As with any fair, there is a pretty decent food area at the TV Tower. There are basically three kinds of fair food in Brazil: pastels and empandaos, self-serve with churrasca (BBQ), and fruit drinks. We have grown to like pastels since they're tasty and inexpensive. A pastel is a deep fried pastry filled with cheese, meats, and/or bananas. The banana and cheese with chocolate is quite good.
Brazilian food is also pretty salty, so you definitely need to get something to drink. Today we tried Caldo de Cana, which is a juice pressed directly from sugar cane. It's prepared by passing a sugar cane through a press and the juice is collected in a cup and ready to drink. The liquid is a yellowish green, like oobleck or a grass stain, and kind of tastes like sweetened grass, too. It's pretty good, and the flavor changes depending on the sugar cane stalk.
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