What am I suppose to expect when traveling abroad to Panama?
Panamanians don’t wear a lot of shorts. It is how we can tell gringos, they do. You can wear T-shirts, Tank tops and shorts on the beach and in Bocas del Toro, but not in Panama City, the capital. Bring your Laptop, there are plenty of WiFi zones where you can use it to check your email. We have little restaurants called Fondas. They serve baked chicken & rice, salad and Patacones (slices of fried green Plantains) for about $2.75. That’s the most typical meal. Rice is eaten a lot! The food is good, safe and cheap. They will also serve stew and fried chicken sometimes fish. At the more upscale restaurants you will find Cerviche, bits of raw fish “cooked” in fresh Lime juice and spiced with onion. Everybody eats that, it is quite good too. The city has a lot of ethnic restaurants with Chinese being the most prevalent as it is the largest group of immigrants.There are a lot of the fast food restaurants from the USA whose names you will know immediately. And there’s good local Pizza in sev
