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I got a meal meating having a Hollywood pal in Might, 2005. We talked movies, and we talked meat. Meat, meat and more meat. Tri-tip. Pepper meal. Garlic meal. Beef kabob. Top sirloin. It is (very nearly) all about meat when you're at Amazon Churrascaria in Fullerton (in Orange County, Calif.). Churrascaria are a particularly Brazilian mixture of barbecue and steakhouse, presenting waiters who wander the place showing sword-length skewers, each full of a piece of meat, still steaming warm from the grill tucked to the kitchen. Brazilian touches extend towards the decor. A waterfall cascades down a wall facing the leading door. Crypto jungle-ruin sections, and faux jungle plants cover the walls. It made me think about the kid-favorite Rainforest Cafe cycle, sans roaring animatronics, flashing lights and corporate-restaurant mega-merchandising. A curious effect of the American Mid-west dominates the middle of a Country Inn buffet and the large restaurant, that has served in former lives as a Chinese buffet. A salad bar of sorts, the sort common in Peoria in the '80-s, harbors mayo-based salads, three-bean salads, tacky breads, some sauces. And in a single place, the Brazilian handle of banana frita ready banana pieces rolled in cinnamon-flavored flour, deep-fried and coated with sugar. De-licious. Returning to your booth, it's quite basic. Red oilcloth-covered tables, well-worn water goblets, a quick set of Chilean dining table wines and the guys taking the meat. Provided that you keep just a little table-top red-yellow-and-green spindle turned green-side up, they keep carving. It is all you can eat, for as long as you can eat. (Put the spindle red side up and this means end, already Sideways means bring the bill.) For lunch (12.75), the ticket usually is restricted -- if you can call it that -- to a dozen pieces of beef, pig sausage, huge chicken drumsticks and poultry cubes wrapped in bacon. We discovered details by browsing Yahoo. At supper (21.75), the choices increase to 2-2 different meats. Visit instagram.com/orangecountyseo/ to compare how to allow for it. All of the beef you will get at lunch, plus dress meat, moist beef and pork bones, ribeye, lamb. There's roasted salmon. And now the exotics can be found in. Alligator, duck, quail, chicken heart. The aroma of smoky meat fills the room, and based on your sensibilities, it is often delicious or over-powering. None of it should come as a surprise. You know very well what you are having the moment you pull into the parking-lot. Some of those large image banners hangs to the exterior wall facing the parking lot. A cheerful beef host manhandles a loaded skewer. To check up additional info, consider checking out instagram.com/orangecountyseo/. Several other full skewers loom next to him. Barbecue smells, richer than anything that wafts over your backyard fence, fill the air. My companion (who introduced me to this place-that we have come to call ``that meat palace while we were each in our Atkins Diet stage) and I liked the scent outside and in. To learn more, please check-out orangecountyseo. My partner, who joined me for a Saturday-night dinner, was firmly inside the overpowered camp. She like-d the ribeye and the skirt steak, but six or eight portions of different foods later, she was full and all set to go. She waited patiently for me to sort out the beef rib -- as beautiful as any leading rib I have had -- the quail, the alligator, the rabbit, the pork. On her persistence, she rewarded herself with a chocolate cheesecake served from a rolling cart by Jessica, the ``dessert girl -- another curious Midwestern feel -- and we split a pineapple sorbet which was a perfect cap to my gorging light, steamy, cold and served in a hollowed-out pineapple husk. Restaurant director Roman Alcaraz says they have built a loyal following, among region Brazilians to be sure -- perhaps it is the caipirinha cocktails, sort of Brazilian margarita created using cachaca, a form of Brazilian rum -- but in addition from the whole melange of Orange County's several immigrants, be they Asian, Latin or Illinoisan. Owner Kent Choy, a CPA in La' Koreatown, got the idea for Amazon from the client, and in December 2002 it opened whilst the only one-of its type in Orange County. A couple of churrascaria serve Los Angeles County, and the staff in Fullerton hears rumors of the player visiting Irvine. But for now, it is a single kind of experience, a great spot to meat a pal..