Lagos Cafe Society: Saturday 21.11.2020, Aqui Ha Gato

 




Not Strictly Come WAGS, but the Lagos Bubble plus Mike and Jill meet for coffee every Saturday after market, at either Aqui Ha Gato or Delicias, as these fit the criteria of having not only decent TM's and coffee at local prices, but also have space and a terrace.

    Myriam wanted to post this curiosity in the WAGS blog post for this week, but, I feel that there may be sensitive readers who might be appalled at the thought of having an animal on the table that is not prepared for consumption. Therefore a separate bloglet that will not be published officially, but left to the enlightened to discover for themselves.



    While grouped in our separate tables of 3 and 3, to conform to the current legislation, and aware of the impending lockdown curfew, Myriam noticed a man at a nearby table with his pet Guinea pig ON THE TABLE, alive, and sitting on a towel, but placid. Of course she had to engage the man in conversation and photograph the fortunate creature. Fortunate because she had determined the man was not Peruvian.


During the ensuing conversation, we discussed the edibility of the creature and how to cook it.

When home I fact checked to make sure some of the stories were true.





EATING CUY: PERUVIAN GUINEA PIG DELICACY

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grilled guinea pig dish in the peruvian Andes at Cuzco Peru

They’re not pigs and they don’t come from Guinea. Peruvians don’t keep them as pets. What they are is a delicious delicacy best served with potatoes and salsa. A traditional food, Guinea pig (called cuy in Peru) has been served whole on special occasions since Inca times.



GUINEA PIG SPECS

Adult guinea pigs weigh in at around 0.5kg (1lb) to 1.2kg (2.5lb) and measure 20cm (8 inches) to 40cm (16 inches) in length. Think small chicken. And that’s exactly what it tastes like. Well, not exactly, but close enough. Cuy is a tastier meat than chicken, in my opinion, having a bit more oil and faint ‘gamey’ flavour to it. The meat is actually low in fat but high in protein so it could be considered a pretty healthy food. Higher in protein than most animal products westerners eat daily, cuy is a meat Paleo people will love. It’s more of a dark meat than even the leg of chicken and punches above its weight in the nutrient category.

So now you know! They look delicious and I suspect Cuy Piri Piri would be popular in the cafe restaurants of the Algarve.
However we have only seen one, though we often have Pan Pipers from the Andes playing in our Town Square. 

Now the name of this restaurant is Aqui ha Gato.  I wonder?

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