mmm guinea pig

Well on our first night in Cusco we finally sucked it up and tried the local cuisine, cuy, aka guinea pig. We also wanted to try the alpaca so we ordered a meat assortment if you will. We ate at Sumaq Misky, which was delicious. v. cool laid back steak house of sorts. anyways, the alpaca was delicious! kind of like a light steak. The guinea pig on the other hand... well i´ll first the menu had a whol epage called ´Sunday Guinea Sunday. which we thought was hysterical . now as for preparation of the cuy, we thought it would come out cooked in something so we wouldn´t really have to look at it. WRONG. it was a guinea pig wing, i´m not kidding, which meant right at the end of it was this tiny little cuy foot. sorry if i´m grossing you veg heads out, but trust me, it disturbed us too. The worst part proved to be cutting into it. I don´t know how to put this nicely, but basically the skin looked like human skin and was disgusting. Poor Steph had to do the cutting bec. i was gagging. We each tried a piece of the meat inside and that was it. we can say we did it and never ever eat it again. so if you´re coming to Peru and are adventurous foodies like we are i would say try it. but prepare yourself for what it looks like.