Chinese Peruvians?

Heavenly Father does answer prayers. How do I know this? Let me explain.

I absolutely love China, don't get me wrong. But I really can't handle the whole "let's eat rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!" concept. In fact I hate it. I used to love rice and now I gag at the thought of it. Unfortunately that is kind of my only option to eat here at our school. Rice, weird veggies, and cold nasty meat that should be illegal. I always get food to show respect to the chef, but I always end up throwing most of it away. It's either throw it away, or eat it and accidentally throw it up...

Needless to say, I have been pretty hungry lately. And this is where the answering prayers parts come in.

One day Andrea, Maddie, and I were walking around Da Fu Yen (the big shopping center here) and we saw some people that weren't Asian. Any time you see other foreigners it's just super exciting. The girl in the group saw us too and came over to talk to us. She told us she was from Peru and then introduced us to her other family memebers. Her older brother, Daniel, is quite the character. His sense of humor is very similar to my uncles sense of humor so it was kind of refreshing to joke around with him! Anyway they ended up inviting us over for dinner so that we could celebrate Halloween! But it wasn't just any dinner.

We got to their apartment and it smelled amazing! He had two marinated chickens roasting in a roaster! They made potatoes, and the most incredible sauce to put on them. We asked him what was in the sauce and it's some sort of cream, cilantro, crackers, and some other stuff. It was DIVINE! Then he made a salad. And I don't know if you know how exciting that was. We haven't had fresh lettuce since we left the U.S. The Chinese people always steam it. So we were so excited! It had lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, and avocados with this yummy lime mixture that he spread all over it. It's not dressing, just lime juice or something. It was SO good. The mother made some fresh papaya juice, which was also amazing. And then to top it off the sister (Mayo is her name), made dessert called Delica de Lemon. At least i think that's what it was called. It was heaven.

We stayed there for a long time and just talked to them. I think I might know more Spanish by the time I come home than I do Chinese.. haha! But I left feeling so happy, grateful, and full! Bless their Peruvian hearts!

-Kambrie