & Casita Blanca are sister restaurants. Casita Miramar being the upscale version, Casita Blanca trying to replicate the more being at Moms or Grandmas but still more upscale than a cafeteria spot. You did leave San Juan for the El Yunque trip and stopped at the kiosks at Luquillo which is cool. But yeah our food is heavy fatty greasy and heavily seasoned. We love salty and sweet stuff. Street food is mid almost all fried...other cultures have way better street food. BUT where our food shines is out in the campo, in the mountains like Guavate (just to be stereotipical) and you see LECHONERA culture (pig roasting), morcillas (blood sausages), pasteles, arroz con gandulez, viandas (root veg). we have famous local longaniza. etc etc. Seafood is also king. Like fried fish. Crab stews (Salmorejo or Arroz con Juey). We always tell visitors to leave San Juan and head into the center of the island into the mountains and out North/NorthWest - South West for some of the best beaches. East coast as well...just leave San Juan for a better/truer Boricua experience. and what you called an empanada we call Empanadilla. in cafeterias a lot of get mofongo with a side of caldo (broth) to moisten it up. but mofongo is normally on a drier side as long as its extra garlic-y we good
Eric there is way better Puerto Rican food you can get in New York city. And your right, very dry sometimes restaurant make mofongo dry but not made. At home
Sad you guys had to go to that restaurant. Puerto Rico has sooo many great restaurants all over the island. Not being bias, but Puerto Rican food is so delicious! It's my 2nd fav in the world after Mexican. Italian is 3rd. Btw Mofongo is dry, but they usually give it with a delicious sauce on top or with soup. I'm Puerto Rican and I always eat it soggy, like I get some mofongo in my spoon & then dip it in the hot chicken or fish soup, that's how most of us eat it. But mofongo is so delicious, that you can even eat it dry if you want.
Yesssss Im happy you had a good time on my island! Next time to come back to Puerto Rico please try out my Cousin’s and his wife’s sangria fábrica St.gría. They sell they’re sangria in many supermarkets and liquors on the island but you can visit the factory they make it at in San Juan next to plaza de las Americas.❤
@5:20 I'm sorry to inform you but V went to go find Badbunny aka Bennito. But she saw him with kendal. Which was a distraction for the whole Selena and Hailey thing. So V actually still has a chance. I say u stop everything and just stick to glizzys . Lol. Love ur content!! 💗
I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT YOUR FOOD WAS NOT CHEAP BECAUSE YOU WERE IN SANJUAN IT A TURIST AREA EVERYTHING COST MORE ,NEXT TIME GO TO THE EAST PART OF THE ISLAND OR TO THE WEST PART .OR EVEN TO THE MOUNTAIN TOP OF PUERTORICO,THERE ARE OTHER FOOD THERE AND THE PRICES ARE NOT THAT HIGH.O AND THE MOFONGO ARE A BIT DRIED BUT IN OTHER RESUERANT DEPENDING ON THE CHEF THEY ARE MOIST WITH CHICHEN BROTH,IT DEPENDS ON WHO MAKE IT.
