Popular dishes in Chile

The aim of this report is to give information about what people can expect to eat in Chile, especially in Santiago.
Being such a long country stretched over a variety of landscapes, Chile has a vast range of food and drink.
One of the highlights of Chilean Cuisine is its diversity of Seafood dues to its 4,270 km (2,647 miles) of coastline. Another thing not to be missed while in Chile is its high quality red wine.
Chilean food should not be confused with the spicy dishes common in Mexico. Unlike Mexican meals, the hot chili is not too frequent in Chile.

Among the most popular in Santiago we have:
Empanada de pino:typical turnover filled with diced meat, onions, olive, raisins and a piece of hard-boiled egg, baked in earthen or plain oven.
Bistec a lo pobre: beefsteak, French fries, fried onions, topped with a couple of fried eggs.
Cazuela de vacuno: beef soup with pieces of meat, potatoes, corn on the cob, carrots, onions, green beans, garlic, chunks of pumpkin, rice or noodles.
Ensalada chilena: sliced tomatoes and onions with an oil dressing.
Humitas: boiled corn leaf rolls filled with seasoned ground corn.
Pastel de choclo: a typical Chilean summer dish. Ground corn and meat, chopped onions small pieces of chicken, pieces of hard boiled egg, olive raisins - baked in clay or regular oven. Similar to a shepherd pie.
Machas a la parmesana: parmesan cheese raisor clams.
Mariscal: cold soup with all kinds of raw seafood.

The least popular dishes in this area are:
Curanto en hoyo: Traditionally prepared by heating fish, seafood, potatoes, some meat, milcaos and types of bread over red hot rocks in a hole in the ground. The food is wrapped in big leaves and then covered with dirt so that it slowly cooks over a number of hours. (Similar to a hangi in New Zealand)
Milcaos: Grated raw potato squeezed until dry then added to minced cooked potatoes and flattened to a bread-like form then baked or fried. This is one of the ingredients that can be found in a typical curanto.
They both are not popular in Santiago beacause they are typically from the South of Chile and here people do not have time to prepare such a taking long time dish.

To end it could be said that the most popular with young people could be bistec a lo pobre, beacuse young people usually like french fries, meat and eggs. Even thouhg cazuela de vacuno is very nutritious, I would not dare to say it would appeal with them beacause they do not usually like soup.
It could be a good idea they to try the variety of salad that we have here and seafood, because they are healthy but if they want to try something different I would recommend to try pastel de choclo and humitas.