Cuisine of Ecuador and Brazil:

Ecuador

Don't expect rich, strong coffee in Ecuador. You can order an espresso in some restaurants, but coffee is generally available in a liquid concentrated form and you mix your own. You might do better with black tea, té which is served with sugar and lemon, or an herbal tea, té de hierbas, or hot chocolate.
There are many soft drinks, imported or not, and juices, jugo, are popular.

Order yours pure, jugo puro, else it might be mixed with water. Drink bottled water. Agua mineral is carbonated, agua sin gas is not. Do not use ice cubes in your drinks unless you are very sure of the source. If you want a cold drink, ask for helada, which is refrigerated. Drinks at room temperature are al clima. Imported alcoholic drinks are expensive. Local beers, cervezas, are good and potent, as are aguardiente and rum.

Try some of these Recipes from Ecuador at home. You probably won't find cuy (guinea pig), but you'll tropical fruits and seafood, plus other ingredients at your local market. When in Ecuador, try:

Caldo or sopa: soups, available as a breakfast item in markets

Churrasco: beef, fried eggs, vegetables, fried potatoes, avocado, rice and tomato Cuy: grilled guinea pig

Lechón: ; roasted suckling pig

Llapingachos: potato and cheese pancake, often served with small bits of meat

Tortillas de maiz: corn pancakes

Locro: soup with potatoes, corn and avocado

Parrilla: mixed meat barbequed Argentine style

Tortillas de maiz: corn pancakes

Yaguarlocro: locro made with blood sausage; an acquired taste

Brazil

This huge country offers a cuisine as diverse as its regions and climates, with the staples being rice and beans. Manioc is used as a flour and a seasoning. Many dishes show their African roots. Fruits are many and varied, some found only in Brazil.

café: strong, black coffee

café duplo: double espresso

café com pingo: coffee with a little milk

café glacé: iced coffee Fruit juices are popular and served pure, as a suco. As for it sem açucar if you don't want added sugar, e gelo, if you want it iced, or natural. Try a milkshake batido de fruta, and a guaraná, which is a soft drink made with the juice of an Amazonian fruit. Beer is served in large size as cerveja, in a smaller container as cervejinha. Cachaça, pinga and aguardente are names for very potent, inexpensive sugar-cane alcohol. Mixed with fruit juice, crushed ice and sugar, Cachaça becomes a caipirinha, which when mixed right, is delicious. If vodka is used instead of Cachaça, it is a caipirosca. Rum makes another alternative.
Try these Recipes from Brazil and look for these specialities when you're in Brazil:

Acarajé: fried mashed bean balls stuffed with vatapá

Carne de sol: grilled salted meat served with beans, rice and vegetables

Caruru: mixture of okra, shrimp, vegetables and peppers made into a sauce for fish

Cozido: stew with many vegetables

Feijoada: meat stew served with rice and beans

Mocueca: seafood sauce/stew made with coconut milk and cooked in a clay pot

Pato no tucupi: roast duck with tucupi sauce made from manioc and vegetables

Peixe a delícia: broiled or grilled fish served with bananas and coconut milk

Piracuru ao forno: Amazon river fish baked with lemon and seasonings

Tutu á mineira: bean, bacon and manioc sauce served with cabbage

Vatapá: seafood served with sauce of manioc, coconut and dendé oil
Enjoy the

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No matter where you travel in South America, or make a South American recipe at home, enjoy! You might want to prepare yourself for the experience by trying one of the recipes in Our Latin Table : Celebrations, Recipes, and Memories (direct buy).

For purely Brazilian recipes, take a look through the offerings in Brazil : A Culinary Journey, [NULL] (direct buy) and Cafe Brazil (direct buy).

Buen provecho!