Dining in Peru!!

Dining in Peru

Day 1: The first day we arrived in Peru we were all very excited to try some new and different foods. Since we arrived late we only had time for dinner. We decided to go to a restaurant called Huaca Pucllana. We decided to split an appetizer of Crunchy Yuca spirals with huancaina, a creamy cheese and chilli sauce ($6). As for our meals we each decided to go with the Chicken breast stuffed with cheese and leek, with an aji amarillo risotto and crunchy leek ($9 each). Everything was delicious. We all just had water to drink on the first night so that was free! Total=81

Day 2: We went to Incanto for lunch today and got an amazing deal on fresh fettuccini, we only spent ($4) each on the pasta! It was really delicious, surprisingly even better than Olive Garden. We also each tried a pisco sour, the specialty drink of the day. ($3 each) For dinner we decided to pick up a pizza from Donatello, a famous pizza shop in Peru. We wanted to just go relax so we just enjoyed a spicy sausage pizza and a cheese pizza at the hotel. ($20) Total=55

Day 3: We decided to try some Peruvian fast food, Cooper had heard that the Peruvian Bembos is a hamburger joint that is much better than McDonalds. We decided to test the theory and each got the most popular burger and fries the Bembos Clasica. ($6.90 each). We wanted to check out La Mar for dinner, it seemed like a pretty popular place, the dishes we decided to get were; ravioli ($5.50), quinoa ($6.25), and kiwichia ($7.00). We just split these meals since it was so much food! Total=53.25

Day 4: We decided to just grab some KFC since we were all feeling a little homesick, I didn’t know they had so many of them all over the place. We were pretty excited to taste some familiar food. The other things we’d tried had all been delicious but it was quick and easy. We split 2 buckets of chicken ($9.99 each). For dinner we went to Sonia’s we were still feeling pretty full from lunch but decided to check it out anyway since we wouldn’t be in town much longer, we were so glad we did! The portions were huge and 3 of us decided to have the Arroz Chaufa de mariscos (seafood fried rice) ($7 each) and the other 2 had the hicharon de pescado ( deep fry chuncks of fish and seafood) ($8 each) Total= 56.98

Day 5: We would be leaving Peru shortly and only had time for lunch today, we wanted to really make it count so we picked our favorite places that we had eaten and split up, the girls and I decided to head back to Incanto, we all really enjoyed the fettuccini last time but decided to have something a little different this time, I went with the beef ravioli ($6), and Mirijam and Britney went for the lasagna ($8 each). They boys decided to head back to Bembos, it turned out it was much better than McDonalds! The boys tried the Hawian and Mexican burgers this time, they were huge ($12.90). We all really enjoyed trying all of the new foods, looking forward to our next destination! Total= 47.80