Peru Lima West Mission

One crazy food I feel like that everyone will say, like, you have to try, it's so good, was tokush. Tokush smelled terrible and I'm not gonna lie, I never tried it because it actually smelled not good. I mean, I'm sure a lot of people liked it, but I feel like that's one crazy food that if you wanted to try, you could. I never did, but if I had a stronger stomach, I probably would have.

There is a plate that is cow intestine and curry sauce and it looks like it'd be good until you never stop chewing what you think is chicken and realize that it is cow intestines. Also like all the soups have like the chicken inside of it is like everything so all your soups will have like a chicken foot in it you can request for it if you want it like from that pot from that chicken that was put in it. If you ever eat fish in there's a few areas up north that sometimes you'll eat fish in it's like down more of the south part of our mission you don't really because you're more in the city but up north there's the ocean nearby and so we would eat fish and they would have like the eyes of the fish in and all the bones so be ready to pick out lots of bones out of your food and but it's fun.

One of the craziest foods I ate was cow intestines. I can't remember the name of it in Spanish but it was so gross. The texture is just like kind of gross and scary but yeah it doesn't smell good, doesn't taste good, but I only had to eat it once so.

I think the weirdest thing was kuih, which is like guinea pig, and everybody makes fun of you because you're like, oh that's a pet, and they're like, and now you have to eat it, but it's actually like a delicacy, and one of our branch presidents, his job was like, I don't know, like breeding and selling to restaurants and other places, and so one day he made us this fresh fried kuih, and it was very strange because they bring it out to you with the head, with the eyes, like you just, they're like, you can eat like the cheeks, it's like, oh this is so weird, but it actually wasn't bad, so there you go.

One of the craziest foods that I had in the Peru Lima West Mission was Cuy. Cuy is guinea pig, so one time our friend served us a whole guinea pig and it still had its hair and the nails on. It was crazy, but it really is a delicacy there and it's a really important part of their culture.

Okay, every meal you're gonna have a mystery yellow drink. Whether you go out to a restaurant or to a member's house, you don't know what it is, so you just have to kind of try it. One of them tastes really good, which is jugo de maracuya, it's like passion fruit juice. That's my favorite. Or you'll get like a really watered down lemonade, which is like, okay, medium. Or you'll get this one that we call fruit loop water. I don't know the actual name, can't remember. So just be Not all yellow drinks are the same, they're typically different. Almost all the food there is yellow, actually. Everything's just yellow, food-wise. Potatoes, carbs.

One of the craziest foods that I've eaten on the mission was definitely Masamune, the Tokush. It does smell horrendous, but it tastes kind of just like potatoes. It basically is a fermented potato dish, and that's kind of an oatmeal texture, so it kind of tastes soupy, and if you add a lot of sugar in it, it kind of gives it flavor, but a lot of people can't really get over the smell of the Tokush, and so they kind of just stood clear from it, but there was one time where I kind of felt bad, and I went ahead and tried a piece, and it was not entirely bad, and it's also really good for your gut too, so if that's a kind of pro to that crazy food.