My Brazilian foodstore haul

[anna7602]

Many thanks again to bugabean for pointing out that there's a well-stocked Brazilian food store a mere 6 subway stops away from DD's school. I went there this afternoon after I picked up DD and ended up with:

- A big bar of guava paste (just ate a huge slice with cream cheese, mmmmm!)
- A box of Pao de queijo (cheese bread) mix
- Dulce de leche-filled cookies
- Pacoquinhas- little peanut butter bars (hard to describe)
- Some kind of passion fruit desert mix
- Guarana soda
- Acerola juice
- a Brazilian-flag green whistle for DD (because she wanted it)

The calorie content of this bag probably exceeds anything I've ingested in Parisian bakeries to date, but it is 100% comfort food.

[azure]

I am not familiar with anything on your list, but I give you a high five! I love great food finds!!!

[azure]

Also want to add my own find. I recently found a small Indian phone card shop, which stock Vietnamese, Thai and Indonesian instant noodles. They are my new go to for lunch or dinner if I am on my own and they are only 0.25 Euro cents each! I am saving a lot as the Asian Market where I normally go charge 1 Euro each for the exact same thing.

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OMG!
We seriously need to stop the food posting madness on here... I read a post and BAM! Two pounds.

[anna7602]

Jun 7, 2012 10:47:12 GMT -5 azure said:

Also want to add my own find. I recently found a small Indian phone card shop, which stocks Vietnamese, Thai and Indonesian instand noodles. They are my new go to for lunch or dinner if I am on my own and they are only 0.25 Euro cents each! I am saving a lot as the Asian Market where I normally go charge 1 Euro each for the exact same thing.

That's awesome! If you come to Paris, I will take you out for Pho. I found a great, great place.

Also, I haven't figured out the phone card system yet in Paris. Can I actually buy phone cards to make long distance calls more cheaply to Latin America, for example? No one in my family down there Skypes.

[azure]

Jun 7, 2012 10:50:06 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

That's awesome! If you come to Paris, I will take you out for Pho. I found a great, great place.

Also, I haven't figured out the phone card system yet in Paris. Can I actually buy phone cards to make long distance calls more cheaply to Latin America, for example? No one in my family down there Skypes.

I don't actually use phone cards, I was just walking by and saw their huge window display of noodles!!!

Check your home phone plan, we are with Bouygues and have free international calls to 100 countries or so, it was the same when we were with Free.

If your plan doesn't have this, then I'm sure you can find phone cards to call which work out cheaper than the land line prices. My husband uses them once in awhile to call Iran and Vietnam, which are not part of the 100 countries.

I'd love to join you for a Pho!!!

[ktkl09]

dulce de leche cookies. mmmm.

[allibally]

Cheese rolls... Yum. I been thinking about those a lot lately.

[clickerish]

dulce de leche is the best ever

[GilliC]

I just bought a bottle of Guaraná this morning!

I think I might just have to make myself some pão de quejo this weekend... Mmmm...

[bugabean]

Woohoo! I didn't know (if it wasn't obvious lol) that it was close to you when I found it, but I'm so delighted! I'm going to have to look into these peanut butter bar things. I have yet to discover a peanut butter confection that I don't like.