Sweet Delicacies for a Tastier Meal in Panama

By BobbyRica | August 11, 2010

A great meal in Panama City wouldn’t be complete without their local desserts. A taste of their mouth-watering sweets show their wonderful tastes in food. You immediately get their Spanish, Caribbean and even Asian influences. To guarantee that you choose the must-try sweet delicacies in Panama, these are the three best picks.

The Sweetest Pastel Tres Leches

After some seafood and spicy food, a cake of three kinds of milk is the best way to balance off the aggressive tastes of the meal that preceded it. It also helps mellow down the taste buds after an adventurous dinner. Such mellowness is almost needed andactually helps in cooling you down! Pastel Tres Leches is a very sweet dessert served cold. It is a combination of three milks: condensed, evaporated, and whole milk or cream. Mixing these milks creates a velvety sensual ‘mouth feel’. If you’re touring Panama with your sweetheart, this could be the sweetest dessert you can share together. This is usually available in fine dining restaurants, pastry and coffee shops.

The Popular Flan

Are you a fan of crème caramel? If so, you won’t miss it in Panama. It’s not just the usual crème caramel but is called the flan, a popular dessert not just in this city but even all throughout Spain and Latin America.

This is the dessert that one would savor every bit of it. Imagine a caramelized crust made from sugar that holds a creamy custard within. A cousin of the creme brulee, this version is added with vanilla and sometimes with lemon. With this picture in mind, you would certainly want to gobble everything of it. One of the places that serve the best flans in Panama is Eurasia Restaurant. They have this wooden table in the middle of the restaurant where sweet delicacies are displayed for your taking.

The Much Loved Raspados

Panamanians are a big lover of snow cones commonly known as raspados. A raspados is a snow cone with flavored toppings filled with a spoon of condensed milk.

You can’t find this sweet delicacy in restaurants. But you can surely find snow cones sold almost everywhere on the streets. Street vendors or mobile carts sell a variety of tropical flavors. This is by far the cheapest yet very delightful dessert you can savor in Panama. Tasty desserts would certainly make a much better meal in Panama City.