/ck/ - Food & Cooking

The portions were absurdly huge and a lot of food goes to waste.

>>14893031
Really shitty. I remember buying a hot dog and even the mustard looked fake

t. Norwegian where even the cheap mustard is good

>>14893031
>hey yurop: what do you hate about americans... I mean, AMERICAN FOOD haha: the thread
Get your shitty /int/ thread out of here, fag

>>14893167
Imagine being this insecure and defensive about being a mutilated mutt

>>14893095
Eh, yeah, the processed low-end stuff is no good. The neon yellow stuff. You want spicy brown from a Jewish deli.
>>14893081
Absolutely this. Portion sizes are enormous, but it's partially because we tend to eat things without a side of bread or a preceding salad. The wastage is regrettable, but in our defense, wouldn't you rather leave with a little food left on your plate than leave a little hungry?
>>14893167
(Pic)

>>14893167
>trpfaggotrynwith nazi shit
Didn't read lol. Neck yourself.

>>14893174
I prefer to leave content, not full, not hungry. And then pick up something on the way if it's really necessary.

>>14893031
During grocery shopping I was shocked with the crap adults were buying. Full carts with no food but only sugary shit. Went to McD a few times and was surprised how good it was, taste better than in my country.

As a Bong that has visited multiple times and eaten in some of Americas finest restaurants, American food is worse than dog shit.
Its dog shit that has been eaten and then regurgitated multiple times, forming a toxic paste of concentrated shit and bile.
The only thing worse than American food is American people.

>>14893031
Lived in the midwest for a year, it wasn't great. The highpoints were probably the fast food restaurants (five guys especially) and the wild game around hunting season. In other places the result was similar, New York had nice thin crust pizza and some good higher end spots but they are of course overpriced. BBQ was good.

>>14893031
bread is disgustingly sweet, got food poising every time i've been, severs are annoyingly faux polite, chocolate hideous, good cocktails though.

>>14893031
Everything is sweet. Like sweets are ungodly sweet and regular things are normal sweet.
Also giant portions. Quantity over quality.
The worst part was bread - unless you went to some homebakery you are better of eating cardboard with sugar.

>>14893328
Did you bother checking the sugar content of the bread you eat? I go to three different supermarkets, and all of them have bread with no sugar available. Supermarket bakery baguettes generally have no sugar.

>>14893031
Everything tastes more sugary and fake. The fast food tastes better.

>>14893031
I didn't stay with family in the US because I don't really have any. I have lots of family in Canada though, and despite what you think you're all the same. Their cooking was grim, let's leave it at that. In New York, the only good food was bagels. Delis and those gasoline-powered food stalls were fucking disgusting. It's mostly a story of taking perfectly good meat/cheese and putting it in a shit-tier bread before drowning it in some monstrous sauce made from blue cheese, bbq, sugar, fake mustard and whatnot. I don't fucking get it. My theory is american taste buds are completely shot due to something in their diet or water. All the chocolate was shit as well. The only american snack I can stomach is cheetos flamin hot. I was able to get a great meal at an Ethiopian restaurant in Washington though, and aside from the bagels, there were a few good ramen spots in New York.

>>14893403
>those gasoline powered food trucks were fucking disgusting
You mean the street food the construction workers and janitors eat on lunch break? Lmao tourists really are retarded, go to an actual restaurant.

>>14893436
>go to an actual restaurant.

Genuinely quite difficult to find one, as the reviewers seem to either be shilling or have american tastes, which differ vastly from us foreigners visiting. That and there seems to be billions of shit tier chains masquerading as real food. You only know if you know.

>>14893031
I enjoyed the Cheesecake Factory. The rest I can't even remember except getting food poisoning from the Boston food market.

>>14893187
>I prefer to pay more money if they didn't give me enough food for my dime
This is why portions are big, americans care more about the deal than Euros

>>14893458
>he can't tell chains from local restaurants
>he can't find good restaurants in a city of 11 million people
I think it's just you, retard

>>14893460
Faneuil hall or whatever? That place is a ridiculous tourist trap, that's what you get for falling for it. Unless you mean, like, the actual chain restaurant Boston Market

>>14893473
I'm insinuating that the vast majority of your food is shit, and it's difficult to find the needle in the haystack, or the diamond in the steaming pile of shit.

>>14893436
I did go to a few hyped restaurants but they were all terribly overpriced for the quality of food they served, plus the food was about 10 years behind the curve of European bib gourmands. You only have so many meals on a 2 week city visit, so we wanted to try out local stuff. By the second week we only ate bagels and japanese food. My gf nearly threw up eating at a pizza place recommended by our Airbnb host.

>>14893199
Surprising, I'm American and I hate McD. Adults here shop like children because they either get raised on that shit and can't tolerate real food or are poor/cant cook and therefore choose to eat like that.

>>14893187
Speaking as an American, the thought is that you shouldn't ever have to go to another restaurant after the one you ate at.

>>14893476
Google, troglodyte. Do they not rate restaurants where you're from?
>>14893477
>my gf nearly threw up
You're just a weak race

>>14893297
Imagine being from Bongland and truly believing that. Enjoy your kebab and roastbeef and pretending like it is the finest cuisine on Earth salty Bong, I'm going to enjoy delicious food.

>>14893475
>Faneuil hall
Yeah that place. I was hungry and paid for it.

>>14893489
>>14893458
>>14893458

>, as the reviewers seem to either be shilling or have american tastes, which differ vastly from us foreigners visiting

English, do you speak it?

Visit quite a lot because my Uncle is married to an American. Because I stay with them it's mostly just eating normal food I guess. Food's a lot cheaper though and the choice you get in fast food is much better than in Britain. Free refills on fountain drinks as standard is pretty neat too.
Also the Publix deli is great.

>>14893403
>I ate at shitty delis, food stands, and stayed in Canada for a time and the food was shit
Yes, Canadian food quality is usually a lot lower than American food. In NY, do not eat like you would in Europe by going to shithole places and food stands. In America the places that would normally be tourist traps in Europe are actually the nice places people would eat at, while hole in the walls are usually hole in the walls run by bad cooks, especially in places like NY where property prices are so high only truly nice restaurants can be in nice places.NY has some of the best food in the country, you just have to eat like an American would, not a Euro. Go to a restaurant, like the Ethiopian one, and sit down for a meal, and DO NOT just stop at a food stand and wonder why its shit. Good restaurants in this country get land, bad ones get food stalls.

Even the "healthiest" food was incredibly unhealthy. Salads don't need 1500g of sodium. I ordered a medium rare steak and it was so salty I couldn't eat it because I was gagging too much

>>14893458
Well, there you go, try to eat american while visiting instead of trying to avoid it, maybe you'll find something good

>>14893460
Boston Market is a chain which is usually regarded as being worse than even Subway

>>14893526
>try to eat american
i did
>find something good
i didn't

>>14893514
>Also the Publix deli is great.
You're goddamn right, bongbro.

>>14893533
What part of the US did you visit?

>>14893031
Stayed with friends, and also traveled around. Food was great and I would consider it a must for food oriented travel. I was surprised how different food in each state is, in Australia every state has the same food. Fast food was over rated but had a huge variety, your maccas is shit and 5 guys was ok but a letdown. I think your fine dining is good but not the best, I ate at french laundry and 11 madison park. Normal restaurant food is great, I really liked philly cheese steak and gumbo in New Orleans, and diners were super comfy, I wish diners were the export all over the world instead of maccas. Your coffee sucked and was the only thing i missed from home. Texas BBQ was also top tier.

It feels like all american cuisine is designed for kids, the hot dogs, the burgers, the mac and cheez, the bright coloured sauces, the steaks the size of your head, the sugar in absolutely everything, the sodas, the sloppa pizza, the faux italian dishes with extra sides of carbs and imitation cream. It lacks any sort of finesse.

>>14893539
Based Floridabro

>>14893543
Florida
Georgia
New York
LA

>>14893544
also I liked chicago za, but ny za was better.

>>14893544
Finally, someone who isn't british and shitting on the food because it didn't have enough curry sauce

>>14893553
Only 2 of those places have good food. Try visiting Louisiana, Texas, Chicago, and getting gumbo, bbq, and pizza

>>14893560
>Asks for opinions
>Seethes when he doesn't get 100% praise

>>14893567
Never asked for opinions, seems like you are the one seething for being called out for having shitty bongland taste

>>14893567
he liked my opinion and I didn't give 100% praise.

>>14893530
Never heard of it, but I meant Faneuil hall near the aquarium as the other anon pointed out.

>>14893031
I lived in the southern RGV for like 2 years and one of the best things there was the food, they had both tex-mex and regular american food. I wanted to try taco bell out of curiosity but never got the chance. Also fast food portions were very generous. Would go back there just for the food ngl.

>>14893081
I thought ROK was far more wasteful than us desu

>>14893031
Been to the states a few times, specifically the Bay Area in California. Always stayed at hotels.

I did love the variety of food available there. Prices were pretty good, even considering the high cost of living in the area. I thoroughly enjoyed the large variety of ethnic food. Went to Indian food places chock full of indians, korean places full of koreans, and so forth. I'm pretty adventurous when it comes to cuisines, so these trips to the USA were fucking great, as they allowed me to get to know cuisines I hadn't tasted before. From the top of my head, I tried indian, korean, japanese, chinese, vietnamese, ethiopian, greek, among others.

I am a Mexican who's currently living in the Netherlands, and neither country gets even close to the bay area when it comes to the variety of authentic international cuisine.

I also fucking loved the large scale ethnic supermarkets, and was impressed by the high quality selection standards of some places such as Whole Foods which don't quite exist except in the wealthiest parts of my home country.

>>14893902
Visit Berlin.

>>14893925
He'd find better food with better variety in Groningen or Amsterdam.

>>14893925
I did live there for a couple years, and I do miss some of the street food there. I remember going to some mom-n-pop and having the most fucking based shoarma EVER. I loved the fact that there were plenty of cheap, authentic places where you could get a casual meal for 10 bucks or so. Berlin did fatten me up a bit.

I never got the hang of the city, and many Germans are not very welcoming if you don't speak the language, so I fucked off to the Netherlands. Dutchies are cool, but their food is very much not adventurous, and it shows a bit in the options. They're there, but they are mostly sit-down places where you will be expected to fork out 25-45 per person.

>>14893957
There wasn't that much variety in Amsterdam.

>>14893175
>woqkpeokqw soy shit
Didn't read lol

>>14893982
Are you defending your boyfriend you little chud?

Not being in the us does not exonerate you from the existence of chain restaurants euro fags. If you cant find good food here your not trying

>>14893460
That's what you get for eating at Boston Market, you dumb fuck.

>>14893031
mudbloods eat way too much fucking food. the large drink at your burger king shocked the hell out of me
I do however prefer diners. Breakfast food at one I went to in Missouri/Mississippi was spectacular. Hell the waffles were bigger than expected too.
Americans live a supersized life

America has the very best and the very worst food. We also have all different ethnicities of food.

Any foreigners traveling here need to try our barbeque.

>>14893031
BBQ ribs be far but also homemade fudge and brownies. People complain that regular food like bread is too sweet and sugary in the US and I agree but the things that ought to be sweet and sugary are where you really shine and nail it.

I tried food from all over the Netherlands. Was pretty shit too.

five guys was ridiculously good. we only have burger king and mickey d's around here

i had my first poke bowl in a tiny restaurant somewhere near the west cost (i think it was crescent city) and it was one of the tastiest things i have ever eaten in my life

it may be true that the us doesn't have much of a native cuisine but boy do they know how to cook food from other nations

>>14893031
You'll laugh at this but
>visit NYC with younger cousins
>what a beautiful sight, just like back home but cleaner and more ordered
>Get hungry
>Inform cousins and uncle that I am hungry
>Cousins say yes, they are hungry too
>they wonder what to eat
>What to eat indeed, in world famous NYC, for its pizzas
>THEY CHOOSE FUCKING SBARRO
FFFFFFUCKING SBARRO
THE ABSOLUTE DOGSHIT TIER PIZZA: SBARRO
At that time I was a little boy of 12 and did not know taste or anything, but thinking back on it recently makes me a little pissed that I went to NYC but never ate the pizza there.

>>14893031

>be me
>first time in the us, roadtrip from LA to Utah and back
> go to Dennys because muh pop culture
> kind of ok, but you need 10-12 bucks for mediocre breakfast
>buy some sodas/ice teas that I've never tried before, undrinkable syrup
>get a "navajo taco" somewhere along the way to somewhere, a 12 inch fried dough disc with loads of cold processed cheese and some beans on top
>what in the actual fuck
>try all the twinkies twizzlers pop tarts and that kinda shit
>inedible

amazing craft beer and beef jerky, goddamn. Also, mexican food around Santa Cruz was out of this world.

Taco bell was crap, the clientelle was hilarious, bellys crashing into people's knees, paint chipping off cars etc
Little Ceaser's was shit
Arby's was meh
Texas bbq in Arizona was fucking ace

>>14894470
France, Italy, Spain & Portugal, Switzerland, Greece, Belgium, Scotland (only the whisky). Those are the European countries with good food, in that order. Everything else is mediocre to terrible.

>>14893031
I was immediately arrested and force fed cream cheese for being too thin.

>>14894474
i almost forgot that the best beer i've ever had was in sacramento. and this is coming from someone born in germany

>>14894499
Also forgot to mention
>parents do not let me eat meat
>similar story with cousins- they do not eat meat of any kind
95% of american food was now closed to me.

I shall return and taste your finest smoked BBQ, this is a promise

>>14894534
where in Sacramento?
there's a place downtown that has a killer peanut butter stout and another place called Burgers and Brew that has surprisingly good food.

northern California has pretty good local beer desu

>>14893174
>wouldn't you rather leave with a little food left on your plate than leave a little hungry?
Not him, but I think most people in the US could stand being more hungry and more often.

>>14894499
lol

I managed a Sbarro bout 25yrs ago

fun fact
the pizza and pasta was nearly 100% from scratch. Made our own sauces etc
the only prepackaged stuff was the meats, dry Barilla pasta and little packets of premeasured seasoning for the sauce.

we even made the dough in house with real malt, sugar and yeast

>>14894006
>chud
Go back

>>14893095
Where did you get it from? Shittier places use cheapshit French's mustard but a lot of places have dijon and good spicy deli mustard

>>14893475

How the fuck do you turn a beautiful historical place like Faneuil Hall into a soulless tourist trap like that? It felt like turning the Sistine Chapel into a Hooters. Don't they have any kind of decency? Who thought it was a good idea?

>>14894213
>Any foreigners traveling here need to try our barbeque.
This, BBQ is probably the best american food. Even the lower quality places like Famous Dave's are still pretty good

>>14894506
>> go to Dennys because muh pop culture
>> kind of ok, but you need 10-12 bucks for mediocre breakfast
Literally the entire clientele for Denny's is old fucks who like it because it's so fucking bland, and drunks at 2AM because it's usually the only place open that late aside from Taco Bell

>>14894914
>where in Sacramento?
after spending way too much time on google maps to trace back to where we went i am certain it was called sauced bbq & spirits, right next to that fancy new mall. since we only spent one night there we didn't really bother to check for any good food spots online and that pub was the first place that looked kinda nice and packed.

they had a lot of pretty great craft beers on tap and the cute waitress hooked us up with a lot of samples until we found our favorites. however, i can't for the life of me remember its name anymore. all i can remember is that it was from denver

>peanut butter stout
ngl that sounds fucking bomb

i know it's the wrong boardto post this but man do i miss the us, especially roadtripping along the west coast. fuck you kung-flu, i was supposed to be back again

>>14894988
America has a ton of good local beers, not sure why everyone thinks all we have is budweiser and coors. I do wish we had more good imports here though, usually the only german beers I ever see are becks, st pauli girl, and sometimes warsteiner

>>14894936
>we even made the dough in house with real malt, sugar and yeast

Please what's the dough recipe? I miss the sbarro of my youth.

>>14895010
>America has a ton of good local beers
this is absolutely true. correct me if i'm wrong but what i've seen it's mostly beer from microbreweries and they happened thanks to hipster culture. so they got that going for them.

>not sure why everyone thinks all we have is budweiser and coors
100% media. people in movies and tv shows only drink that stuff. also, because germans are too proud to admit that other people know how to brew good beer as well.

>more good imports
when we stopped in some local shithole pub for lunch they had some pretty niche german beer brand (tegernseer) that's even not that common in germany, which really surprised me

>>14893031
Resurants are surprisingly expensive. A $19 USD meal I can get for $19 AUD (and you then have to pay tax +tip on too of the US one). Your pints are smaller. And you like pickles and jalapenos in everything.

>>14893031
I'm not a Non-American but I've found the food to be pretty good.

>>14893187
>Needing to eat out twice in a meal
Shit just take a to go box

>>14893031
I visited twice as tourist. I really enjoyed typical American dishes. Best was a steak at a steakhouse in some village we had to stay because my parents lost their passports earlier and had to retrieve them from the police next day. Most food was of good quality and service seemed to be genuine friendly. I also liked you don’t get overcharged for tiny plates.
We occasionally dined at European style restaurants. And these were bad. You really need to tell them to stop larping as Europeans when they don’t even get the basics of the particular cuisine. American cuisine is fine, no need to larp as something you only know from family pictures and the occasional holiday.

>>14893081
Even that varies by region. I live in the West and when I go to the Midwest I can't finish any meal because there's simply too much food

>>14893297
If you're going to the American equivalent of Nando's or Gregg's you're not going to be satisfied

Went to Dallas for a work related trip.
The meat in Texas is really nice, I dig that American barbeque style
Everything else left more to be desired tho, especially sweets and pastries, don't know why everything is nauseatingly sweet over there, even hot sauce is sweet the fuck is wrong with you guys

>>14894101
These threads are always "I went to a shitty chain and didn't like it, America BAD"

>>14895059
>sweets and pastries
This just reminds me of that one Great British Baking show where the contestants had to make American pies. The judge fucking hates them because they're always too sweet and the one who won the round succeeded due to cutting out almost half of the sugar found in an average blueberry pie. I don't have anything to add onto it, but I thought it was a funny thing to get reminded of.

>>14895057
Im midwest and yes the portions are huge. I wish I could pay half as much and just get less

>>14895034
Yeah, microbreweries have seen a big surge in popularity over the last 10 years or so and I'm very thankful for that because most of our big name beers are pretty shitty and most bars still have several of them on tap. Probably the most tolerable one is sam adams but even that's just alright. Most bars where I live (Colorado) have at least a few local brews on tap though which I almost always go for if they aren't IPAs
>when we stopped in some local shithole pub for lunch they had some pretty niche german beer brand (tegernseer) that's even not that common in germany
I haven't seen that one but some bars will have weird niche imports like that, I went to one several years ago had fucking gulden draak on tap, still one of the best beers I've ever had to this day, I think it's belgian?

>>14895059
Our bbq really is great. Foreigner in these threads dont even know the best places to go and they still have nothing bad to say about it

>>14895034
>also, because germans are too proud to admit that other people know how to brew good beer as well.
>>14895082
To add to this, I like german beer a lot but my favorite euro beers are usually UK beers, specifically scottish. My #1 favorite beer in the world is belhaven

>>14895075
>due to cutting out almost half of the sugar found in an average blueberry pie
Lmao, I do the exact same thing whenever I follow a recipe from the US.

>>14895021
I wish I could remember but I'm sure its available somewhere

we made it using a fuk hug dough machine with 50lb bag of imported flour. I remember it was filtered water along with ice to maintain a temperature range. Lots of malt a little sugar and salt. We were supposed to use olive oil but with we cheated a bit by using a vegetable oil evoo mix due to food costs because the EVOO they called for was something around 5x the price. The best dough sat for at least 24hrs in the walk in fridge. Anything less than that tasted off and was impossible to toss and spread to the correct size.

Almost everything was legit from Italy and we had to place food orders 3 weeks ahead of time due to shipping from Italy to the warehouse in NY to California.

true story
we once got a surprise visit by Vinnie Sbarro (founders grandson) and he walked in on me and couole of my crew munching on a Chicago style pizza I had just made using our own ingredients and he heard me say how much better it tasted lol
he looked at me and said along the lines of
"oh really?"...hmmm
"that's not how we do things here" he left the kitchen for a meeting with my boss and the crew was like...awww chit

another fun fact
Sbarro paid managers a salary but required they work 50hrs a week for asst managers and closer to 60 for store managers.
it worked out to around $7 an hour when minimum wage was about $5

>>14895082
gulden draak is pretty sick. I've been trying to get my hands on a couple of bottles for my buddies upcoming birthday but every importer is currently out of stock. I fucking hope the 'rona didn't hit them too bad. I can only imagine how wasted I would be if i'd found a pub that had this chocolatey ambrosia on tap

>>14893374
I’m not gonna be rude, but bread ain’t supposed to have sugar in it, else it would be pastry

>>14893328
Funny since Europe has no independent bakeries and their bread like in Subway and Greggs is just sugar they put meat in between

>>14895112
>it worked out to around $7 an hour when minimum wage was about $5
>mfw my old job was $17/hr for being a line cook
>Living wage was $16 so I essentially lived at work to not become homeless

>>14895082
Even Germany is seeing the trend of microbrewing, importing it from the USA. Except for Bavaria many old breweries ran out of business or got bought up by major breweries. Especially Berlin used to have many breweries, but the remaining mainstream brands got all bought up by a major brewery.

>>14895193
What kind of beers are commonly brewed by them there? IPAs are a common way for microbrews to go here which I don't like, but a lot of them also do all kinds of other stuff like stouts, porters, kolsches, wheatbeers, red ales, all kinds of stuff. Only german beers I've had have been lagers and witbiers for the most part so I don't really know what Germany has a taste for

>>14893479
>Surprising, I'm American and I hate McD
Not anymore

>>14895056
>village
Lmao, hope you didn't call it that in front of anybody who lived there
>>14895138
>what is brioche

>>14893516
Thanks for the tips, I'll keep it in mind on my next trip

>>14893473
The only difference between a chain and a local restaurant is the presence of another identical restaurant. Given that he's a foreigner he won't recognize any restaurant as also existing somewhere else.

>>14893505
That's fine.

>>14893544
We have top tier Texas BBQ in Australia, it's just crazy expensive and Korean BBQ isn't.

>>14895250
>What kind of beers are commonly brewed by them there?
Difficult to tell. They brew all kinds of beers. IPAs are common but so are a lot of other brewing styles. Besides common German brewing styles like Pilsenser they tend to introduce traditional brewing styles that aren’t as common in Germany like Red Ales.

Germans mostly go for Pilsener, Weißbier/Weizenbier and Lager/Helles. With Weißbier and Lager mostly being brewed in Bavaria. Usually you will find major brands like Warsteiner that are streamlined for mainstream appeal and various brands that reflect the different local preferences. The bigger often being available in the whole country. There are also various regional brewing styles like Kölsch or Schwarzbier but these aren’t enjoyed by everyone.

>>14893569
Did you read the OP? If you don't want opinions gtfo.

>>14895269
>Lmao, hope you didn't call it that in front of anybody who lived there
Nah. I didn't want to get shot. The tourist guide warned us about trigger happy Americans.

>>14895010
>not sure why everyone thinks all we have is budweiser and coors
Because you export budweiser and coors, and national beer dominates the market.

>>14895343
Stay away from inner cities. They are awful

>>14895407
We got these too. But they far aren’t as worse yours. America seemed more extreme to me than Europe in general. The poor seemed poorer and the rich richer (or less ashamed of showing off their wealth).

>>14895460
Our negroes are truly dangerous and out of control. I live in rural midwest and there are no problems. We have some white trash, but they are harmless. Winter sucks though

>>14895475
We saw some ghetto types. Here it is mostly Arabs larping but the US specimens actually seemed to be heinous. White trash seems to be more dangerous here though other groups are catching up. Here most of them are pacified by social welfare making them less dangerous. The nasty ones however are rarely put into prison until they murder someone.
You still got snow in the Midwest, right? I am from Germany and most parts only get snow for a few a days, if at all. Winters are mild but summers are getting too hot and dry.

>>14895523
Im in Iowa and we have snow. The temp will swing from 100f in summer to -20f in winter. The weather is perfect right now and the leaves are pretty.

>>14895542
Here is a pic from my window

>>14895460
the massive disparity in wealth inevitably results societal conflict.

>>14895475
your forefathers should have picked cotton theyselves instead of being lazy motherfuckers and using slaves.
you only have yourself to blame

>>14895593
Im a northerner. We are the current victims of slavery and the american negroe is the benefactor

>>14895545
I love the view. I saw similar wide open landscapes from my window at my parent’s home. Now I can’t take a picture because it is 1:16 am. But it would be a early 20th century courtyard with a tree and woodbine creeping up the walls, both turning red.

>>14895580
Yes. Especially if people feel left out/their basic needs aren’t satisfied. We got the same problem just less extreme.

I visited New York city. Upper west side.
Best food was the Jewish Delis and Bagel shops. The Italian restaurants and I also liked the Mexican taco shops which seemed to be staffed entirely by Puerto Rcans.
What I found rather bland and a let down were the big chain food's that I heard so much about growing up, the McDonald's, the KFC, the Wendiy's etc.
I really liked Samuel Adam's beer in the Irish bars