Nikkei is a Japanese-Peruvian Mashup Born From Migration - Close To Home #01
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Date: 2020-05-17
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bengurlie
I think people are exaggerating about japanese influence in Peruvian cuisine. My parents are Peruvian and I asked them about the influence of Japanese culture in Peruvian's food and they agreed to a certain extent but majority of Peruvian cuisine is influence by Spanish and Peruvian ancestors. Lomo saltado is a mix of Peruvian and Chinese if anything not Japanese. -Ceviche is not influenced by Japanese at all it was introduced by fishermen on the coast of Peru eating their fish directly from the sea with just lemons and salt.
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I think people are exaggerating about japanese influence in Peruvian cuisine. My parents are Peruvian and I asked them about the influence of Japanese culture in Peruvian's food and they agreed to a certain extent but majority of Peruvian cuisine is influence by Spanish and Peruvian ancestors. Lomo saltado is a mix of Peruvian and Chinese if anything not Japanese. -Ceviche is not influenced by Japanese at all it was introduced by fishermen on the coast of Peru eating their fish directly from the sea with just lemons and salt.
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Gina
I think Peru is the country where the natives and the immigrants came together to find the way of survive from all difficulties and struggles in one way or another one with opens minds and opens hearts, this is the point why Peruvian food is Universal because all locals and immigrants from, Africa, China, Japan, Italy, France Arabic countries etc etc. came together to be happy with the taste and texture of each recipe history. -. respecfuly the fusion of cultures what given the Mixture of Pruvian Kitchen.
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I think Peru is the country where the natives and the immigrants came together to find the way of survive from all difficulties and struggles in one way or another one with opens minds and opens hearts, this is the point why Peruvian food is Universal because all locals and immigrants from, Africa, China, Japan, Italy, France Arabic countries etc etc. came together to be happy with the taste and texture of each recipe history. -. respecfuly the fusion of cultures what given the Mixture of Pruvian Kitchen.
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Aracelli
I'm peruvian and I don't understand why many of my compatriots fight like this over ceviche. Yes, ceviche is peruvian, but as I watched this video I'm capable of understand that the cheff here is trying to reinvent with her creativity many popular peruvian dishes by mixing ingredients that are originally japanese and peruvian. She is trying to show the context of the japanese inmigration and nikkei culture, obviously most of these dishes aren't influenced at all by japanese culture.
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I'm peruvian and I don't understand why many of my compatriots fight like this over ceviche. Yes, ceviche is peruvian, but as I watched this video I'm capable of understand that the cheff here is trying to reinvent with her creativity many popular peruvian dishes by mixing ingredients that are originally japanese and peruvian. She is trying to show the context of the japanese inmigration and nikkei culture, obviously most of these dishes aren't influenced at all by japanese culture.
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Celena
That's not technically Nikkei, its more like Fusion food. Nikkei has its own cultural roots in Peru, just like the Chifa (Chinese-Peruvian, its not modern fusion food, but it is more deeply embedded in the culture of Peru. The people that came from Japan & China has established this for more than a hundred years, its part of the country's identity and cultural diversity. Two chefs from two different countries collaborating isn't a correct representation of Nikkei.
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That's not technically Nikkei, its more like Fusion food. Nikkei has its own cultural roots in Peru, just like the Chifa (Chinese-Peruvian, its not modern fusion food, but it is more deeply embedded in the culture of Peru. The people that came from Japan & China has established this for more than a hundred years, its part of the country's identity and cultural diversity. Two chefs from two different countries collaborating isn't a correct representation of Nikkei.
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Primal
Eating Peruvian/Japanese food at the (now sadly closed) -La Bodaghita- (apologies for the bad spelling) restaurant in Isesaki, Gunma in Japan was one of my crutches while living there. If it wasn't for the Peruvian, Brazilian, Indian, Pakistani and Filipina restaurants and businesses there, I would have gone mad. --Lomo saltaldo, chicha morada, Inca Cola and cows' hearts on skewers are still some of my favourite guilty pleasures.
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Eating Peruvian/Japanese food at the (now sadly closed) -La Bodaghita- (apologies for the bad spelling) restaurant in Isesaki, Gunma in Japan was one of my crutches while living there. If it wasn't for the Peruvian, Brazilian, Indian, Pakistani and Filipina restaurants and businesses there, I would have gone mad. --Lomo saltaldo, chicha morada, Inca Cola and cows' hearts on skewers are still some of my favourite guilty pleasures.
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Jackeline
-Actually, Ceviche exists many centuries before Japanese imigrantants came to Peru, even Spanish Conquerors came there(1532)-. -Ceviche exists before Inca Empire(1400, it was cooked with -tambo- a Peruvian root(like Potato and Sweet potato, which it gived ceviche that acid flavor, because limes were brought by Spanish conquerors years later. -Ceviche's nothing to do with Jaspanese cuisine, although both use raw fish-
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-Actually, Ceviche exists many centuries before Japanese imigrantants came to Peru, even Spanish Conquerors came there(1532)-. -Ceviche exists before Inca Empire(1400, it was cooked with -tambo- a Peruvian root(like Potato and Sweet potato, which it gived ceviche that acid flavor, because limes were brought by Spanish conquerors years later. -Ceviche's nothing to do with Jaspanese cuisine, although both use raw fish-
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alvaro
exactly! peruvian ceviche is very ancient way before the japanese inmigrants got to Peru, my history teacher said to me once that there is a theory, the paracas, and nazca cultures were the pioneers of the ceviche since their cultures were so close the sea, then of course most fisherman in Peru will tell you their side of story about ceviche since they have been making this delicious dish for decades!
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exactly! peruvian ceviche is very ancient way before the japanese inmigrants got to Peru, my history teacher said to me once that there is a theory, the paracas, and nazca cultures were the pioneers of the ceviche since their cultures were so close the sea, then of course most fisherman in Peru will tell you their side of story about ceviche since they have been making this delicious dish for decades!
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David
-To Peruvians that doesn't exist, just the fact that if it taste delicious, wow it taste delicious. There's only the four senses not the fifth. -? No entiendo Mina, eres Peruana? O no? In my opinion, I think Peruvians have more than a fifth sense. Keep experimenting, but remember, Peru is full of gods, and they love their traditional food. ---Love, ---David
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-To Peruvians that doesn't exist, just the fact that if it taste delicious, wow it taste delicious. There's only the four senses not the fifth. -? No entiendo Mina, eres Peruana? O no? In my opinion, I think Peruvians have more than a fifth sense. Keep experimenting, but remember, Peru is full of gods, and they love their traditional food. ---Love, ---David
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All
This series is so great. I love that the food are obviously political-- in that there is always a give when cultures meet-- and it is not hidden or glossed over or fluffed up. Food the way it is eaten by people who belong in a specific geopolitical cultural space. And Michelle lets her guests shine, absorbs their knowledge, and actually does her homework.
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This series is so great. I love that the food are obviously political-- in that there is always a give when cultures meet-- and it is not hidden or glossed over or fluffed up. Food the way it is eaten by people who belong in a specific geopolitical cultural space. And Michelle lets her guests shine, absorbs their knowledge, and actually does her homework.
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