Fruits
- Acai: The fruit is a small berry, deep purple in color and about the size of a cherry. You can have acai as a juice but it is best served like a semi frozen sorbet. Most juice bars buy it as a pulp and despite hundreds of sorbets eaten I've never actually seen the whole fruit.
- Acerola: Contains 100 times the Vitamin C of oranges. This is fruit is grown on trees and is the size of a cherrt or a little bit bigger.
- Araca: Similar in taste to goiaba but a little more acidic. Yellowish in color and a little smaller than a passionfruit.
- Goiaba: Guava. About the size of a rock melon. Can be white, green or a yellow/orange color. Very high in vitamins A, B and C.
- Caju: The fruit from which cashew nuts come. Rather like a pepper in size and shape but the texture when you eat it is rather strange. The texture is a little leathery but when you bite down all the juices come flooding out. The actual nut sits atop the fruit.
- Graviola: Green in color like an avocado. Can be used in cooking when green or for chutneys and sauces. This can be mistaken for a cacti, but in all reality it is a fruit.
- Jabuticaba: Very similar in appearance to acai only its uses also extend to making a wine. That is if you do not want to eat it fresh or in a dessert. It grows on the side of a tree instead of in the stems.
- Jaca: Slightly bigger than a watermelon jaca can be one leathal green fruit when gravity takes hold.It would not be a smart idea to sleep under one of these tress, one could die. I've seen them put holes in cheap rooves when they fall. The fruit is a fleshy off-white pulp. Loved by some but not by most.
Resturants
Habibs: The most popular Habib's products at Habib's are the sfiha (a small, round flatbread topped with minced beef or cheese) and the kibbeh (a croquette of beef shaped like a rugby ball with either an olive or some cheese inside).Besides the cheap snacks, various set menus are available, ranging from a full Middle Eastern meal to a combination of sfihas, kibbeh, french fries and freshly-squeezed fruit juice.Unusual for fast-food restaurants, a waiter takes your order at the table, while knives and forks are always provided.