Food will bind greenhorns, guardians in the Gardens
And follies love to share food with riches
The anticucho takes up with your burdens
Sweat odour recalls melting pot, inches
Where we call chifan in Singapore, Peruvians call chifa
Beats resonance back to the short, short memory of the Padang
When Abraham sacrificed a lamb, anticucho is Maharaja
A king that unites religions, races in nations afar
Unforgettble baptism by ceviche in the Padang
The handsome mazamorra morada, queenly quinoa.
Notes:
Anticucho--- Peruvian skewered striploin beef;
Chifan--- "eat rice" in Mandarin;
Chifa--- Peruvian Chinese restaurant, from "chifan";
Padang--- name of large, wide field for cricket and fairs in Singapore;
Maharaja--- an Indian king;
Ceviche--- Peruvian "pickled fish";
Mazamorra morada--- purple-corn pudding, a Peruvian snack;
Quinoa--- an Andes Mountains' fruit with more proteins than corn