Name: LIMA, PERU | Best FOODIE City in Latin America (w/ Luke Korns & Valeria Basurco)
Uploaded: 2025-08-13T18:40:39.000Z
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We're in Lima, Peru, and this is a cow heart.

We are in the Parque de Amantes, as you can see by this.

Either way, it's a cool place, great view, and we have an awesome day lined up.

Lima, as we said, is one of the best food cities in the world.

It's combining a bunch of different influences from indigenous, Andean recipes, European, and even Asian.

We're going to go around exploring the city, and we're starting off with a spot right down here to get one of the most typical dishes of Peru, ceviche.

It feels like home in an interesting way.

These cliffs kind of feel like Santa Monica or Torrey Pines where we're from, where there's a glider port.

You've got paragliders flying right in front of us, ten feet away.

First stop of the day is at Punto Azul, a classic ceviche spot here in Miraflores.

There is a bit of a debate about where ceviche comes from, but most historians agree that ceviche, as we know it today, originated here in Peru in colonial times.

The predecessor of the dish was brought over from Spain by Moorish women in the south of Spain, but basically it's just raw fish mixed with lime, lemon, onions, chili pepper, and that kind of citric juice actually cooks the fish without flame.

There's a bunch of different takes on ceviche.

We've quickly found that the biggest challenge in making this video is that there are simply too many good restaurants to feature here in Lima.

A lot of them also are really, really, really good restaurants like Central, which you might have seen in Season 3 of Netflix.

It's one of the best restaurants in the world.

It's definitely the best in Latin America.

A lot of those restaurants need reservations, and they can be really expensive.

What we're going to try to do in this video is show you places that are easily accessible, some that are more expensive than others, some that are cheaper than just sandwich spots.

We're going to try to show you guys a balance of quality and price and have a great time exploring Lima.

This place is a very famous ceviche spot.

It's kind of like a mix of a bunch of different types of ceviche, and we've been joined by our buddy, who's a local now in Lima.

We knew each other through the internet, and we just met last week or two weeks ago at Buffer Fest where Luke premiered a film that he filmed here in Lima, and we realized that we're going to be in town at the same time, so we've been connecting.

I've been counting every month as it goes by.

It's like a corn drink from purple corn mixed with some purple drink.

We have ceviche in the belly, and now we're going to head down the street, a ten-minute walk to a sandwich place called El Chinito.

Next location on our Lima foodie tour is Sanguecheria El Chinito.

Supposedly 50 years ago, a Chinese family moved here and wanted to make affordable, good sandwiches.

Like we said, about three percent of the population of Peru is Asian, mostly Japanese, but there were some Chinese indentured servants who came here in the 1800s, and their mark is left on the cuisine.

For Japanese food, there's this whole thing called Nikkei cuisine, which is a mixture of Japanese and Peruvian food.

Hopefully go somewhere, try some of that, but too many restaurants, not enough time.

If you feel like too many pisco sours, have one of these.

At 14 soles, or about four dollars and some change, it's a pretty good way to get some pretty dank food here in Lima.

Moving onwards, we'll see what else we find after this.

Quick stop, coffee break in San Isidro at a place called Pucupucu.

It's a Quechua word, which means bird that eats the sunrise, and I think they have Amazonian coffees, so let's go have one.

Now we have moved to Grimanesa Vargas Anticuchos, and they specialize in one thing, cow heart.

To be completely honest, when Luke told us about this place, I didn't know what to think.

I'm not a huge fan, but we're going to try it.

It smells good, seems to be popular, and this is my first time trying Inca cola.

Now that we're eating marathon, I think the key is just eating a little bit in each place.

We have the green sauce, and we have the pink sauce.

It's supposed to be aji, and this is something else.

Now it's dinner time, and we're at a restaurant called Matria back in Flores, so we're going to have a quick chat with the chef, Arlette, and she's going to tell us a bit more about the philosophy behind the restaurant.

We have scallops, and they have been marinated in five different types of limes.

I don't know much more than that, but I'm going to eat it.

Second round, we're doing a Japanese-Peruvian dish.

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