Oh my lordy lordy, the JUICE. Order a “suco natural” at a snack bar or restaurant and they will bring you fresh squeezed and then sometimes blended juice for a frothy way to quench your thirst. And not just orange juice. Most places will have a variety of the following: orange, mango, papaya, pineapple, avocado (they’re huge and sweet here - actually more like a smoothie when they are blended up), açaí, acerola, cashew (from the fruit part of the tree, not the nut), strawberry, passionfruit, goiaba, graviola... mostly stuff that we don’t even have words for in English. Its amazing. So colorful - orange, yellow, purple, pink, green, chocolatey brown... And so unbelieveably delicious. My favorite is far and away the açaí. Man oh man, suco de açaí - amazing. The "agua de coco,"
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