The gorgeous photos (early 2012) below are from Peixaria Amazonas, a restaurant in Belém do Pará, Brazil. These shrimps are huge, fresh and cooked in such a gentle seasoning that enhances its flavour. It peels absurdly easily and for the big ones (called pitú), you can suck a lot of juice of the head. The smaller ones are called "Camarão Rosa", and they are a bit more salty.
They have their own chilli sauce, made in the brazilian northeastern way (which is above brazilian threshold). You sprinkle it with lemon, put a drop of chilli and eat it with the fried yuca flour (the yellow thing in the picture).
If you like beer, you definitely should have one of the brews from the state - Amazon beer or Cerpa. They have many variants, I would have the most expensive Cerpa they have (Generally called Export or "Cerpinha") and for Amazon I would have the light ones if you don't mind it being very very light (less than 5% alcohol).
Jeez! Look the size of these shrimps!
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