Thread: Street FOODS?

Any street food that is a "must-try" to eat? I would love to try it.

Hi Barefoot Explorer, Yeah... you can try 'churros'. It has a light dough that is fried and then filled with sweet cream. Lots of calories, but is tastes very good!! Usually the flavors for the sweet cream are between chocolate or condensed milk with homemade specialties. There is also the 'pele' that you can try as well, "sweet popcorn" and bolo de aipim.

churros is one of the most popular food. you can not only get them in Street but also in high quality restaurants too. must try them

Yes, when in Salvador, Bahia, please try the "Comida Baiana", Bahia´s food on the streets. Please you should try Acarajé, Vatapá, Cuzcuz, and many other delicious Northeastern food! Bon appetite!

I love to eat churros and hot dog on the streets. Also, by the beach you can have corn on the cob, cheese on fire and many other kind of interesting brazilian food

yes hot dog is also good. and if you order it with extra cheese then it will be awesome.

Wherever you go in Brazil, one thing is sure on every corner 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

Long before the Europeans arrived, however, the Tupí-Guaraní and other Indian groups lived in Brazil. They planted manioc (a root vegetable like a potato) from which Brazilians learned to make tapioca and farofa , ground manioc, which is similar to fine breadcrumbs. It is toasted in oil and butter and sprinkled over rice, beans, meat, and fish.

Originally Posted by Barefoot Explorer

Any street food that is a "must-try" to eat? I would love to try it.

"Caldo de Cana" is definitely a must try. If you're wondering what that is, well it is the juice taken of the sugar cane.
People sell this on the street (they have a cart with a proper machine to deal with sugar cane), and they crush the cane and get the juice right in front of you!

It has a unique taste so it's hard to describe it for you.
It is one of the northern region's trade mark, and it has high energetic value! Make sure you look for it if you ever hit Brazil

yes the Northern regions one of the most popular drink is "Caldo de Cana". but do you know that sugar cane's juice is one of the source of jaundice??? yes it is true. if you drink this plz drink it from the healthiest juice shops.

Sounds inviting. Let me write it all down; Churros, Comida Baiana, lanchonete, manioc, and Caldo de Cana. How much would this food cost? Anyone can give me an average price of each products? Thanks!

Coxinhas are delicious fried chicken croquettes, which is very a popular street food in Brazil.
These are so delisious, that once I start eating them I honestly cannot stop! I found a nice
recipe for these at:
Coxinha - Brazilian Chicken Croquettes - Recipe for Coxinha

Enjoy!!!

Banana Frita are a very popular and tasty dessert that you can usually find on the streets of Brazil.

Here is a recipe I found on the Internet if anyone is home-sick for these delicious sweet treat!

Banana Frita (Fried Bananas)


Ingredients

• 6 small bananas, peeled
• 1 large egg, beaten
• 1 cup fine bread crumbs
• ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
• Salt, to taste

Procedure

1. In a mixing bowl, gently toss the bananas with egg to moisten, then lightly roll the bananas in the breadcrumbs.
2. In a large skillet, melt the butter over medium heat.
3. When the foam goes away, add the bananas and fry on all sides until golden.
4. Season with salt and serve hot.

Serve 6.

Pastel, Churrasquinho de Gato (Barbecue in football stadiums), Pipoca, Pinhao, Algodao Doce (cotton candy) you must try it in Brazil!!!

Empanada Dough - Masa para Empanadas
This slightly sweet empanada dough produces tender, golden empanadas.
Chicken Empanadas - Empanadas de Pollo
Chicken empanadas are easy and fun to make, and they are excellent for lunch boxes or for a snack on the go.
Chilean Empanadas - Empanadas de Pino
These traditional Chilean empanadas have a delicious ground beef and onion filling.

Hi Everyone, a great quick drink to grab on the run while enjoying your street food is - Porradinha – This classic cocktail is very popular amongst college students. Basically you fill half a metal cup with cachaça, then add a small amount of 7-Up, Sprite or some similar soda. What you then do is bang it on the ground or a near by outdoor cafe table. I t makes a kind of volcanic lava effect, then just slam it right down! A very fun and tasty concoction.

Originally Posted by danno123

Hi Everyone, a great quick drink to grab on the run while enjoying your street food is - Porradinha – This classic cocktail is very popular amongst college students. Basically you fill half a metal cup with cachaça, then add a small amount of 7-Up, Sprite or some similar soda. What you then do is bang it on the ground or a near by outdoor cafe table. I t makes a kind of volcanic lava effect, then just slam it right down! A very fun and tasty concoction.

What do you mean by... bang it on the ground and lava effect?

Throw it on the floor??

Hi David, No what I meant was you cup your hand over it, and bang the glass down and it fizzes up and then you drink it! It gives you a pleasant and fun sensation. Try it with your friends, it's a blast! Enjoy. :-)

In Brazil there are many fairs (market-places) on the streets, so I love to eat pastel (pastry) and churro while buying some stuffs.

Mprado, you are making me very hungry! Pastel (pastry) is found all over the country: The deep-fried, crisp pastry is sometimes filled with anything, depending on local cuisines and tastes. The most popular fillings tend to be cheese, ground beef, heart of palm, and shrimp.

Meats have a long tradition of being associated with carnival season. It's not hard to find meats on a stick, many kinds of grilled meats, and a variety of sausages during Carnival. Also classic Brazilian dishes such as acaraje and pao de queijo can also be found offered in the streets of Brazil during this season.

While you are in central Brazil try pão de queijo, a savory cheese snack that goes together perfectly with coffee. All these savory snacks go under the generic heading salgados. There is a great recipe here- Easy Brazilian Cheese Bread (Po de Queijo) Recipe | Simply Recipes if you have the time to make your own! Enjoy.

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.

I agree with Trisha, make sure the place you are buying food from a good a and clean place otherwise you can have a big stomach bug. I recommend to buy food that is more difficult to go off, such as pinhao, popcorn, sweets, etc....

Love your health..Be careful of what you eat.

Coxinha are a delicious Brazilian street food treat, they are basically, delicious balls of chicken salad that have been shaped into a drumstick, battered and fried. Here is a recipe below:

Prep Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1.5 pounds chicken breasts (about 4 halves)
• 4-5 cups of chicken broth
• 1 carrot
• 2 onions
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 cloves garlic
• Juice of 1 lime
• 1 8-ounce package of cream cheese, softened
• 2-3 cups of flour
• 2 eggs
• 2-3 cups of very finely grated bread crumbs
• Vegetable oil for frying
• Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation:

1. Place the chicken breasts in a large shallow pot. Cover them with the chicken broth, adding water if necessary to make sure the chicken breasts are covered by at least 1/2" of liquid.
2. Add the carrot and one of the onions (peeled and halved) as well as the bay leaves.
3. Bring liquid to a gentle simmer, and cook for 15-20 minutes, or until chicken is just cooked through (barely pink in the middle of the thickest part). It's necessary to cut into the chicken to tell when it is done. If some of the breasts cook more quickly, you can remove them earlier.
4. Set chicken aside to cool, and strain the broth. Reserve broth.
5. Shred the chicken into very small pieces. I use a food processor fitted with the plastic blade for this step, but you can also use your fingers.
6. Stir the softened cream cheese and lime juice into the shredded chicken.
7. Finely chop the second onion and the garlic. Sauté the onion and garlic in 2 tablespoons of butter until golden and soft.
8. Add the hot onions and garlic to the chicken mixture and stir until everything is well mixed.
9. Measure the chicken broth (you will probably have about 3 1/2 cups). If you have less than three cups, add more canned chicken broth to make 3 cups. Bring the chicken broth to a boil in a saucepan, and gradually stir in the same amount of flour as you have broth (so if you have 3 1/2 cups broth, add 3 1/2 cups flour).
10. Stir vigorously and cook for 2-3 minutes. Mixture will become a stiff dough. Remove from heat and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
11. At this point, you can chill the chicken mixture and the dough for several hours or overnight.
12. To shape the coxinhas, take a piece of the dough about the size of a golf ball with floured hands. Roll it into a ball, then hollow out the middle for the filling.
13. Press a golfball size (about 1 1/2 tablespoons) piece of the chicken filling inside the ball of dough, and press the dough closed around the filling. Shape into an approximate drumstick shape, flouring hands as necessary. Stand the coxinhas on a baking sheet, so that the pointed end sticks upwards. Continue until you run out of dough or filling.
14. Whisk the eggs together in a bowl. Place the bread crumbs in a shallow pan (like a cake pan) and season with salt and pepper.
15. Dip the coxinhas in the egg, then in the breadcrumbs to coat. Chill the breaded coxinhas for 1 hour.
16. Fill a heavy-bottomed pot with enough oil to cover the coxinhas. Heat the oil to 360 degrees. Fry the coxinhas in batches until deep golden brown.
17. Serve warm.

Makes about 24 3-4 inch tall coxinhas.

There are many delicious street foods in the Brazilian states, each state of Brazil with their typical street foods.

In Salvador, Bahia, for example, you will find the delcious "Acarajé", a very delicious street food.

Yes, you are right mprado! Acarajé is a Brazilian food, it´s very tasty and comes from in Bahia, one of Brazil´s states. It´s a mixture of Brazilian and African cooking. It´s a delicious fast food!
Try it!!! it consists of - 1 pound dried black-eyed peas,
1/2 cup dried shrimp
3/4 cup roughly chopped onion
2 teaspoons roughly chopped garlic
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
Salt
2 quarts vegetable oil

If you are on the go in Brazil, a quick meal and also traditional, you have the option of trying Portuguese boteco. These can be found on virtually every street corner. These simple, yet cozy little bars often operate around the clock, serving sandwiches and juices for breakfast, a prato feito for lunch, and beers for the after work and evening crowds. Every boteco offers snacks called salgadinhos such as the famous pão de queijo (cheese bread), or coxinha (a fried rissole stuffed with shredded chicken).

Here is another great street food recipe I found On the Net:

RECIPE - Virado à Paulista
1 portion

3 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 Tbsp finely chopped onion
1 clove garlic, crushed
3/4 cup cooked dried beans, with their broth (click here for recipe for beans)
1/3 cup farinha (dried, toasted manioc flour)
4 oz. (100 gr) sliced garlic sausage (kielbasa, linguiça or similar)
8 oz. thin beefsteak (round steak or other)
salt to taste
7 leaves kale, destemmed and cut into thin strips
1 ripe plantain, peeled and sliced
cooked white rice
1 fried egg, sunny-side up (optional)
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In a medium saucepan, heat 1 Tbsp of the olive oil, then saute the onion and garlic until transparent and softened but not browned. Add the beans and their broth and heat through. Mix in the manioc flour, adding a bit at a time and mixing each batch in completely before continuing. Reduce heat to very low and cook for about five minutes, or until the manioc flour is softened. Remove from heat and reserve, keeping warm.

In a small frying pan, heat 1 Tbsp olive oil and fry the sliced sausage until browned and crispy. Remove the sausage to a small plate and reserve, keeping warm. Season the steak with salt to taste, add the final Tbsp olive oil to the pan in which the sausage was fried and fry the steak to the desired degree of doneness. Reserve the steak, keeping warm. Still using the same frying pan, briefly stir-fry the kale - just until it takes on a brilliant emerald color. Seaon with salt and reserve. Finally, fry the plantain in the same frying pan.

Assemble the plate - put a scoop of white rice and a scoop of the beans on a large deep plate. Place the steak to one side, and top with the sausage slices. Add the kale and banana slices, and if desired, top it all with a fried sunny-side-up egg. Serve immediately.

Hey Danno, excellent recipes!

"Virado à Paulista" is a great food!

Here is a good break down of some popular street foods available in Rio:

Another great street food I discovered while in Brazil was the Pamonhas, theses are sort of like tamales, except that they’re made out of the corn itself, not out of corn meal. Brazilian corn is very fibrous and not too sweet, so the mashed corn can go into the wrapper and be boiled directly in water. In Fortaleza, every afternoon about 4 pm, I hear the sounds of the pamonha man coming from the street below.There are two types- sweet and savory!!!

Yes, you can find good street foods at Salvador´s streets.

Like Brazil, Philadelphia, PA has some really great street vendors as well. Here is an article I found on the Internet that showcases these yummy vendors:

1. A&M Halal

Tagged with graffiti, this is the anchor in a strip of eight Drexel vendors, including Pyramid Pizza and Mai’s Oriental Food. Ask for the falafel omelet hoagie, and Mona Hagali will lay on provolone, then disks of falafel, then a rolled omelet with red peppers and onions. A heavy squirt of Sriracha finishes. Alley behind Lebow Engineering Center, Drexel University
2. Yue Kee

Craig LaBan, the restaurant critic for the Inquirer, once gave this battered, zinc-colored truck two bells, the local equivalent of two stars. The menu is extensive. And the service is surly, in the best hash house tradition. Here, college kids study quantum physics while waiting for spare rib tips with black bean sauce and pork belly with medicinal herbs and bok choy. 38th Street near Walnut
3. John’s Lunch Cart

Nick Haslidis works an old-guard cart. He followed in his father’s footsteps. Owing to the location, across from the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, you’ll hear ambulances screeching and helicopters fwopping. The white-jacketed doctors order breakfasts of scrapple and egg on hoagie rolls. So should you. 33rd Street and Spruce
4. Mikey D’s Grill

Mike Datt, the owner, is a veteran of Tony Luke’s, the fabled Philly roast pork stand. For breakfast, he toasts slices of pound cake on the flattop, but the best thing to come off his griddle is a sandwich of eggs with broccoli raab, draped with sharp provolone and goosed with red pepper flakes and garlic. 33rd Street and Market
5. ton-ton

Keiko Naka, the pigtailed proprietor, was born in Tokyo. She wears a blue apron and wields a pink-handled knife. Her well-designed and accessorized cart is Hello Kitty cute. For grab-and-go, try the onigiri, cellophane-wrapped triangles of seaweed stuffed with hashed tuna, mayo, and salted rice. For a more substantial feed, order the curried rice omelet or the mug of fried chicken. Market at 33rd Street
6. La Dominique Crepes

Zbigniew Chojnacki, a sculptor of Polish birth, works two crêpe irons in a one-man cart. He does not like to make breakfast crêpes, overstuffed with sausage and such. Seek him out in the afternoon, instead, when the crowds have died down and he can take his time, zesting lemons to order for a perfectly simple (and perfectly delicious) sugared lemon crêpe. Market at 33rd Street
7. Bui’s Lunch Truck

A gut punch of a lunch spot, peddling Philly cheese steaks and other eats from a busted Grumman truck. Students line the street for the Bui family’s Hangover Special, a late-morning feed of eggs and pork products, sluiced with hot sauce, tucked into a toasted roll. 38th Street and Spruce
8. Denise’s Soul Food

From a pink truck with baby blue trim, Denise and company stake a claim to serving both soul food and Caribbean food. Over the clatter and clank of an overtaxed generator, she makes small talk and dishes clamshell boxes, overstuffed with oxtails and curried chicken, macaroni and cheese, and peach cobbler. 30th Street and Market

Yes, Danno, this is a very good video. I like to eat CHURROS on the streets. It is very delicious.

Its a nice vide but takes too long to watch the full clip.

When you visit Brazil it does not matter if you want prawns, chicken, tapioca pancakes, coconut sweets, or corn on the cob, it can all be purchased on the street for next to nothing. Don't be afraid to try some of the best snacks that Brazil has to offer. My favorite is the Queijo coalho which isfresh cheese grilled in front of you!

Did you know that Acarajé is a fritter made from black-eyed peas and deep-fried to a tasty crisp golden brown in dendê (which is palm oil). After being split in half like a sandwich, they are stuffed with vatapá and caruru—thick, spicy pastes made with cassava, cashews and okra. Try 'em, you'll like 'em!

I love Acarajé. One of the most delicious street foods in Brazil!

Me too, I super love Acarajé with a spicy shrimp filling.