Chile Food
Chile food is generally not very interesting. Typical
Chile food is pretty simple and simply flavored. The people here generally eat three or four meals a day. The breakfast is generally light with fresh butter. The lunch is the most important meal of the people residing here and it is normally taken between 1 - 2.30 pm.
Some of our important dishes in Chile are empanadas, corn pies, corn cakes, beans, and curanto, but perhaps the seafood is the most delicious of all. Abalones, razor clams, mussels, spider crabs, oysters, conger eels, salmon, corbinas and sole are among the wealth of fresh seafood captured along the 4,000km length of our shoreline.
Chile's wines and fruit have also acclaimed an international repute, and are acquired mainly in the country's highly fertile central zone. Aside from wine, the conventional spirit is 'pisco', which is generally mixed with egg white, lemon juice and sugar to form the ubiquitous 'pisco sour.'
Santiago has a variety of interesting restaurants at a range of prices; from Mexican and Peruvian to sushi and Middle Eastern and, of course, fast food. In other regions, however, there is not such a variety: here, Chilean, Chinese and Italian foods are the most common.
National specialties of Chile:
- Empanada
- Humitas
- Cazuela de ave.
- Bife lo pobre.
- Parrillada
Chile National drinks:
- Chile is famous for its wine.
- Pisco is a brawny cordial extracted from grapes after wine pressing.
- Grapes are also used to make the sweet brown chicha as well as aguardiente, like brandy.
- Beer is drunk throughout the country.
