Downtown snacks are aplenty. There's no shortage of bakeries, bars, snackbars, cafeterias, lancherias, and food stands. Oh, the food stands. Burgers, pressed burgers, hotdogs, churros, barbecue on a stick, gosh. Bakery rissoles and sandwiches, pastéis... Sweet almonds, sweet roasted peanuts, sweet popcorn with condensed milk... Cafeteria mousses and terrinis, cakes, espressos - some good, especially at roastery cafés; some, bakeries or mass supply, _utilitarian_ - and all sorts. Croissants, enroladinhos, nuggets, pies, fries, onion rings... Of course, you don't bring cash, you're literally dying of thirst in the middle of the ocean. And like the ocean, you won't be short on sodium either. Also, there's like 50 places in one block, and one will have the best shortchange pastry you'll ever have in your life, and the other one will literally sell soggy flour and call it edible. Of course, this variety _is_ downtown's trump card. The manicurement of a shopping mall makes it gray and dead and sloughy and quite frankly overpriced. I don't want to sit in a 200 table food court while watching fifty other people form a line to order the same scammy promo item from the same poor front desk worker while eating commercially engineered dopamine mix. I want my grass-fed oil-dripping xis and god damn it I want to eat it before the world... or at least the pedestrian mall by the newspaper stands and the half torn public trashcan.