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TV Shows: Planet Food - Brazil Features
Rio beach snack |
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Where it's at
Rio de Janeiro is renowned as the playground of South
America and the beach is the centre of the Carioca (the nickname
for Rio's inhabitants) social scene - so much so that it's
a wonder any work gets done in Rio at all! If strutting up
the beach in an isty bitsy bikini, taking part in a volleyball
game or chucking yourself under waves all seems like too much
effort, chances are you'll more than appreciate the vast numbers
of beach vendors hawking their wares to you from the comfort
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Foods in store
From midday onwards there's a supermarket-rivalling range
of food on offer. Seafood treats are very
popular, you can choose from buttery pastry tarts
filled with shrimp, grilled prawns
on skewers or even oysters - a fantastic
bargain at 25 cents a go! Even the Brazilian equivalent of
McDonalds, Bob's Burgers, will come and take
your order and deliver it to your beach abode. To wash all
that food down there are stalls at 150 ft intervals along
the beach selling delicious chilled coconut water,
straight out of a coconut with the top lopped off. When you've
finished your drink ask the vendor to open up the coconut
and break off a 'scooper' so you can eat the coconut jelly
inside.
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By Kate Griffiths
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