2013 December 26, Mouzar Benedito, translated by Phill Turner, “Notes on Manaus and Amazônia”, inUnderstanding Brazil, the Country of Football, São Paulo: Liz Editora,→ISBN:
Some snack bars incremented this morning sandwich and created the “x-caboquinho” – besides the French bread roll, the margarine and thetucumã, they also add cheese and fried banana.
The fruit[tucumã] is also wedged into a roll with cheese and banana in thex-caboquinho toasted sandwich (£2.50).
2016 July 26, Donna Bowater, “Everything You Need to Know About Breakfast Before the 2016 Olympics”, inRoads & Kingdoms[2], Brooklyn, N.Y.; Barcelona, archived fromthe original on2 September 2025:
The combination of a buttery tapioca crepe, salty cheese, sweet banana, and the squash-like crunch of slightly bitter tucumã ticks all the boxes for me and is equally as good on a sandwich, or the famousX-Caboquinho.
2017 December, Instituto Brasil a Gosto, translated by Julia Debasse, Olívia Fraga, and Patrícia Oyama, “Breads and ‘Quitandas’”, inBasics: Brazilian Recipes Encyclopaedia, São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos,→ISBN:
TUCUMÃ AND CHEESE SANDWICH (X-CABOQUINHO)
2021 April, Julio Steinmetz, translated by Taylyne Apollo, “Day 1 – New Year’s Eve at Ponta Negra beach.[…]”, inThe New Universe Age = Love, bilingual edition, part 2 (Beauty), Porto Alegre: Alcance,→ISBN:
After the dawn recordings, everyone tried the “x-caboquinho”, a typical Amazonian sandwich consisting of French breaad stuffed with pieces of tucumã, ripe and cold pacovan banana, curd cheese and butter.
[original:Depois das gravações do amanhecer, todos experimentaram o “x-caboquinho”, um sanduíche típico da culinária do Amazonas que consiste em um pão francês recheado com pedaços de tucumã, banana-pacova madura e fria, queijo coalho e manteiga.]
2021 June 3, Bernardo Tomchinsky, Gabriela G. Gonçalves, Almecina B. Fereira, “Food Composition Data: Edible Plants from the Amazon”, in Michelle Cristine Medeiros Jacob, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, editors,Local Food Plants of Brazil (Ethnobiology), Cham:Springer Nature,→ISBN,→ISSN, part IV (Food Composition Data on Brazilian Edible Plants by Biome),page278:
In the State of Amazonas, the tucumã is the main ingredient of a typical sandwich (x-caboquinho), made with bread or tapioca (manioc flour), cheese, and fried banana.
2025 June 2, Nic Stevens, “Eight rare juices you can only try in the Amazon”, inBBC[3], London, archived fromthe original on2 June 2025:
In the heart of Brazil's vast Amazonas state,[…]tucumã palms provide an orange fruit that's only in season from February to August. During this time, it's often eaten for breakfast with cassava flour and is a key ingredient in the state's signaturex-caboquinho sandwich, where slices are layered with salty coalho cheese and sweet chunks of fried plantains.
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