{"id":22988,"date":"2018-04-24T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T18:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=22988"},"modified":"2018-04-24T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T18:27:56","slug":"22988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/22988\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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This in from Ozy.com on their experience eating street food in Panama.\u00a0 While I also like the traditional Pescado Entero, I know of many more place that I would go to for great fish, namely on most of the\u00a0 beaches of Panama.<\/p>\n

Peach Fuzz International has nothing to do with peaches and everything to do with seriously tasty seafood.<\/p>\n

If you want to truly savor the best fried fish in Panama<\/a> City, you have to leave your pride at the door. Or, rather, under a red metal awning that shades tables placed over handicap parking spaces.<\/p>\n

Because at Peach Fuzz International, you\u2019ll likely leave a clean plate<\/a> \u2014 whatever it takes to get there. Once you\u2019ve cut through the crispy skin to expose the tender silky sea bass, you\u2019ll scrounge for every last morsel of edibleness, even between bones. And if there\u2019s any \u201cspecial sauce\u201d lingering behind on your plate? Here\u2019s why your pride wasn\u2019t invited: You will pour the excess liquid directly into your mouth, catching the drops as they ricochet off your chin and land on your clothes. (Those brown spots staining your shirt \u2014 you might consider licking them too.)<\/p>\n

Panama City\u2019s renovated historic district, Casco Viejo, whose burgeoning culinary scene has gained international attention, is already known for its seafood. However, just two and a half miles north in Curund\u00fa, you\u2019ll find better. Surrounded by Soviet-style cinder-block apartment buildings, Peach Fuzz has an exterior sign that reads simply \u201cPescado Frito, Fried Fish.\u201d Inside the partly open-air restaurant<\/a>, chef and owner Danny (who prefers only his first name be used) and his four sous chefs (who know the recipes, including the \u201csecret sauce\u201d of 17 spices and three liquids that took 20 years to perfect) are behind the counter preparing plates for the steady stream of patrons.<\/p>\n

Just a few years ago, you wouldn\u2019t have come to Curund\u00fa \u2014 you might still get cautioned today. Dilapidated houses, fires, gangs and domestic violence have stigmatized the already marginalized community, historically composed of immigrants. By the time Danny \u2014 also called \u201cMr. Peach\u201d by local kids \u2014 opened Peach Fuzz International in October 2013, the neighborhood was already on the upswing. \u201cA lot of families come here,\u201d Danny explains, \u201cand when you see families enjoying themselves, and they\u2019re not in a rush to leave, it gives you a warm feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s neither air-conditioning nor a bathroom, and you won\u2019t find a cocktail menu here. But who needs frivolity when you can eat on the street with the wind in your hair, serenaded by passing cars blasting reggaeton bass, while shrieking children play soccer across storefronts and car lanes.<\/p>\n

In between frying and saut\u00e9ing seafood in his pinstripe apron, Danny goofs around with customers, answers the phone and waves at neighbors. The Panama-born U.S. transplant returned to his home country one year for his birthday, and party guests raved about the fried fish he served instead of the traditional arroz con pollo<\/em> (rice with chicken). After cooking his fish for other events, people started to take notice and urged him to open his own place in Curund\u00fa. Not long afterward, in a space owned by Danny\u2019s aunt, Peach Fuzz International was made a reality.<\/p>\n

Initially, Danny served only fried fish, but per customers\u2019 requests he expanded the menu. Now, he\u2019ll make anything you want, based on stock from his daily 4:30 a.m. run to the fish market. Arrive early to get patacones rellenos <\/em>(stuffed fried plantains with seafood), clams drenched in special sauce or garlic shrimp and lobster. Panama-based tour guide and blogger Joey Bonura calls it \u201cseriously the best fried fish I\u2019ve tried in Panama<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s with the restaurant\u2019s weird name? It\u2019s partly from a nickname once given to Danny by his barber \u2014 he brought the fruit to demonstrate the haircut he wanted: bald, but not completely, a bit of \u201cpeach fuzz\u201d covering his head. And \u201cinternational?\u201d That\u2019s because of Danny\u2019s dual citizenship.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy customers tell me they feel at home \u2014 they feel comfortable here,\u201d says Danny. Therefore, messy eating is encouraged.<\/p>\n\n

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