Food & Drink

Beef/steak -- Lomo

Bread -- Pan

Chicken -- Pollo

Dessert -- Postre

Eggs -- Huevos

Fish -- Pescado

Fruit -- Fruta

Lamb -- Cordero

Meat -- Carne

Pork -- Cerdo/puerco

Potatoes -- Papas

French fries -- Papas fritas

Rice -- Arroz

Roast -- Asado

Salad -- Ensalada

Seafood -- Mariscos

Shrimp -- Camarones

Soup -- Sopa (chupe)

Sweet potato -- Camote

Vegetables -- Verduras

Meat

Adobo -- Meat dish in a spicy chile sauce

Alpaca -- Alpaca steak

Anticuchos -- Shish kebab

Cabrito -- Goat

Carne de res -- Beef

Chicharrones -- Fried pork skins

Conejo -- Rabbit

Cordero -- Lamb

Empanada -- Pastry turnover filled with meat, vegetables, fruit, manjar blanco, or sometimes nothing at all

Estofado -- Stew

Lomo asado -- Roast beef

Parrillada -- Grilled meats

Pato -- Duck

Pollo a la brasa -- Spit-roasted chicken

Venado -- Venison

Seafood

Corvina -- Sea bass

Langosta -- Lobster

Langostinos -- Prawns

Lenguado -- Sole

Mero -- Mediterranean grouper

Paiche -- Large Amazon fish

Tollo -- Spotted dogfish

Beverages

Beer -- Cerveza

Mixed fruit juice -- Refresco

Juice -- Jugo

Milk -- Leche

Soft drink -- Gaseosa

Water -- Agua

carbonated -- con gas

still -- sin gas

Wine -- Vino

Cocktail -- Cóctel/trago

Preparation

Fixed-price menu -- El menú

Spicy -- Picante

Hot (temperature) -- Caliente

Cold (temperature) -- Frío

Raw -- Crudo

Cooked -- Cocido

Fried -- Frito

Vegetarian -- Vegetariano

Peruvian Favorites

Ají de gallina -- Spicy/creamy chicken

Anticuchos -- Beef-heart brochettes

Causa -- Mashed potatoes with avocado, stuffed with chicken or tuna

Ceviche -- Marinated raw fish

Chaufa -- Chinese fried rice

Chicha -- Fermented maize beer

Chicha morada -- Blue-corn nonalcoholic beverage

Chifa -- Peruvian-Chinese food

Choclo -- Maize (large-kernel corn)

Cuy -- Guinea pig

Flan -- Caramel custard

Lomo saltado -- Strips of beef with fried potatoes, onions, and tomatoes over rice

Manjar blanco -- Sweetened condensed milk

Pachamanca -- Roast meat and potatoes, prepared underground

Paiche -- Amazon river fish

Palta -- Avocado

Palta rellena (or palta a la Reina) -- Stuffed avocado (with chicken or tuna salad)

Panqueque -- Crepe

Papa a la huancaína -- Boiled potatoes in a creamy and spicy cheese sauce

Papa rellena -- Stuffed and fried potato

Quinua -- Andean grain (quinoa), often in soup (sopa de quinua)

Rocoto relleno -- Stuffed hot pepper

Sopa a la criolla -- Creole soup (noodles or grain, often quinoa, vegetables, and meat)

Tamal -- Ground corn cooked and stuffed with chicken or pork, wrapped in banana leaves or corn husks, and then steamed

Tiradito -- Ceviche-like strips of raw fish without sweet potatoes or onions