The ULTIMATE Peruvian FOOD TOUR 🇵🇪 in Lima (14+ dishes!)

food is one of our favorite parts of travel and just in life in general there is no better way to get an introduction to a new country than by trying some of its most iconic eats while we tried a couple Peruvian dishes in our last video we have made a list of around 14 more items that we still want to try ranging from traditional dishes to quick snacks and drinks plus an item a bit out of our comfort zone beef hearts and over the next couple days we're going on the ultimate Peruvian food tour in Lima which lucky for us is said to be one of the best food cities in Latin [Music] [Music] America for our first stop we're at labodega Verde which is a super cute Cafe with a beautiful plant-filled Courtyard and we're here specifically to try lukuma this is a fruit grown in the Andes that has a green exterior and orange starchy flesh when we went to Blue gelateria the other day they showed us the fruit and we tried to sample of their lukuma gelato and this morning we're going to try it in smoothie form it looks so milky and smooth and buttery the color is so pretty too mhm oh man so good I don't know how to describe the lukuma it's like kind of citrusy it almost tastes like caramel to me it's decadent so decadent when we saw the inside of the fruit at the gelateria you could see it looked all really like starchy like a potato and I can almost kind of taste or feel that texture that starchy kind of gritty texture in it I see why this fruit is so loved here in Peru cuz this might be one of my new favorite fruits I really like it I know I want another one I'm so glad we didn't share we contemplated just getting one that would have been a bad call yeah I'm like really slurping this down oh my gosh you're like over halfway oh no save it save her [Music] it I made a friend man the cats in Peru are just so sweet hi mine's really curling up it's it's getting gumpy [Music] [Applause] [Music] quite possibly the most famous dish here in Peru is ceviche which is raw fish that is marinated in lime juice with onion chili pepper and salt in fact it's the country's national dish you can try cevich all over Lima but we came to to Alto Pez which is a tiny spot that has become very popular due to Netflix and we ordered their Ceviche de piscato plus their combinado which comes with ciche mixto Aros Mariscos and chichon de first ever bite of Ceviche so limey and fresh and cool oh man so much flavor in there the fish is like butter it is so soft the first thing I noticed when this came out is that the corn is huge oh my gosh it's like three times the size of normal corn oh wow wow the only thing I've ever had similar to this is pokey and so I kind of expected it to be like that but this feels even more tender like Adam said the the fish just kind of melts in your mouth and it is so limey and tangy I wasn't sure if I like saiche I think I love saiche this is delicious it's also not fishy tasting at all it has such a mild flavor and so you really just get the flavor of the lime juice and all of the goodies that are in it I'm pretty sure I've had fried calamari before this is squid light and crispy on the batter I feel like times before I've had calamari kind of chewy again this is like so tender I've never had squid before m it's actually really good I didn't think I'd be eating any of these but that's really good our pallet is expanding I love [Music] it before we continue eating our way through Lima we want to give a huge thank you to AO for sponsoring today's video when traveling internationally it is super important for us to stay connected not only so we can keep in contact with family but also so we can easily navigate unfamiliar areas request transportation to get around town read reviews of restaurants and coffee shops and have easy access to important emails for our trip for years we either wasted time chasing Wi-Fi paid expensive international fees with our Us sales service provider or bought a physical SIM card but over the last few years 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it's like kind of sweet and creamy and I don't know I've never had a fruit that like tastes like that it's interesting it's so good it's kind of like tropical tasting it almost tastes kind of like medicine to me really a little bit but not in a bad way tropical medicine [Applause] [Music] yeah one of the most popular drinks in Peru is the Pisco Sour which is a cocktail made of PCO egg whites and lime but since we don't drink we're going to try another Super popular drink an Inca Cola and we've actually had this a couple years ago at the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta but it's been a while now and we don't remember what it tastes like we do remember it tasting good but it's very very yellow yeah I can smell it from here now this kind of tastes like a little bum bubble gummy kind of yeah it tastes like bubble gum so trippy because it's bright yellow so you think that it would smell or taste like lemon and then you sniff it and it tastes straight up like bubble gum like the pink bubble gum it doesn't taste as it tastes different than it smells to me it tastes just kind of sweet a little tropical it kind of has like a similar flavor to the Cherry MOA that we just tried also we're drinking this on the rooftop of our hotel we're staying at the Fairfield Mir Flores which has been a great spot and they have this amazing just Rooftop Bar hangout area at the top of the hotel with an awesome view of the city [Music] tonight we're eating at isolina in baranco which is a beautiful restaurant that serves lots of traditional Peruvian foods to be honest you could probably try most of the foods that we're having in this video at just this one restaurant but we decided to try just four here we're starting with two potato dishes potatoes are a huge part of Peruvian cuisine the Inca were the first to cultivate potatoes around 8,000 BC to 5,000 BC and now Peru has more than 4,000 varieties of native potatoes one popular potato based dish is CA liia this is layers of mashed potatoes seasoned with lime and AI a Peruvian chili that is a staple in so many dishes plus a layer of avocado and a mixture of meat and manise with hardboiled egg on top all right on First Impressions it looks like a dessert it looks like a beautifully done cake with nice like frosting over the top but it's not I'm really getting a hint of that lime and that AI so look look at the potatoes they look just yellow like they wouldn't have much flavor but this actually has way more flavor than I expected it's really good and just basically just creamy like all the textures in here are just creamy interesting that it's cold one thing that's surprising me about this dish is that despite having heavier ingredients potatoes and mayonnaise and avocado it just tastes so light and fresh and this is Papa Rena which is mashed potato that is stuffed with a mix of seasoned beef raisins olives and hard-boiled eggs and then fried to give it a crispy exterior when they first brought this out I thought they just gave me a loaf of bread that's exactly what it looked like the only thing I'm not excited for in here are these guys the olives we can get out of here there's another one I've tried I just can't get into them all right oh man that is like really hearty and Meaty that is a very comforting dish it's almost a little sweet because this is so hearty and Rich I think the perfect addition is this salsa creola which is like an onion salsa it adds that perfect amount of brightness and freshness to it and next up we have Lomo salato which is probably the second most popular dish or most well-known dish here in Peru after saiche it is beef that is stir fried in a soy sauce and AI based sauce and served on a bed of french fries with onions and tomatoes it's kind of a hybrid of Latin American and Asian flavors which is something that we'll be exploring a bit more tomorrow and I this is the dish I've been most excited to try here I don't know if I've ever had it before I'm sure I've had it somewhere in the US but this is going to be the real [Music] deal that is delicious steak and french fries are probably two of my favorite foods so I don't know how you could go wrong with this dish but the sauce is so flavorful the steak is nice and tender the potatoes still have a little bit of a crisp even though they're kind of like soaking in the sauce oh my goodness you put steak on in anything and I'm completely [Music] sold the mixture of like the grill flavor and the sauce is so good together just lived up to my dreams and last but not least we have ai de gayen this is a Peruvian chicken stew with a creamy AI based pepper sauce and served with hard-boiled eggs on top it's kind of hard to describe some of this stuff I can taste a little bit of the pepper in there but it's also just and like I this is also a theme but like it just tastes very creamy and thick and like Smooth Adam was saying that he kind of thought it tasted like concentrated chicken soup and that's kind of the best way I can describe it I think it's like they took the cream of chicken in a can and like that's what it is with a bunch of chicken I don't think that's actually what they did no I don't think that's what they did but it seems like know what it tastes [Music] like and now for the food we are most nervous to try ATI cucho's Decor Zone which are marinated and grilled beef Hearts we've never had the best luck with organ meat and by best luck we mean we've never really liked it but I've heard these are delicious and they actually look pretty good it kind of just looks like steak slightly different but mostly just like steak so I'm going to tell myself it's just steak all right that is what a beef heart looks like it really does it kind of just looks like a leaner steak it smells delicious can't believe I'm eating heart right now it's really good it's kind of just like a chewier piece of steak but I don't mean chewy in a bad way it's not when steak is the bad chewy it just has a slightly different texture to it mentally a little hard but pretty solid if you didn't tell me I wouldn't know it's not yeah fmer is maybe the better word it's just kind of I don't know it's more meaty almost yeah but it's really good especially the grill flavor on there the marinade is the marinade and that Grill flavor you get you smell all the smoke we also got a liter of chicha Mara which is one of the drinks I've been most excited to try here and it is made out of purple corn and it has a bunch of spices in it ooh oh someone told me they thought it tasted like Christmas or the holidays and I could totally see that oh yeah you just want to chug that man it doesn't taste corny but you do get a little bit of the spices in there it almost tastes like like a more tame like cranberry juice or like grape juice or something kind of reminds me of all of the Kinder punches we had at the Christmas markets in Europe that's what I was going to say that is so good [Music] besides traditional Peruvian food which is called Creo another Cuisine that you must try here in Peru is chfa which is a fusion of Chinese and Peruvian flavors this dates back to the 19th century when Chinese immigrants arrived in Peru and on our walking tour in our last video our guide said that many people come to Peru and they say I don't want Chinese food I want Peruvian food but he said no chfa Is Peruvian food and while you can find chfa places all over town we decided to get our first taste of chfa to come to a spot called Titi so this place has a massive menu it's kind of like the Cheesecake Factory or a dictionary so it was very hard to choose what to get but we got three of their dishes that we heard were some of their best and we're starting with the won soup so from what I can see in here there's delicious looking slices of pork there's the wons in here it looks like there's some pieces of chicken some green onions and then it has a clear broth and it smells so good I like their dishes too they're very decorative and then there's like a little very nice place yeah a little Quil leg in there too and like a leg of a oh wow [Music] something I just got a little bit of that broth but it is so good oh it's nice and salty and savory it's a good like stock stocky broth these wons are massive M that was much more graceful than me it looks so simple cuz it has a clear broth and you don't see evidence of a ton of spices or herbs or anything but it just has such a deep and rich flavor oh my gosh that pork is perfectly fatty oh melts in your mouth wa oh that smells so good we also ordered the chaa Especial this is one of the more classic chfa dishes it's fried rice with pork FRS and chicken that is some really good fried rice out are the two dishes we've tried so far I don't know what's Peruvian about any of it but it is just super high quality very tasty very flavorful and just really good Chinese food and last but not least we have the garlic duck so I had read a lot of reviews that the duck here was phenomenal and there's this one specific duck dish that everyone seems to get and we're really just like fumbling our way through Spanish while here and we ordered the wrong one but it smells incredible and when it arrived it was just sizzling and popping oh my gosh it's garlicky it's a little sweet it's Savory and it honestly just kind of tastes like chicken thighs to me and when you get a little piece of the skin [Music] M oh baby oh my gosh the bees love this oh my God getting attacked by we got to eat them before the bees get us oh my gosh oh no one just fell in the sauce gross this is a disaster the be are attacking us they are all over the picaron yeah they're like on them they're on me oh I hate these I don't know what to do oh this is so scary uh this turned out to be much more stressful than we thought it would be so we're back at Kennedy Park which we went to in our last video which is famous for its cats but it also has some stalls that serve a variety of treats including Pik rones oh my gosh there's like nine be on them right now so these are basically donuts made out of squash and sweet potato and then they have this sweet sauce called chanaka I think ped on it which is what the bees are loving right now I hate bees so much this is honestly my worst nightmare this is the food I was probably this I can't even talk I'm so stressed out right now this is the treat I was most excited for but now I'm terrified of it I read a review that the bees were bad and I thought they were just exaggerating but they were not okay quick quick oh my God oh my God I think it would have been better to try these in a restaurant without bees M they're really good though very very sticky but chewy in the middle the sauce is nice and sweet but the doughnut itself isn't overly sweet between the very exhilarating car ride to get here and this I think my heart rate is just like through the roof right now I'll give you a safe one m M those are so good just like chewy and crunchy on the outside I want more of the chanaka but I'll probably scoop up a bee with it this one oh that one's dripping this one is dripping in the juices M this soft takes it to the next level so tip to eating these if you come to eat them at the park just put the peones on the ground let the bees just hang out on it and then when you're ready to grab one just kind of shake it a little let them fly off and grab it real quick they aren't bothering us as much and you get a Dance Workout it's like a Zumba yeah this is like like a Zumba class oh my gosh [Music] oh be careful it's all over your fingers they're going to come get you [Music] we found another goodie in the park and it seems like the bees don't like this one so we can eat it in peace but this is masamura it is a purple corn pudding that is spiced and then thickened with starch and while you can eat it by itself you can also eat it with a rose con leche and then it's topped with cinnamon there's some condensed milk and then some shredded coconut and I actually already tried this but uh someone wasn't recording so instead I'm going to have Adam try it so you can see a true first impression so this is served warm and it looks a lot kind of like oatmeal with like a jam on top M it's way better than oatmeal though it really is yeah it's nice and sweet and spicy and this mazam Morris I mean it tastes just like the chicha mara but in jello like a gelatin or pudding form man I really like this did you get one for you this is for me I used to eat rice pudding a lot Growing Up So this just feels right at [Music] home we have one more food we want to try we got to work up an appetite looking good [Music] okay I'm going to fill that [Music] tomorrow are you ready to eat now uh not really but I will do what I got to do you just might have to roll me back to the hotel [Music] for our final stop we came to Primos for some poo alabrasa which is Peruvian roasted chicken oh baby that's some good chicken I don't think I've ever seen a chicken so juicy and tender it's almost like it's like underdone but it's not it's like perfectly done has a delicious seasoning on the outside nice and salty also came with this yellow sauce I think it's AI pepper sauce hopefully it's not super hot cuz it's a good amount that's probably spicy uhoh told you it's spicy I instantly felt like my sinus is open the flavor of the sauce is really good but in small small small doses there are of course many more delicious foods to try here in Peru but that's all we can fit in our bellies for now but thankfully we still have 3 and a half more weeks here and tomorrow tomorrow we are heading to Cusco for some Epic Adventures and of course more food including a food that we are scared to try yeah little little bit [Music]