In Spain, the Philippines, Panama, Colombia, Guatemala, everywhere I've ever heard the word, chicharron means "deep-fried pork skin", but the comments below and wikipedia will make me pay more attention in the future to chicharron. Especially in Bolivia, where chicharron is ribs. whaaat.
In at least Lima, chicharron means "breaded deep-fried fish strips".
I was dumbfounded yesterday when i found out.
I'm found dumb fairly often. I cannot confirm whether this is a Lima-only idiosyncrasy or if there were fish strips in Cusco that I never got to try because i was avoiding "chicharron".
I like peruvian chicharron, I'm not a huge fan of pork cracklings.
Looks delicious. Whatcha got there, like a fish 4 ways type thing? What's in the shot glass?
I love people. I love how different and yet similar we all are. Food is probably the coolest expression of our diversity.
You are right for sure, food is certainly one of my favorite cultural representations!
Ceviche, seafood-cheese-rice, chicharron, and then tiradito
I'm not a huge cheesy rice fan, but the tiradito is basically sashimi, so that was very fresh and interesting.
That glass holds leche de tigre, which is a blend of fish stock, spices and lime juice, and people keep telling me that it's the different than the ceviche sauce, but every single one I try tastes the exact same as the sauce they put on their ceviche, so I can't describe the difference between leche de tigre and ceviche sauce.
The sauce is super important for ceviche, and another place I'm crazy about in cusco still has the best ceviche sauce.