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- Jonathan Gold | L.A. restaurant review: Paiche dips Asian influences into the Amazon
Paiche are enormous. Paiche have teeth on their tongues. Paiche, living fossils barely evolved since the Miocene epoch, have lungs and breathe air, which is pretty unusual for fish. Paiche are also easy to catch, a problem even in the sparsely populated Upper Amazon, where, despite laws against commercial fishing, they are becoming rare.
July 21, 2013 - Los Angeles Times