Restaurants, bars, food festivals in Brazil

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Brazil: Menu For Tourists - a new application for gourmets

Rio de Janeiro has submitted a new application for the tourists, which translate restaurant menus, and help tourists choose the institution catering.

Appendix Menu For Tourists breaks language barriers, helping guests from other countries, to understand the menus of restaurants and bars. Menu For Tourists is a detailed menu in Portuguese, English and Spanish, but you can add other languages: German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Italian.

The process of application is quite simple. After starting the application, geolokator finds nearby restaurants. The following is only to choose the language in which I want to read the menu. Waiter, having a tablet is the same menu, can easily understand what you want to eat.

According eturbonews, officially starts the application on December 15, but it has already registered 60 restaurants in Rio de Janeiro.

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The traditional cuisine of Brazil

Food in Brazil is characterized by the fact that the local cuisine will delight you with spicy and spicy dishes, many recipes which have been borrowed from another ancient Indians.

As in Brazil foods are relatively inexpensive, then you can buy food in stores and prepare their own meals or snacks in local cafes without compromising your wallet.
Food in Brazil

On Brazilian cuisine was influenced by African, Indian and Portuguese culinary traditions.

Brazilians diet consists of fish, seafood, meat (beef, chicken, pork), vegetables, legumes, exotic fruits (guava, graviola, kazhu, melansiya, Tukuma, cupuaçu), rice, spices (chilli pepper, garlic and local herbs) .

Residents of the northern part of the country prefer to cook meals and Takaka Tucupita (mixture of pasta, shrimp juice, cassava flour and jumbo). In the north-eastern regions of popular salted meat, dried in the sun ("carne de sol"), in the western - roast pork (Lombo de Porco) and dishes of crocodile meat, and in the south-eastern regions - dried cod, shrimp and couscous corn flour and fried sardines.

In Brazil should try stewed turtle ("guasado de Tartaruga"); duck, cooked in a thick sauce with cassava and herbs ("Pato but Tucupita"); dish of various kinds of meat, beans, spices and cassava flour ("feijoada"); pork liver or heart with vegetables ("sarapatu"); garlic soup with shrimp ("Takaka"); meat skewers with vegetable sauce ("shurasko").

A sweet tooth will be delighted by the various cakes and pastries, prepared on the basis of local fruit (cake with passion fruit or guava, banana or cake with chocolate and coconut milk).
Where to eat in Brazil? At your service:

cafes and restaurants where you can enjoy local and international cuisine;
shurraskarii (restaurants serving dishes from various types of meat, grilled with all sorts of pickles);
restaurants Akilo (food per kilogram);
snack bars and restaurants local and international fast food chains.

Drinks in Brazil

Brazilians are a popular drink coffee, yerba mate (herbal tea), coconut water, guarana (a Brazilian soft drink guarana berry) Cachaça (local vodka, which is made from sugar cane), beer.

In Brazil, you can try the local (Skol, Brahma, Original, Caracu, Serra Malte) and international beers (Heineken, Stella Artois).

In local bars visitors are offered to purchase as canned and draft beer.
Gastronomic tour to Brazil

Hunters gastronomic delights can go on a culinary festival in Brazil - here you will meet with a variety of Brazilian cuisine and refined dishes from top chefs.

Tours, surfing, scuba diving, windsurfing, night party at the water festival events ... Tourists come here not only for this but also delicious and diverse national dishes.

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Drinks Brazil

In a country where many wild monkeys and all wear white pants, there are many interesting traditions, which the tourists willing to talk local guides. One of them - the endless cups of strong coffee in the morning and at any convenient time during the rest of the day. All drinks in Brazil - is an occasion to sit and chat with friends. But the coffee - it's a cult, traditions, customs and mentality.
alcohol Brazil

Alcoholic beverages in the far South American country not only to respect and welcome, but happily served to guests and visitors. Alcohol prices look quite democratic, and a liter of rum national drink of Brazil is in the shop for about three dollars (as of the beginning of 2014).
To be imported into Brazil banned alcohol, and it is produced, and there is a restriction on import. In the country of magnificent beaches allowed to take no more than 24 units of alcohol, the total of which shall not exceed two liters. Restrictions on the export does not exist and it all depends on the capabilities of the traveler and his suitcase.
The national drink of Brazil

The main national drink and a symbol of eternal Magnan in the country is the cane vodka Cachaca. It is obtained, distilling the fermented juice, rum and quality differs depending on the degree of consistency and purification. Major trading brand under which sold Cachaca:

Germana
Pitu
Tatuzinho
Paduana
Ypioca

Mainly exported national drink of Brazil to many countries, but cooked on the hacienda, not in factories Cachaca can only try at home. Among the true admirers of national color it is valued much higher, and its distillation is carried out in containers made of pure copper.
Alcoholic beverages Brazil

Besides rum Brazilians respect alcoholic drink, the recipe of which cherish the local Indians. They treat their guests huaskoy AUA-opting a sip of this witch's brew. AUA-huaska invigorates and gives strength and Indian shamans are treated with the help of dozens of ailments - from depression to alcoholism ...!
Takes pride of place on the menu of Brazilians beer. Popular brands "Shopi" cook descendants of those who moved to the country of wild monkeys from Germany, but because as a beer no doubt. Vineyards Brazil delight fans of good wines white "Chardonnay" and red varieties, and Europeans are surprised to find decent and champagne produced in the distant continent of French settlers.

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Brazil cuisine is unique and expressive. Over the 500 years of its existence it assimilated European, and first of all, the Portuguese culinary traditions of Indian cuisine to the ingredients of the Amazon and the Pantanal, adding a bit of spice, colonists brought from India and China. The result is a mixture of tastes, shapes and flavors characteristic of different ethnic groups and cultures, which is now called the Brazilian cuisine.

From Brazilian Indians accepted the use of cassava and banana leaves, the use of ceramic tableware and caution in handling and spices. Portuguese colonists Brazil owes its sweets and imported African slaves became the creators of this is now the traditional Brazilian cuisine dishes like feijoada.

Currently, each region of Brazil has its own traditional dishes. In the northern and north-eastern parts of the country remain a significant impact Indian culinary traditions, the menu is not rare turtles, cassava, coconuts, guavas, mangoes and maize. Cosmopolitan south and south-east of the country is a great variety of cuisines - from German to Vietnamese and from Ukrainian to Italian. In the Midwest dominated by meat dishes and freshwater fish, there are also often drink mate.

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Kitchen Brazil

Kitchen Brazil - a kind of synthesis of the Portuguese culinary, Indian, French and African cuisine, but it is still the core of a genuine Brazilian cuisine.
Ethnic cuisine Brazil

The country is often prepared "Karur" (a dish of salted shrimp and vegetables with spicy sauce), and "de Kaskinen karangeyzhu" (crabs with spices). As a side dish is used mainly rice, beans, cassava or tapioca (all seasoned with various sauces). In Brazil, commonly used herbs and vegetables - there is salted or pickled palm shoots, fried or stewed chicken with plantains, fried in butter beans with various ingredients.

If we talk about the features Brazilian cuisine, inherent in different regions, it is, for example, in the northeast of popular dried meat, shrimp, cooked with herbs, lobster in coconut milk; and to the west - the alligator meat dishes.

Popular Brazilian cuisine:

"Feijoada" (dish of black beans, garlic, pepper, dried meat, pork, smoked sausage);
"Guasado de Tartaruga" (a dish of braised turtle);
"Sarapeteu" (a dish of boiled pork heart and liver with peppers, onions and tomatoes);
"Cochin" (fried potato balls stuffed with pork or chicken);
"Takaka" (thick yellow soup with garlic and dried shrimp);
"Embalayya" (stew of vegetables and meat with a hot sauce).

Where to try the national cuisine?

Some restaurants serve an aperitif, so if you do not want to be included in the value of your account, then an aperitif can be politely sent back. Since portions of some dishes in the Brazilian food establishments are designed for two people, the main dish, you can safely take one for two. We should also mention the restaurant churrasco (specialize in cooking meat): here you can eat all you want, paying an entrance fee and drinks.

In Sao Paulo, you can visit the "Capim Santo" (guests are treated to grilled tuna, dessert of tapioca, shrimp with a sauce of coconut milk), in Rio de Janeiro - "Doce Delicia" (here serves national dishes in the form of salad with papaya and salmon in soy sauce, and chocolate cake with Brazilian coffee), El Salvador - "Ki-Mukeka" (a specialty of this restaurant is a moqueca-dish of stewed in palm oil seafood with spices).
Cooking classes in Brazil

In Brazil, namely in Ouro Preto, you can attend the 5-day cooking classes in the Academy of Cooking and Other Pleasures, which will introduce wishing to Brazilian cuisine. In addition, such a course involves visiting the market, sugar and coffee plantations.

When can I come to Brazil? Arrival is podgadat, for example, to conduct a gastronomic festival "Taste of Brazil" (May-June).