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Food
For standard meals steak, chicken served with arroz e feijao , rice and beans, and often with salad, fries and farinha, dried manioc flour that you sprinkle over everything. Farofa is toasted farinha, and usually comes with onions and bits of bacon mixed in. In cheaper restaurants all this would come on a single large plate - look for the words prato feito, prato comercial or refeicao completa if you want to fill up without spending too much. Feijoada is Brazil's national dish. A hearty stew of pork, sausage and smoked meat cooked with black beans and garlic, garnished with slices of orange.
Snacks
Snacks and street food On every street corner in Brazil you will find a lanchonete that sell cheap snacks like empadas or empadinha is a small pie, which has various fillings (carne, meat, palmito, palm heart and camarao, shrimp, the best); a pastel is a fried, filled pastry; 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 pao de queijo, a savoury cheese snack that goes perfectly with coffee. All these savory snacks go under the generic heading salgados.
Restaurants
Restaurants Are of good quality and cheap- "prato comercial" is around $3, while a good full meal can usually be had for about $10, even in expensive restaurants. One of the best options offered by many restaurants, is self-service comida por kilo, where a wide choice of food is priced according to the weight of the food on your plate. Specialist restaurants to look out for include a rodízio, where you pay a fixed charge and eat as much as you want; most churrascarias - restaurants specializing in charcoal-grilled meat of all kinds, especially beef - operate this system, too, bringing a constant supply of meat on huge spits to the tables.
Drinks
Chimarrao, a tea served in a gourd filled with cha mate and boiling water, sucked through a silver metal straw. The great variety of fruit in Brazil is put to excellent use in sucos: fruit blended with sugar and crushed ice to make a deliciously refreshing drink. Brazilians drink Cachaca a liquor made from sugar cane. They mix it with fruit juice commonly referred to as Caipirinha. This is rum mixed with fresh lime, sugar and crushed ice: it may not sound like much, but it is the best cocktail you're ever likely to drink.
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