Brazilian FARM to TABLE SEAFOOD!! Sand Dune Surfing & Beaches | Florianópolis, Brazil

Crab cake. Crab cake, correct. Crab cake. What? It was the chef's creation? Bom dia from Floripa! This is David Hoffman from David's Been Here coming at you from the magical island in southern Brazil. Today I'm going to take you to explore the east side of Floridonopolis. Over here we have sand dunes, we have beaches, this beautiful lagoon, small town. We're going to go have some breakfast, have some seafood lunch. I'm super excited. I cannot wait. The seafood here in Brazil is outstanding. You're right, David. Man, that's what people call the magical island. And as you can see, it's so magical and magic. And man, we're going to explore these dunes, you know, sand dunes. This lagoon is beautiful. And these are the two main beaches of the east side of the island, which is Joaquina Beach and Molly Beach. Joaquina is well known for surf contests, a lot of good surfing. And Molly is kind of more like a beach club, you know. A lot of good food. The weather is beautiful. So let's explore Floridonopolis. Let's go, bro. Hey, tudo bom? I'm hungry. I've had breakfast. I've only had a coffee. Café de manhã. Look at the sign. Oh, the sign right here? This says I'm Floripa, and I'm in Floridonopolis. Let's rock and roll, bro. Can't wait to see the beaches. The seafood here will blow your mind. Yesterday, we had oysters. We had mussels, shrimp, oysters and shrimp. This is the oyster capital of Brazil. Let's go. Man, it's great. It's beautiful, man. I'm so excited to explore this part of the island. It's one of my favorites, you know. Beautiful. Unbelievable, this place. To me, it's one of the most beautiful parts of the island, you know. Yeah, so it's Praia Mole, Praia da Lagoa. So that's sort of the area, right? Lagoa da Conceição, which is a lagoon. This actually reminds me of some of the places I've driven in India, like in Kerala. Going up and down hills, going to Munnar, that area. This is the downtown of the town. Yeah, exactly. Downtown of Lagoa da Conceição. I really like this place, Suco da Saúde. They have good smoothie. It's kind of early right now, but yeah, it's always fun. Yeah, so it's basically just a small downtown. Some, you know, commercial shops. There's not really apartment buildings here. I guess that's closer to the beach, right? Right. We found a little vendor selling some coconut water, some sugarcane juice. And that's right in front of the lagoon. Beautiful. Nice boardwalk. Love this. Wow. And the weather's like perfect. It's like 75 degrees Fahrenheit. It's a little bit of wind. I mean, I love this weather. I can do this weather every day. He's just advertising his business, dude. He's hilarious. Yes. So he's shoving the sugarcane into this grinder, right? But then he also puts the lime in between. So it grinds the lime in as well. You know, it just gives it more flavor. Gives it a nice little tangy taste. Oh. Yeah, usually we call it cana or caldo de cana. I'm sorry, cana de açúcar. Cana de açúcar. Sugarcane. Cana de açúcar. Toma tudinho. Chora na cabeça. He wants to fill us up more and more and more. Give me a lot, man. Obrigado. Thank you. He's so friendly. Delicious. Sugarcane juice with some lime. Oh, so refreshing. The perfect thing to start the day. You know, I didn't have breakfast. This is what I wanted. I wanted, you know, a little bit of a cleanse. Been eating so much lately. Then in the mornings, I just want some juice. Super fresh juice with this view. Hey, Brazil, you're amazing. Oh, wow. So refreshing. It was good. This one is with lime. It's pretty good. Not too sweet. It's good. You can see the color. Like, really fresh. So, each cup of sugarcane costs five. So, ten total. Obrigado. Thank you. That guy was wild, bro. Yeah, wild. I know it. Hawaii canoeing. I know. Amazing. It's cool, huh? Yeah. It's cool. Let's go. This place is so beautiful. Lots of dunes. Look at this. The dunes on the right. So, the lagoon to the left. Yeah. You have the street and then dunes. Never-ending dunes. Wow. It's a perfect place to fly the drone so you can see this part of the island from the top, right? It's beautiful. I've never been to a beach like this. Crazy, huh? This is crazy. Yeah. Now, actually, we're not going to the beach right now. We're going to explore the dunes. Yeah. Okay. So, the dunes is just dunes, not beach. Just dunes, yeah. Because it goes through the lagoon. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. Wow. And you can rent sandboards right here? Yes. Oh, man. But I'm going to hurt myself if I do that. Yeah. But you guys can do it if you want to. You come right here, rent a sandboard, go on the dunes. Yes. Amazing. Can't wait, man. And you're going to see part of this island from the top of the dunes. Yes. How high is it? Very high, man. That's why I call it the Waimea, man. It's huge. Wow. Yeah. So, they have these sandboards, but they also have sandboards more like a sled, right? So, you just sit down and hold on. So, if you know how to snowboard, that's probably really easy for you. I don't know how to snowboard. I don't know how to ski. So, I wouldn't really try that right now. I wouldn't want to risk it and get really hurt. This one's cool, though. I mean, if we have some time, maybe we should get on it. What do you think? How much is it for the board? Okay, guys. So, we're going to get these sandboard sleds. Let's go up there. Off we go. It's going to be great. We're on the top. Let's see how this is. Oh, wow. Look at this. Huge dunes. What? Over here to the right, we have the tallest one. You can look over the entire lagoon. The ocean's right there. This small hill first. This side's scary. Okay. Let's go for a ride. I'm sandy to my eyes. It's awesome, man. That's a big hill. It is. That's why I call Waimea, man. Oh, my God. Yeah. Intense. That's awesome. Yes. This guy broke his ass. Yeah. Sandboard. Oh, man. Yeah. We're going to do it one more time. One more time? Yeah. This is so addictive, man. I know. Ryan, it's a great workout. Yeah, I need the wax. Yeah. Do you have the wax? No. He gave it to you now? Oh. Well, that was really, really fun. No problem. It's an experience. If you're not a snowboarder, I don't recommend this one that you stand on. It's just not worth the risk. He, like, broke his butt. You can easily just fly super high. Easily like a, I'd say, like, 15 meters. A 15-meter dune. I recommend this one. It's cool. we spent like 45 minutes here now it's packed a lot of people coming here just walking the dunes taking some photos and that's it so we're gonna go back in the car drive straight to the beach amigo, obrigado, hey, tudo bom? tudo bom, tudo certo, obrigado amigo you need to be careful man because you can get like some serious damage you know like get hurt so once you put a lot of wax on the board yeah man be careful if you're you know beginner beginner novice it's yeah dangerous now Joaquina Beach it's a very famous beach for like surf surfing a lot of international surfing contest beautiful beach called Joaquina it's right in front of us literally a one-minute drive from the dunes and here we go parked right next to the beach there's a few restaurants some vendors selling some clothing some towels basically souvenirs right and then over here there's a hotel Chris Hotel there's a surf school again he said it's like one of the most famous places in Brazil to go surfing huge waves long beach what a beautiful day gorgeous gorgeous huge good surfing even it's still like kind of like in the spring beginning of summer yeah beautiful man look the size right like five kilometers yeah and you can probably walk up for a long time you could see they're like walking at least like I don't know 100 200 meters deep and it's still very low right very shallow. One of the things I like about the beach is in the south of Brazil as well northeast of Brazil man they have like a huge infrastructure right like table chair umbrella they have like a restaurant so you can have like a full meal on the beach so you don't need to you know leave the beach to go to a restaurant it's pretty nice to have a hotel convenience store you know lots of dunes so if you want to like go all the way down like be more exclusive you know more like chill. It's long right? Man I would say more than five kilometers easy easy. It actually reminds me of some of the beaches that I saw in Costa Rica just the way it is. Which part? Like Guanacaste. I love beaches like this they are really relaxing nice white sand over there's white here's like a little more brown I've never really seen this like the restaurant has tables directly on the beach you can be like swimming go over here have some oysters jump back in the water beautiful spot so if you're a surfer come here one of the top surfers in the world lives in Floripa whoa Tudo bem? Beleza? Beleza. Beleza as piaja. Muito bonito. This water is freezing hey it's helado. I didn't know it was gonna be that cold dude. It actually gave me a little shock. Fria. Gelada. It's always cold but to be honest today it's kind of nice comparing compared to like what is normal you know here I mean it's perfect though because with the Sun super hot you come into the water you get refreshed Wow look at the surfers hey the waves aren't that bad so you're saying in deep winter like in a month it's gonna be huge waves eight to ten feet so like three four meters whoo this is real Brazil found a better spot to view the surfers to climb up to the boaters not so hard pretty easy just be aware it's a little slippery come out here you get beautiful views of all the surfers seeing the waves waves aren't so bad right now in terms of height probably like four or five feet they're catching some of them but I mean it's very choppy it's not like perfect waves right but I mean from here the view is just epic and over there I mean this is it right this is a small town or a small little village you know a few shops a few restaurants and it ends right there and then from there to the end it's straight dunes just dunes beach and the ocean beautiful I am really in awe with this place just gorgeous a must visit in Floripa this reminds me more of a some places in Southeast Asia you know everywhere you go it's gonna remind you of something right Molly Molly Beach How far is it? I would say 10 minutes I'm not I'm not almost positive but I think something like 10 minutes not not too far So they usually charge a few dollars US dollars to park here but we just want to like literally walk off be here 10 minutes see it and come back so he's gonna give it to us for free right very nice guy yes very nice I love this like jungle sand path yeah man most of the beaches here in Florianopolis for you to reach the the sand right you have to walk like through jungle yeah always man and it's very wild right so there's a beach club beautiful something how you doing what a beautiful beach look at that all the surfers at the very end trying to catch some waves we're relaxing and he's saying that that beach club during summer like in about a month let's say like early January wrap the New Year's it is packed with the most beautiful women in Brazil absolutely they're now originally just from Santa Catarina state but also Rio Grande do Sul state okay which is kind of like the models factory yeah where like Gisele Bündchen other top celebrity models because they're all like European descents mix yeah it's a mix of Portuguese Italian Brazilian Africa German great man look at this surfers do it isn't pretty good waves it is awesome it's like almost summertime so small waves imagine you come here like during fall and winter man it's great you know like best time to come to Florianopolis is between like late December and let's say March 1st that's the best time that is their summer remember southern hemisphere summer is our winter okay and this is the beach I mean amazing beautiful women very nice people hey oh yeah just a man's woman and yeah you go surfing walk around rest of the beach club have a drink that's it guys I mean this is the beach now we're gonna go I'm starving I am so hungry seafood ostras shrimp let's do it hell yeah man really hungry after here we're going to a nice place you're gonna take the boat we're going to a restaurant we're gonna try some local food I can't wait to enjoy this beautiful day with you David here in Florianopolis obrigado Rafael my name is Rafael David David my girlfriend Lalini Lalini David un placer un placer let's go to lunch bro let's go man I'm hungry too let's go so this ferry terminal is located in the middle of a park well on the lagoon but you have to go through a park so it takes like around 15 minutes to go from the beach we just were to here so you just make a quick right go straight all the way and then you have to make a sharp left and you go straight through this like this forest right so it's like a so it's paved but some parts are dirt and there's a lot of potholes yes so basically this road is between the ocean and the lagoon right this is beautiful so it's a long here it's like five different boats here we don't know exactly how it works but we think it's upon arrival so you arrive you pay they'll cross you over to the restaurant 20 reais per person round trip yeah the side you want to go down yeah every 10 minutes I guess let's give him this right okay so this is the goal is to come back let's not lose this love it is awesome let me breathe fresh air beautiful scenery love the Sun it's not so hot so how long does it take like 10 minutes to cross over this is like the boat that's like it feels like a huge canoe but the good thing is they have covering right so they have a roof and you have this open love it so peaceful out here so when you're done you wait 10 minutes and another boat comes to get super convenient I love the scenery here this is really really beautiful I've been to a place in Croatia that's similar mountain stone yeah they farm oysters there as well similar like landscape right so you have a little bit yeah beautiful so he drops us off directly at the restaurant the restaurant up here we pull up get off here we can sit outside and eat some delicious seafood exactly oysters pulpo everything everything what do you go I will say okay because I see this place man it's been 40 years so look the picture of them like the first year of like when they're operating like so how can I explain man like simple yeah rusty mm-hmm rustic so it was a rustic restaurant now they've expanded they've added two different piers so you can come on the boat they've expanded the restaurant from the seating you can sit over here you know huge tables all wooden tables right here in front of us more wooden tables and you can go on to the pier area where it's like a more open-air no covering obviously they have umbrellas if you want we're gonna sit here relax have some cachaça maybe a beer a lot of seafood hey David this for you what is it yeah it is a jabuticaba caipirinha jabuticaba there's no meaning because jabuticaba it's a Brazilian fruit it comes from the the berry family right from the tree hmm oh man the alcohol yeah is it right away yes you know what's it like a martini yeah but as you can see man the texture and it kind of looks like like a big blueberry you know right okay so there's different berries in here uh-huh right then you guys just one different berry lots of berries but just one kind that's vodka yes that's vodka that's not cachaça let me check yeah this is a cachaça buchia buchia is a name of a local fruit that they're like so much in this region of Santa Catarina State so whatever you go in any city in Santa Catarina State they have buchia so this is cachaça buchia so zircane liquor mixed with the fruit right okay awesome you said I'm gonna like it right yeah you're gonna love it delicious man this is nice this is more like a sour yeah a little sour a little bitter and at the same time a little honey right yeah I mean it's a little sweet obviously it's a it's strong alcohol up there like 30% it's not as strong as grappa stuff but it's a very tiny yellow fruit. Buchia amarelinha, pequenininha. It reminds me of rakia in Croatia. In Croatia I've had a lot of rakia, but it's mixed with berries like strawberry, blueberry. It's called buchia, the fruit that you have in the cachaça. I like it. Let's see what it's all about. It's nice. It's tough. Starfruit. Starfruit as well. Very sour. Yeah. I actually love starfruit. I like the bite to it, the juices come out. Okay, so we're in the kitchen. We're gonna see how they make some of the seafood. Right here she's making like a shrimp kebab. You have some fish here. More shrimp. It looks delicious. So what she's preparing for us now it's braised crab meat with white sauce, two different types of sauce, some seasonings, then parmesan cheese on the top and put in like an oyster shell and then she's going to put in the oven. This is gonna be delicious. My mouth is salivating right now. I am so hungry. As far as I know, only this place make this type of dish into the oyster shell. As far as I know. Fried croquettes, fried shrimp. We're also having this fish? Yeah, except the other crab then into the oyster which is not. That's baked. Yeah, it's baked. It's a little different. But this looks delicious. So she's using two different types of flour. Correct. The egg that was kind of like a glue, right? Always, always. This is a standard, right? Yeah, now she's going to grill soy fish, right? Which is, man, at the moment in this region now, plenty of soy fish, we call linguado, right in front of the restaurant. So farm to table. Salad. Alright, my friends. That was epic. We saw they made the three dishes. So we have some crab, like, salad stuffed on top of the oyster shell with cheese on top baked. Then we have two crab dishes. Yeah, it's one of the main dishes in Santa Catarina State. And then a fish with shrimp, rice and banana. Yeah, it's kind of like a fish broth. Awesome. Let's eat. We are excited. Two crab dishes. These are delicious. Croquettes. Obviously, we've had them all over the world. Yeah. Cuban culture, they love it. Here we have like a crab salad stuffed into the oyster shell with the cheese. Yeah, it was like braised crab. Oh, it's still super hot. Yeah, with parmesan cheese and some cream cheese. Look at this. Oh my god, it's gonna be hot, right? Yes. Kind of like a shredded crab meat, right? Crab cake. Crab cake, correct. Crab cake. What? It was the chef's creation. So you can only have this dish here at this restaurant. Yeah. Oh my god. I love the sea salt, a little bit. But you know, the sea salt is just for decoration. It's good though. But if you feel like eating, no problem. You're not gonna have a little bit in here? So good. Wow. Okay, next up, croquettes. Yeah, which is one of the main dishes of Santa Catarina State. Of the state. Of the state. Okay. Obviously, we dip it in this delicious like pink, it might be like ketchup and mayo, right? Yeah. Golf sauce. Golf sauce. Okay, a little more. Usually, you guys do it with the shrimp cocktail. Yeah, exactly. I like it. That is incredible. Oh, it's still hot. A lot of meat. A lot of meat. So basically, the whole thing is crab meat and a little bit, I guess, is like a vegetable in there. Very little dough. That's good. Usually, like in Miami, you know, obviously Cuban influence, we have a lot of croquettas, but they're way too mushy. This thing is like straight meat. We call it kind of like a cement, you know? Yeah, yeah. It's like too dry too. Too dry. Yeah. Sometimes salty. Salty, uh-huh. I could eat like 50 of these. I would suggest you take a bite and then squeeze some lime on the top. Alright, let's do it. Ready? Yeah, do a bite. Now, now it'd be much better. Tell me. You can't get wrong with the crab and lime. Croquette. Lime juice. Crab and croquette. Yeah. In Brazil, the best croquette of all time. Absolutely, man. Dude, there's nothing better than that. No, so good. I personally don't like croquettes, but I could eat that whole plate. Yeah, actually, it was the owner's recommendation, like you must order these three dishes when you're here, so you can't get wrong, you know? You can't make mistakes. Round two? Round two, let's go. This is one of the most delicious stuffed oysters ever. Crab meat. It's like crab cake with cheese. Baked. It'll blow your mind. It's too good. Mm-hmm. Oh, wow. Must dip. Mm-hmm. And this is the main course. It is, whoo, amazing. So, we have fried shrimp. We have this sole fish. Yeah, they fish right in front of the restaurant. Banana. Banana. This is all grilled. This is fried. Yeah. French fries. Rice and? Fish stock gravy, which is called pirão de peixe. Pirão de peixe. Pirão de peixe. So, pretty much all the, not the leftover, I would say, from the fish, but the spine, the, you know. So, they put it into like a? Fish stock gravy. So, they mix it up? They mix it up with manioc flour. Okay, because it looks like grains. Yeah. So, that's the flour. As you can see, the flour, yeah, manioc flour, yeah. So, how do we do it? As you can see, it has some pieces of fish, right? Okay. So, basically, you just grab the, like, filet. Okay. Do like this, no problem. Yeah. Oh, wow, that banana looks amazing. Yeah. Yeah, you don't eat the skin, right? You can have this one, the whole thing. No, no, I can have half. Simple, good, and then the shrimp. And what you do, man, first, you usually, you get the rice. Okay. And then, on the side or on the top, you put the fish stock gravy. But it's okay, just put on the side. Yeah, so I'll put it like? Yeah, it's a simple meal, right? It's like a? This is like home meal. Home meal, I was about to say that, home meal. This is farm to table, home meal. Exactly. Everything's simple, right? Like, they use the ingredients they have here. So, for your drink, they catch the fruit, the banana is here, everything's here, man. Self-sustainable. And I think the shrimp needs this, right? Exactly. Really good. It's actually, so it's like double layered. Yeah, double layer and two types of flour, as you can see, like Michelle was preparing, right? You feel it? Definitely. Thicker and more dense than the ones we had before. And together, the crunchiness, right? Yeah, it's fantastic. I can eat that all day. All day? All day. Easy. But we should jump on the fish? Let's do it. Wow, look at this. No spines, no bones? No spines, just the filet, man. Okay. Yeah, cheers. Beautiful. You can tell it's not the catch of the day, man, they catch for like a couple days ago. It's dry, but it's pretty nice. No bones. And the best thing about this is you're eating it while you're looking at the sea, you know the bay? Yeah. No, it's actually the lagoon. Lagoon. Yes, huge lagoon. That's it, man. Okay, next time I would suggest we get a piece of the fish with the banana, rice, and the fish stock gravy all together. Like salty, sweet. You gotta mix it all, right? Yeah, look. Banana. Look, like this, right? That's my type of meal, you know, mixing flavors, textures. That's how you really understand what the food's about, right? Let's do it. The crunchiness of the banana, the sweetness of the fish. Wow, and this isn't so bad, like it's uh. No, when they know how to do it, the fish stock gravy, man, sometimes you don't get like good ones, but this one's pretty good. It's almost like grits. Yeah. American grits. Yeah. Grits. I mean, just basic grains, right? We had such a beautiful day. This morning has been, it's been long. We started at seven in the morning, driving all the way over to the side of the island. This side of the island, we have sand dunes. We have beaches, two beautiful beaches. You can go there, relax, have some drinks, or go surfing, dive in. If you're with a family, it's perfect for families. Then from there. Absolutely. We came up here, you know, crossed. Cost 20, so like four dollars each to cross. Round trip. Yeah, round trip. And we had this beautiful meal. We had the crab. Crab, so crab like cake. Crab, yeah, crab cake. Baked in an oyster. Yes. Then we have. Crab croqueta. Crab croqueta, which is amazing. We still have one more to go. That's yours. Yes. And then we had shrimp with sole fish, banana. The banana was the best part for me. It just made the sweetness. Yeah. I mean, I can keep going with this, but. Absolutely. Wow, dude, thank you so much. This is. Thank you, man. It was an amazing day. And this is something that most people don't know about Fueronopolis. It's more than just beaches. A lot of culture, a lot of activities and forever food. Seafood, best seafood in Brazil. Absolutely. I mean, so far for me. Thank you for the opportunity to, you know, show you around, man. We are so happy for the opportunity and it's good to be back in Fueronopolis, man. I love this town. I love it too. Yeah. Guys, if you love the video, thumbs up. Leave me a comment below. 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