And Puerto Rican food is completely impossible. Since Latin foods share a lot of common items like rice, beans, and chicken, I assumed that some variation of a Latin restaurant would be easy to find, but that was too big of an assumption. There were all other types of food except the one I needed.
About a month into my time abroad, I realized if I wanted to eat some good rice and beans, I had to cook, but I had not brought any ingredients. In this moment of crisis and hunger, abuela came to the rescue, sending me a package with all my adobo to properly season what I cooked at home.
I learned my lesson: bring everything you could potentially need to satisfy your extreme food cravings because you would not find anything remotely similar over there.
