Food in Brazil

We ate well in Brazil. It's not a hard thing to do as there were tempting treats around every corner. We have listed some of our finds below, starting with one of Brazil's best culinary assets, the suco or juice bar.So many juices are on offer here - cheap, unbelievably tasty and available on almost every street. Our most popular pick was strawberries in milk. We also enjoyed a nutritional bowl of Amazonian berry, acai a couple times. The acai is served very cold and often with granola and banana on top. Although it's sweet, it has a curiously earthy texture and flavour. You are unsure on the first mouthful but quickly grow to like it and a big bowl doesn't last long.

Pao de qeuijo is a cheesy, doughy bread ball. This one is particularly large. They are served as a snack everywhere.

A rodizio bufffet. First you help yourself to a wide selection of salads, pasta, rice, beans and stews and then a nice chap comes round offering you tasty morsels on meat. This restaurant in Sao Paulo was a bargain of a find at around £3.50 a head.

Rice, beans and floury farofa are an accompaniment to many a meal.

Brazilians serve their beer obsessively cold. SKOL lager may have disappeared from the English market but it is going strong in Brazil.

A fastfood chain here, Bob's, does a yummy scrummy milkshake of malt chocolate with honeycomb pieces. Rachel remembered them well and was pleased to try one again.

A fish stall in the market in Florianopolis. The yellow, slippery things at the front caught our eye, we believe they are fish roe from a pretty big fish. We didn't try them as we were about to get on a night bus and they look a bit grotty.
A cheap way to eat well at lunch time is in a a quilo or a peso restaurant. In other words, by weight. You choose from a buffet of salads, rice, beans and stew and then have it weighed. Simon struggled with this concept initially as he wanted to try everything and, as has often happened in the past with a Wilko's pick 'n' mix of sweets, the price soon tots up.
Free shots of coffee are available after a meal from a thermos flask. It's never great, but it was better here as also on offer was a generous splash of complimentary chocolate or cinnamon liquor.
Rachel and Hannah on the beach in Rio with one of Hannah's remembered favourites from her time here, Globos. They are curious rings of virtually nothing. The ones in the red pack taste vaguely sweet, and the green pack taste vaguely salty. They seem to be very popular and were the only food on sale at the football match at the Maracana, disappointingly.
A sweet banana and cinnamon pizza. It came with mozzarella, it came for pudding, it was soon gone. Thumbs up!
Guaraviton: Acai and Guarana juice drink. A very refreshing option on a hot day waiting for a ferry.
Count them up. That's eight varieties of bananas on display in the local greengrocer's in Rio. Bananatastic!
Coffees and a swiss flan - sponge cake topped with creme caramel - all served up in a beautiful, traditional coffee house in the heart of Rio's Centro.
That's a big avocado. Also a very tasty one. We were impressed and ate quite a few of them in Florianopolis.
A delicious and enormous fish meal for two at a beachside bar in Florianopolis. It's very common place for restaurants to have a whole menu of meals for 2 people to share. Tricky if you have different tastes.
A fizzy drink as popular as coke here - guarana. Very refreshing, it could be described as somewhere between a Schloer and Appletise with a hint of cola.