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Best Lomo Saltado in London
“Beef stir-fried in a wok, served over chips AND rice. Chinese-Peruvian fusion before fusion had a name.”
What the real thing tastes like
Born in Lima's chifa kitchens: beef strips flash-seared in a wok with soy sauce, tomatoes, red onion, and ají amarillo — then served over fried potatoes with rice on the side. The chips soak up the soy-beef jus and go half-crisp, half-drenched, which is precisely the point. A 19th-century Cantonese technique speaking fluent Peruvian.
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The jus-soaked chips are the star of nearly every review — crisp edges giving way to soaked centres described in slow motion. Double-carb guilt is confessed and universally waved off; wok smoke separates the great versions from the pan-fried pretenders.
Order it here when it has
- chip-drenching jus
- smoke on the beef
- double-carb joy
- fusion pedigree
Walk away when you see
- soggy chips when weak
- portions humble nobody
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