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On every street corner
in Brazil you will find a lanchonete , a mixture of café and bar.
They sell beer and rum, snacks, cigarettes, soft drinks, coffee and
sometimes small meals. Bakeries - padarias - often have a lanchonete
attached, and they're good places for cheap snacks: an empada or
empadinha is a small pie, which has various fillings such as carne
(meat), palmito (palm heart), cheese and camarão (shrimp, the
best); a pastel is a fried, filled pasty; an esfiha is a savoury
pastry stuffed with spiced meat; and a coxinha is spiced chicken
rolled in manioc dough and then fried. In central Brazil try pão de
queijo, a savory cheese snack that goes perfectly with coffee. All
these savoury snacks go under the generic heading salgados.
If you haven't had breakfast ( café da manha) at your hotel, then a
bakery/ lanchonete is a good place to head; and for a more
substantial meal lanchonetes will generally serve a prato comercial,
too. In both lanchonetes and padarias you usually pay first at the
till, and then you take your ticket to the counter to get what you
want.
You can get food at a growing number of fast food outlets in cities,
which look garishly American but take the hamburger or hot dog and "Brazilianize"
it, much improving it in the process. All sorts of things are added,
and the menus are easy to understand because they are in mangled but
recognizable English, albeit with Brazilian pronunciation. A
hamburger is a X-burger (pronounced " sheezboorga "), a hot dog a
cachorro quente; a bauru is a club sandwich with steak and egg; a
mixto quente a toasted cheese and ham sandwich.
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Food sold by street vendors in Brazil should be treated with
caution, but not dismissed out of hand. You can practically see the
hepatitis bugs and amoebas crawling over some of the food you see on
sale in the streets, but plenty of vendors have proper stalls and
can be very professional, with a loyal clientele of office workers
and locals. Some of the food they sell has the advantage of being
cooked a long time, which reduces the chance of picking anything up,
and in some places - Salvador and Belém especially - you can get
good food cheaply in the street; just choose your vendor sensibly.
In Salvador try acarajé, only available from street vendors - a
delicious fried bean mix with shrimp and hot pepper; and in Belém go
for maniçoba, spiced sausage with chicory leaves, or pato no tucupi,
duck stewed in manioc sauce.
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