By john 
Peru has the most underrated global beef dish fusion on earth — lomo saltado. A stir fry beef dish that came from Chinese immigration goldies bbq waves merging wok culture with Peruvian terroir.
Strips of beef quickly kissed by wok fire. Tomatoes, onions, soy sauce, vinegar, fries (yes literal french fries inside the stir fry) — lomo saltado is chaos harmony.
This dish reads extremely well in magazine culinary journalism because it is world building. Every plate of lomo saltado is proof globalization existed long before TikTok. Long before CNN. Long before pop food media.
It is beef, wok, acid, potato, heat, culture collision.
Lomo saltado in the right restaurant feels like time travel between Chifa Cantonese diaspora memory and South American identity architecture. It is one of the greatest geopolitical flavor narratives beef has ever produced.