The New La Tullpa Added to Favorite Restaurant List

The entrance to La Tullpa leads to one of my new favorite restaurants.

Marmelita and I have been stopping frequently for lunch at La Tullpa, a new restaurant near the Amazon Golf Course. We like the fresh fish either fried or charcoal grilled.

Look at the size of this sabalo. That is a big meal. Marmelita said it was fresh and delicious.

I like to eat their fresh palometa with platanos, fried or charcoal grilled. The price for the palometa or sabalo can vary from $5 to $6, depending on the size of the fish. They also have good $2 daily specials.

I enjoy the fresh fried palometa, with platanos from the grill

La Tullpa is located far from the tourist center, just past the 5 kilometer marker on the Nauta Road across from the PetroPeru gas station, just before the Zungarococha Road where you turn to go to the Amazon Golf Course. Take a moto-carro for S/ 8 soles.

Watch for this sign to help find La Tullpa, across from the PetroPeru gas station.

The New La Tullpa, Added to Favorite Restaurant List

Bill Grimes, Dawn on the Amazon Favorite Restaurant List.

Look at this link to help you Decide Where To Eat In Iquitos

My Favorite Restaurant Near The Amazon Golf Course Is La Tullpa

La Querencia Parrillada, for Great Steak in Iquitos

Kikiriki, for Chicken in Iquitos

A Suggestion for Lunch

A Suggestion for Supper

Great Food, Great View of the River, The Bucanero, Iquitos Peru

Try One of My Favorite Restaurants, in Iquitos Peru, El Mijano

Long Fung, Our Favorite Chinese Restaurant in Iquitos

Antica, Our Favorite Pizza and Pasta In Iquitos

Kikiriki, Cock-a-doodle-do, In Spanish, Get It?

Meet Us At La Noche, One Of My Favorite Restaurants In Iquitos Peru

Bookmark This Post

Gravatar for Dawn on the Amazon Captain’s Blog Comments

We have added a new feature in the comments called gravatars. They are small images that you can choose to personalize your comment, capture more attention, be recognized, and build your brand.

You can pick a favorite image from your hard drive, make your own, or steal use an image from the internet like Water Rat did (see comments from What I Am Doing For You and What You Can Do For Me and upload it to gravatar.com. You have to join their site, which is free and easy.

You can crop the image first if you have Photoshop or some other digital image software; 80 pixels square is a good size. You can crop it with the gravatar tool but you have more size control with Photoshop.

Your gravatar will show up on all gravatar capable forums and blogs across the internet, providing you log in with the same email address you sign up for your gravatar with. If you want to be anonymous use a different email address and your gravatar will not show.

Why not do it today. Do more than one, it’s fun.

Gravatar for Dawn on the Amazon Captain’s Blog Comments

Captain Bill and the Water Rat

Bookmark This Post

Remember the 4th of July

Cookout Celebration

At the Amazon Golf Course, Iquitos Peru

How to get to the Amazon Golf Course. Take a moto-carro for S/ 10 soles

The details for the July 4th celebration are at this link to the Amazon Golf Course article;

Don’t Miss The Big 4th of July Celebration At the Amazon Golf Course

Bill Grimes, Manager of the Amazon Golf Course

Bookmark This Post

Join Us For The 4th Of July Celebration And BBQ AT the Amazon Golf Course Clubhouse

If you will be in Iquitos Peru on Saturday, the 4th of July, join us for a delicious BBQ at the Amazon Golf Course Clubhouse. Plan for a fun day of sports, drinking, dancing, or just hanging in hammocks in the shade, visiting with good friends, and making new friends. All nationalities like to have fun, so everyone come on out and eat and play. It will be a good day.

Bring your family and friends. The festivities will begin at 10:00 am. Food will be ready coming off the grill before 12:00 noon.

We will have meat on the grill, potato salad, and baked beans, large bottles of cold beer for S/5 soles, Inca Cola, Coke, and pure bottled water.

Play golf, volleyball, soccer, driving range, putting green, competitions. Children welcome.

Don’t miss the 4th of July Celebration and BBQ At the Amazon Golf Course Clubhouse

Bill Grimes

Bookmark This Post

Come Celebrate the San Juan Festival In Iquitos Peru

This is my juane for the San Juan holiday.

Come to Iquitos Peru to help celebrate the San Juan Festival and to get a good feel for this unique culture born from the rivers and rainforests that surround the people of Iquitos. San Juan Bautista, or John the Baptist, is the patron saint of the Amazon. He is honored with a huge party in San Juan, the suburb of Iquitos named for him, from June 22 to June 27, with special attention paid on his birthday of June 24. That party gets happier and happier and carries over to June 25 when it is affectionately known as Sanjuancito.

The San Juan Festival has evolved into a colorful combination of Catholic religious reflection, and pagan dancing, drinking, feasting, and cockfights. The emphasis for this article will be the feasting, which begins in thousands of kitchens where the women work all day over the wood fire, the charcoal grill, or the stove, cooking the deceptively seemingly simple local delicacy…can you guess…the juane. Very few people in Iquitos will consider the San Juan Festival complete without enjoying a juane.

Do not be fooled if you read how a juane is like a tamale because they are both wrapped in leaves and boiled. That is like comparing a pigeon to a goose because they both have feathers. Two distinguishing flavors in a juane that can not be replicated are the jungle root spice guizador and the jungle bijao leaf that wraps the juane.

Marmelita’s mother Filo makes the most delicious juanes I have ever tasted. She boils her chicken with a lot of garlic and cumin, a little pepper, a few bay leaves, finely shredded guizador and vegetable oil. She cooks until the chicken is very tender and the water has evaporated to just the essence. To be efficient she boils her eggs with the chicken.

Cook the rice separately, then mix together with the essence of spices. When the mixture has cooled, break in and stir in enough raw eggs to hold everything together.

Put a handful of the mixture on the bijao leaf and make an indentation in the mixture to put the piece of chicken and a little chopped hard boiled egg in the center. Cover with the rice mixture, form into a ball, wrap in the bijao leaf, and tie with the traditional bombonage palm leaf fibers. Boil for another hour and a half.

My juane was delicious. Marmelita's Mom made it for the San Juan Festival, and for me.

Enjoy with a cold beer and you are ready to celebrate the San Juan Festival in Iquitos Peru.

Come Celebrate the San Juan Festival In Iquitos Peru

Bill Grimes, president of Dawn on the Amazon

Read here to discover more exciting Recipes of Peru from Dawn on the Amazon, and here to learn how The Festival of San Juan Nearly Blocks Traffic to The Amazon Golf Course.

Bookmark This Post