Authentic BRAZILIAN FOOD at Central Market!! Jerk Beef Fried Rice & Beef Chop | Porto Alegre, Brazil

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My adventures in Porto Alegre, Brazil continued with a tour of its mindblowing Central Market! Join me on my authentic Brazilian food tour at the Central Market in Porto Alegre, where I tried jerk beef fried rice, beef chop, beans, and much more!
My morning began at the Municipal Market, which was built in 1864 and has endured multiple disasters. It’s a beautiful, Portuguese-style building where they have seafood vendors, restaurants, and souvenir shops!
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The market is very large and has four entry points. It’s divided into four sections, where you can find everything from vegetable vendors to fish vendors. Each vendor has the name Banca, followed by a number. Banca means “tent.”
Inside, we found a small Christmas market and a vitamin shop right off the bat. It had super high ceilings and a wide, open space. It’s also very clean, organized, and pretty quiet. It reminded me of the central market in Madrid, except the ceilings were higher.
We also passed vendors selling baked goods, cheese, tea, nuts, salami, and more. We also saw vendors selling tools and utensils for making Brazilian barbecue.
We started at a produce vendor selling figs, apples, plums, prunes, peaches, cucumbers, tomatoes, chilies, ginger, and more. First up, I tried a juicy peach, which wasn’t completely ripe but still very tasty! It was like a cross between an orange and a peach.
We also tried a caqui from New Zealand. It was super sweet and contained a lot of delicious flesh. I’d never had it before! Next was a sour starfruit, also from New Zealand. It was so different and we only spent R$17, or about $3 USD, in total.
Further on were vendors selling sausages, bacalao, and lots of cheeses. There are lots of European influences in the cuisine due to the Italian, German, and Portugese people who settled in southern Brazil.
I tried a chewy, smoky, and spicy sausage that tasted a little like salami. It’s called a colonial mixed sausage. Then, we met a guy selling dried bacalao, which smelled delicious. I tried some salty jerk beef. The vendor even had a huge, dried bacalao head!
The vendors were really funny-they kept giving me grief because I was wearing a soccer jersey for the team they root against! I loved how friendly they were!
Then, we saw some spicy hot sauce and tried a big slice of colonial cheese at Banco 26. They’ve been open for 101 years! It tasted like a cheese I love from Asturias, Spain. It’s similar to mozzarella, but contained less salt and was more buttery.
The charque in the fried rice was salty and tender, and the dish itself was moist like a risotto. The jerk beef was outstanding , especially with some molho de pimenta sauce. The black beans helped calm down the heat! It reminded me of Latin American breakfasts I’d had in Central America.
The charque beef chop and fried egg was outstanding. It was so cheesy, salty, tender, and chewy! The chuleta was out of this world! I also loved the sparkling water I had with it. In total, everything cost R$55, or $11 USD.
The people working there were so friendly! I loved how this market was smaller than the one in Sao Paulo and it was easier to navigate. We visited a shop where they sold cool cups, boots, knives, and wooden trays.
Then, at Banca 38, where they sell craft beer and wine. They sell lots of local wines. Then, we arrived at the fish market and saw tons of shrimp, salmon, sardines, tainha, catfish, and more.
Then, we stopped at a place called Essencial, which sells local craft beer. I went with a stout, which was similar to a bitter Guiness and had lots of espresso flavor
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