Peru’s Asian Infusion: Influences from China and Japan

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The multicultural stew that is modern Peru gets much of its spice from two waves of immigration-the Chinese in the mid-19th century, and the Japanese at the turn of the 20th century. These two immigrant groups have put down roots, and their descendants are fully integrated into Peruvian life. But at the table and in markets, such as Lima’s Central Market, the Asian impact is hard to miss.

[@TakittyLove]

We Peruvian have received many foreigners gently by 2 centuries of history. We don't segragate, we ASSIMILATE everybody, that's why our Peruvian cuisine and people have a little bit from everybody and everywhere. Greetings from Lima, Perú :) 🇵🇪

[@betwu2488]

Exacto, pero son casi 500 años.

[@MarkMiller304]

Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world

[@cheesewithxbread]

Peru is a nation of immigrants. Wtf? They're not foreigners-- they're Peruvian of Chinese descent. Peru was originally inhabited by Indigenous tribes- then came the flow of immigrants, colonizers, etc

[@thecrimsondragon9744]

Not exactly. The Japanese (and probably Chinese too) were resented for their success at certain points and massively discriminated against. Your rosy picture doesn't reflect reality.

[@user-np1ii7jn6f]

日本人はあなた達から差別受けてたこと知ってますよ😅

[@chorlauheung4920]

I'm Chinese-American. This video is very interesting and informative. Thanks.

[@user-ys6ll8uf3h]

Why do you say you are Chinese American? Why can’t you say you are just American?

[@sidogga1234]

@@user-ys6ll8uf3hBecause America is a melting pot of ethnicities and nationalities. We are all American, yes. But we never forget our parents home country and where our ancestors came from.

[@bluemonstrosity259]

​@@user-ys6ll8uf3h If your origins didn't matter, this video wouldn't even be made.

[@disneyavenger5653]

Afro-Peruvian American here with my Chinese-Peruvian cousins 😅 🙌

[@theroman2130]

Finding out that lomo saltado was made by a Chinese immigrant is incredible. All the more power to Asians in South America!

[@betwu2488]

Lomo saltado is 100% Peruvian dish. It has nothing from China. The original recipe was published the year 1900, and shows that it was always a Lima dish, without any Chinese influence. Lomo saltado is essentially beef, yellow pepper, purple onion, tomato and potatoes, none of those ingredients together is popular in Chinese cuisine, the yellow pepper is Peruvian, the tomato and potatoes are Peruvian, the purple onion is not It is used in the chifa, it is a fallacy that is said to have Chinese origin, even the word SALTADO is by the French word sautée which it means "saltar" in spanish. Lomo saltado flambé is also a French technique, it didn't exist in Chinese cuisine.

[@josetamariz9388]

@@betwu2488 How about the soy sauce and wok? Are those also from Peru?

[@betwu2488]

@@josetamariz9388 En las recetas antiguas del Lomo saltado no figura como ingrediente el sillao, ni tampoco se usaba el wok.

[@jesusluna4498]

Alguien tenia que desahuevar.esa falacia de la influencia china en el lomo saltado.

[@Jhoao024]

@@betwu2488 Así es amigo es peruano pero la técnica original de la preparación es con influencia asiática, me refiero a la técnica que se usa para cocinarlo en la sarten con el fuego quemando por dentro y por fuera.

[@belladriver258]

Peru 🇵🇪 Grande! Contigo Peru 🥰

[@shojiogasavara5942]

Spectacular are the japanese and chinese cuisines in Peru! Delicious!

[@summertime5909]

Many things to learn about Peru :)

[@jacodevnik9883]

But the original Pervians are Asian anyway in origin, like all Native Latin Americans who moved their in the great migration when the continents were still joined together

[@mpireone]

The former President was Alberto Fujimori, he's of Japanese descent

[@vaderetro2794]

Chifa is a word for both Chinese restaurant and Chinese food in Peru.

[@betwu2488]

Chifa is food peruvian

[@Lilhajxjk274]

@@betwu2488 accept that perú is made in china

[@betwu2488]

@@Lilhajxjk274 Falso. A los peruanos no les gustaba la comida china, por eso para acercarse al gusto peruano nacieron los chifas.

[@Lilhajxjk274]

@@betwu2488 Entonces porque la comida china tiene mucha influencia en perú.

[@betwu2488]

@@Lilhajxjk274 Lo que dices es falso, la única fusión peruano china está en los chifas, todo lo inmensamente demás son comidas regionales nativas.

[@theaaronzhu]

One of my elderly clients is of 1/4 Peruvian origin, her parents moved back to China before she was born but now she still has families in Peru. She used to visit Peru once in a few years back when she was not too old for global travels

[@esalinas916]

So interesting!

[@JosemanuelDominguezpriet-ht4oc]

Perú Japón china mezcla de orígenes .❤❤❤😮😮😮..

[@LifeOfBD]

How did I not know about this, def coming here in OCT

[@edithortiz1220]

I live in New York, for more than forty years, and since I started living in Port Chester, I said to all my family, there is a great difference between chinese food in USA, and what we call chifa in Peru, the flavor are incredible, the taste it's just different. There are many influences in peruvian cuisine, the spanish came and they brought, what they called moors, moros, so the ifluence of they are the alfajores, the picarones, african influence and so on, imagine a ceviche, without the japanese influence, our aji amarillo is just unique, and yes, they asimilate, we don't hate people, the way other countries do, you only have to see our soccer team, they are a mix of all our people and they are represented, imagine how many million of blacks and other peoples live in Peru, I see other countries and you only see one or two cultures, do you really believe, they don't have other minorities?

[@manikpanik1337]

In my family tree, there's Peruvian Japanese that came to Mexico. Then my grandpa was born.

[@Garcia-iq2qq]

Please also do about the influence of the Taiwanese cuisine in Peru. Thanks.

[@MarkMiller304]

Taiwan wasn’t even a thing until after the Chinese civil war in the 1950s. It was all just Chinese before then so “Taiwanese” influence would have been limited if any. It would probably be grouped as Chinese food anyways since it’s so similar.

[@freemanol]

​@@MarkMiller304 it's not similar, it's the same. Taiwanese people are chinese and whoever says otherwise is just lying to themselves.

[@user-np1ii7jn6f]

@@freemanoltaiwan is taiwan😊

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

​@@user-np1ii7jn6f Chinese settlers for Fujian province plus refugees from other provinces...

[@latinmusic7147]

Mainly Cantonese cuisine influence

[@manbearpig9234]

Is Chris Hedges narrating this?

[@tommyliangwei3724]

8th August 2014

[@mifco8594]

Se o lomo saltado da culinária indigena puramente Peruana tivesse origem na cozinha chinese a carne de boi seria carne de morcego.😂😂 Chineses inventando que descobriram o mundo é pra rir😂😂😂😂

[@ed39-vt6vq]

:)

[@diegorodrigovelasquezmeniz8026]

Asian inmigrants are always welcome here.

[@sidogga1234]

In America, they excluded us. In Latin america, they welcomed us, well except Mexico, but that’s another story. Still love Latin America❤.

[@horse6412]

@@sidogga1234 Chinese respected Peruvian customs better. Japanese were very arrogant and treated the locals as inferior, acted like they owned the place. Alberto Fujimori for example.

[@Summer-cy9lo]

The truth is most Spaniards who came to the Philippines are from Andalucia, Basque Region, and Madrid. Greeks from Malta, as well as Italians from Sardinia, arrived with them; then French from Gibraltar and Camargue migrated to the Philippines too and the Portuguese settled in many provinces too. These people started to call themselves “FILIPINOS.” They wanted to break away from the power of the KING OF SPAIN. Only those “Castilians, Argentinians and Mexicans are loyal to the king during that time.” They studied and learned all the native dialects in the country; they mixed the Spanish creoles “Ermiteño and Basque Caviteño” with the local dialects and created the “TAGALA” known as TAGALOG. The Native locals of the country were called “ INDIOS.” They thought they were similar with the Incans, Aztecs, and Pacific Islanders.” Governor Narciso Claveria not only imposed the Spanish Names but FORCE ALL OF THESE EUROPEANS TO INTERMMARY WITH THE LOCALS. NOLI ME TANGERE explains that the “MODERN FILIPINOS are a mixture of EUROPEANS, LATINOS, AND ASIANS.”

[@erica-elfriedemarik6647]

Whatsoever. The Japanese should vanish from Peru like the Chinese.Their culture destroys Peruvian identity. I would not like to visit Peru being confronted with Asians

[@EternalEmperorofZakuul]

​@@erica-elfriedemarik6647does this apply to Peruvians who look asian?

[@imafillerbunny]

​@@erica-elfriedemarik6647😂 shut up karen!

[@EternalEmperorofZakuul]

​@@imafillerbunnyshes the same karen who lives in another country and receives the same treatment from the racists who say she's destroying the country's said ethnic identity

[@PeruvianPotato]

​@@erica-elfriedemarik6647Malas noticias para ti porque bastante de nosotros parecen chinos. ¡Chau entonces!

[@sikusuyu]

His pronunciation is terrible

[@unofficiallatinamericanist]

He’s a US American, what did u expect?

[@sikusuyu]

@@unofficiallatinamericanist so am I, My name is also Alexis

[@unofficiallatinamericanist]

@@sikusuyu A female or male or non-binary Alexis? Male Alexis here.

[@trufflefur]

@@sikusuyu The goal of a narration in a video is not of pronouncing correctly any word, but to be able to give information about how the word is written in the language they are speaking to the viewer, in order for the viewer to search later further information about it. So it's ok that he pronounces it with the english vowel system. It helps the purpose of the video of enticing the non-peruvian viewer to know more about the issue being talked about.

[@Indiansareallpajeets]

Love Peru from China🇨🇳❤️❤️❤️🇵🇪