Sometimes it's in the name of the food you're eating, as in aji de gallina, the shredded chicken cooked in a creamy sauce with crushed peanuts, aji peppers, garlic and onions, a specialty here. Everything is Peruvian at La Feria, even the turkey sandwiches the two women at the next table are eating. In Peru, they'd probably be nibbling their turkey on the street, where it's sliced to order from the cooked turkey. Here they're having it in a French loaf, with lettuce and aji mayonnaise. One entree I've especially enjoyed is mote chorriado, or Peruvian corn tossed with fresh tomatoes in a spicy cheese sauce.
Peruvian corn tastes a lot like hominy.
The La Feria salad has leaf lettuce, shredded cheese, tomatoes, sliced onions and walnuts. Peruvian pastry layered with manjarblanco, then dusted with powdered sugar. There is also caramel apple pie. At lunch and at dinner, we never had a chance to order dessert. Before we finished our entrees, the totaled bill was placed on the table.