I have never tried ceviche since I have only encountered it made with seafood. However, the owner/cook at the Spanish school here claims that Ecuadorians will make it with anything… chicken, beans, any seafood, cuy etc. He was kind enough to teach us how to make it with with palmito (hearts of palm) last week. I recreated it the following night for Matthew. He gave it a positive review and confirmed that it did taste like ceviche.
Cooking the dish was straightforward but finding the ingredients turned out to be more of an adventure. The cook told me I could find palmito in “any grocery store.” After visiting about ten of them, I decided this was not exactly accurate. Finally, a sweet, elderly shop owner had pity on me and walked me two blocks to tiny store that had it.