You may already know the Peruvian lomo saltado or chaufa and the baked (not fried) pastry of Peruvian empanadas, but if you haven’t had the oversized choclo corn, mashed potato causas, chunky ...

A fried rice dish, chaufa has roots stretching back to waves of Chinese migration to Peru in the 19th century. With them came their culinary traditions.

Its twin, the “Super Mariscos,” is even more startling, being a deep-fried whole fish sitting on a mountain of Peruvian paella that audibly sizzles when served ($40-$52).