There is a wide choice of restaurants in Asunción, most with table service.
Things to know: There are no strict licensing hours and alcohol is widely available.
National specialties:
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Chipas (maize bread flavored with egg and cheese).
•
Sopa paraguaya (soup of mashed corn, cheese, milk and onions).
• S
oo-yosopy (a soup of cornmeal and ground beef).
•
Palmitos (palm hearts).
•
Surubí (a fish found in the Paraná).
National drinks:•
Mosto (sugar cane juice).
•
Caña (alcoholic version
of mosto, distilled from sugar cane and honey).
•
Yerba maté (tea-like drink brewed from dried leaves and stemlets for the Yerba maté tree, can be taken hot or cold).
Legal drinking age: 18.
Tipping: 10 to 15% is normally included in hotel, restaurant and bar bills.
NightlifeIn Asunción, there are numerous
bars,
casinos and
discos. The
parrilladas (open-air
restaurants) offer by far the best atmosphere, especially in Asunción. There is a
casino at the border towns of Ciudad del Este and Encarnación. The most popular traditional
music types in Paraguay are
polcas and
guaranías,
which have slow and romantic rhythms and which are used as serenades.
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