LECHE DE TIGRE-- Tiger milk, anyone? Sorry to disappoint, but this juice contains neither milk nor tiger. It's lime juice-based, and used in ceviche, the national seafood dish.
CHINO/A, CHINITO/A-- Chinese, or little Chinese. It doesn't matter if your ancestors hail from Japan or Indonesia, if you have a trace of Asia still visible, your nickname is predestined. The term definitely does not have the pejorative connotations that it has in many other languages.
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el leche de tigre is not merely "used" in ceviche--it is the key ingredient as it the citrus fruit and peppers "cook" the raw fish--I hope you are dropping your principles and eating this delicious national dish.
ReplyDeleteIn Buenos Aires, a Chino is also a corner supermarket, so named for their Chinese proprietors (or, as you mentioned above, their vaguely Asian proprietors)
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