Welcome mi countri congratulation for discovery Nicaragua.

@@ronaldozamora6979 Thank you Ronaldo, we are so lucky we found your wonderful country!

The vigoron and the enchiladas. Mmm

Everything with gallopinto!😋

@@jhennessyde-la-fuente7193 of course!! And platanos!

¡Definitivamente fue un placer! ¡Gracias por ver a Edwin!🙏🙏

Yes, there is so much to choose from and from the all the comments we've received we've found plenty more to try out as well! Thanks so much for watching as always The Laughing Lion!🙏🙏

I know right!

Thanks Edward! This was a lot of fun to put together! Enchiladas are our go to quick meal when out and about, and the hot dogs and burgers have been our guilty pleasures when we have been too lazy to make dinner!

De nada. ¡Nicaragua es especial y el mundo necesita conocer este maravilloso país y su cocina única! ¡Gracias por ver!

Thanks so much for the encouragement Kattie and Chris, we really appreciate it!!

Thanks for watching and we are glad to hear you enjoyed the video!!🙏🙏

We have grown to love nacatamal and yes, you can't visit Granada without trying vigoron! Thanks for watching Henry!

@@BucketListTravellers Alright 🙋, thanks!!

You are most welcome Vince! We hope you are safe too and have a great rest of the week!

So many yummy items to choose from! Our favourites are the enchiladas, yummy and filling! Thanks for watching Lynn and Danny!

Hi Jhennessy De-La-Fuente, yes Nicaragua has so many goodies!! I'm getting hungry just thinking about them all.😋😋 Thanks for watching!

@@BucketListTravellers ...Thanks to both of you for your great videos!👍

Hi there S&Bdiaries, thanks for watching!😀

Hey CC Top, welcome to our channel and thank you for your kind words!🙏🙏

We became addicted to Nacatamales! The first time we had nacatamales we didn't know what to make of it, but it definitely grew on us.

For sure! One of the things we love the most about travelling is to experience countries through their food. Thanks for watching daytriker!

You are most welcome Sheila, all the best with your move you won't regret it!

Thanks for watching Abby!

We are definitely spoilt here! Thanks for watching Cara!

Welcome to our channel Hymie Heckler!🤗🤗

Hi Moses, thanks so much for watching and welcome to our humble channel!🤗

Thanks Linda, glad to hear that you enjoyed it!

We are glad we can assist! We have been very lucky in some ways to be stuck in Nicaragua, we do have the luxury of moving around if we want to and the pandemic has been bafflingly mild here as well.

🤣🤣 'todo terreno' that's a new phrase for us! Trying the local food is a must for any foreigner if they want to get to know another country. Yes the street food shouldn't be an every day affair! Thanks for watching Marycarmen!😃

Hi Bella, so glad to hear that you found the video useful! What did you think of Vigorón? Have you tried nacatamal yet? Unfortunately Mrs Pan closed down earlier this year.😥 Hopefully they have just moved to a different location.

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment! We loved exploring everything about Nicaragua, it is such a fascinating country. Have you had the chance to return?

same i came to the u.s. at the of 8 and now i am 26 and miss my country but luckily ill be traveling back to the country for 1 week of vacation next month so i am excited and nervous.

¡Nuestros videos son sobre ti y tu maravilloso país! ¡Gracias por ver Johana!🤗😍

¡Fue nuestro placer! Sí, estamos de acuerdo con todo lo que dices y nos encantó nuestro tiempo allí. ¡Gracias por ver!

So do we! We miss our fritangas, nacatamales and vigoron!😋😋

It certainly was a lot of fun 'researching' for this video!

I always thought you had good taste Jango! 😋😋

Thank you! We visited El Salvador early last year and wish we had spent more time there. We loved it there too! We've made 3 videos about it for you! Here's one!kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m7apdcaGqqvPXaM.html

Awww, thank you Yeovany!🤗🤗

Hi Bill, thanks for watching. We've been to Samoa as well and loved it there as well. I think we may have tried Oka when we were there, so yummy! There was a similar vibe to Samoa as Nicaragua and the people was just as friendly too!

It certainly was Bev, a delicious video to make! Yes, there are definitely similarities across the countries, however vigoron, nacatamales and quesillos appear to be Nica specials!

Thanks for watching Atef.😃

Glad we could make you laugh Carlos! It is so unique and really convenient too. Nicaragua had the idea before uber eats! Thanks for watching and letting us know you enjoyed the video!

Thanks! Yes it is pretty amazing, we've been tucking into grilled fish on the island we are currently staying on all this week for around $3-$5, it is heaven!

Hi, thanks for watching! We have limited experience with the postal system here, however I did get a package delivered from Australia, albeit 4 months after it was dispatched! It was delivered to my door. I think though that generally you need to go into the local post office to check to see whether your parcel has arrived. You don't have mail boxes at each property. There are ways of getting online purchases delivered, however they are a bit complicated and there are typically large import taxes added on from what we have read. So long story short it is possible to get online things ordered, but it is complicated and can be costly!

¡Sí, la enchilada era mi favorita! La ensalada y la salsa encima también le dan mucho sabor extra.

@@BucketListTravellers la salsa es Ketchup y crema ácida, extraño mi Nicaragua 🇳🇮, saludos desde Canada 🇨🇦

Keine ursache!

Veeeery tasty!😋😋

Yes we have tried Baho, we were lucky enough to have a baho comedor right next to where we were living! We'll feature that in another video.

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment! Where are you now? Other than Miami, we wouldn't know where to get Nacatamal outside of Nicaragua and we will miss it when we leave!

@@BucketListTravellers i lived here in northern California and let me tell you they do have some really good options here but not as good can't compared it to real nica taste. . Glad ya enjoy my country next time u visit should try salpicon and our delicious cacao or chicha.

@@sfmissiondistrict.1779 Great you can get Nica food in Northern California too! We wish we could get some back in Australia, but aren't getting our hopes up. Thanks for the suggestions! We love cacao!

We weren't hungry by the end of making this video! 😋😋 Thanks for watching Julio!

@@BucketListTravellers looking forward to seeing your next video

Thanks Julio!!

Thank you for watching!😀

Nice! We had so many ice cream sandwiches that we should have been on a first name basis with all the ice cream vendors too!

😊😊 You would have a great time here! We hope you can visit one day soon!

@@BucketListTravellers me too I was born in Nicaragua my mom move back a few years back now ... I would love to go visit soon wow your videos are so beautiful thank you for sharing 💞

There is something special about this country and we will miss it dearly too when we finally leave.

Thanks for watching!🙏

You're welcome, thanks for watching! Ah lengua! Yes we've tried it and it was pretty good! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hrJ7jZmHrtLVmmw.html

¡Gracias por ver Vanessa!

Thanks so much for watching and your suggestion! Tajadas are a staple part of our diet and we LOVE carne asada and pollo asado! We have it at least once a week. We were thinking of putting together a video on asados at some stage, so stay tuned for that!

@@BucketListTravellers I can't wait! Thanks.

Did you mean Coleslaw salad (the american way) or cabbage salad the Nicaraguan way? Coleslaw salad is kind of sweet, and Nicaraguan cabbage salad is prepared with apple cider vinegar, kind of salty and tangy. 🤔

@@jhennessyde-la-fuente7193 yes! Sorry. I think the correct phrase would be "cabbage salad" 😅, it's typically made with white vinegar (or lemon) and salt. It also includes shredded carrot, onion and diced tomatoes. Are you nicaraguan?

@@ainsly5931 ...Yes I am, that's why I got confused...'tajadas with coleslaw...hmm, must be another great variation'...jejeje... but no worries, also you're right, our cabbage salad is made with white vinegar, but when I don't have, I use apple cider vinegar, it taste good. Saludos. ☺🧑‍🍳

Hola MElizaNefer, ¡gracias por mirar y nos alegra que hayas disfrutado el video! ¿Donde estas viviendo ahora? Desafortunadamente, no incluimos baho en este video, sin embargo, lo hemos intentado muchas veces. ¡Hasta hemos probado la sopa de Mondongo! Eso será en otro video! ¡A nosotros también nos encantan las rosquillas, incluso sin café!

@@BucketListTravellers Hola! Ahora vivo ya desde unos años en Holanda! Saludos!

You're welcome and I'm glad we can help you travel virtually! I see you are also nearly at the magical 1000 subscriber mark, so congratulations in advance for that!👏👏

😋😋😋 We miss Nacatamal!

That took us a while to connect the dots too! Thanks Agustin.

@@BucketListTravellers haha. No problem I actually know it as Yuka. I learned it's name after watching a video on the most calorie dense plans for farming. Haha.

Fue muy rica!

Tuani! Gracias por ver Luis.

Me tambien!!! Las fritangas son el mejor!

You could get wine pretty cheap in the supermarkets, perhaps US$5- US$10, however we wouldn't say wine was that common to buy at restaurants or from street vendors.

Oooh, nacatamales especiales, a mi me gusta! We will keep an eye out for that. We have gained a taste for nacatamales and love them now. I (Jon) love anything with yucca too! We love all Nicaraguense food, well except for huevos del Toros!

@@BucketListTravellers Sorry for the long comment. Well as for Huevos de Toros, I don’t like them either jajaja 🤣 I am happy to know Joh that you both gained and grown to like the favours of Nacatamales 🫔 they do take time to get used to for foreigners specially when they first try these foods because they’re have never tasted these new favours (the spices that are used in many Central American and Mexican dishes is the achiote paste/powder which is red in colour) and is used in making Nacatamales. While on the topic of food, I read in another comment in one of your other videos about Nicaraguan food restaurants in Australia unfortunately we don’t have but the closest to Nica food is a Salvadoran and Central American restaurant in Camden (mostly Salva food) But some dishes cross over with ours and they’re also popular with their Mexican dishes. They also have the food truck called ‘Raza Central’ that goes around Sydney but you need to follow their Facebook page for location, time & dates, for all the info. Nicaraguan food is unfortunately only sold by word of mouth, I can let you know when they have them my mum used to make Nica food but she’s now much older and because making nacatamales 🫔 is so time consuming she hardly makes them now. I’m sending you the restaurant’s link of their Facebook page for you to follow them. Surprisingly, the restaurant’s owner is my sister’s childhood friend Laura or (Laurita as we call her) She will definitely treat you well and is attentive. Saludos y hasta luego! m.facebook.com/RazaCentral/

@@michellea5415 Don't be sorry Michelle, we love reading your comments!! Thank you for answering our Aussie Nica food question, that is good to know when we finally come home! I (Jon) was thinking that a food truck with Central American food could do quite well in Sydney, We will have to do a foodie trip to Camden too! We love pupusas!

Both the restaurant & food truck have been going strong here since they opened! Well, when you both come back you’ll definitely won’t be missing out on all that yummy food you leave behind! Saludos y hasta luego!

@@BucketListTravellers Wow that's impressive, starting a new business with unknown food to Australians. Best of luck with that business and is so flattering that you guys got inspired by Central American food.

😁. Central America is an interesting place to live! Do you mean English as a foreign language? Not sure how it compares with Asia, but there is certainly demand for ESL in Nicaragua. There are English speaking call centres that support US companies based in the capital of Managua and the jobs there are very lucrative. The only catch is that you need to speak english very well.

@@BucketListTravellers I am Scottish , my wife is Nicaraguense and we currently live in the US but would love to relocate Managua only if we could obtain work as her parents live there so my question is are there many jobs available in these call centres and are they obtainable as English is my first language ....thanks for any advice

Hi Nebo! We will be back, but not for a while. We have unfinished business and we have to add eating with you now too!😀

😂 I can remember when large Big Mac McValue meals were $3.95 with a sundae! That would have been 25 years ago now! Not quite sure about the average income for but the minimum wage is around US$8800 a year.

@@BucketListTravellers Not true Around $1200-1800 annually

Interesting! It is a very Australian and British thing!

@@BucketListTravellers I like it , it was very enduring ❤️

😊😊¡Muchas gracias Mery!

Ah we didn't realise nacatamales were in Guatemala too. Looking back on our 2 weeks in Guatemala, we didn't eat that much tipico food and that was a shame. I wouldn't think there would be much Centro American cuisine on offer in France! 😥

@@BucketListTravellers well ours are just tamales but they are very similar to nacatamales . Yeah too bad, and too bad I hadn’t met you when you were there ... as I have a whole list as a czech friend visited a couple of years ago and asked me for it so I saved it just in case . No only some Mexican and South American I also have had to make some like salvadorian pupusas hehe ...

@@trailofthewanderlust193 Ah I see! Yes a big shame we didn't know each other a year ago, good thing we have met since! 😁 🤗We've made Salvadorean pupusas a couple of time and we LOVE them!

@@BucketListTravellers Aww yeah great we have met since 😊 and you have made them wow bravo! I say Bravo because me knowing them almost all my life I barely made for the first time some months ago and you guys are like oh yeah we we have made a couple of times and we love them! Ok I think if it wasn’t obvious you definitely Central American now 😉😊

Hi Hayam, depends on how comfortable you want to live. You could get by in a one bedder for $500 a month or a 3-4 bedroom house for $1000 a month. For $1500 a month you will live like royalty. Stay tuned because we will be answering this question in a lot more detail soon!

@@BucketListTravellers Ok dears 😍 thanks for the answer 😍 👍🏻🌺

@Haya300 for a small house about 30 dollars for power and water bill, food another 150 and like 50 for local transportation. Ofcourse will not be a fancy house.

Lets say you retire and plan to live in Nicaragua. With a 800 a month u live like a queen

They are really yummy! They are like pocket bread with bean and cheese filling.

Hola Mery, que bueno verte de nuevo! 😀😀Esperamos que estés bien. Gracias por el consejo, ¡lo sabremos para la próxima!

@@BucketListTravellers igual mi pareja 💑 favorita saludos 🤗

Thanks for watching!😀

Hi Britany, yes we certainly have! That was crazy and whilst we were freaking out at the top, I (Jon) wanted to do it again! We've got the footage, I really need to get round to making that video!

Thanks for watching Waldo! Whoops, Thanks for letting us know about Biscotella. Would locals also call it rosquillas or have we completely got our wires crossed?

I'm from El Viejo chinandega , where you can find the best rosquillas from Nicaragua . Rosquillas are smaller than biscotelas 🙂but maybe the name changes in others region 🙂 thanks for sharing your experience

@@waldourbina1258 Thanks for the tip Waldo! We are planning to visit Chinandega in June. Anything else we should be on the look out for whilst there? I already have the Flor de Cana factory on my bucketlist!

I strongly recommend if swing by chinandega go to Santa Maria del Mar tambien no olviden probar EL PAN COSA DE HORNO de la. Ciudad del viejo.

@@waldourbina1258 Got it, muchas gracias Waldo!😁

Hi Mohammed. Do you mean wheat flour or the grain?

@@BucketListTravellers Wheat grain. I heard Nicaragua imports wheat grain from india,

This is all from Granada.

I (Jon) have a massive sweet tooth! We too have become addicted to tajadas 😋😋!

Thanks Atef! Plenty of chicken and beef options in Nicaragua too!

No I don't think we have, what are they?

@@BucketListTravellers they are deep fried sacassava with Nicaraguan smoked cheese. Served cinnamon honey 🍯 look for them!! My mum makes em here in Canada but they aren't the same without that Nica cheese

@@BucketListTravellers They're a tiny dessert made out of fried Yucca covered in honey and cinnamon, it's a delicious dessert, but you need to eat them prudently because if you eat too many of them you will have a stomach ache, it's colour is golden (kinda looks like fried chicken) and usually it's cost is 5 Córdobas each or you could buy a bag for 15 or 20 Córdobas. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pq1hiraGp8WvpWw.html

@@stevens392 YUMMM!!! Come to think of it we might have tried them in the old market in Masaya. Thanks for answering!

@@heyner_rivera.14 thanks for the youtube clip, yes we have definitely tried them in Masaya a couple of weeks ago and they were awesome!!

Todavía no hemos visto la sopa de leche, pero hemos probado la sopa de queso. ¡Hemos tenido baho y pronto haremos otro video sobre ese!

😂Todavía sabía bueno!😋

Hi Ariesha, we spent 11 months in Granada, but have since been to Ometepe, San Juan Del Sur, Popoyo, Managua and have just spent the last month in the Northern areas of Matagalpa, Jinotega and Esteli. There is so much to see here!

Thank you so much for your reply :) I'll be going in september

@@arleshabanks6050 Awesome Arlesha, you'll have so much fun! Don't be shy if you have any questions!

Probably our poor use of language there! Nacatamal or nacatamales plural should be correct.

😂 We are always taking leaps of faith whenever we eat ground meat and this isn't limited to just Nicaragua! I remember a big scandal from the UK a couple of years ago that uncovered that a well known brand of frozen foods was using horse meat in their lasagnes!

Hi Anthony, Thanks for watching. We agree with your sentiments. However tipping in a culture that doesn't tip skews the economy towards the services and tourism sector which can make people more vulnerable if tourism suddenly dries up, as it has in recent years. It can also inflate prices and make things more expensive for the locals. We'd recommend supporting locals by using the services of businesses that are locally owned and operated.

$100 would go a veeery long way in Nicaragua!

Now we know! Thanks for watching!😁

Thanks for watching.😀

@@BucketListTravellers I from granada. I am living in Miami. I ami glad you like Nicaragua.

@@littlebitcoin5193 We love it here and love Granada too! Thanks for watching!

😂😂 Funnily enough, no we didn't from the street food that we ate. Ironically, we did get sick from our own cooking in Nicaragua!

@@BucketListTravellers haha im half Nicaraguan and visit often from Miami, FL, and ive been sick a few times from the water to god knows what else haha i was so envious of you guys eating anything off the local venders. Loveee your videos. Be safe! Happy Christmas

Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment. We would really appreciate any suggestions from you on how we can make our videos more interesting. 😁

True! We just don't like wasting food, no matter how cheap. I probably ate it anyway!

Oh dear.... We are just too trusting by the sounds of it! We had heard that you can eat armadillo in some parts of Nicaragua, however we also read that it can give you leprosy, so if eating an endangered animal was enough reason not to try it, then a gross disease is definitely it! Good on you both for going vegan. You wouldn't know from the video, but we were living as vegetarians 90pc of the time when in Nicaragua.

Hi Eric Thanks for watching. From our experience the only people that care whether others are wearing masks or not are foreigners not the locals.

Hi, thanks for your comments. Yes, a lot of the food examples in the video are more fast food options rather than healthy choices. Great suggestions about the fruit and vegetable options and we have been pulling together footage of the different and exotic types available for another video. We are spoilt for great organic produce in Nicaragua and should highlight this.

@@BucketListTravellers you guys are doing a fantastic job, i love all the foods your showing and eating. Although foods are fattening, USA is still leading when it comes to obesity, USA foods are processed and Nicaraguan food is all from local farms that is not processed . Keep up the videos I’m look forward to them