I will now post traditional food from my country without any comment at all...

I will now post traditional food from my country without any comment at all, but I will answer your questions about it if you wish.
t. Peru tourism board wageslave

Seco de res

Pachamanca

Looks like someone already ate it

No pisco ngmi

Chaufa rice

I will answer your questions about it if you wish.

Can you post its history and on what occasions it's commonly eaten in?

I love ceviche!!!!

No huacaina?

Looks like someone already ate it

Not all dishes look great. Pic related is mämmi.

Lomo saltado.
regarding history, most traditional food's origins are from natives or slaves and they had to prepare what they could with the parts of the animals that spaniards didn't use, like the cow's heart, lungs, tail, stomachs, etc. or andean ingredients such as quinoa, avocado, herbs, etc. They were considered "poor people's" food, until many years later after the 90's, it was considered a delicacy once again and some chefs elevated their status.
You can eat it any time you want, but usually
ceviche is for the summer/daytime/beach
soups for cold weathers
pachamanca for outdoor gatherings and heavy drinking

Papa la Huancaina
boiled potatoes and eggs with a thick sauce of milk, chili peppers, crackers and a bit of oil

Peru tourism board wageslave

Ok wagie. Tell me how I get a bowler hat wearing Peruvian midget wife.

Fried guinea pig
there's no way to make this one look apetizing to foreigners I guess...

I'd rather you post your women than your food, but if you insist I do have a relevant question: "How does the Peruvian pisco sour compare to the Chilean version?" Obviously I won't ask you which one's better, but I am legit curious as I've never had either.

Cow's Tongue Stew

Just be white and you drown in pussy in my country. Learn 3 words in spanish and try to pronounce them and every woman will melt and think you are cute and innocent. WIsh I was joking.

mmmm, grilled ticks straight from the garden

Poh-tay-toes, precious?

Oh yeah?
Prove you are a real Peruvian by naming every single potato in this image.

Also post more potato-based dishes.

this is chinese food. it even sounds chinese

Why is all the meat covered in dirt?

Shit, really? Ok, I'm going to Peru. Food looks pretty good to me too.

Just remove the head and limbs

It is complicated but it is 100% from here

This nigga eating guinea pigs

The Mexican version of this they eat it on tostadas, do you guys use those too?

Objectively speaking, Peruvian pisco is better due to the quality of the soil, the altitude and dryness of the ground where it was originated. The word "pisco" (pishcu means bird in a native old language) is the name of a valley that a spaniard lord owned where you could see many birds flying all the time and the ground was perfect for grapes. There is no "pisco" province in chile. Chilean pisco is too strong on the alcohol because it's grapes cannot produce the necessary sweetness that you get during the fermentation process.
but some people like it, so who am I to say.

Cau-cau (cow's lungs)

Ceviche is actually fish chopped in small squares...what gave you the impression that was an insect?

It's almost like this is a Peruvian version of classic Chinese fried rice that was influenced by the influx of Chinese immigrants to Peru!
The recipe was brought by chinese and then adapted by the locals

Arroz chaufa consists of a mix of fried rice with vegetables, usually including scallions, eggs, and chicken, quickly cooked at high heat, often in a wok with onions sauce and oil.

It comes from the Chinese cuisine due to the influx of Chinese immigrants to Peru at the end of the 19th century.

Not that this makes the dish any less Peruvian. If America removed all "traditional ameican dishes" that had influence from immigrants then we'd be starving.

Vertical Austria seems to have great food. What business opportunities are there for American investors (other than slaying mountain pussy and eating guinea pigs)?

Pretty sure they only eat roasted guinea pigs in your country.

Patita con mani (cow's feet dressed with spicy peanut sauce)

Peru has over 4000 types of potaoes. Some of the ones in your picture are: yellow potato, white potato, papa Huairo, papa arenisca, Tumbay potato, purple potato, Chanchan potato, Huamantanga potato, etc

Leafless Canada does appear to have a longer culinary history than here thats for sure

Based. It's unfair that Irish are the ones called "potato niggers" for it is truly a title worthy only of Peruvians! <3

Any tips for gringos who want to have a good visit besides the standard advice of "don't flash money, be respectful, try to adapt instead of expecting everyone to serve you"?

what's the best thing to try if you come into the peruvian restaurant for the first time?

Anticuchos (cow's heart skewered with a stick, on a grill with spicy sauce)

Excellent observation. It is indeed not Chinese (I personally travelled to China and nobody sold Chaufa rice anywhere in China) but a dish created by Chinese migrants (called Culis, chinese brought to do heavy labor work during the colonial period) with peruvian ingredients and seasonings. It is a fusion dish and although it was created by chinese migrants, it is considered peruvian it was created here.

Is that raw chicken?

there is a Peruvian Chinese restaurant in my hometown. please explain

Arroz con pollo (green rice with chicken. the color comes from blended cilantro sauce)

believe it or not, we don't use tortillas as mexicans do. just because we both speak spanish doesnt mean we have the same traditional ingredients, but we do use a lot of paprika, lemons, rice and beans

Aguadito (chicken soup with green herbs blended and mixed with the broth)

investing in food is a challenge now since there are many restaurants that have already fragmented the market, but you can never go wrong with it if you have a good strategy and a good local chef that knows his stuff. It's hard for a foreigner to prepare this food, you would need local experience but it is possible as long as you maintain the real flavors and innovate just a bit to stand out but not too much to enfuriate peruavians for ruining their food (we are very proud of our food...)

For fuck's sake!
Is it even gutted or is it all mushy inside?
Have you imported this dish from China?

Looks like a brownie in a bowl of milk.

Fish cured in lemon/lime

In costa rica you get that on ur birthday.

And they put ketchup on top

Rocoto relleno (bell pepper filled with extremely spicy grounded beef and pork with cheese)

Peru isn't as violent as the media portrays (or mexico) but usually just stay in the center of Lima and same as any other country: avoid alleys without any people and don't look so extremely tourist-like if you dont want local street vendors to rip you off (huge backpacks, gallons of sunblock, etc)
I apologize for those. Stick to nice well stablished restaurants and any traditional food won't cost more than $15 (or 45 soles)
If you pay more than 45 soles for a plate, you are being ripped off. 10 soles is the cheapest, 30 the average, 45 expensive, 75 luxury meal (rip off)

Chang adds some different seasonings to some of the dishes and now he has a fancy ethnic cafe to attract yuppies

Tacu-tacu (fried rice with brown beans and a fried egg, very oily)

As another anon said, that is cured fish with lemon. Kinda raw but not quite. The fish we use are pota, bonito, perico and flatfish

Tamal (peruano. not mexican version. peruvian tamal isn't as spicy and it is a bit more solid)

You won't find real Chinese food there. If it is Peruvian-Chinese, you will most likely have food that has a great deal of onions, chicken and salty/spicy elements. No dog or cat ingredients there. We don't eat dogs here like real Chinese.

I appreciate the response, but I was talking about business investment opportunities in Peru broadly; not necessarily in the restaurant sector. I've never owned a restaurant or food service company before and the left here would savagely harass me if I (a white American man) tried to pass off authentic Peruvian cuisine as my own.

Feel free to tell us about tourist attractions, also.

Papa rellena (potato filled with grounded beef)

Of course it is clean and gutted. We are not animals, we don't eat the intestines of the animals full of shit and stomach acids. We do have a large menu of Chinese-Peruvian dishes created by Chinese migrants/slaves during the Colonial years.

So do you eat your ceviche on crackers? With a spoon? What do you do?

Guinea pig have been food here longer than Chyna has been a country

Fork and Toasted corn also know as cancha

Everything looks good anon, would eat. Do you have cute girls in Peru?

Here's something they make in my countries of origin.

Juane (rice with chicken served in banana leaves with fried bananas. very greasy mind you)

Legally speaking you can open any kind of business and nobody will care, it's basically a liberalism paradise because you can set up a shop and never pay taxes for a couple of years. The problem is if you get big enough then the SUNAT (our IRS) will take notice and start to harass you. You can always set up a front business and sell without declaring taxes.

For tourist destinations, please stop going to Machu Pichu. We have much more nicer destinations and it is considered now a tourist-trap sadly.

This is the thing that Pope Francis worships

Escabeche (chicken burried under tons of spicy onions)

You just eat ceviche with a fork (?). For side dishes, ceviche is accompanied with corn, fried corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, fried plantains (chifles) and the best drink for a ceviche is a cold beer.

Our Miss Universe (picrel) was Tatiana Calmell and I know it's not fair to our average girls, but we were happy with her because she does have the main peruvian skin tone and facil expression of the average woman. Of course a model will always be beautiful so take that as you want (at least it wasn't a black man posing as a woman I guess)

Finally this is what an average cute girl might look like. It's a mix of andean and Spaniard due to the Colonial years. Of course young and slim will also add to the beauty of any woman so take that into account.

cute

Bug sacks, raw pork and onions? OP you and all your kind are revolting. On the other hand, my people and our food are much much better.

Please visit Peru, we are more than just Machu Pichu and llamas.
Don't believe what you see in Paddington 2 please. We have internet and fire and banks.
You can have an adventure in the coast, then high mountains and in the rainforest in a single week!

Kek.

I'm considering a south america trip and Peru might be it.

You convinced me to go.

That's a fukken rat!

This thread is making me hungry. I think I'll make a shepard's pie tonight.

Price ranges about food are very useful anon, thank you.

Have you been to Machu Picchu? Are there any places outside of Lima and Inca ruins that you personally enjoy? Doesn't have to be extravagant; can be as simple as a nice beach.

The coast of Peru has pretty cold water, like in Chile... Do you also have these giant pools at your hotels?

it is considered now a tourist-trap sadly

That's unfortunate to hear. Personally, I think it's still worth the trouble and extra expense because of how amazing and unique the place is.

more nicer destinations

Yes, pleas post some. It's much more interesting to hear opinions of a local than reading any tour guide written by white visitors.

We use fork, though.

You couldn't be more wrong. Shame is very much a Chinese and Middle East thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt–shame–fear_spectrum_of_cultures#Shame_culture
You have to go back...

Guinea pigs actually tastes good, it's just you don't get such large chunks of meat, take note, in case of a nuclear winter these are going to be a good option unless you get laboratory meat or something.

shame culture

That's just virtue signaling. It isn't real shame, which only White people practice.

Arabs invented the whole idea of "honor killing" just to restore themselves after their whore of a mother/daughter/sister shames them. Not the same. You need to quit while you're ahead, Juan.

Construction and import of cheap manufactures is the way to go although be advised this being a thirdie shithole you will have to deal with an stupi ass government and extortion, although there is a high chance we go full Buckele next year, people are extremely pissed of due assassination of a popular artists and mafias targeting schools AND schoolmates.

Was your country settled by pajeets? Most of your dishes look like someone shit on them.

what does llama and alpaca taste like

full Buckele next year

due assassination of a popular artists and mafias targeting schools AND schoolmates

QRD for retarded 'mericans please?

Woke of course, caviars demanding criminals are treated "as humanly as possible" in collution with narcomafias, our country is filled with regional strongmen with connections to illicit trade, these assholes are often elected within congress and is within their interest rule of law and police remain weak, however due politization of our judiciary power of late lawmen have become increasingly aggresive on prosecuting political elites and the other branches of the government, if anything for the chance of them being elected themselves because "they are fighting corruption".

Funnily enough that's beef with cilantro juice, cows are important in folk culture though, with toritos de Pucara being a thing, the difference with poojeets is we see cows as an ingredient for all sort of food, from anticuchos and pachamanca to lasaña and burgers, you shoukd try burgers with salsa tartara and papitas al hilo with an inca kola at Bembos, great times.

have you tried cooking it?

When I said cook it I didn't mean throw it in the flames

Anon you're supposed to let the water boil off enough to make a thick soup not just dunk it in and pour it out into a plate.

Now that's just left overs from the last 5 meals.

you can either have rice or potato chips. You can't have both. Also where is the sauce?

Ah, so there's the source. Maybe you shouldn't have pour all of it out.

That's a bat. The Chinese would be proud.

Maltese delicacy

Shut the fuck up bong