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The Piura region, in northern Peru, is recognized at the cultural and tourist level as an outstanding space for its intangible heritage, both artistic and gastronomic. The latter has been highlighted through National Declarations of Heritage as the one concerning Picanterías and chicherías piuranas cultural spaces (2015). Nevertheless, the cultural tradition of Piura, in all its forms, as has happened in Peru, has been enriched through the contributions of different migrant groups, such as the Chinese, coexisting and creating a diverse culinary culture, with practices and flavors appropriate and resigned by the local collective memory. Piura was a department that, in the second half of the 19th century, received a minority Chinese migrant population, compared to regions such as Lambayeque and La Libertad (Gutiérrez and Vargas, 2016, p. 76).   But, as happened in other places with...