Hey George, really like your videos! One hint: brazilian people like to mix foods on the plate... that's why when you taste them separately they can seem a little bit intense or weird. Next time, try to mix rice with the beans and the meat, you'll notice an intense richness of flavor and textures. For example the "sweets" you tasted it are better with a salty or neutral counterpart (i.e white brazilian cheese). Farofa is never eaten alone, you always mix it with the beans stew. Guava jam are eaten with bread or cheese.
it is not called cajuinaaaaaaaaa non such thing iti s called SUCO DE CAJU..head to the north east,,the best! the rest is immitation!ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fu4QfH24cJc.html
Mocotó was created by a Northeaster man in the north part of Sāo Paulo suburbs. It used to be a very humble place serving a humble plate called mocotó (made from cow’s bone cartilage). His son took over it and changed to one of the most famous NE cousine in SPaulo. Mocotó branches are in many places now. Wonderful food ✨✨✨
But it seems they could've make a bigger place looking the huge line with wait time of 1:30 hrs, I'm from Goiás and I didn't know people wait that many in a line to eat.
Petition to make George a brazilian citizen. 😅 Youre very charismatic. Wish you all the best in your life, gerogie. And if you try moqueca, make sure its the "capixaba" one. 😁
George went all over the world, searching and searching… ends up with a girl from São Paulo. Brings her home to Japan, so that his family can meet his exotic Brazilian love… and she’s Japanese Brazilian.
I've eaten at Mocotó several times and it's one of the best northeastern cuisine restaurants in São Paulo city. Brazilian desserts are really too sweet for the foreign palate of most countries, so the suggestion is to eat very small portions
I agree, but even when it comes to desserts, I prefer and usually compliment the cook when it is just mildly sweet. Humans eat too much sugar nowadays. That's overwhelming and not healthy, and I don't really enjoy overly sweet stuff. So in a nutshell, I think that boils down to personal preference, like you said.
Brazilian deserts are well known for being "too sweet for foreign tastes", but they're very flavorful. My suggestions for foreign people are allways take little bites just to taste it and then decide if they want to mix it with something blend or savory (like white cheese, which goes PERFECTLY with guava jam) or to spread on a slice of bread, toast or cracker.
About "cajuína", it's made from "caju" but it takes a different process to make than the common "caju" juice. It's clear while the common "caju" juice is yellow and full of pulp. Personally, I prefer the juice with pulp. The steak you`ve tasted is called "Carne de sol" (sun meat). It`s typical from the northeast region of Brazil. It has this name because, in the past, as people needed to conservate the meat, they applied lots of salt over it and let it dry on the sun (this is the origin of the name). The " enriched rice" is called "Baião de Dois" which is based on a style of music from northeast region of Brazil (called "Baião") and "dois" means "two", which are the basic ingredients: rice and beans. But the most common "Baião de Dois" takes rice, beans (a variety called "feijão de corda", which was in the bean soup you've tried), small cubs of cheese (which melts into the rice), chives, garlic and onion. And about sweets, you've noticed that we, Brazilians, have really sweet teeth. =D
Those desserts are “caldas” - they’re kinda like sweet sauces. I don’t like eating then straight like that because they’re too sweet, they’re better like toppings or used like jams (on bread or on cake). But yes, Brazilian desserts are a billion times sweeter than Japanese sweets! I hope you get someone to take you to a moqueca restaurant before you have to leave 😅
Hey George, since you are once again in São Paulo, don't forget to try sanduíche de mortadela at the Mercadão Municipal. This sandwich goes a long way back in the past at a place called Bar do Mané, founded in 1933. Back then this Bar was first called Bar do Jeremias (then later called Mané's Bar). At that time they didn't add too much mortadela to the sandwich, different than we have now with lots of mortadela added. Everybody in São Paulo knows about sanduíche de mortadela. It has become so famous that even people who don't live in São Paulo want to try it too. It's definitely a must for anyone who's visiting São Paulo. That being said, you've just found the perfect person to teach you Portuguese. Akemi is the one! It's super cool she teaches Brazilian Portuguese to people who speak English, and Japanese and want to learn Brazilian Portuguese. I also speak Portuguese, English, and Japanese. I'm also learning other languages. I hope you get to learn our language, since Portuguese is a beautiful language to speak, not to mention to be able to listen to great Brazilian musicians and songs, like those from Bossa Nova, MPB, etc. Music is a great and fun way to learn languages. Akemi will soon get you speaking Portuguese in no time. ;) So no more excuses ( just joking :) ) I always feel more relieved when you go out with friends since they can assist you more, and show you places to know. I also know a dear friend called Akemi. She's not an English teacher but she works at a local store with her husband. Her husband also speaks perfect Japanese. He lived in Japan for almost 18 years, then came back to Brazil. His sister lives in the USA now. That's it. Enjoy tour time in Brazil. Sorry for the long text. I guess I like talking a lot, I mean, typing a lot. See you. :)
@@joaodeagora, We shouldn't label everybody selling fruits at the Mercado Municipal scammers. Not all people there are like that. Of course, there are some dishonest vendors all over Brazil, not just there. The people who sell sanduíche de mortadella are always honest there and friendly. That's why I said to Geroge it's always good to hang out with friends when visiting some places. Sometimes people can be dishonest and overprice us. Unfortunately, it's something we always have to deal with. Whereas in Japan, that almost never happens, here is another thing. Brazilians are always so open arms and friendly, like no other place in the world, but there are always those who damage our image.
😂😂muito engraçado esse comentário do “Kanpai” ...foi bom ter revisto e esclarecido ! 😂...a variedade na culinária brasileira é grande ! Cada região tem sua peculiaridade ! Delícias !
I live near this restaurant, it really one of the best in São Paulo. The food of northeast of Brazil is really the best, but too strong, especially the sweets.
You might have noticed it, George. For brazilians our taste range is bigger, what might be too sweet for you is just normal for us. The same can happen also with salt. The funny part is, people can complain saying the desert is not "sweet enough".
I was laughing at the desert part because cultural differences are so nice and cute! I can't know the exact taste of the deserts you tried but usually they aren't sooo very sweet, they are just mildly sweet (probably this is my brazilian tasting speaking hahaha) I'm glad you liked our cuisine, we are very rich in this aspect. Also, because it was your first time you probably wouldn't know but there are kinda specific ways for us to consume these sweets on our daily lives, like how we usually eat coconut sweet on its solid form (cocada), the same with the guava jam (goiabada, but this one usually comes accompanied by cream cracker or other salty stuff) Love your videos! I love to see Brazil through genuine foreigner's lens
Hi, this is a great place! This "sun meet" is a typical food from the Northeast. It takes this name because in the beginning it was made in two steps: lightly salting the meat and drying the pieces in the sun. We have a similar meat, the dry meat, more salty...
I've been wanting to go to Mocotó for soooo long haha you can find a lot of Brazilian food in Japan, but not the more regional dishes 😅 everything looks so good! 😋 Oh! And "cajú" it's how we say "cashew" in Portuguese 😉
Most brazilians are sweet tooths and have no limits to sugar 😂 Although I do not share that trait with my countrymen, I have to defend them and say that things are rarely eaten separetly in Brazil, so strong flavors like spicy/salty/sugarry things will more often than not be served with something complementary. I guess that the piece of cheese at the center of the dessert plate was an example. It was either the main item in the dessert, making the four sweets dippings or pastes to go with it, or it was the companion to the sweets to make them more enjoyable, similar to the pork+lime. The same goes to the seamingly bland yuca/cassava, which was likely to be the companion to a more salty and oily item like the steak or the fried pork also. In all, I think you did great George! I am Brazilian but would also not enjoy the sweets beyong a single bite of each, so large portions like that are better to share.
I am also japanese descendant, desperately need to start learning japanese 😅 (My grandma everytime she saw me she used to say "you need to learn japanese") And you still did not tried the real "caju" juice 🤣 (actually I did not know about this "cajuína" I've just find out from your video 🤣 learning a lot from you of my own country 😅🤣 Nice vid George!
I'm glad you visited the Mocoto! Its a must go in Sao Paulo, I grew up going there and Rodrigo is a cool guy I worked with him for a while here in Los Angeles, he is so wholesome! I'll breakdown what you had in case people reading the comment section and got curious and wanna visit and have some of the dishes can learn a bit: *Baiao de dois: is a traditional northeastern with their main components mostly composed of rice, beans, dry-meat or bacon and cheese. *Mandioca Cozida: Cooked Manioc/Yucca, usually cooked with butter and salt. *Farofa de Cuscuz: Traditionally made with Yucca Flour Stir Fried with seasoning and often with some protein as well such as bacon, in this case is made with couscous, an influence of the middle-eastern cuisine common in the Northeast brazil. *Feijao de Corda: a type of black-eyed pea, made into a stew. *Pure de Mandioca com queijo coalho: Is Mashed Yucca and brazilian cured cheese (tha same you ate on another video on a churrasco I believe it was on Christmas you ate cheese skewers, that's the same cheese). *Carne de Sol: Is a Dry Aged on Salt and brown sugar a cut of Silverside of Angus Cattle, them grilled on charcoal served with pimenta biquinho (a sweet pepper from Brazil) and roasted garlic. *Dadinho de Tapioca: The Tapioca Dice, that was ACTUALLY CREATED BY RODRIGO ON MOCOTO. So that is the ORIGINAL DADINHO DE TAPIOCA!!! *Torresmo: Pork Belly with the Crackling (Also known as Chicharron in other latin countries). *Pudim de tapioca: A Pudim made with tapioca and cachaca caramel *Sorvete de Rapadura: is an Ice Cream made with rapadura a candy made with cooked brown sugar with Catuaba a highly energetic berry from Amazon reagion, considered also aphrodisiac. *Doces artesanais: 1- Doce de leite (Dulce de leche, a cream made with slow cooked milk with sugar), 2- Doce de abobora (A pumpkin Jam) ,3- Cocada Cremosa (A coconut cream made with slow cooked coconut and sugar), 4- Goiabada (a guava jam). And the cheese with the desserts it's the queijo coalho the same you had on the mashed yucca and in the Baiao de dois (the rice and beans) *Tubaina is a Tutti-Fruit soft drink really traditional in the countryside of Brazil and became popular in Brazil on the past decade thanks to that brand you tried. Personally the dish you should have tried from Mocoto in my humble opinion is the Braised Pork Shank (Joelho de Porco) served with roasted pumpkin squash and Cuzcuz it's to die for! Hope to see you in LA sometime and will take you for a Brazilian food tour here if you miss brazilian food by them! hahaha
try eating the beans on top of the rice, it's the most common way we eat it here (some Brazilians eat the beans under the rice too or the beans on the side of the rice but it's common to mix them and taste both at the same time )
You can totally mix them all together as people mentioned, they come in different containers we just get a little of everything and take a spoonful of them all, you decide (i would've totally dipped that beef into the purê (the french purée) it looks so good)
You should taste the cheese with all the candies... pumpkin candie, milk candie (doce de leite), guava candie (goiabada) and coconut candie (cocada). The meat you tasted is dried by salt and it calls carne de sol (sun meat) because it takes 1 day to dry (sun to sun). Regarding beans we in Brazil have a lot of kind. Feijão de corda (rap bean) is very common in northeast but not that much in São Paulo. Love your videos!!! =D
Ohhhhh mannnn rsrrs I lived the last 6 years in USA, many friends are coming from Ireland and US to visit Brazil with me, I have good places to take you here in São Paulo and in my city, Rio de Janeiro, you are going to love it!!!!
Hey George Nice video!! Im from northeast, bahia, you could try bahia food in the consulado da Bahia restaurant in São Paulo , they have moqueca and acarajé. Please try it😊😊
if you really want to drink cashew juice, go to a supermarket, buy 1 bottle of "concentrated cashew juice" (suco de caju concentrado), put 20% cashew juice concentrate to 80% of water, 1 spoon of sugar (up to your taste) and mix. The result is a not very transparent yellow drink. But you can also find this juice in places that sell "salgados", coxinha etc ...
One thing about Brazil: sugar cane is one of the main products that move the country's economy. It is so popular that you can expect people to add great quantities i their food. Thats why every thing is so sweet.
Interessante essa coisa dos doces brasileiros. A maioria dos gringos dizem que são doces "demais" . Goiabada e Doce de leite ;-; DELÍCIA do jeitinho que gostamos haha.
You did it! George, I hope you liked your feast. Mocotó represents a new chapter of a Brazilian Cuisine. In São Paulo, in the 80's 90's, it's common to eat in an Italian restaurant or French restaurant. At that time, nobody cared about rice and beans, or "torresmo." They said, "its a bar thing." Fortunately, this thing was going to change when a world famous chef, Ferran Adrià, came to that restaurant. After his visit to him, many things have changed. Our culture that was not valued by ourselves gained an importance between Brazilian chefs. Anyway, that pork crackling or pig skin, that you liked, it takes about 2 days to make. By the way, I worked there a couple of years ago, as a cook. Yeah, all desserts there have a lot of sugar. This never changed since I left there. Nor me, and family like that sugar-bombs dishes when we go there. We split our dishes as you guys did.
what a lie,i love to see a foreigner..speak for the original brazilians mocoto is and crispy pork skin is from the north east!! it was first cooked in there and introduced elsewhere in brazil
what a lieeeeeeeeeeeeee new chapter my foot ahh.my grandmother born in the north east,,,,has been eating mocoto since the 1900s,,,,this dude..talking nonsense here..all there are north easterner food.. inclusive the beans and cheese,except the doce de leite
Last year, we almost look same, skinny n messi, now you look cool n smart n iam still same😅. I will also try to go out around n b like you from now on George senpai. Dattebayo👍👍👍💗💗💗
You should eat the yuka with the meat. And you must coat the pork in farofa. Unlike Japan where food is eaten separately, in Brazil, food must be mixed and combined.
Mocotó is the one of the highest quality restaurant here in São Paulo and Brasil also. You are lucky. After tried the worst coxinha ever ( at subway station) you had the opportunity to have dadinho de tapioca ( tapioca cubes) one of the most copied appetizer here, and Chef Rodrigo ( one of the owner ) is who invented it.
You´ll get chocked up if you don´t slice a little the meats... It´s not portioned for mouth here. You´ll need to walk a lot after all of this brazilian food! lol
said an arab man in brazil,,when the 90% of the "mineiro" food and carioca rj food come from🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂the north east their food even does delicious..is not the most,,it is a bigotry from your part we also have nice food in rio de janeiro,sao paulo,ahhh goias..mato grosso..belem..etc.. north east etc thus stop your nonsense and bigotry ahmed! from egypt!! hhahhahaahahhhh
Great video !!!! All the fruit sweets and also the doce de leite are traditionally eaten with a slice of cheese. Some sweetooths will not botões with cheese though hahahaha
Our dessert are soo sweet because Brasil in the 16th, 17th and 18 th Century is the great sugar producer in the world, and sugar was soo expensive. Then, you show your richest way with sugar dessert.
Hey George! So the plate of desserts, I suppose it came with a piece of cheese in the middle. So you could try (guava + cheese; doce de leite + cheese n so on.. 😅) I guess it wouldn’t be so sweet 😂
If you are back to São Paulo, don't forget to return to Liberdade and head over to "Sogo Plaza", a tight mall just across the street from the subway exit. Top floor you'll find a JAPANESE FOOD SELF-SERVICE, which could prove to be a different experience for you. While you've visited the best restaurants so far, why not try a restaurant known to offer all japanese cuisine for a cheap, accessible price for the whole population to enjoy equally? I'm sure it would be worth recording a video to share.
Engraçado ..a comida que a come todo dia em restaurante fino em são Paulo 😅😅 até cajuína eles fizeram😅😅 aqui é bem fácil encontrar cajuína ..todo supermercado tem 🥰
Hey George, I love your videos tasting Brazilian food. I really recommend if you want to taste the real food of north or northeast Brazil you go there. Not trying to be rude here, is just that the way south and southeast of Brasil likes the food are really different from those regions. To give you an example: it's as if I went to Japan and wanted to try sushi, and you take me to a brazilian sushi place. I'm not saying isn't good food, but it's an interpretation made to appeal for those people. Think in how your experience eating sushi in Brazil was different, and you will understand my point. That said, love your channel, man. Keep up with the good work! o/
Hi George!! You were close to my home!!! Brazilian desserts are normally veeeeery amai. But it is important to try. Congrats!!! Enjoy and have a nice time!!!
You have been experienced some great things, I am só envy... Shikashi Akemi San, sansei nagara nihongo jouzu, omedetou. And you, George, you must tô visita Ubatuba beaches.
Teve outros em vídeos passados, não? Mas porém com um nível pior. Se ele aparecesse em BSB, seria ótimo encontrá-lo mas vai ser difícil ele aparecer por aqui. Sou professor de inglês, e é sempre algo bom encontrar um Gringo pra conhecer um pouco mais da cultura.
I'm from northeast, I hope you can try macaxeira frita (fried yuca), i prefer it instead of french fries or that cooked yuca. It's only a side dish though. also these desserts seem sweet even for me LOL i wouldn't eat more than one piece... for dessert I prefer stuff like caramelized chestnut or a carrot chocolate cake lol I also like fried caramelized banana with cinnamon. also there's the traditional cocada (a bar made from coconuts) and rapadura (a bar made from sugar cane), but there are many varieties and I also prefer the not so sweet ones. Also I eat only small bites of these, and just when I feel like it. other sweet local stuff from here usually is served on june festivities in other places, but here you can find the whole year canjica, mungunzá, pé de moleque.... mostly sweets made from corn and the last would be caramelized peanuts. XD I wouldn't stand so many sweet stuff... but even so the food seems delicious. It seemed like you had a good time!
Hi, I'm brazilian , and instead of "chinchin" you can also say "saúde" that's another way to mean the same, if you're not comfortable to say it... Thanks for coming to Brazil
Wow, you really loved that _purê de mandioca_ [mashed yuca or creamy yuca purée], George! 12:38 That’s great! I somehow doubt that the _purê de mandioca_ back home in Japan will be quite as good.
