Merengue Restaurant

I've never eaten Dominican food before today and as one of my friends who's staying with me is from the Dominican Republic she took me to a Dominican restaurant in Dorchester, MA called Meringue. I  think that aside from peas, I'm pretty much up for eating most things and so I tried a dish called   mofongo. It's basically mashed up plantains with pork or chicken inside. I had it with salad and I did quite like it. Along with that my friend and I shared a dessert called tres leches which was also really good. I found out from my friend that tres leches is made using condensed and evaporated milk and some sort of cake. It was very good as well. I like how food is something that can be shared and that we laughed and talked and had a lot of fun.  Today confirmed to me why eating together makes life so much better!