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Food From Peru

Friday, March 7th, 2008
at 1:56pm

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Lately, I’ve been asking for all of you in countries outside the US to send me emails with a list of the foods popular to your culture. I love food… and I love to learn about other places and people. The response has been excellent! Keep them coming. This video is all about Peruvian food.

  • Ceviche. (I think its called Marinated fish in the USA) Can you eat fish with potatoes, sweet potatoes, lettuce, lots of realllly hot chili and onions? Well if you can, you should try this. Remember… its very hot and you may feel a bit dizzy after eating it. Definitely don´t eat it before doing any physically demanding activity.
  • Seco a la Norteña This is a really strong dish. It has either lamb meat or chicken, with rice (btw most south-american contries use rice as their primary dish), tomatoes, onions, and beans. This dish is particularly famous beacuse once you eat it, you will start to feel sleepy.
  • Arroz Chaufa. Most people will actually consider this is a chinese dish, but its not. A talented chef came to Peru in the early 1930s, and he invented his delicious dish. It happens to be the favorite of mine. As I said before, rice is used to make most dishes and this one is no exception. Along with the rice, it has chicken, chinese onions, traditional onions and Sillao. I don´t know if there is even an equivalent to this in the USA. I think this is the dish I’m going to miss most when I leave peru.
  • Aji de Gallina. This has rice, potatoes, chicken and (i dont know how to describe this but jus look at the picture and i hope u can undertand what i mean). It has a kind of a mash. It’s delicious, although it feels a bit strange when you eat it.
  • Chicha Morada. This is the Peruvian drink of excellence along with Pisco, made of a special purple corn. It’s delicious… just add some lemon juice, piña juice and sugar and you will be good to go.
  • Ceviche This is a mix of fish, lemon, corn, sweet potatoes and seasonings. This is an excellent dish Chris, if you ever come to Peru you MUST eat Ceviche.
  • Arroz con pollo This dish is basically boiled chicken with green rice, corn, carrots and a good complement to it is onions.
  • Lomo Saltado This is meat with french fries, fried onions and tomatoes. This is nothing like the “meat and fries” you get at your local McDonald’s. It is very tasty. The onions and tomatoes give it more of a spicy “kick”.
  • Causa Rellena This dish is basically one layer of potatoe at the top. Then in the middle either chicken, avocados, or onions. Then you have another potatoe layer at the bottom.
  • Anticuchos This may sound gross to some people, but it’s made of the cow’s HEART Cooked on the grill with a spicy sauce, it is awesome.

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31 Comments

llamaking12

March 7th, 2008
at 5:02am

can some one help me i had problems playing youtube vids and i got a virus so i formatted it and it still wont play them it plays like 30secs than freezes

chrispymage

March 7th, 2008
at 5:51am

“where impossible to stop”

schlynn

March 7th, 2008
at 5:52am

at 31 seconds is the funniest part of the vid.

vahnx1337

March 7th, 2008
at 8:02am

this video is corrupt, it says 0:00 on his profile

JRSP20Draw

March 7th, 2008
at 9:39am

I’m from Peru man xD.

robertoct

March 7th, 2008
at 12:01pm

Ceviche very good in summer
Seco a la NorteÑa tasty
Arroz Chaufa peruvian style chinese food
Aji de Gallina creamy
Chicha Morada of the Inca’s Culture
What about the dessert??
mazamorra morada????
arroz con leche???
I miss Peru
My homeland by the way

XesJin

March 7th, 2008
at 12:52pm

¿Donde esta el puerta del baño? Lmao, your the best Chris, Im from Argentina and i hope someday you talk about us! :)

Cloe

March 7th, 2008
at 2:16pm

My wife is from Peru. The dishes you mention are really good, my wife cooks them here all the time. Two main meals you forgot about though. Yes, the Peruvians love Guniea Pig, especially baked. When you order it, you get the head and teeth. I tried it, but don’t particularly like it. Also, you can eat Alpaca. Such cute animals….but damn they taste good. Very lean meat.

If you ever need a place to stay in Cusco, let me know. My family has a house there.

-Alan-

thebluestbutterfly

March 7th, 2008
at 4:50pm

By the way…smiled at the Ponzy comic (don’t know if she will).

Kinkyilu

March 7th, 2008
at 5:06pm

There are even MORE types of food in Peru, believe me , you’ll be surprised. There are some peruvian foods which may look like other foods, but the ingredients are not the same trust me.
Arroz chaufa ain’t exactly peruvian.. but moste ppl seem to like it.

Macchu picchu is considered one of the 7 wonders and the real pisco is peruvian ;)

BTW.Chicha morada DOES NOT taste like corn!! lol!! it rly doesn’t so don’t ever be afraid of it.

Arturo Puente

March 7th, 2008
at 6:51pm

Just wanted to say hello, the way u said Piña Colada this time was correct Chris (finally). I love everybody on the chatroom (have you ever considered to nickname the chatroom “PS3 VS XBOX360 Chatroom”?), hope u liked my list.
zZ5

Bob

March 7th, 2008
at 6:55pm

My cousin used to live in northen Chile and would travel every now and then to Peru where he learned to do Ceviche. Man, that stuff rocks! Seriously, it is one of the best dishes I’ve ever tried in my life!

Cesar

March 7th, 2008
at 9:05pm

Great Chris, as a Peruvian I am very proud of my food. Arturo has made a good selection but this five are the only the top of the iceberg.. ping me if you visit Peru .. you will see ;)

zoia.org

March 8th, 2008
at 12:46am

video en el que comenta sobre la comida peruana

Windows Vista Torrent

March 8th, 2008
at 3:23am

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king6188

March 8th, 2008
at 4:24am

asssu k rica comida!

RyoAce

March 8th, 2008
at 5:21am

“don’t look for the mcdonalds” haha funny quote :D

Laslo Rojas — 5 años combatiendo la amnesia

March 8th, 2008
at 6:43am

¿Quién es Chris Pirillo? Un super nerd con mucho éxito. Tiene un blog y un programa en vivo con miles de visitantes (sep, he ahí otra cosa que no ha sido inventada en nuestra blogosfera lorcha). ¿Y por quéPirillo habla de comida peruanaen una reciente edición de su geek show? Fácil que para los gringos, interesarse en la gastronomía foránea aumenta los niveles de geekness. Curioso cómo se refiere a “qué tan al Sur” ha viajado, como si ir más allá de México fuera todo

pspaddict01

March 9th, 2008
at 8:09am

Lamb meat here is called kabab :D

DrSurprise

March 9th, 2008
at 8:53am

lol, i’m from Peru and i don’t even like chicha morada because its a purple corn drink!

Kinkyilu

March 9th, 2008
at 11:43am

like i said.. Chicha morada doesn’t taste like CORN ppl … plzzzz. just try it. Most turist specially americans are surprised that this drink is actually made of corn. Am from Peru I worked in a couple of hotels ppl.

tinman5432

March 9th, 2008
at 2:35pm

OOOOOOOOOO
The white race is the most beautiful, what other race has a pontential to have hundreds of combination of coloured hair from vivid auburn red to nordic blonde and eyes ranging from azure/cyan to dark blue/jade

Unfortunately through inter-racial breeding, all that genetic diversity will be lost and the future humans will have 60% asian features and 30% indian features and 10% black or other and they will all be muslim living under sharia law…

Dont let this happend…
OOOOOOOOOO

M & M

March 9th, 2008
at 9:44pm

comida y creemos una franquicia con ella. Claro hay muchos pasos previos que dar antes (nada es fácil en esta vida) pero si no los vamos dando no lo vamos a hacer nunca, ojalá alguien como Gastón Acurio lo esté haciendo.Aquí va el enlace a Chris Pirillo. 

gia257

March 11th, 2008
at 10:44am

Try aji de gallina with pecans, I like them much more than the regular yellow one.

aleksandor007

March 13th, 2008
at 12:55pm

excellet peruvian food !!!

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March 14th, 2008
at 12:44pm

@bluestbutterfly, if you want to join my Twitter buds. Sometimes I can be found sitting around listening to music in Second Life. Usually, you will find me every day here….I talk a lot. :-) Hungry yet???Food from Peruand panini always LOOKS good to me,too. Will you be the first guest brave enough to try the lampfrey soup??? Perhaps someone at the party really likes books??? I talk a lot at parties…so, here’s this one…..ten dollars shipping is economical.

beachsun221

March 28th, 2008
at 1:29pm

NERDY ****!!!!

Honeymoon~ ew yr actually married

Cosas que me apasionan » Elizabeth Moreno L.

April 8th, 2008
at 2:34pm

Geek como Chris Pirillo hablé sobre la comida PERUANA. Y es que estar en otro país hace más difícil poder encontrar todos los ingredientes para preparar los suculentos platos peruanos. Como dicen: A extrañar el sabor de la comida peruana En elpostque realizó Chris, habló sobre el ceviche y el seco a la norteña, que son mis platos favoritos y no precisamente porque sea del norte peruano, sino que realmente son para mí, los platos más BUENAZOS - como se diría en Perú.

inCuerdo

May 22nd, 2008
at 3:01am

Im from Chile, but we eat a lot of that food here… we are neigthboors lol…

good post Chris, I love it…

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