After visiting a Brazilian shop in Japan with three American friends, we all went to a fantastic Peruvian restaurant for supper. One of the girls with us is of Chinese descent but has ties to Peru so she helped us decipher the menu which was in Spanish.

It was the strangest thing being a South African and giving my order to a Peruvian waitress in Japanese. I enjoyed a delicious meat dish finished with a glass of tangy granadilla juice – yum!

We may all come from different places around the world but one thing’s for sure, the language of beef steak is universal.