That evening, we headed back to the Plaza de Armas. The plaza looks amazing in the day and at night. We tried our first Peruvian pizza at Pizza Marengo. It was delicious! The people here like to put mayonnaise on their pizza, but their mayonnaise is different from ours.
The people are are really friendly. Strangers passing by will greet you with a "Buenos dias", "Buenos tardes", or "Hola", unlike other countries where they don't even acknowledge your existence. It's obvious that Peruvians don't encounter many Asians here, so it's happened a handful of times to me where they will say hello to me, and before they even ask me my name, they ask if I'm Chinese or Japanese say "Konnichiwa". My roomies joked that I should wear my traditional Chinese costume on the streets and asked people for Uno Sole to take photos with me.
We stopped by the famous Jack's Cafe in San Blas and was invited by a local to check out their performance across the street at the La Nomade. We got our hot chocolates to go and went across the street. Amber is Korean who if from San Francisco and lived in the India for a bit. She now lives in Peru. She played an Indian instrument similar to the sitar as well as an Australian indigenious instrument. Fernando is a musician and guitar teacher from Lima. They were great!
