Many dishes come with a salad on the side. You now have opportunity to enter into a chaotic argument over what vegetables you wish to have and what they actually have in the kitchen. Forget that. Instead, simply say “Chilena”. This will give you a salad consisting of pieces of peeled tomatoes, washed onion slices and cilantro (coriander). An excellent combination.
This will be served with salt, vinegar and vegetable oil. And you will get some cred for being a foreigner who knows something about their dishes.
A Chilean salad