Parihuela is Peru’s answer to a restorative feast: a deep, brick-red broth flavored with aji panca, aji amarillo, and a mountain of mixed seafood. Restaurants along the coast compete to pile the bowl highest, and it is famously served to anyone in need of warming up.
A whole ocean in one steaming bowl
The broth is rich, smoky, and gently spicy, carrying the sweet brine of shrimp shells and the clean flavor of white fish. Every ladleful brings a different treasure — a tender mussel, a ring of squid, a flake of fish — and the cilantro and lime on top wake it all up.


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