Lemon, onion, hot pepper and fresh fish: with these four ingredients as a base, the Peruvians conquered the stomach of the world. The ceviche is simple and strong, tasty and unique. In the coastal cities of Peru, it is prepared in markets, cevicherías or ceviche bars, modest places that do it only at noon, when the fish is freshest. Here it came from the hand of the great Peruvian community installed in our country -whose nerve center is the Abasto neighborhood- but now its authentic and popular version also arouses passions in Palermo.
Assu Mare! (the quintessential Peruvian expression, something like saying “wow” or “how tremendous!”) was born in Once, by the hand of a couple: the Venezuelan Luciana Quinta; and her husband Dangelo De la Cruz, born in Lima, former executive chef of La Causa Nikkei in our country. Her dream was to install ceviche as a fresh and delicious dish that can be eaten on the go, freshly made, like on the beaches of Lima. They have it in its classic version (white fish), mixed (fish and shellfish), or shellfish; all with their leche de tigre (the juice resulting from the mixture of all the ingredients), and accompanied by sweet potatoes, lettuce and cancha corn, always with the level of spiciness desired by the customer. There are also tasty variants such as the ceviche forklift, with squid cracklings (rabas), and the new cevicausa, cross of cause (potato stuffed with avocado and rocoto cream), topped with ceviche.
One of the particularities of Asu Mare is its marine duos or trios, which allow you to try different house specialties at a friendly price. Thus, she can combine her ceviches with a tasty rice with seafood, a chaufa (Chinese-type salted rice) with seafood, or with addictive fish or squid cracklings.
For dessert, you can’t miss the suspiro limeño with an original touch of lemon verbena (cedrón) in its mixture; and to drink, it is essential to start with a pisco sour, and continue with a chilcano (pisco and ginger ale). A good sign: his audience is mostly Peruvians, and they can be seen enjoying themselves.
