Clay Dubai

About Clay Dubai

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Japanese heard of a country across the Pacific. Peru. Thought to be full of gold and rolling with opportunity, this land was also blessed by rich soil and a tender-hearted climate. The call of mirrored mountains and the yearning for a new life enticed Japanese in their hundreds to cross the seas to arrive, exhausted, on the coastal plantations of a foreign land. Peru welcomed them.The land offered abundance and sustenance and some ingredients that closely resembled the Nikkei’s own. So began the relationship. Aji peppers and Andean potato met miso, soy and wasabi. Fresh fish bathed in citrus. Cultures asserted themselves while their food commingled. And now, Peru is home to one of the largest Nikkei communities in the world.