Yesterday was a day of delicious food ! Eduardo took me to the mercado central, a beautiful, almost victorian looking building located in downtown São Paulo where we started with an amazing salt cod fritter, it was perfectly light and crispy...totally yummy..we shared one as there was so much other great stuff to eat there. We went to a really great spice stall, saw amazing , beautiful fruit, drank água de coco, had sandwiches of mortadella and pernil, a really cool looking candy made of little pieces of jelly in a big loaf and the burning question that I came down here to research was finally answered..... what do Brazilians call Brazil Nuts ? Castanha do Pára. After that we drove to a giant pet supermarket to get some stuff to keep Thor happy on our trip to Ubatuba, then to a giant supermarket where they had an amazing flavor of yogurt, orange carrot and honey, and I learned that they dont make havianas, the local flip flops in my size.
Then we rested for a while, watched a movie called Man of the Year...it was pretty great and weird and one of Eduard's favorite movies. Then, around 10:30 we headed out for a 30 minute drive to Patricia's, a friend of Eduardo's who had an accident walking her dog last week and is now on crutches, we picked her up then went to an amazing restaurant called Santa Gula, where I had salmon in a passion fruit sauce, a caipirinha made with passionfruit and a delicious root vegetable called mandioquinha that tasted like mashed potatoes with cheese... super delicioso!
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Thanks for the memories, that is a damn fine food city! It has been too long since my last time there.
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