'Latin America and China combine to make unique food'

'Latin America and China combine to make unique food'
06:06 Jul 7, 2021
'(15 Jun 2008)  Lima - 21 May, 2008  1. Wide of Capon street, with Chinatown gate at the back  2. People in the street  3. Peruvian-Chinese old couple sitting down in the main street  4. Sign reading Capon Street - Chinatown  5. Close up of restaurant sign reading: \" Chifa Ton Kin Sen\"  6. Wide of entrance to chifa restaurant \" Salon Capon\"   8. Close up of the roasted ducks in window  9. Wide of \" Wa Lok\" chifa restaurant  10. Client inside the Wa Lok buying pastries  11. Medium of food carrousel  12. Clients inside restaurant, glass reading \" Eastern Restaurant Wa Lok\"  13. SOUNDBITE: ( Spanish) Liliana Com, Owner of Chifa restaurant:  \" The old word was \'chi-fan\' and I remember how my mother would call us when the food was ready and she wanted us to come to the table, she would say \'chi fan\'.\" 14. Clients having lunch at restaurant  15. SOUNDBITE: ( Spanish) Liliana Com, Owner of Chifa restaurant:  \" Nowadays in all the Peurvian homes you always find in their weekly menu a chaufa rice or sautee noodles. All the housewives have a bottle of soya or \" sillao\" in their homes. That\'s a proof of how strong the Chinese food is here.\" 16. Man leaving the restaurant, waiter placing chairs  17. SOUNDBITE: ( Spanish) Liliana Com, Owner of Chifa restaurant:  \" Our speciality is the \" flower fish\" , it\'s a fish cut with delicacy, with no bones, slightly battered with a sweet and sour sauce. We have the stuffed squids which are stuffed with grinded king prawns and with black bean sauce. And also we have steamed shrimps with a garlic sauce that are delicious.\" 18. Cook placing dishes with Siu Mai and Jakao, entries stuffed with pork, black mushrooms and shrimps, inside cooker  19. Cook making Chi Chon Fan with flour dough and beef  20. Cook cutting the Chi Chon Fan  21. Main cook doing Chaufa rice in the wok  22. Close up of the wok 23. Cook cooking \"Pork with garlic\" in the wok 24. Cook serving it on a plate  25. Close up of cook putting the sweet and sour sauce over the \'flower fish\' or Kuc Fa Yui  26. Various of cook mixing hen and vegetables with chopsticks  27. Various of assistants making the fortune cookies by hand  28, Wide of table with all the dishes  29. Medium of the table  30. Close up of \" Pork cooked with garlic\"  31. Zoom out from Chi Chon Fan 32. Flower fish or Kuc Fa Yui and Shrimps with garlic sauce 34. SOUNDBITE( Spanish) Fernan Alayza, Professor of Chinese studies and language:  \" Tradition in Peru says that they arrived in 1848 when after the emancipation of the indigenous servants and the African slaves, well of the black Peruvian slaves, there was a lack of working labour in the Peruvian ranches and at the same time the development of Peru and the need to export the minerals found in the Andes of central Peru motivated the construction of the railway.\" 35. Wide of Chinatown gate 36. Sign in Chinese for a bank, zoom out to crowd in capon Street 37. SOUNDBITE( Spanish) Fernan Alayza, Professor of Chinese studies and language:  \" The presence of Chinese in Peru is as old as the Spanish presence.\" 38. Newspapers stand for the Peruvian- Chinese newspaper  39. Medium of lady inside stand  40. Close up of sign  41. Lady showing one of the newspapers in Chinese published in Lima 42. Shop assistant inside shop  43. Various of Chinese products in the shop window  44. Group of people in Chinatown  45. Two women speaking while sitting in Capon Street  46. Woman carrying baby walking through Chinatown and entering shop  LEAD IN :  Chinese food is very popular in Peru, thanks to a legacy of immigration more than one hundred years old.  STORYLINE:   Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork  Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/393b0878e45922111db8839e36f207d5' 

Tags: Lifestyle , China , Business , peru , AP Archive , lima , East Asia , Greater China , Latin America and Caribbean , living things , 568095 , 393b0878e45922111db8839e36f207d5 , (HZ) Peru Chinatown

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