Peru Lima West Mission

My favorite food that I ate in Peru is definitely arroz chaufa, which is like fried rice, and they throw in such random stuff, random meats and vegetables, and it's just the best thing ever with some good sauce.

There were so many but I think to this day I still always want el stofado. So it was like rice, chicken and vegetables. The most basic food ever but it was so good. So definitely ask your pensionista for it.

Peruvians are gonna tell you that their food is the best in the world and it is pretty dang good. My favorite was lomo saltado and it's like they eat lots of potatoes and lots of rice and lots of chicken but it's like rice with french fries on it with this like steak and like tomato and onion like mixture put on top and it's so good like I loved it. So lomo saltado and ají de gallina it's like a almost like a imagine hawaiian haystack sauce but like with more flavor like more of a peppery flavor also the alfajores it's like a cookie with like caramel in it and if you find the right person to make you one oh my gosh they like melt in your mouth they're so good and so it's all good and there's also so many different like bread shops cake shops

It kind of sounds weird, but it's called arroz a la cubana, and essentially it's white rice with fried eggs, normally sunny side up or over easy, with fried platanos, or fried plantains in English. So definitely my favorite, kind of a random, but so good.

I loved lomo saltado. It's like steak, french fries, tomatoes, onions all together. I love, they have this sauce called huancaina, I think ají de huancaina, and it's like cheese, pepper, they put like crackers in there, milk, and sometimes it's more cheesy, sometimes it's more spicy, but they'll have that over like rice and potatoes, and then you can make like ají de gallina out of it. You can add in chicken. That's a really good one that I like.

Let me tell you, everyone else has said aji de gallina and lomo saltado, which are so valid, but I won't touch on those. Just saying not all aji de gallinas are created equal, just so you know. Get a good bishop's wife to make you them. Okay, number two, pizza raúl. Peruvian pizzas, kind of weird, doesn't taste the same, but if you go, if you kind of live in like the city area, get pizza raúl and get the like chicken barbecue pizza. I still think about that to that day, to this day. I don't know what, like all the rest of the Peruvian pizzas are not that good. I don't know what they did. Pizza raúl is so, so good. Other thing, sopa de wonton, you get that at a chifa. So good, so good. It's like for those cold days. It's not that cold, but like for Peru, those like cold winter days, or just go get some wonton soup.