For American Express delicious. Month Out, Casa Chow in Woolloongabba has launched a special Piqueos and Pisco menu, which celebrates the Peruvian tradition of drinks and snacks.

Open just eight months, Casa Chow boasts the largest pisco collection in Queensland and has already become a second home for Brisbane’s South American community as well as travellers who’ve fallen in love with the national drink.

From Tuesday to Thursday throughout May, diners are invited to settle in for a boozy dinner that includes a choice of pisco sour and five piqueos served to a soundtrack of Casa Chow’s endorphin-boosting Latin American playlist.

While pisco is commonly sipped neat in Peru, it’s a central feature of Casa Chow’s cocktail menu, which serves five takes on the pisco sour. “OG – the “original gangster” is the classic,” says Casa Chow co-owner Jared Thibault.

“Then there’s the Khaleesi, because I’m a huge Game of Thrones fan and it has dragon fruit and lychee. Purple Rain is named for Prince and has chicha marada which is a non-alcoholic drink made from Peruvian purple corn.”

The menu, overseen by Peruvian chef Kevin Galdo, infuses the brightness and heat of South America with the techniques and flavours brought to the country by Chinese immigrants, specifically the Cantonese who first arrived in the 1800s to work in the sugar and cotton industries.

This cultural fusion has resulted in a unique and surprisingly seamless cuisine known as Chifa, or, as Casa Chow more colloquially calls it: “Chino/Latino.”

Served in small, shareable portions, Casa Chow’s piqueos, much like Spanish tapas, are ideal as a prelude to a meal or for the less hungry, as the meal itself.

“Piqueos means snacks or small bites,” Galdo (pictured, above) says. “It’s usual to meet with your friends and eat small snacks while you’re drinking pisco.”

Diners will get five dishes to try including XO crab spring rolls, crispy Sichuan pork and beef dumplings, and kingfish ceviche with leche de tigre (tiger’s milk) – which is a marinade made from lime juice, onion and chillies.

“We use really high-quality kingfish for our Peruvian ceviche and premium Sydney rock oysters, which we serve with ginger, garlic and house-made spicy sauce,” Galdo says.

American Express delicious. Month Out is a month-long event that encourages citysiders to get out and support the hospitality industry.

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Piqueos and Pisco
Where: Casa Chow, 4b/148 Logan Rd, Woolloongabba
When: Tue to Thu dinners in May
Price: $55 a person
Includes: Oysters with lemon ginger tosazu, XO crab spring rolls, kingfish ceviche, Sichuan pork and beef dumplings, scallop and prawn wontons and a pisco sour
Web: casachowbrisbane.com.au

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