I was yesterday watching the final episode of a Belgian TV program called "Pekin express". What's the concept of the show? Well, they grab something like 10 couples, and make them race from one point of the planet to another distant point with 1 euro in their pocket...the winner of the race gets of course a specific amount of money based on how many challenges were completed ok during the race.
So far there have been 3 editions of this program, most of them in Asia. However, the last edition was held in Southamerica..where the race started in Brasil, and has as finishing point the city of Lima! (capital of Peru...my home country for those who ain't following).
It was absoulutely hillaaaaaaaaaaaarious watching these crazy Belgian gringos (for the record: for us south americans a gringo is anybody that looks caucasic) going nuts in Lima asking for lifts and for directions on how to get to a specific place. One of the tasks they had to fulfill was to sell as much as possible portions of "Anticuchos" at a market in the city center. "Anticucho" is a typical peruvian dish, wish is basically cow hart sliced in small pieces, joined together by a bambu stick and cooked in a bbq grill. It is normally served with boiled potato and choclo (corn)...and for those who haven't tried is deliiiiiiicious!. Anyways, the two last couples (during the race there are certain challenges, in which some teams are dropped out of the competition till only the two best couples get to race the final stage) had to go with a "Triciclo" -which is kind of a modified bike, with a huge wood basket on the front to be able to take different things) from the city center to the central market in Lima. Once at the central market, they had to build their BBQ sets, buy cow heart, prepare the anticuchos, and sell as much as possible of it.
If I would be just a normal guy walking in the city center at the moment that happened, I'm sure I would have asked myself "what the fuck are this gringos doing cooking anticucho????????"...it was have been quite of a show, which it was in fact. Lots of people were surrounding the couple from curiosity...which was in the favour of the couples because they could easily sell their improvised food to the audience gathered by. I really enjoyed watching that, because my home city was being shown from an european perspective, and I could can of picture how people look at us when coming from abroad.
The last stage of the race was going from the central market to a light tower in the district of miraflores, which is something like 8 km away from the city center. In the end, only one couple one the race of course...and took home something like 60,000 euros, and a whole experience of having lived such adventure....not bad eh?
So far there have been 3 editions of this program, most of them in Asia. However, the last edition was held in Southamerica..where the race started in Brasil, and has as finishing point the city of Lima! (capital of Peru...my home country for those who ain't following).
It was absoulutely hillaaaaaaaaaaaarious watching these crazy Belgian gringos (for the record: for us south americans a gringo is anybody that looks caucasic) going nuts in Lima asking for lifts and for directions on how to get to a specific place. One of the tasks they had to fulfill was to sell as much as possible portions of "Anticuchos" at a market in the city center. "Anticucho" is a typical peruvian dish, wish is basically cow hart sliced in small pieces, joined together by a bambu stick and cooked in a bbq grill. It is normally served with boiled potato and choclo (corn)...and for those who haven't tried is deliiiiiiicious!. Anyways, the two last couples (during the race there are certain challenges, in which some teams are dropped out of the competition till only the two best couples get to race the final stage) had to go with a "Triciclo" -which is kind of a modified bike, with a huge wood basket on the front to be able to take different things) from the city center to the central market in Lima. Once at the central market, they had to build their BBQ sets, buy cow heart, prepare the anticuchos, and sell as much as possible of it.
If I would be just a normal guy walking in the city center at the moment that happened, I'm sure I would have asked myself "what the fuck are this gringos doing cooking anticucho????????"...it was have been quite of a show, which it was in fact. Lots of people were surrounding the couple from curiosity...which was in the favour of the couples because they could easily sell their improvised food to the audience gathered by. I really enjoyed watching that, because my home city was being shown from an european perspective, and I could can of picture how people look at us when coming from abroad.
The last stage of the race was going from the central market to a light tower in the district of miraflores, which is something like 8 km away from the city center. In the end, only one couple one the race of course...and took home something like 60,000 euros, and a whole experience of having lived such adventure....not bad eh?
4 comments:
Eys! ese programa se va a estrenar ahora en España, están haciendo el casting...pero no creo k nos llevén por allá pork sabemos español...y en el casting no quieren k se sepa el idioma.
pd. los españoles tmb son gringos??? es k no entiendo muy bien el significado de esa palabra! xD
Gringo es el que es blanco con cabello ligeramente rubio y los ojos claros :), o sea puede ser cualquier persona de cualquier pais que cumpla esos requisitos
Actually it was a french TV show :)
(unless the french tv show stole the idea of selling hearts and making a couple wins)
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