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Ceviche is originally from Peru. There are chronicles, recipes and even songs from ancient times to early in the 19th century. Te Japanese found ceviche but they didn’t invent it

According to some historic sources from Peru, ceviche originated among the Moche, a coastal civilization that began to flourish in the area of current-day northern Peru nearly 2000 years ago

The video is great but I got one correction to the host when she says gheaty Peru is homogeneous culture, Peru is anything but homogeneous since we already had Spaniards French, Africans, Italians, Chinese and many more migrants before the Japanese.

Munchies you are so great! Please do more of this series! That’s something what people should be educated that food is not only a fuel. It’s a moment, it’s a history , it’s a culture

Nikkei is not japanese-latinamerican. Nikkei is japanese-peruvian. Period.

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.

Loved that Munchies did this episode! I am Peruvian and loved how she explains everything, and everything looks so delicious!!!

Ceviche is not influenced by Japanese, idk why foreigners loves to tell that. Fisherman from the north of Peru used to prepare ceviche while they were fishing for long hours....

Great video overall! But certainly there's a bit of historical facts that they are missing. Anticuchos were originally food that slaves would eat, they used the viscera that landlords would discard and grill them. I would not attribute their creation to Nikkei cousine 🤔

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.

I am loving this Series and especially Michelle Zauner. Really like the way she interacts with every one in the episodes. Really good.

El ceviche es creación peruana no peruana japonesa.

If you come to Peru, please make sure to research some places to eat beforehand, there are very expensive places, normal and cheap ones.

I really love this series. Just talking about what fusion actually means and how merge between two different cultures came to be fascinates me!!!

Learning about you’re history gave me goosebumps love you guys 🇵🇪❤️ BUT indigenous Peruvian mix with European and African influences we’re already established before the 1800s. and you can’t say Japanese and Chinese in a sense created what Peruvian cuisine today.. they simply Added there own style influence from home to our plates. They Simply adapted to the circumstances.

thanks for this wonderful, insightful video, Michelle and Munchies!

PROUD OF BEING PERUVIAN!

Ceviche is originally from Peru. There are chronicles, recipes and even songs from ancient times to early in the 19th century. When the Japanese arrived early in the 20th century, they found ceviche. They didn’t invent it "Los pescadores moches (siglo 1 y 8 de nuestra era) tuvieron la costumbre inicial de comer pescado crudo con LIMONES nativos de la zona llamados chullco (agrio), tumbo, puru puru (agrio verde), ceutí (LIMON sutil) como refieren los estudios de etnotecnología alimentaria de Andrés Tinoco Rondán,- " wiki "Ceviche: “sus ORIGENES se encuentran en tiempos Pre-hispanicos cuando los habitants de la costa comian su pescado crudo y lo sazonaban con ajies o lo marinaban en una fruta local acida y parecida a la granadina”- Lima a cultural History.- James Higgins Professor at Liverpool University, - Oxford University Press. "hay estudios que situan el origen del ceviche en el 200 antes de Cristo" - National Geographic - La Ruta Moche "comen carne y pescado, todo crudo. Este alimento es sazonado con sal y ají, cocinado, en algunos casos, en jugo de tumbo, maracuyá o aguaymanto y acompañado con camote, cancha y algunas hierbas aromáticas". FRANCISCO LOPEZ DE JEREZ (1495- 1565) sobre los Moche del Peru - "… venga el sebiche, la guatía enseguida, que también convida y excita beber". Cancion "La Chicha" 1820 "un sevichito de pescado chilcano con NARANJA agria…". RIcardo Palma - Tradiciones Peruanas - 1870 “Por los años 1807 existió en la calle ancha de Cocharcas (hoy de Buenos Aires) la más afamada picantería de Lima, como que en ella se despachaba la mejor chicha del norte y se condimentaban un seviche de camarones” Ricardo Palma 1893 (Mis Ultimas Tradiciones Peruanas y Cachivacheria) “SEVICHE, SEVICHE DE CORVINA, CEBICHE Comparativo de recetas tradicionales seleccionadas de los siglos XIX, XX y XXI.” RECETARIOS Y TEXTOS CULINARIOS PERUANOS DEL SIGLO XIX

Learned something new awesome video. There's a Peruvian restaurant near myself in Hamilton Ontario Canada and the food is awesome

you could make a separate video just about chifa

A great highlight of Japanese-Peruvian non-fusion ;) I live in Peru and often partake in this delicious marriage of two great cultures.

This was so beautifully done💜💜💜💜, such an amazing content and explanation!

Second of your videos that I have watched so far. They are amazing. Please keep them coming.

5:29 You dont know the history of anticuchos, just say that instead of "after party dishes"

I am enjoying this show PLEASE keep doing it, no changes please. :D

Love Peruvian food .

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.

Wow, totally new to me. Love this series!

Great video, but some things are wrong. The Moche culture (100-700 a.C.) prepared cebiche with fresh fish and tumbo (native acid fruit), japanese didn't invent cebiche.

What an awesome episode!

outstanding series, good job munchies

thank you so much for this video.. yes so many fact missing but I love the effort..please do videos about Chifa about the Chinesee immigration .. also we have a huge influence from Italians..we have lots of tallarines and also about the afro Peruvian influences. Peru is just a beautiful melting pot. 💖

*Nikkei cuisine is one of the most interesting we have tasted*

Kisijara chicken is my all time favorite dish. Chicken and cucumbers drowning in a rich soy ginger sauce. Dot in some aji Verde and I'm in heaven.

liked this .. very much culture in adaptation.. not infused.. 😊👍

I was searching for Japanese-Peruvian recipes (post-Meiji restoration) that have been in Peru for generations. This is fusion!

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.

Proud peruano 🇵🇪

very nice episode!! awesome people

My partner is Japanese-Peruvian, people are always surprised by his heritage because people who don't know about the migration don't associate the two countries together. It's amazing how two very different cultures can come together in such an interesting way.

As a expatriate Peruvian, I thank you for such a good research you have done and the so profesional interview you have done. I have learnt a little bit more from this lovely passionate woman. I leave you, I gota cook Lomo Saltado.

Oh man! Ceviche!! I love it! Might go and grab some tomorrow for lunch ❤️

This host is nailing it!

*Watching this makes us want to take a flight to Lima. Miss all the incredible food there*

Not Japanese - Peruvian, but “Peruvian-Japanese In and from Peru”. There is no such a food developed or served in Japan. Nikkei is Peru. Not fusion!!

I've never had Peruvian food and now I am curious!

Thank you. Great explained. We love Nikkei Cuisine

i love this woman so much :(

What a beautiful video about the Japanese influence on the Peruvian cuisine

Food looking amazing!😍

Great episode. Michelle is so awesome and I love her earrings too. 😍

This felt very Chef's Table-esque. I dig.

*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*

Peruvian food like my mom makes will forever be my main comfort food.

I spent some time in S Korea last year and came across a small Peruvian restaurant one night. Absolutely phenomenal food but it seemed so strange to find Peruvian cuisine in an Asian country, it now makes perfect sense.

Two of my favorite types of food in one!!

This is simply amazing. Gratis

Let’s go to Perú!

now, i def gotta go to the Peruvian-Japanese restaurant, also named Nikkei, here in Manila.

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...

Please review Dutch-Indo cuisine

Great Job Michelle. A beautiful episode. This is my mothers lineage. Thank you.

This is absolutely amazing. I'm want to start trying the potatoes dish asap. That's the only one I have all the ingredients for. Smh

Culture through food. YES

This is so beautiful ! ! !

Love this series with Michelle Zauner, great presentation!

Great vid!

That woman explains everything beatifully and doesn't change the original names

I love Peruvian food ...!

Listening to Diving Woman as I saw this pop up. Japanese Breakfast is life.

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!

Loved it.

Damn this really made me miss Peru

I Love This Video 💪 my Great Grandfather is Japanese & I have that blood in my DNA too 🇵🇪🇯🇵💪

My mom is half Peruvian and half Japanese. And my dad is Peruvian

Ill go today!!!!

Michelle 😍😍😍

En gastronomía Nikkei = peruano - japonés Muy independiente a los migrantes japoneses en todo el mundo.

The history of Ceviche is well documented. Nikkei is Peruvian- Japanese cuisine. Corrections aside, nice video. Cheers.

This is Impressive the knowledge...I’m happy to collaborate in the Future

Very interesting

Michelle is an amazing host

Mina: *says anything* Michelle: mhmm

at 1:52........TYPED FROT IN GOOGLE SEARCH!!!, and then clicked the cc option in the RU-vid player!, now feel stupid, but enlightened

I love the interviewer

There's so MANY things that are unique to Peru.

I'm peruvian and ya'll invited to eat here. Won´t regret it.

"When did this people...? I cringed when the interviewer asked that question.

As a Peruvian, I would like to note a few inaccuracies mentioned. Octopus is a well documented spanish/portuguese dish before japanese migration (Pulpo al olivo, or Pulpo en su tinta) The value that Japanese and asian cusine and technique cannot undervalued in Peruvian cusine. Great interview but fussion is by definition adaptation.

9:47 she is so right! Some of the dishes in Perú are not fusion they're a combination, fusion is a superficial word

Nikkei food. Hell yeah !

Music is overbearing, other than that thanks for sharing the vid.

JAJAJSJSJSJSJS nadie va decir nada? soy el único que se cagó de risa cuando mencionó a fujimori? ni que fuese nuestra mejor referencia xd

I love these videos with Michelle! Keep them coming! :)

She’s gorgeous

9:47 Ajá, tas leyendo le pregunta en tu fono xD

I love Nikkei but the influence of Japanese food in Peru is not as big as it is made to sound here. Japanese influences on ceviche... maybe in your five star restaurant, not in your grandmas kitchen or street vendor. When I was in Peru, Chifa was the only Asian influence we knew about. Nikkei is something that just happened to Peru.

No se que dice. Pero me encanta el video.... Hummm ya me dio hambre

VIVA EL PERU CARAJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO clapping emoji

One moment ... the ceviche is Peruvian and it's over, maybe like pisco want to appropriate other countries, but if you want a good experience come and know Peru. Greetings to all.