Chapter 3 - Food

Chapter 3 - Food

The Peruvian speciality is “cuy”, or guinea pig. If you read this with a French person on your side, don't be surprised if he/she laughs hard, for “couille” in French means “testicle”! Apparently the best place to eat it is in Cusco, our next destination.

The most common sweet drink is Inka Cola, haven't tried it yet thought.

Amongst other specialities, we've also tried “cevecho”, which is raw fish cooked only in lemon. A bit sour, but very good.

10.12.12

Christian and Pepe took us to the restaurant. We first drunk something made from purple corn, and then before ordering Pepe made us promise to finish our plates. Challenge accepted! We do like challenges... Mistake! 2 enormous plates arrived. We were convinced that it was to share between the 4 of us, but no! One each! Bull's heart (sooo good and tender!), cow's stomach (not tender at all), and something from inside the chicken (didn't get exactly what, but maybe for our best). The whole experience was amazing! We were obviously the only foreigners in the tiny restaurant, and everyone smiled when I finished my plate victoriously. Challenge completed! For my part, for Tom collapsed before the end!

We went to the shop the other day. From habit, Tom took an apple and a pear, and from greed, I took a mango and a passion fruit... and we realised then that these lasts were actually cheaper than the firsts! We didn't see any potatoes, but a full shelf of sweet potatoes; many kind of corn of all colours; we tried a kind of banana that is half way between a banana and a sweet potato, you can cook it with savoury stuffs. Also a big difference is the milk: they don't have bottles of milk, but pouches! Because they have big families, a big pouch is for one breakfast, no way to keep it until the next day! But in the other hand they apparently drink lots of yoghurt. They also have many nice varieties of cheese. Another good surprise was to find French baguette, to my delight.

Big,sticky orange deep fried yehyehyeh!!!!