Alright guys so it is time for another food video.
Today we are eating Nikkei cuisine and that is basically fusion between Peruvian and Japanese
foods.
So we've come to a restaurant in La Molina.
It is called Nikko.
Yep.
This is my Aunt's favorite restaurant.
It is.
She has been raving about it nonstop.
We've actually been here a couple of years ago.
We didn't film.
We've been here twice before.
Every time we come to Lima we end up coming here at least once.
So we are like okay it is time to finally show you what you can eat here.
We've already made one video where we visited a Nikkei restaurant before but that was all
sushi and it was like Peruvian Japanese style sushi.
But this one has a lot more dishes.
It is not just sushi so you can get like meat dishes and rice and fish and a whole bunch
of other things.
Exactly.
So yeah it should be a good meal.
We've already placed our orders.
I think we've ordered like 4 different dishes between the two of us.
So there is quite a bit coming.
It is good we brought our appetites that is for sure.
So let's go in.
Let's go in.
So we made it to the restaurant.
I had a nice little nap on the way over.
You were like sleeping the whole time there.
It was quite the drive out here to La Molina.
It was quite the drive out here.
I remember when we came here like two or three years ago it took like 4 times as long to
get here.
I know there was so much traffic.
But it is a holiday today.
Yeah.
It wasn't very much at all.
Yeah.
Check out the menu.
It is time to peruse the menu.
So it is all fusion.
Peruvian.
Japanese.
There is a really extensive menu so I still don't even know what we're going to order.
We'll just have to take a good look through it and hopefully we'll decide soon.
A little bit of everything.
Exactly.
So the starters have arrived.
We have 3 dishes that we're going to share with my family here.
So this one is a rice with seafood.
It looks really good.
I've already grabbed a bit of that.
We also have pulpo a la parrilla which is octopus cooked on the grill.
Yep.
And it comes with yucca fries on the bottom.
Yuca is kind of like a starchy root or potato.
Yeah.
Exactly.
We have avocado and over here this is an octopus salad with tocina which is like ham or bacon.
So it all looks amazing but we're sharing this so we better start serving it up.
I know.
Let's dig in.
No one likes to wait.
Hahaha.
Oh that looks so good.
I like that they kept the shells in there.
I know.
It looks awesome.
Nice presentation.
Great presentation.
Alright let's pass that along.
And next up parrilla.
Pulpo a la parrilla.
Do you want some octopus?
Oh yeah.
Of course.
Help yourself.
Of course.
Well I don't want to be first.
No one else has had it.
Oh octopus salad guys.
Look at that.
It looks good.
The sauce looks really nice and creamy.
Check that out.
My Aunt said you won't have softer octopus at any other restaurant.
Wow.
Apparently they do it best here.
That is exciting.
We brought our own wine.
Here it is really popular that you just bring your own to enjoy at a restaurant and they
don't charge you an extra fee for it.
Gracias!
No uncorking fee.
Okay Sam is digging in.
Appetizer time.
So time to try that tender octopus.
Oh man.
That is so good.
I really like the dressing.
It is kind of like creamy.
Yeah.
It is like a mayo base.
Yeah it is actually kind of ranchy.
It tastes kind of like ranch.
But it is really good.
That is tender.
And then moving down to the fried rice with the seafood.
Mmmm.
Good stuff?
So flavorful and rich.
It kind of almost reminds me of like the spices that you would find on a risotto or something.
Oh!
That is really good.
And I'm really curious about this.
The octopus cooked on the grill.
Well first the yucca fries.
Oh ho ho.
Mmmmm.
Oh wow.
So crispy on the outside and I have to say I really like yucca but when you eat it you
have to make sure you chew it well.
Otherwise it can get stuck in your throat.
It is stringy.
Yeah.
It is very fibrous.
And then finally grilled octopus.
Wow.
A one biter.
Wow.
I hope you're savoring that.
Hahaha.
That is so good.
Wow.
This is a great start and these aren't even the things we ordered.
This is what your Aunt and Uncle ordered for us.
Yeah, these are the appetizers.
Good start to the meal.
My main dish has arrived.
I went for a ceviche.
I know.
It is like all I get all of the time.
But it is a special one.
Yes, so this one is called ceviche ponja which is like a play on words.
Ponja Japon.
They just like switched up the syllables and it means Japan ceviche.
And it comes with sweet potato.
There is a dish coming.
Oh.
Awesome.
Anyways one of the ingredients that I found really interesting for this one is that it
has soy sauce.
It is a ceviche with soy sauce.
Oh it does.
Yeah.
Wow.
That is why I was like oh this sounds super interesting.
Some breaded squid or calamari I don't know.
Like calamari.
So let's go in for a first bite.
Is it good?
Mmmm.
Different from other ceviches you've had.
Yeah.
It is good.
Yeah?
This one also has a bit of a sweetness to it which is really nice.
A bit of a creamy sauce.
And some spice.
This is really really tasty.
I guess I should also try this.
I can't wait to try it.
I'll dip it in the sauce a bit.
Mmmm.
That is squid.
Wow.
Good?
Really tasty.
Time for your mains.
Oh man I'm so hungry.
I'm so ready for this.
So I got the acevichado rolls and that is basically like the ceviche.
Yeah.
Kind of maki.
In maki form.
Yeah sushi form.
And it has got these little camote chips on top.
Yeah.
Sweet potato.
We've got white fish.
We've got palta which is uh avocado.
Yeah.
And then something else inside.
Oh man.
Mmmm.
That was a huge bite.
So I'm tasting a lot of the crunch from the sweet potato.
I love that.
And then a nice kind of like mayonnaise type of sauce.
And then the two different kinds of fish.
There is the crunchiness in the middle.
And then the contrast of like the the mushiness of the avocado.
That is just a really really good roll.
Premium quality roll.
I've only got 10 of these so I'm going to have to eat them a lot more slower than that
one biter.
You've got to savor them.
Exactly.
But yeah this dish is like the perfect example of Nikkei cuisine because you've got your
Japanese style sushi rolls but then Peruvian ingredients.
Sweet potato.
Yeah.
Exactly.
And you also got some fried rice.
Yes.
Teriyaka Meshi.
Yep.
So it looks like it has got corn.
Which is very Peruvian.
Oh.
It has got different kinds of it looks like there is carrots.
There is mushrooms.
It looks like it has been maybe a little bit of um soy sauce.
And again this is nice fried rice.
But I'm definitely more interested in the acevichado.
Exactly.
Alright so the last dish that we ordered was tempura.
So if you take a look over here you can see that half of it is fish.
And the other half is sweet potato.
So I've actually got your bites that you've already been eating.
My bites.
Yeah.
You can see here this one is the sweet potato this one is the fish.
So I'm trying it now for the first time.
I'm going to dunk it in the sauce.
Oh man.
Wow.
I've never had sweet potato that tasted so good in tempura form.
Yeah.
It is amazing.
They are very thin slices.
Oh my gosh.
I could just eat a whole plate of that.
Yeah.
Now for the fish.
And with the fish it is pejerrey which is uh very popular fish that you can get it locally.
Oh mmm.
It is so salty and tender.
Yeah.
Oh.
And greasy too.
But in a good way.
Alright that was a feast of feasts.
Like we ate so much food.
We ordered too much and we also had appetizers that just everyone else ordered so that was
all so good.
We're actually taking food home with us.
We are.
We just couldn't finish it all.
There were a lot of hungry mouths but we couldn't polish it off.
Anyways in terms of price point a lot of things were around 30 Soles range.
Because we ate so much we ended up paying roughly about $25 US dollars per person.
Yes.
And that was for a lot of food and drink.
We brought our own wine which was great.
It is just really nice to have like a big family meal together.
Oh and the two things I wanted to say.
The two stars of the meal were the grilled octopus.
It was absolutely legendary.
The best octopus I've ever had.
And also your ceviche.
Yeah.
It was so good.
It was like taking normal ceviche and enhancing it with more of like a creaminess and richness.
It was just all so good.
This was just such a wonderful meal.
So if you're in Lima definitely check out this place.
We loved it.
And we'll be back again for sure because this is a family favorite spot.
So ciao and we will see you guys in our next Lima food video.
Bye for now.
Post dinner drive.
Yeah.
Checking out a new neighborhood.
Tad bit of bonus footage here.
This place is what called La Molina?
La Molina.
It is so nice.
Like I didn't know this kind of quiet place existed in Lima to be honest.
Yeah.
We've only been to the busiest places in Lima.
And there is a beautiful lagoon.
It is artificial.
Yeah.
But oh my.
It is so tranquil here.
So you've got the lagoon but in the background you've got like these beautiful mountains
too.
Lots of palm trees.
It is like a different world.
And apparently over here your Uncle was saying that they don't get like uh they don't get
that intermittent weather.
Like all of that mist.
All of that fog.
Yeah.
Every morning.
A lot more sun here apparently.
Yeah, it is far removed from the coastline.
Yeah.
This is pretty cool.
Nice way to end things off.