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Food connoisseurs will find a great variety of world-class cuisine in Puerto Vallarta, everything from regional specialties and traditional Mexican cooking to delicious seafood dishes. You won?t want to miss out on such local favorites as marlin, dogfish or shrimp skewers. You should also try octopus or bream ceviche, fish meatballs, and the tasty shrimp al tequila or shrimp in calabaza (a type of squash) sauce. These are just a few examples of Puerto Vallarta?s varied and rich cuisine. You can accompany your feast with local drinks such as coconut juice and jamaica and tamarind flavored waters.

Or you can enjoy a tejuino, a carbonated drink made with corn, brown sugar, ice, salt and lemon. For dessert, you can delight your palate with coconut and tamarind sweets, as well as the traditional Pose, made from corn dough, sugar and prickly pears, which give it its distinctive color. And then there?s Cuala, a dough based sweet, ,made from the combination of milk, sugar and coconut oil; some people like to add a dash of pineapple. Other sweets you should try are cajeta de mango, coconut biscuits and candied coyules.