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Eat a rat
It may sound terrible for other cultures, but to eat a rat in Peru is a tradition!
And very deliscious indeed. Yu don’t need a menu. You choose your rat from the cage and diner is ready in 10 minutes. The name of the dish is ‘El Cuy’.
We love to try out the local specialities when we are in a foreign country and we are particularly keen to try out food that is not generally available back home. So, when we found out that one of the Peruvian specialities was guinea pig, we were eager to sample it for ourselves as we have never tasted this animal before.
This little cute town in Peru is called Caraz. It is located in the Andes mountains, and you can get an idea of rural life in this country. The campasino and campesinas with their traditioal clothes, and hats are friendly with a smile on their face most of the time. The local bazaar which also sells witch craft products such as ‘love potions’ is a must in the things to do while you’re in Caraz. Witnessing the daily life in the villages around is also as interesting.
The interesting part about this particular restaurant located in cute little town, is that you get to choose your guinea pig before it is served. Most of the tourists visiting the country may consider this as ‘savage’ but it is very normal for locals so try not to make a scene as the locals may think you are being disrespectful towards thir culture.
It was hard to imagine these relatively small balls of fur making a very filling main course. We had absolutely no idea what it was going to look like when it was served up either and it was quite a surprise when it arrived laid out whole on a sizzling platter complete with its legs. It was considerably larger than we were expecting about 25cm and it has to be said that it looked so much more like a large rat than a guinea pig - but then if we didn’t mind eating guinea pig we could hardly object to eating rat could we?
This cuy, despite its name, the guinea pig is not related in any way to the farm animal but, by sheer coincidence, the meat did actually taste like pork and its crispy skin was like pork crackling! It really tasted quite nice but it did take a very long time to eat as getting the meat off the ribs and legs was quite labour intensive.
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