Bangkok's dining scene gets a Peruvian infusion this November. Banyan Tree Bangkok, teaming up with the Embassy of Peru, is staging "Peru Mucho Gusto" from November 11-15 — a five-day programme of collaborative dinners celebrating Peruvian cooking and its Japanese-descendant cousin, Nikkei cuisine.

The line-up is genuinely international: six Peruvian chefs, all working at restaurants across Asia. Three of them — Santiago Fernandez of Buenazo in Thailand, Abel Ortiz Alvarez of ChullsChick in Hong Kong and Franco Aldana of Feliz in Malaysia — join forces at Romsai for "A Peruvian Night", a dinner spanning the country's range, from bright, acidic coastal dishes to the bold spices and native ingredients of the interior.

The second event goes up to Vertigo Too for "Peruvian Story: Six Hands Nikkei", where Akira Chung Oshita (Henshin, Indonesia), Pier Lopez (Yunka, Vietnam) and Rodrigo Serrano (DIP Nikkei, the Philippines) serve a six-course tasting menu tracing how Japanese technique met Peruvian ingredients. The menu reads like a lesson in the style: akami tiradito with citrus ponzu, Sudado chirashi with abalone and Hokkaido scallop, and Batayaki lobster in a Villa Rica coffee curry, closing with a dessert of lúcuma, hojicha and Peruvian cacao.

Things kick off on November 10 with a masterclass introducing the chefs and unpacking the ingredients, techniques and traditions behind Peruvian food — a useful primer if you're booking one of the dinners.

Why it matters: Peruvian cuisine has been one of the world's fastest-rising food stories for a decade, and Nikkei is its most fascinating chapter — the result of a century of Japanese immigration to Peru. Getting six chefs who cook in that idiom across six Asian countries under one hotel roof is a rare chance to taste the breadth of it without a long-haul flight. If you're in Bangkok mid-November, or planning a trip around food, this is an easy evening to build your itinerary around. Book ahead; rooftop dining rooms at Banyan Tree properties tend to fill quickly for events like this.