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| | LA Weekly: Dining: Counter Intelligence: The Gringo Killer |
 | | As bouillabaisse is the specialty of Marseilles and paella the most famous dish of Valencia, jalea is the great specialty of Lima’s industrial port suburb Callao, a fry-up reinforced with tubers and oniony salsa that seems to encompass half the creatures of the sea. |
 | | In Gardena, at the Peruvian restaurant El Rocoto, the jalea is an enormous thing, an acre and a half of fish and shrimp, squid and octopus, scallops and clams, potatoes and chunked yuca, brown and sizzling, piled halfway to the ceiling, still smoking from its bath of hot oil. |
 | | Weekends are the time to try the lamb stew known as seco de cordero, which is drizzled with a pungent cilantro purée, or the spicy chicken stew aji de gallina, or the house arroz con pollo, a concoction composed of almost equal proportions of rice and herbs. |
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