My Mom's First Time Trying Brazilian Food in Brazil

It's 10 o'clock in the morning. We ordered coffee. It took quite some time to get the coffee, but it's here. And we are the only people in here drinking coffee. 10 a.m. everyone is drinking beer. Wow, that's early. I think they had to send out for the recipe. Mucho bom I'm very good. We were joking that the staff is in the back going they ordered coffee. What are they sick? How do you make coffee? Anyway, my mom's first time trying tapioca as well as pão de queijo. So let's eat tapioca with eggs. Yeah inside is eggs and cheese. Yeah Yeah. Let's eat mocha bomb This is very good. I feel like it's healthy. I think you're right. I feel like I'm eating healthy and I'm drinking coffee. Maybe it should have been with a beer. I'm not sure. Maybe we'll do that tomorrow morning. Beer for breakfast. I tried it with ketchup and it actually tastes better I think without the ketchup. Ketchup doesn't really... Add anything to it. Oh, I'm surprised. I thought you were going to want ketchup. I know. Well, I tried it, but no. It's very good, though. Mucho bom. Mucho, mucho. Mucho bom. Bingo Not mucho. Not mucho. Mucho bom. Bingo. Oh, man. The pão de queijo was good, mom. To be fair, you'll never have a bad pão de queijo, but I think this one is quite good, so please try. It's a texture thing. It's a warmth thing. Cheese. For me, it's very good. This is very good. I'm gonna try again, it's very good. This has a lot of taste. This doesn't have much taste. No the tapioca and cheese and egg is a bit plain. That's why I thought you might want ketchup. The pão de queijo has a real good cheese flavor. And this is all gluten free. This is gluten-free? Yes, tapioca is gluten-free. It's naturally gluten-free. Which is a big trend in Canada and US. So I think maybe tapioca is gonna take over. This is very good. Yeah. Tasty. I'll try making these at home. Let's try. Let's try. Okay. Can you mum, can you say Pão de Queijo? Say it again? Pão de Queijo. Pão de Queijo. Bingo. He told me that Ivana loves this drink in Brazil. And I gotta say... It is delicious, metaguja, metaguja, metaguja, metaguja, it's a fruit drink and I have one daily, at least one daily, it's very good, it's passion fruit, it's very tasty, it's just juice with no sugar, just passion fruit juice, delicious, very good, my mom is also amazed whenever she sees french fries and rice on the same plate. Which she sees a lot because I order chicken parmesan all the time here in Brazil. It's very good with double carbs. All right, so what I forgot is in Brazil, sometimes they have foods that are only available on certain days of the week. I've never seen that anywhere in the world except for Brazil. And so I thought maybe we're not going to be able to get my mom to eat feijoada because everywhere we're going it says feijoada Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And we missed it. We forgot to have it on the weekend. So we're walking along the street here and we see a big sign that says fish water specials and perfect. So I can't tell you this is the world's best fish water but I wanted my mom to try. Now to be clear my mom has tried feijoada once before in Canada. We had some but this maybe is more the real deal and you already look like you're not gonna like it. i think the color of it is throwing you off. does that look appealing now? come on. well i wouldn't say it looks bad mom. it's basically beans and pork. i don't think it looks bad. go ahead and scoop it on top of your rice and then you kind of mix it in like a almost like a stew. the flavor is good mom. this is the national dish of brazil mom. put my happy face on. I'm going to try the meat now. What you say is pork. Well, it's pretty good. I mean, I won't say it tastes terrible, because it doesn't. Good. Visually, it does not look appealing at all. Yeah, there's also a phenomenon where the meat is all different kind of pieces, so sometimes you find a bone that you didn't expect, which is not normal for a Canadian person. You're not discovering a bone in your mouth. So I think the experience is a bit overwhelming, but the flavor shouldn't be bad. No, I can eat this. It's good. You try Steve. Oh I like it so I'll have some. What I've also done mom is I've ordered some pastel which is probably not typically paired with feijoada but you can eat the past well the pastel I'm sure you'll like it. It's good. I guess you don't really like the fat huh mom? That's something new for you. I don't mind a little bit of fat but that's solid fat there. I can't eat like just one piece of meat that's enough but I would order this again it's very good. Really? Good job, good job. 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Yep, okay, if you want to do the real Brazilian style, hold it with a napkin. That's the real Brazilian style. I don't know. What's the shrimp sauce? Is it spicy? Not spicy, but... Bite and find out. Because I actually don't know. I'm starting to speak now. That, me don't like. Really? Okay, why not? I don't like the taste. It tastes too fishy for me and I don't mind fish. Thank you. Okay, for me it's good. Try the chicken and cheese. I'm not a big fan. So basically I had it totally backwards. I thought you would not like the feijoada and you would like the pastel. It was backwards. It's okay, but I'm kind of full from what we ate. If I had eaten those first, I probably would have eaten them, but I don't know that I'm still a big fan. But no, they're not my favorite. You're doing well. The food hunt continues, okay? Let's keep it going. Alright, so my mom wants to wait for the coffee first. Early morning, cozinha. Now, I couldn't wait. I've already eaten it. I can tell you, Mom, no pressure, but this is so good. Alright, I'm having a bite. This is so good. I think you might like this more, the Pão de Queijo. Really? The texture is so yummy that oh it's very good mom. No pressure. Be honest if you don't like it. But for me wow. Okay. The tip is just no stuffing yet. Once you get down more there'll be chicken inside. It is good. It's good. It's good, right? Yeah. I really want a sip of my coffee, this is the biggest coffee we've had since we started our journey. Yeah. That's a good start, you're a fan of the size of coffee, you're right that's a full-size cup. Let's go. It's very good, the flavor's not strong. The texture. Actually, a lot of Brazilian foods, it's about the texture. The texture of coxinha, this one. Very nice. I love it. Very good. I don't know how they ended up with that shape. It's a circle on the bottom, but it's a point on the top. I don't know why the point. It could just be a ball, really. I don't get the serviettes myself. Oh, yeah. I had the same problem. So they're not actually napkins. They're just supposed to be like a hand shield. They're plastic. They don't absorb. So they don't do napkins. I think you don't really do a napkin in Brazil. You block your hand from touching the food and then you don't need to wipe your hands. That's the idea. I'll be honest. I'm more of a napkin man myself. He's off. Ha! And so you'll notice as we were eating that I didn't say the name of the food very often. This is because I always mispronounce that food and I end up saying the word for kitchen. I believe that very delicious thing is called cozinha. And I believe the word for kitchen is cozinha. but i might have got it backwards i'm sure on this channel at least five times i've said i really enjoy eating coxinhas because those words always mix up in any case it's delicious and my mom enjoyed it so let's keep going as i give my mom a brazilian food tour let's go look at this i asked my mom to pour me a beer what did she do what did she do all right so my mom wanted pasta Thank you very much for your time. she said steve I want pasta, and so I tried to do the most Brazilian pasta I could. We're on the beach and she's eating pasta with Picanha. Now it's ground picanha, so I don't know how legit it is, but in order to at least offer her some of mine I've also got real deal picanha, which looks very bloody so good. Oh, so good So let's eat. By the way, all week all my mom drinks is It's medical. maracujá juice Or Aperol Spritz, that's it. No, no, and beer. I've had beer. And some beers, and some coffee. But really, it's Aperol Spritz and fresh juice. Yes. Yes. Brian, how long have you been on the phone? Mom, can you indulge me and try this? No pressure, but actually lots of pressure. Tell me it's soft and delicious. Rubbery. Man, we got scammed, dude. Really? Not your favorite. It tastes good. It's good. But a little chewy. That's terrible. Terrible. My mom thinks it's interesting that there are young girls over here who look to be about school age that are training volleyball on the beach. They're sort of training in the same way I used to train ice hockey. The difference is when you're training ice hockey in Canada, there's nobody coming to vacation in your place, drinking alcohol and enjoying good music. So it's like the beach is part party time and part regular life for students who grew up around here. It's sort of interesting for my mom. And as you can see, I didn't like my food. Oh, I think you liked it, mom. It was delicious. I think you liked it. It was very good. So to be clear, your meat was the same as my meat. Mine is just in a chunk form and you didn't like it. But that was ground. It was delicious and it was tasty. It was mucho bom. close and you wanted pasta so it hit the spot it hit the spot i am very full so steve is making an acai and we are going to share it and it is 9.99 for 100 grams and it's self-serve and that's what he's doing now mom so right now he's putting in acai What's up? and here's the thing guys a couple of catches here one my mom has a little bit of sensitive teeth to the cold so i hope it doesn't bother your teeth and make you feel pain that's number one number two is it's all about the toppings so i gotta see I'm going to try French. i gotta kind of guess what you're gonna like you see Let me see. number one ma's green powder milk This is my favorite topic. I know, and right there, kind of, but we're going to try it. So, because acai is ice, frozen, it's going to melt and be very wet, and then powdered milk is going to be very dry and almost absorb the moisture, and it's like there's a battle in your mouth between wet and dry. It's very nice. Granola's face is like, uh. We're going to try it. And for me, I put peanuts, too. Or maybe granola better. Granola's nice. Granola's nice. And I'm filming this, guys, so if it's a little wobbly, it's just... Grin and bear it. I really hope you like the powdered milk. For me, it is the best part. Although, mom, you have sensitive teeth to cold, but you like ice cream. I do. Just don't let it touch my teeth. Okay, cheers. Cheers. Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm. Mm, mm, mm, mm. I think you're gonna like it. The flavor's good, come on. Hahahaha! Not sure. The flavor's good, but I'm not sure I like it as much as you do. But we'll see. Come on, it's pretty good, no? With the powdered milk? Mom, there are days when I swear this is better than ice cream. Not every day. It's different. Different than ice cream. I like the ice cream itself, or whatever you call it. What do you call this stuff? It is ice cream, isn't it? It's not ice cream. There's no cream. It's fruit and ice. It's acai is the name of the fruit, and they just add ice. There's no cream in it. It tastes good. It tastes good. Mmhmm It's very refreshing on a hot day. Mmm. Right? Very refreshing. I'm starting to speak now. if you're young you make it more like candy you put gummy bears and skittles or something like that or you can make it more quote-unquote healthy with this like bananas and strawberries but still it has lots of sugar but come on it's very good Mmhmm, i'm just not sure that the powdered milk Does anything for me that might be my mistake. That's my favorite part. That's okay Okay. It's not bad. I'll eat the powdered milk on the top. It's okay It's not I don't dislike it It just doesn't add much to it for me. It's very refreshing. Oh, yes even gives your mouth a little bit of love Mm-hmm. Yes, you can see how In a city that's built on the beach, this could be a great popular thing. Thank you. Thank you. I mean it's so good ice cream, but this is different than ice cream. This is different than ice cream. Although, I got brain freezing. I'm freezing, I'm freezing. And so, we found it. The world's biggest Palmito pizza. You know what it looks like a bit? It looks a bit like hard-boiled eggs, doesn't it? Oh, I guess you could be right. I was thinking mushroom, but yes, hard-boiled eggs. Yeah, a little bit like a mushroom also. So, mom, true Brazilian style, fork and knife. Look at that, you're ready. I hope you like it. The flavor of palmito is not like pineapple. But what I mean is, it's a similar thing to pineapple pizza, where I think some people would say, no, I don't like it. But other people would say, oh my gosh, I love it so much. Sour pizza. Not sure. No, it's good. Can you describe the flavor of palmito? It's good. It's not really strong. No, it's got a really nice texture. A lot of Brazilian food is the texture. It's a wet crunch like a... A little taste test by itself. Yeah, good idea. A little bit sour. A little bit sour. But not strong. It's very good. It's one of those things where I don't know how they figured out to put it on pizza. If you had that, you wouldn't think, oh, this is a pizza topping. But when it goes on pizza, it becomes very good. Yeah, but don't forget, we eat pizza with pineapple, too. I love pizza with pineapple. Actually, my favorite. It's very good. Mucho bom. Mucho bom. So, for those who don't know, palmito is palm heart. So, it's literally the inside section of the palm tree, I guess. My mom had a revelation that in Canada, we eat artichoke heart. Which, in the jar lore, is kind of similar. And I think it's the only other food I can imagine that the word heart is involved without being an animal. Anyway, I love palmito pizza. And so I wanted my mom to try because who doesn't like pizza? And who doesn't like palmito? Let's eat. It's very good. It is, right? It's very good. Haha, yes! We got a lot of pizza to eat. We could invite a few friends. Yeah, we got a lot of pizza. And so if I remember correctly these are called dadinhos de tapioca and they're called dadinhos because that means dice because they look like little six-sided dice you would throw at the craps table and to go with them some fried chicken not exactly Brazilian but many pieces of lime actually five limes in your fried chicken maybe that's a Brazilian twist and we're right We're right back here on the beach for our last meal of Rio. Let's eat! By the way, I'm tired. We had lots of fun in the sun on the beach today. And I'm tired. This is my first time trying tapioca. Squares, I don't know what I can't remember what you said, excuse me Excuse me. But they're darn good. Oh, I really like them Really? But you know what it might just be easier to use your fingers There's... We're going in for the fingers. No, none's for you. It's all mine Fine. very good I thought you might like because you like Pão de queijo and you like the tapioca breakfast thing we had which was cheese and eggs The texture of tapioca is unbeatable, no? It's very good. The texture is unbeatable. I'm going to see if I can make them at home. I'm going to try. You want to make this? I'm going to try. Or the balls. We can try both if you want. Pão de queijo is easy to make. This is hard to make, I guess. I don't know. We're going to try. Really? Ivana. We'll get Ivana. We'll get Ivana to make it. Mom, you and I just eat it. Ivana doesn't have enough to do. Thank you. You know, one of the other things I like about this beach is there's always so much action happening on it. I mean, we're sitting here enjoying a delicious dinner and we're able to watch... Bingo. And they're good. All the activities. And they're good. And they're good. The whole bar is here behind us, but we sat at the seat where it's almost like you're watching a show, you know? Yeah. And they're good. It's fun. And, of course, the weather is amazing. Yeah. and you can tell it's cultural because it could be someone who's seven years old or someone who's 70 years old and they're playing sports very well yeah absolutely it's a real grassroots phenomenon or not grass it's more like it's a real sand of the beach phenomenon you know what i mean