Name: Chef's Secrets! The BEST Places To Eat in Lima | Best In Travel 2023
Uploaded: 2022-08-30T16:56:18.000Z
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Hi, I'm Ricardo Martins.   I'm a chef here in Lima, Peru.

I run a restaurant in Barranco called Siete.

We serve contemporary Peruvian food with local ingredients.

You should come by and try our short ribs

Do you know that I even wrote my thesis in college

on how food gave us a national identity in Peru?

I love how we all understand this organized chaos.

where every single house in the city is starting to make lunch.

Let me introduce you to the flavors of my town.

Spanish, Native Peruvian, Chinese, Afro-Peruvian, Japanese,

this diverse blend of cultures have shaped Peruvian life.

You will see the Spanish influences in our main plazas and buildings.

You can feel the history in the architecture.

Right in the middle of this modern bustling city,

you'll be surprised to find La Huaca Pucllana,

an ancient archeological site built before the Incas.

Overlooking the site is a high-end restaurant

that features contemporary Peruvian cuisine.

I'm having a beautiful dinner next to an archeological site

You can even taste Indigenous influences in the street food.

Near Plaza San Martin,  I bought corn on the cob with cheese -

what we call Choclo Con Queso with some chili with huacatay.

as we know it, is in the historic center of Lima.

It's one of South America's largest Chinatowns.

The first Chinese immigrants moved to Lima 200 years ago.

Their spices, their techniques have shaped Peruvian cuisine in an important way.

There are some of the qualities that make it really Peruvian.

The chilis on the table, the yellow chili peppers.

You have the lemon with chicharon, for example,

that combination which is really, really Peruvian.

deep fried guinea pig with sweet & sour, and salted sauce.

We eat guinea pig in the mountains and some parts of the coast.

One country that's had an enormous influence on Peruvian food is Japan.

Ever since Japanese immigrants arrived in Peru over a hundred years ago,

they have created an unique kind of fusion called Nikkei.

Maido is among the best restaurants in the world.

Something really interesting about this because

that have helped shape the unique landscape of Peruvian life.

Walking around Lima, you see it and taste it.

Now, let's talk about Peruvian ingredients.

The best way to first understand Lima's culinary scene is

Lima is a city that sits on the ocean  behind the Andes and the Amazonian forests.

I'm going to show you how this market, Mercado de Surquillo,

you can find a vast variety of produce from the jungle to the mountains

Mariela knows me since I was a little kid.

What's nice over here is she works with seafood.

Here we have the heads and the body of the giant squid.

You have small shops where you get a few things and you get the best.

My favorite restaurant in Lima is Rafael -

what we call Peruvian contemporary cuisine.

and it's always evolving, evolving, evolving.

For me, this restaurant means the fun of cooking.

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