{"id":16205,"date":"2021-12-13T07:56:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=16205"},"modified":"2021-12-13T07:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:56:55","slug":"revisiting-little-lima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=16205","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Little Lima"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part of what I\u2019m calling the \u201cGolden Oldies\u201d series: photos I had posted on Instagram in bygone days that surely belong here as well, from restaurants that are still doing business, still relevant, and still worth a trip. Here\u2019s a look back to 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLittle Lima\u201d is a neighborhood in Paterson, NJ that\u2019s home to America\u2019s largest Peruvian community; I make it out there at least once a year for their annual festival (held around the last Sunday of July) because I\u2019m a dedicated fan of the cuisine. <\/p>\n

In addition to the festival and its concomitant parade, the restaurants in the area are assuredly worth a visit any time of the year – the cuisine is authentic, unpretentious, and top notch. Back in the day we explored two that didn\u2019t make it to these pages until now.<\/p>\n

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\nYou\u2019ll be singing the Cow Cow Boogie when you taste this! (Extra points if you actually know the song.) There are a few varieties of the Peruvian dish Cau Cau; this is the creole version that consists of tripe and boiled potatoes stewed together with onions, garlic, yellow aji pepper paste and a bit of turmeric to further intensify the sunshiny color. Like the next two entr\u00e9es pictured, it was on the extensive menu at Somos Tu Per\u00f9.<\/p>\n

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\nCarapulcra, aka carapulca, is an ancient Andean stew made with pork, papa seca (dried potatoes), yuca, yellow aji panca, garlic and spices. The linguaphile corners of my wiseass brain immediately wanted to attribute its name to some portmanteau of the Latin cara (dear) + pulchra (beautiful), but no, not even close. From Wikipedia: \u201cThe original term in the Aymara language is qala phurk’a,<\/em> which means a stew made with hot stones.\u201d Nice try, though.<\/p>\n

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\nPatasca, hominy soup. You can spot tripe on the right and hominy throughout.
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\nThis is tiradito from El Rincon De Vanessa. It\u2019s one of many ways Peru does raw fish and it\u2019s not at all like ceviche, arguably Peru\u2019s national dish. For tiradito, the fish is sliced thin like carpaccio, for ceviche it\u2019s cut into chunks; ceviche is marinated in citrus juice that \u201ccooks\u201d the fish, tiradito is raw like sashimi (as a matter of fact, it has its roots in Japan) and is covered just before serving under a blanket of yellow aji pepper paste. Traditionally, it\u2019s served with sweet potatoes and choclo \u2013 boiled, plump, Peruvian kernels of corn. It\u2019s delicious and if you\u2019re a raw fish fan, you should definitely try it. If you\u2019re not <\/em>a raw fish fan, you should definitely try it as well; it might just change your mind.
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\nRather than listing a bunch of individual links to other relevant posts that have been <\/em>published here, the Peruvian tag<\/a> will display them and will save you a good deal of clicking back and forth.
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\nIn Paterson, New Jersey, El Rincon De Vanessa is located at 28 Cianci St. and about 2\u00bd blocks away, you\u2019ll find Somos Tu Per\u00f9 at 94 Market St (with an additional location at 270 Union Ave).<\/em>
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Part of what I\u2019m calling the \u201cGolden Oldies\u201d series: photos I had posted on Instagram in bygone days that surely belong here as well, from restaurants that are still doing business, still relevant, and still worth a trip. Read on…. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,6],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-16205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instagram","category-restaurants-food-courts","tag-peruvian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16205"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16243,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205\/revisions\/16243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}