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The Calle Capón promenade is open every day of the year as a cultural and tourist attraction. [1] Lion dance during Chinese New Year celebrations (2007) Traditional Chinese festivals are celebrated here. Examples are Chinese New Year and the Mid-Autumn Festival. [1] Barrio Chino is a source of Chinese ingredients and a hub of Chinese cuisine.
Calle Capón, Lima's Chinatown, also known as Barrio Chino de Lima, became one of the Western Hemisphere's earliest Chinatowns. The Chinese coolies married Peruvian women, and many Chinese Peruvians today are of mixed Chinese, Spanish, African or Native American descent.
The Chinese Arch (Spanish: Arco Chino), also known as the Chinese Portal (Spanish: Portada China), [1] is a paifang located at the entrance of Lima's Chinatown.. It was donated by the Peruvian Chinese colony for the Sesquicentennial of the Independence of Peru and inaugurated with a great party on November 12, 1971, by the mayor of Lima Eduardo Dibós as part of the remodeling and enhancement ...
Lima residents refer to their Chinatown as Barrio chino or Calle Capon and the city's ubiquitous Chifa restaurants – small, sit-down, usually Chinese-run restaurants serving the Peruvian spin on Chinese cuisine – can be found by the dozens in this enclave.
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The main Peruvian Chinatown is located in Lima and is called the Barrio Chino, located on Calle Capón (Block 7 of Ucayali Street); it is one of the two earliest Chinatowns in the Western Hemisphere, and contains various notably Chinese architectural features. [20]
Hans Capon, a character in the 2018 video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance, is based on Jan Ptáček. [10] The character is depicted as part of the pro- Wenceslaus faction. He also features in the 2025 sequel Kingdom Come: Deliverance II .
He similarly describes capon as a food of the wealthy. The monologue describes human life as consisting of seven stages, and the fifth stage is a middle-aged man who has reached the point where he has acquired wisdom and wealth. The monologue describes the fifth stage as: "The Justice, In fair round belly, with a good capon lin'd".