South BRAZILIAN STREET FOOD Tour!! Endless Pasteles + Hot Dog | Curitiba, Brazil

Oh my god. Good afternoon, everyone. I hope you're all doing well. This is David Hoffman from David's Bin here coming at you from Curitiba, Brazil, in southern Brazil. Today I'm going to take you on a local food tour of different spots you must visit when you come to Curitiba. We're going to start right here at Four Beans. We're going to have some delicious coffee. From here we're going to go have a pastel. And then after that we're going to hit up a food truck that has a sausage, like a hot dog, if you guys want to know about that. Sausage is huge here. Hot dogs are like really, really big in the culture of Brazil. And then after that we're going to go hit up a bar. My friends, are you ready? I'm ready, man. I have to be honest. I need a coffee to be awake. Let's go. Brazilian coffee is the best and this place is the best for you. Man, in Brazil, absolutely. It's a special coffee. I would highly recommend you take the black honey, the beans, back home. Okay, awesome. Let's get it. Really good. I need an espresso. Let's go. And this is Four Beans. They roast all their beans. And this is Octavio. Hi, how are you? Pleasure. Nice to meet you. Is this all for Christmas? Yeah. This is not. This is our new coffee. We call it drip coffee baggie. Awesome. You open this package. Open these two links. And a cup. Okay, wow. Just lots of hot water. That's it. And you have a great coffee. So that's like tea. Almost the same packaging, right? So just hot water and the coffee, the bag, you put it in and that's it. So what do you recommend? What do we try? Espresso. Beer, espresso. Yeah, absolutely. Espresso. Man, they always take really good espressos here. They also have Haro V60, Siphon, all different types of method, you know. And also they roast their coffee here. Basically, this is a drip coffee bag. You know, drip coffee is obviously a little different. This is a bag. You take it home. And whenever you're ready to make a coffee, just boil water, put it in, add the water on top, and that's it. Let me try it. Yeah. It's going to be really hot, huh? Yeah. Yeah, super hot. Different. Not the same thing as having an espresso, right? Not the same. Super piping hot. I think it's good coffee. It's nice, man. It's just an easy way to drip your coffee, right? Just hot water and you're done. You're good to go. So save your time, right? Real pro coffee makers or coffee brewers, what they do is they get the coffee beans and they weigh it to see exactly how much it weighs. That's how you make the perfect coffee, right? That's the point. Let me show you the aroma. Wow. It's like a flower in there. It's amazing. Oh, I can't wait. Okay, guys. So this jasmine bean comes from north of Rio de Janeiro, Santo... Espiritu Santo. So the Holy Spirit. That's the state? Okay. Oh, my God. What a coffee, man. That's strong. Black, but I love the fragrance. Just like flowers, right? Slight bitterness. This is perfect. There's no better coffee in Brazil. So which one is this one? This one is from Bahia. I'm going to try a little bit. You are the one who had it. I know, but I'm electric now. Very different. This was not flowery. It's more bitter, but again, it's like incredible. The taste. It's not like lingering too long. And I love it like this. No sugar, no cream, nothing. Thank you. Beer and nectar. Wow. Whenever you come to any coffee shops and you really like the coffee, buy a bag. I'm taking the jasmine one to my wife. And because we don't have a grinding machine, but we do have the machine for the espressos, they're going to grind it for me. If you have the machine, like the grinding machine, definitely take the beans. It's probably better. Everybody says it's better to do the beans over taking it grinded, but I can't do that, so I'm taking it grinded. Now they're going to roast the coffee. So the way it works is to get a lot of green coffee, regular coffee, basically, and then they put it into the roaster. Okay, so they put those beans on top. They open the roaster. So it went into the roasting machine. Takes around 15 minutes to be done. So we're going to wait 15 minutes. She's going to open it, and then it's going to come out. Obrigado. Thank you, guys. The best, the best. Hey, obrigado. Ciao, ciao. Wow, my friends, that coffee was so good. So freaking good. The best coffee I think I've had. Man, I don't know about my lifetime, but it's one of the best. And the smell right here, the aroma, you guys have no idea. All right, enough of this. Let's go eat a pastel. Can't wait. I'm starving. All right, guys, hitting the road again. Going to have a pastel. So it's basically like an empanada, right? Yeah, it's just deep fried pastry, right? Lots of flavor. It's very common in Brazil as well here in Curitiba. And this one has what? Oh, man, a bunch of flavors. A bunch of flavors? I've heard like, I don't know if it's true, but like 150 flavors. In this place? Yeah, like crazy. Lots of combinations, lots of new flavors. Wow. And, yeah. And it's raining again. Man, here, the weird thing about Curitiba in general, you can have sometimes the four seasons in one day. Like fall, summer, spring, and winter. Like it could be hot, cold, wet, dry, sunny, and gray, and raining again. We experienced that today. It was like wet and cold, then it was sunny, and now it's wet again. Juveve Bar, Restaurant, and Pasteleria. Yes. Very, very traditional. And check this out. The menu is huge. Right here it says 128 different items. They're telling us over 150, 150. Crazy. I've never seen a place with more than like five different empanadas. I'm excited. I'm hungry. Ready, Rafa? Yeah. I'm hungry. Very hungry. So we just told the lady to make three different pasteles. Huge empanadas. Same exact style. It's dough. They fill it up. Put lots of ingredients inside. They close it. They completely seal it. And they throw it into the deep fryer. Lots of oil. And then it's ready to eat. I'm excited. I'm hungry. Let's do it. Guys, look at this monster. Which is this one? What does it have? This one called barriado, which is a dish typical from Morretes, which is a town near Curitiba. Okay. It's basically shredded meat with banana and manioc flour. So shredded meat and banana. And manioc flour. Okay. Just dive right in with your hands. Everything starts to sink. This beast. Oh, man. So it's spongy. Like it's oily. So far, lots of air and dough. Everything sinks. Yes. It's huge, man. It's too big. Oh, there we go. Yeah. It's kind of like ground beef, right? Yeah. But it's shredded meat. Shredded. How do you like the combination? It's like sweet with salty. Oh, wow. And a little bit dry because of the manioc flour, right? I love it. Great combination. A little sweet. The banana is sweet. Yeah. So it's a typical dish from this town called Morretes. Towards the paradise state, like the ocean. Towards the ocean. Dude, it's so good. What a monster. It's like it's lunch already. Yeah, I mean, this is just like you eat this and that's it. You don't need anything else. Done. Full meal. Oh, my God. How about some chili sauce? Mm-hmm. Homemade chili sauce. So you think I should put the chili? Oh, absolutely. Why not? Mm, that's really hot, right? Mm-hmm. Whatever. Why can't it be super hot, right? Oh, my God. You got some napkins here? Mm. Oh. Does it really? It's like a mix of sweet and spicy. Almost like a sweet and sour. And salty, yeah. It sounds like a weird combination, but it's good. This is an amazing combination. Yeah. The mix of sweet, salty, and also the meat. Yeah, and the good thing, man, you're not eating like a regular pastry. You're having like a local flavor, you know? Something that you can only have here or in Morretes. Right? This is like unreal. This is the best pastel I've ever had. Yeah. Ever. And so they're here almost 40 years. 40 years? 39. Wow. What a monster, bro. Huge. I'm a huge banana guy. There's so many bananas in this area of the plantation. Yes, yeah. This is the best. And it was a chopped banana. Wow. Chopped. Yeah. I mean, dude, the sweetness. Incredible. And then you kind of have like the kind of like dry texture because of the flour, right? This is the best like empanada. Basically, it's a pie, guys. Remember that. It's a pie. It's kind of like big pie, yeah. Big pie. So good. I can't eat this whole thing. You're eating more than half of it. I know, I know. Come on. You're going to eat the whole thing because it's so good. Come on. Don't lie. I love the spice. Yeah. It's a good and nice sweet and sour spice. Whoa. And the good thing, man, they don't draw in the pastry into the oil, you know. It's just... Yeah, let it flow. I like that. It's better because the nap is way too oily. Yeah, too oily. And you can see also the oil, man. They always replace, you know. It's not like that really dark old oil. You just taste the pastry. Not oily. One last bite, guys. I can't eat this whole thing. We still have a lot of food to eat today. So good, huh? So good. So the pastel was 24 reais, so roughly right under 5 US dollars for that massive pie. I mean, so delicious. And the experience here is this, how tight it is. We're on the bar. People are passing behind us, in front of us. You can see them making them. She doesn't stop making pasteles. I mean, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Pastel machine. Pastel machine, for sure. She just makes them, throws in the oil, and they take it to the back. And there's actually, you know, a seating area in the back if you want to sit down at the table. But we like this. It was just cozier, you know, more local, right? Oh, this is awesome. Oh, now we're going to eat some hot dog and some more stuff. Let's see. Let's go. Ready? Ready for a hot dog? Local hot dog. Yeah? Yeah, Curitiba is well known for, like, good hot dog as well. I'll explain to you guys when we get there. We had a massive hot dog in Sao Paulo. But that hot dog was, like, mashed potatoes, regular hot dog, nice bun, very fluffy, not so filling. This one he's saying is a monster, another monster. Just different style. All right, guys, quick change of plans. We aren't going to eat the hot dog yet because it opens in one hour. So we came to a traditional, really authentic, famous bar. Casa Velha Bar. Casa Velha means old house. And that's it, guys. It looks like an old house. Right? Casa Velha. Bom dia. Tudo bem? Tudo bem. Look at this. Nice bar. And they have beer, huh? Boa tarde. Cerveza de Curitiba. Draft beer. This one's, for example, from Campos do Jordão, which is the Sao Paulo county. They have Eisenbahn, Petra, Black Juan, Maus beer. They have a lot of good beers. This is basically like a sports bar, okay? Come in, get a beer, get a snack like a croquette. We're going to get a croqueta. And I'm going to try a delicious beer, a local beer. And it's called Buddy Brewery. They have an American pale ale, right? Yeah, yeah. It belongs to the town near here that belongs to Paraná state called Colombo. Okay. Colombo. Awesome. Let's try one. Okay. On draft. Okay, on draft. Draft beer. Draft beer is the best. This is my type of place. Awesome. So we got a draft beer from a local brewery called Buddy Brewery. And this is an APA, right? So American pale ale. It's just American style, you know? We revolutionized the IPA into an American style IPA. And this is it. 6.5% alcohol. Oh, that's amazing. So good. Hoppy, not cloudy. Very crisp. Light. 6.5%. So not super light in alcohol. But just right. This is more like a sessionable APA. So if you're German or you're into German culture, definitely come out here to Curitiba and try beers. Beers are everywhere. Lots of breweries in the area. Tomorrow we're actually going to a town called Blumenau. It's in the next state, Santa Catarina. But that's like a German town. They actually have an Oktoberfest every single year. They started like in 1865 or something. And yeah, good beer. Always. Oh, man. People don't know about the Brazilian beers, but they're phenomenal. Hey. Muito bom. Saúde. That means cheers in Portuguese. Nothing better than a nice cold draft beer. They have so many beers to try. So he recommended I try another beer, a dark beer. It's called Petra. Look at this beer. Wow. Oh, man. This is almost like between a porter and a stout. I don't know what's in it. It's going to be sweet, right? Yeah, it's super sweet, actually. Super sweet. So this is like a German stout. It's more like a dunkel, right? This is the best with like a pork cutlet. Like a super fried pork cutlet, man. Oh, my God. And obviously, if you don't drink, you still come here because they have food. We're about to try some delicious, thick, round croquettes. Love dark beers. Petra, from Santa Catarina. Right. So what's the name of this thing? This is called Bolinho, Bola Cheia, which means like a full ball or like balls. Yeah, full ball. Full ball. Which is a croqueta. It's croqueta. It's basically brown beef and provolone cheese. And some dough. Some dough, yeah. And they fry it. Yeah, usually flour, right? Exactly. With egg and... It looks amazing. We have some sauce here. This is mustard and we have a spicy sauce. And then we're going with this. But first, let me show you this. So you gotta break it open. See how the cheese oozes out. I know. It's so addicting. I'm gonna put some of the spice in this. Here, cheers. Okay, cheers. I'll get some here. Okay, cool. Super spicy. Very nice. The cheese. It just flows right through like lava. Oozing. Gooey. The only problem about this croqueta, it's impossible to eat only one. You know? It's like... It's like a snack, you know, like non-stop. It is truly addictive. So basically, this pairs amazing with the beer. I'm having water. Good? Yeah. So good. To be honest, I'm so stuffed from the pastel. It was like a meal. I mean, it was a meal, man. It was a meal. I only ate half and I was like, whoa. Yes. But this is phenomenal. Very mushy, fried. Perfect comfort food to mix with craft beer. Muyto bom, my friend. Muyto bom. Whoa. Delicious. I think my friend's not happy. He ate five balls and we still have a hot dog to go. Crazy. I had two, but with the beer and the beer's heavy. This one's super tasty. Very sweet, malty. Again, mixed between a pork and a stout. All right, we ready? Hot dog? This is like a private dining room, but I like it. It's like rustic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is an old beer house, basically. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Thank you. Obrigado. A la proxima. Thank you. One minute until I eat a hot dog. Yes. To be honest, I don't love hot dogs, but it's such a big thing here in Brazil that I have to try everywhere. And it's a big thing in Curitiba. It's a big thing. They're very proud of their hot dog. This is it. That's good. Okay, here we are at Gringo Dog Colombia. It's one of the most famous hot dog in Curitiba. Man, the difference between the hot dog from Curitiba to the rest of Brazil. First of all, sausage, they call vina. Vina means, it comes from the word Vienna, right? So you never say salsicha or linguiça. You always say vina, right? It comes with bread, tomato, onions, french fries. And the other difference is the yuca flour. The yuca flour. And then ketchup and mayo. Okay, that's it. Obrigado. Look at this. My friends, look at this amazing hot dog. Wow. I like it because they even toasted it, right? Yes. They like squeeze it together. Beautiful. And we have a few different sauces here, so I think this is not spicy. This is pineapple. This is spicy. So spicy, pineapple. This is kind of like sweet and sour. And this one's sweet and sour? Yes. Go with the spicy one. Okay. This is Colombian sauce? Yeah, all three is Colombian sauce. So this is ahi. Right. Tomato with chili. Nice. The other two ones are pineapple, plain pineapple and pineapple with chili. So this is the real street food. Yeah, yeah. It's like Mexican, huh? The salsa. Yeah, ahi. I'll put some of this on top. Yeah. Wow. Very Mexican. The guy's from Colombia originally. The owner, right? Yeah, Colombians love their hot dogs. Yeah. So. They're good. The big difference, you know, they put a tip of hot dog, they put the cassava flour, right? It's amazing. It's crunchy. It's sweet. Well, that's sweet. This is spicy. I love the bread too. Yeah. Toasted, just ripe, a little soft in the middle, right? But on the outside. Crispy? Not crispy, but like cooked. Yeah. Like toasted, right? Not heavy bread, you know? I am full, man. It's a good way to end the day, right? Exactly. Yeah, man. To me, the hot dogs from Sao Paulo and Curitiba are the best in Brazil. Oh, yeah? Amazing. What a way to end the day, huh? Yeah. So, yeah. I was telling you the difference between the hot dogs. Curitiba, usually they put the cassava flour and they call the sausage pina, right? So, that's the main difference. Okay. So, that's basically it, guys. We had an amazing day exploring Curitiba. We started off at Four Beans, had a jasmine coffee. Really good. Yeah, the aroma just hits you. Really fantastic. From there, we went over to have the pastel. So, it's a huge pie, basically fried pie. 150 different styles. I tried the one with meat, banana and cassava flour. Freaking amazing. Yes. And then after that, we went over and had a beer. Well, I had two beers and we had croquettes. A casa velha. Casa velha. It's an old home. It's like a German bar experience. And then we came here to this place to have delicious hot dogs. What's the name of this place again? This is called Columbia. Gringo. Gringo dog. Yeah. Colombian style hot dogs. Really fantastic. Delicious. Sweet if you want it to be. Spicy if you want. And yeah, guys. That was an amazing day in Curitiba. Thank you. Obrigado. Brazilian food is so diverse. The french fries are crunchy. Oh my God. Muito bom. Guys, if you love this video, give me a thumbs up. Leave me a comment below. Subscribe to my channel for more awesome travel content. We'll see you in the next Travel Food Adventure. I have no idea where we're going next, but it's all good. Good. It's a big hot dog.