Chifa

Chifa is a <a href="/facts/Chinese_Peruvians/M8RtzejI">Chinese Peruvian</a> culinary tradition based on <a href="/facts/Cantonese_cuisine/vMGPv9Ny">Cantonese</a> elements fused with traditional <a href="/facts/Peruvian_cuisine/zFvstht6">Peruvian</a> ingredients and traditions. The term is also used to refer to restaurants that serve the chifa cuisine.
Though originating in Peru, the chifa tradition has spread to neighboring countries like <a href="/facts/Ecuador/Tdv7czY4">Ecuador</a>, <a href="/facts/Chile/uEyTfEcx">Chile</a>, and <a href="/facts/Bolivia/YNBoDKKR">Bolivia</a> through increased Chinese immigration.
Chinese-Peruvian food has become one of the most popular types of food in Peru. The first Chinese-Peruvian fusion restaurants were opened in Lima in around 1920 in <a href="/facts/Barrio_Chino_(Lima)/x7qeMtMy">Lima's Chinatown</a> (Barrio Chino). There are thousands of chifa restaurants across all <a href="/facts/Districts_of_Peru/z66gp91X">districts</a> of Lima and many more throughout other cities of Peru, with sometimes multiple independent restaurants operating in close proximity on a single city block.

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