“With stomach aches”: Mexican woman tells what Chilean food she didn’t like when she arrived

The content creator Mexican Fernanda Van der Elst, became known on the platforms for having recounted her life experience in Pepper .

Through his YouTube channel, A Mexican in Chile the young woman usually shares videos about the cultural shocks she has experienced, the new cities she has been able to visit or even her impressions of the National Holidays.

On this occasion, the YouTuber surprised Internet users by remembering her first days of life in Chile and the gastronomic experiences it marked her in those moments.

According to the influencer’s story, upon arriving in Chilean lands, the first thing she dared to try was the pan which immediately captivated her. “I loved it. I had never tried a casserole dish like my husband’s aunt’s. he explained.

He could then try the roast and salads who usually accompany him, which he also assessed positively. “I said, ‘I’m from here.’ My first impression of Chile was, ‘People here are healthy because they always eat salads,'” he continued.

During these days, Van der Elst also visited Pichilemu, which he described as a “strange experience” due to the cold that usually characterizes the coastal town. “I had never been to a beach where it was cold,” he explained.

It was precisely there that the influencer tasted a Chilean dish which, according to her story, she did not like.

According to Van der Elst, in Pichilemu he could consume various gastronomic preparations such as ceviche and marshal, which had his approval. “I was fascinated. From then on, every time I go to the beach, I ask for them,” he said.

There he also met the piure the intense red seafood found on the Chilean coast. “I was looking at what they were selling on the stands and I asked: What is this?” he recalled. There, they invited her to try it and she accepted, although they didn’t tell her what it was exactly or what it tasted like.

“I walked around all day with stomach aches because it didn’t taste good.” he described, adding that he would have eaten it “almost the moment they took it out of the sea.”

Beyond this anecdote, the content creator indicated that she would not give up the piure and asked her subscribers to tell her if it could be prepared in a specific way so that it had a much flavor more pleasant.

“If I go back (to Pichilemu) in the future and see the piure, I will give him a second chance. “I’m not going to stick to this first impression,” he said in the video, which already has thousands of views on the platform.

After revealing what her first days in Chile were like, the Mexican influencer received several reactions from those who follow her on YouTube.

“The piure is too strong to eat alone” and “being Chilean, I can’t stand piure”, these are some of the messages that emerged in the publication.