Nikkei
ORIGIN | Japanese 日系
Nikkei refers to the Japanese diaspora.
Those of Japanese ancestry who choose to live outside of Japan.
Nikkei
ORIGIN | Japanese 日系
Those of Japanese ancestry who choose to live outside of Japan.
Thought to be full of gold and rolling with opportunity, this land was also blessed by rich soil and a tender-hearted climate. The call of mirrored mountains and the yearning for a new life enticed Japanese in their hundreds to cross the seas and arrive, exhausted, on the coastal plantations of a foreign land.
So began the relationship.
It not only refers to Japanese-Peruvians, who call Peru home, but to the cuisine that emerged from the blend of these distinct cultures, developed over years of experimentation, collaboration and expression.