The Best and Worst Food in Brazil!

From crazy street food to flavors I didn't even know existed, we are going through the absolute best, the weirdest, and the most delicious Brazilian food I have ever tried. But there was one dish that completely terrified me before my first bite. Wanna guess what it was? I don't wanna eat this, but I have to eat it. If you think you know what an all-you-can-eat buffet is, Brazil is about to completely reset your expectations. Instead of getting up to get your food, endless supply of meat comes straight to your table until you beg them to stop. And this was definitely my favorite meat. This is the best one I've had so far. This is like the tip of the picanha. It's like the most noble cut of the picanha cut itself. Hey, Ale, you gotta try this. Tell me if you like this one better than the other one. What do you think? It's delicious. Yeah? Wow. This is yes, this is no. Great, there you go. Okay, Ojozinho is a full-on feast, but what Brazilians do to street food when the sun goes down is even more insane. Up next is a late-night giant that makes any other fast food look like a kid's meal. Can you guess what it is? In the U.S., we obviously have late-night food, lots of different types and names, but in Brazil, they created a street food monster called Podrão. Time to see what this thing is. This thing is enormous. Look at this fricking burger. How am I gonna do this? It has all of the toppings, double patty, extra cheese. This also has like diced pickles and corn and shoestring fries and onions and tomato and lettuce. Oh my God. Oh my God, there's an egg in here. There's a fried egg. It is an explosion of flavor. Okay, I'm gonna take another bite. Y'all pray for me. The thing is, is it's like, it's good. It's very tasty. It's definitely serving like trash burger, you know, like major junk food vibes. And I'm already so full, but I'm not gonna be able to finish this. I'm gonna have to order it to go. I'm gonna have to like get it to go. Almost not surviving a giant Podrão is a true badge of honor. But after all that heavy late night meat, it was time to cool down with Brazil's ultimate street food duo. We're talking piping hot, extra crunchy pastel with an ice cold Brazilian soda. Have you ever tried anything like this before? Because if you haven't, you must. Good morning. Good morning, my friend. Everyone tells me that the pastel from Keiko is the best in the city. I swear, I've been living here for three and a half years, and all my friends talk about it. Everyone says it's the best place in the world. We've been here for 41 years. 41 years, wow. 41 years, since 1985, and it's still open today. It has to be special, it has to be the best, right? Which is the main car of the house? Meat, cheese and eggs. Oh! I'll order this one then. And for drinks, is there... Pureza? There's Pureza. Yes! This is a local soda. It's been around here in Florianópolis for a hundred years. It is so delicious. I can't even describe the flavor for you. It's just like sweet, yummy guarana soda. It's fantastic. Oh, look at that. Here we go. Oh, I got a little bath of pureza and I'm not complaining about it. Oh, that is good. Mmm. Mmm! This is so delicious. Are you seeing this? That melty cheese in the meat? It is heavenly. Pastel with Guaraná is the ultimate Brazilian comfort food combo. But we couldn't keep things easy for too long, uh-uh. Up next is one dish that literally terrified me before my very first bite. Are you ready to see what it is? Because warning, things are about to get really, really dirty. Meet Hot Dog do Piro, a local legend that loads up their buns with everything you can imagine. All right, here we go. I think it's ready. Muito obrigado. Valeu. Here is my Brazilian hot dog. Underneath all of this pile of shredded cheese, there's a hot dog bun, two hot dogs. There are so many ingredients. The traditional Brazilian hot dog is like fully loaded with this stuff called vinaigrette, which is like this vinegar sauce with tomatoes, diced tomatoes and onions and herbs. It has, aside from that, it also has peas, corn, Tons of cheese, whoa, you see that? Whoa, I'm overwhelmed by this thing. So back in the US, hot dogs are typically grilled and they come with, typically you eat it with ketchup, mustard, maybe some sauerkraut, maybe some pickles, maybe some relish, depending on where you are in the US, you know, different cities have different ways of doing them but there's definitely not this involved. And I know the Brazilians are very, very proud of their hot dogs. This is, this is hard to eat. There's another way that they do it. Where it's called prensado, which is basically make the hot dog and then they put it in like a like a thing that presses it down and sort of toasts it more so it kind of holds it tighter. Y'all this is literally coming apart my hands. Look at my fingers. Look at my mouth. How do they do it? So yeah, I honestly would prefer to order it prensado because it's easier to eat because it's sort of been already pressed and toasted together with my fingers. So, for the Brazilians on the channel, which one do you prefer? Pressed? Gigantic, savory, and unbelievably filling Brazilian hot dogs might just be superior. Don't tell the people from New Jersey. But food in Brazil isn't just about late night snacks. Once a year, the entire country throws a giant celebration packed with unique winter delicacies you can't find anywhere else. Welcome to Festa São João. Are you ready for this feast? While most people associate Brazil with summer and beaches, this winter festival, if you're in the south, is all about warm comfort food and crazy delicious corn-based treats. First, we're going to start with cuscuz. Cuscuz is one for the ages. It's basically like cornmeal served savory often with either eggs or meat or cheese. Let's cut into and see how this is. Smells amazing. It's like steaming in my face. that is delicious. what i love about it is the texture. it gives you this really fun texture with the cornmeal and the meat and that cheesy butteriness. so this is basically like a seed that comes from a Three, they're almost thinking of like a giant pine cone, like the size of like a softball, it's big. And inside each one, there's like a hundred of these seeds. So it's boiled, it's really fun to get at because if you want to eat it, you have to bite it down here by the root and like squeeze it into your mouth, let's try it. Ah, it's so good. if you've ever had roasted or boiled chestnuts the texture is very similar meaty creamy texture of a cooked chestnut but the flavor is a little different it's very very delicious this is pamoya what is pamoya well pamoya it's kind of similar if you're familiar with like a tamale well first is the corn meal seasoned and formed into like this a little shape and wrapped up in the corn husk and then they put the string on it so that it stays together and then it's dropped in boiling water. so it cooks in boiling water inside the corn husk. you do not eat the corn husk. you open it up inside the corn husk is the part that you eat. it's really yummy. now Last, but certainly not least, is a favorite of Festa Junina all over the country. This is called canjica. It's a porridge made with white corn. The white corn is cooked in milk, sweetened condensed milk with sugar, seasoned often with things like cloves, cinnamon. You see the cinnamon on top. I think of it like a dessert. So the texture of the whole corn kernels is so nice. It gives this satisfying texture in the bite. I know that I love canjica because one of my close friends here in Florianopolis makes her own homemade canjica and it's delicious. Brazilian comfort food at its absolute best, am I right? But you can't visit an island like Florianopolis without trying its most famous coastal delicacy. We're heading to a historic restaurant to taste some of the freshest oysters in the entire country. Florianopolis produces over 90% of all oysters in Brazil, so I went to Santo Antônio de Lisboa, a charming local neighborhood where these babies are cultivated, to test if Brazilian oysters live up to the hype. OMG. Herma good. Wow. Es-pe-ta-cu-la. Incredible. Oh, a caipirinha de cachaça. Best part. Valeu. Y'all, what is my life right now? Okay, y'all. There's so many. Where am I gonna start? Okay, wait. So these are the vinaigrette. These are the ones baked with cheese. These are the raw. These are steamed. Which one am I gonna start with? Eenie, meenie, miney, moe. Which oyster is gonna go? Damn, that's good. I literally just got chills. These are literally like the best oysters I've ever had. Fresh, savory, and absolutely world-class, Floripa's oysters are an unmissable coastal experience. But now it's time to dive into the absolute craziest side of Brazilian gastronomy, the sweet and savory mashups that Brazilians love to invent. So up first is a cultural icon that takes the country's most famous savory snack and transforms it into a chocolate dessert. Would you ever eat this? In Brazil, no savory snack is more sacred than the coxinha. But leave it to Brazilians to take that exact shape and reinvent it as a dessert. My husband and I tried it and you have got to see what he did to that coxinha. Look how pretty that is. So this is a coxinha de brigadeiro com morango. You ready to try this? I'm ready. That's the concept of this. You know, that's... Is it troubling to you? No, it's great. It's great. I like both. This is good. This is basically like a chocolate-covered strawberry. So the idea is, this is basically a play on the most popular, common, and traditional Brazilian savory snack, which is called coxinha de frango, which is basically like salted, it's got chicken. And then brigadeiro, which you may be familiar with, is like the most traditional Brazilian sweet, right? It's one of my favorites, actually. You love brigadeiro. So basically, they've sort of played with that idea of taking the brigadeiro and doing it in the shape of the coxinha de frango. Which, I might tell you, okay, so listen. I'm being picky here, but I do like to see my fruit before I bite into them. I do not know who picked this fruit for me. I do not know who put that fruit in there. So it's a little troubling if you like to see your fruit like I do. And I didn't even care. I'm like, whatever, I'm biting into this thing. I was like, who doesn't love chocolate covered strawberry? Who hates soggy strawberries like me? This is a good strawberry, though. It's a good strawberry, yeah. I got some of that stem and I do not appreciate the stem. Not the stem. Not the stem for me. That thing is not, no, not the stem for me. Well, I think it's delicious. And if you think putting chocolate in a coxinha is crazy, wait until you see what they do to pizza in this country. In the US and Italy, pizza is strictly a savory meal. But Brazilians rewrote the rules of pizza entirely, believe me. But this is basically chicken stroganoff. Chicken stroganoff is super traditional, common meal here in Brazil. And then this right here, this has got like Oreo crumble with strawberries. What'd you think? It's good. Oh no no no no no no. Stroganoff should never go on top of a pizza, okay? Not a thing. One more thing. Now it's time for us to try the sweet bit. I think it's strawberries, Oreo crumble, and then white chocolate, white chocolate paste. It's white chocolate. No, it's like Oreo cream. Oh, that is yummy. That is so good. The crust is thin, so it's not overpowering. It's like Oreo cream with the Oreo crumble and strawberries. That is so good. It's really good. It's way better than like traditional. Oh, that's for sure. It's better than that. It's better than this. But I was expecting something else. I feel like my brain was ready for something else and this just like messed it up. The Oreo thing is just like, I'm not eating a cookie. I'm eating a pizza. So the whole thing together makes my brain goes a little But speaking of mind-blowing inventions, we couldn't talk about Brazilian food without facing the one meat dish that terrified me before my first bite. This is it, the final boss of my Brazilian food adventure. We've eaten giant burgers, celebrated at winter festivals, tried chocolate pizzas, but there was one dish in this country that literally made me squirm, and not in a good way. An entire skewer of chicken hearts. Yes, you heard that right. I don't want to eat this, but I have to eat it. And the thing is, is like, I've never eaten it before. Ooh, look, there's the aorta. Oh my God, the aorta of, ooh! This is my husband, one of my husband's favorite snacks. And whenever he has Brazilian barbecue, he always orders this. And I never had like the courage to order it because to me it was just weird, but I'm gonna try it. Okay. Here we go. Oh God, okay, I feel like my stomach's already turning. I'm gonna try to eat this without puking. Oh my God, the texture is so weird. It's not, I just can't think about it, the fact that it's like a chicken's beating heart. Like the flavor isn't that bad. I mean, it doesn't actually really taste bad, I have to admit. Okay, I'm not having any more of that. And that's the beauty of Brazilian gastronomy. It forces you out of your comfort zone and rewards you with unforgettable flavors. Which of these dishes would you dare to try? Let me know in the comments. And if you enjoyed watching me eat all of this, you'll definitely love seeing me devour the entire McDonald's menu in Brazil.