Suddenly the week is already over. Today we went to Pardo’s Chicken to celebrate farewell of one IBM student. It is three-story restaurant living up to its name. It actually matches my definition of fastfood, but since it has regular service and the food is definitely a lot better than regular fastfood, I’ll call it a restaurant 🙂

They have a coal-powered oven (truly Peruvian technology) roasting about 50 chicken at the same time (my estimate, unfortunately I had no camera) and looks quite fancy. Most of us had a menu (1/4 chicken, salad and fries + chicha morada) and a small pisco sour. My first actually – it was good, but I really have to try one at Huaringas (the Pisco bar in Miraflores I got to know the owner of, I suppose it has one of the best Piscos because it is mainly filled with Peruvians) before sharing how I like it.

Now that I’m already talking about food I can as well tell you some more. I have to admit, that I didn’t yet try Ceviche and some other famous specialties yet, but eating at the office lunchroom every day already is an interesting exerience. Like many regular restaurants the menu is about 3€ and includes everything they have (bread, starter, main dish, dessert, drink). Normally there are two different main dishes, one was always chicken, yesterday we had fish the first time. Rice and potatos (regular or sweet potatoes) are very common and the dessert is very good. I usually take local fruits I didn’t know before or cake 🙂 As you may have realized eating vegetarian is almost impossible here at work – you’d have to bring your own food or just eat rice and potatoes.

Right now I’m still at work waiting for my driver to finish his work and then we’ll hit the rushour traffic. If we don’t come in too late I’ll join the weekly LimaBabel language exchange in a café close to my hostel.