Liwen, which in Mapudungun means “Sunshine or Sunrise,” is a cafeteria located inside the Santa Lucía hil Indigenous Art Exhibition and Sales Center that aspires to transmit Mapuche culture through its gastronomic preparations.
Here you can enjoy “sopaipillas” (fried bread) made of wheat flour and pine nuts, mültrün or katuto (traditional Mapuche bread, made with toasted and ground wheat) or bread with “chicharrón” (animal fried fat) and pebre (mixe of tomato, onion, coriander, spice sauce) with smoked “merkén” (smashed red chilli). It also offers sweet alternatives such as wild fruit pies, cakes and sweets, including Ünel-ko calugas (sweet milk soft candies), made of cochayuyo ( sea vegetable), cocoa and walnut.
As for coffee, very interesting are the preparations of cold maqui (chilean plant) coffee, wheat coffee and the maqui latte, as well as cold tea with honey, a green tea repair or chai plus honey and ice.
At Liwen everything is prepared by hand, with top-notch organic products, free of preservatives and some, available as seasonal products.
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