text: Eating here made me miss Miami big time. Saturday at lunch it was pretty busy with an all-Hispanic crowd (I think more Central American than Peruvian) with lots of kids eating chicken and french fries everywhere.\n\nBut I came for the Ceviche, and that's what I ordered. Ceviche mixto $14.50 (South Beach prices on S. Polk street?) medium spicy please\n\nThe traditional complimentary basket with fried  pan de Yuca was served quickly - if you're not familiar with it the best way I can describe it is like fried dough, like a sugarless beignet with yellow chili sauce to dip it in.  \n\nBad start, the dough was chewy, greasy, lukewarm, old ... in a word awful - I didn't subtract a star because after all it's a freebie.\n\nCeviche is supposed to be as freshly made as possible, in fact the better restaurants prepare it only after you order. Here it had been sitting the fridge for days. The fish was mealy, the shrimp had the consistency of an overcooked limp noodle, the calamare and octopus was harder than leather, even the leaf of lettuce it was served on was the most wilted lettuce I've ever seen. Even the potatoes were old, I couldn't even recognize the taste of the sweet potato and had to ask if indeed that's it was. And the medium was very mild. \n\nI'm awarding it 2 stars because the Tigre de Leche sauce was pretty good - not great - and someone could  eat a meal here and enjoy if they're not picky.\n\nNo way that this type was an isolated incident, just by looking at the photos of the Jalea here: http://s3-media4.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/gkmZl8WuIzVUGBLCbOIVSA/l.jpg   you can tell it was fried to death. \n\nAt Machu Picchu the bar is set really low.