
Sauces, ingredients, and terms:
- Eel: Sweet sauce made with sea eel.
- Japanese cream: Sugar, white onion, heavy cream, fish seasoning, butter, salt, and soy sauce.
- Cholupa: Oval-shaped fruit, yellow and orange inside, with a sweet and sour taste.
- Mango Chutney: Mango pulp, sugar, ginger paste, yellow curry.
- Red curry: Asian seasoning made from chilies and spices.
- Baby mix salad: Mix of baby lettuce and greens, arugula, curly lettuce, red leaf lettuce, and spinach.
- Oriental broth: Made with fish, chicken, pork, garlic, ginger, onion, and carrot.
- Gyoza: Thin wheat dough filled with vegetables, meat, or seafood.
- Huancaína: Traditional Peruvian sauce made with cheese and yellow chili peppers.
- Ajitsuke egg: Eggs simmered and marinated in soy sauce.
- Kamaboko: Sugar, white fish, egg whites, ajinomoto, and salt.
- Kanikama: Sticks made with crab meat.
- Madurito: Soy sauce, honey, and sesame seeds.
- Japanese mayonnaise (traditional): Traditional mayonnaise with ginger and spices.
- Japanese peanut mayonnaise: Made with peanuts, egg, and sunflower oil.
- Creole picadillo: Traditional mixture of red onion, bell pepper, and cilantro.
- Avocado purée: Made with finely chopped red onion, avocado, bell pepper, and cilantro.
- Acevichada sauce: Creamy texture, with lemon and garlic
- Creamy citrus sauce: Made with ceviche sauce and red curry.
- Cucaramácara sauce: Made with Japanese mayonnaise, avocado, and honey.
- Sweet sauce: Sauce made with heavy cream, cream cheese, and honey.
- Lemon kay sauce: Made with soda, lemon, and sugar.
- Niniko sauce: Citrus mayonnaise, garlic paste, sesame oil, soy sauce, and white wine.
- Pad Thai sauce: Made with tamarind and anchovies.
- House red sauce: Sauce made with roasted peppers, onions, garlic, cilantro, and spices.
- Tartar sauce: Made with mayonnaise, garlic, herbs, and spices.
- Som tam salad: Green papaya, mango biche, carrot katsura, and peanut vinaigrette.
- Soy sauce: Made from roasted soybeans fermented with fungus (koji).
- Sriracha: Traditional Thai hot sauce.
- Surimi: Pressed mixture of white fish and soy protein.
- Sweet chilli: Sweet and sour sauce made from chilies and ginger.
- Tajín: Spicy and sour powdered seasoning from Mexico.
- Togarashi: Spicy Japanese seasoning made from nori seaweed, black sesame seeds, and orange.
- Spicy mayo: Emulsion made from neutral mayonnaise and sriracha sauce.
- Pico de gallo: Red onion, bell pepper, cilantro, mango, lemon, and ajinomoto.
- Scallops: Also known as scallops or pilgrim clams, they are a type of marine bivalve mollusk highly prized in gastronomy for their white, tender meat.
- Truffle: Truffles are edible hypogeous (underground) fungi of the Tuber genus that grow associated with the roots of trees such as holm oaks and oaks. Considered a “black diamond” of gastronomy due to their intense aroma and complex flavor, they are harvested with trained dogs. They are a highly prized and expensive product due to their rarity and difficult harvesting.
- Shrimp furikake: This is a dry Japanese seasoning that combines shrimp salt, nori seaweed, sesame seeds, and togarashi.
- Shrimp tenkasu: These are crispy bits of flour batter with shrimp salt, very common in Japanese cuisine.
- Nigiri: This is a type of traditional Japanese sushi consisting of a small base of vinegared rice, hand-molded into an oval shape, topped with a slice of raw or cooked fish (salmon, tuna, shrimp, etc.).
- Yellow chili pepper: The essential chili pepper in Peruvian cuisine, known for its intense orange color when ripe, fruity flavor (reminiscent of mango or passion fruit) and moderate spiciness.
- Nikkei cuisine: A gastronomic fusion that combines Japanese culinary techniques (precise cutting, steaming, use of the wok) with the richness of Peruvian ingredients (peppers, limes, tubers).