Food and Drink

Food

So currently my experience of food has been going out with the guy I am staying with and a few things I just noticed from walking around the super market. So the first place I went to when I arrived was a sushi place. You might be thinking  'Ah that's pretty standard around the world the way it is made.' This was not so the Chilean sushi all had it's own twist on it. For one they used avocado in almost everything which I thought it was a great idea. Sometimes instead of wrapping the nori in seaweed it was avocado.

sushi with avocado wrapping

They also had a lot of a local food called 'ceviche' with the sushi. Ceviche is raw fish marinated lemon juice with onions and big pieces of sweetcorn. Oh there is sweetcorn in everything and I mean everything. There are sweet drinks called 'mote' which are drinks made from sweetcorn or wheat grains and conserved apricots in a sweet liquid.

Ceviche

                  mote

Other than sweetcorn there is a way of cooking called al a pobre. This is usually a dish which is served with sauteed onions, fried potatoes and some form of an egg. There is dispute over whether the eggs should be fired sunny side up or be scrambled. This dish is a usual accompaniment to large portions of meat.

A la pobre

The country is also famous for its seafood, however this is a whole different kettle of fish. As the topic is so large I will cover fish and the seaside culture in another blog-post.

 Alcohol

The main alcohol of the country is probably a hard liquor made from Pisco. This hard liquor is made from grapes and most commonly drunk with either coke or lime. The liquor is deceptively easy to drink even on it's own but be warned it is just as potent as any other liquor.

Pisco

If you are a beer person the country isn't particularly great for beers. The cheapest drinkable beer is a Chilean beer called Escudo. The rest are quite expensive compared to all other alcohol which is significantly better.

Escudo

 I am specifically speaking of the wine which is very affordable at  £3 for a decent bottle of red. Their love of wine continues with a sangria like drink which is called Borgona which is red wine mixed with strawberries and Clerico which is white wine mixed with peaches.

Borgona

There is one drink that I should mentioned that stood out as a liver destroyer is called a Teremota which translates to earthquake. The concoction is a cheap pint of wine mixed with red berry sauce with a huge dollop of pineapple ice-cream. It as potent as it is delicious, which is very.

Teremota