Copacabana Tropical Sucos Guide
Succos are tasty, refreshing drinks (or juices) made by a mixture of water (or milk, which would make it a vitamino), crushed ice and brazil’s many exotic fruits. Some ingredients can be found in the rainforest only and doesn’t even have English translations! For me trying a different fruit suco each time made the experience exciting as well as satisfying! Of course there were some sucos I liked more than others, but overall, absolutely something I recommend trying!
I know of at least three situations where a good tropical suco or even a couple are in its right place:
1. After arriving the intense, sunny copacabana, walking the hot tropical brazilian beach, sweating and dreaming of something cold to drink!
So what do you do, dying of thirst walking the avenida atlantica?
Of course you could just stop and take a beer, a guarana or a agua de coco gelada on one of the many beach bars. You could also go across the street to one of the many café’s (also called lanchonetes) in the Copacabana district and ask for “ Quero um suco de…” add your trial fruit of the day here! You will automatically get sugar in it as some sucos taste very bitter without. If you don’t want sugar you say “ Um suco de (add fruit here) sayn asukar” (written like you pronounce it). If you want it without ice say “um suco natural”.
Sucos are served everywhere in Copacabana and also everywhere in Brazil! Usually you find them on every corner in Rio de Janeiro. For maximum variety, you may try to find a “casa de sucos”, which means “house of juices”. They have a wider offer of fruits than normal café’s. The small café’s are also good places for a cheap snack! Often brasilians buy small sandwishes like presunto misto (ham and cheese wrapped in bread). They’re quite good and go for $R1.20 –2.00. (Reais the brasilian valuta)
The usual different fruits to make sucos of are:
Adding to these, you also have several mixture of fruits like Suco de laranja e Pêssego, Suco de Hortelã com limão, Suco de melancia com canela.. and so on
Personally, my favourite was the maracuja with lots of sugar. If you don’t put enough in, maracuja is very bitter and sour.
The vitaminas are good too. They put milk in the sucos instead of water. Its almost like a milkshake just without the sugar. Just add sugar is my motto!
Prices of sucos are very cheap and range from just R$1,30
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