Japanese Tempura Isn’t Japanese
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2018
- One of the most popular Japanese exports to the western world is tempura, a crispy, savory, delectable delight. But this Japanese staple isn’t quite so Japanese after all. In fact, tempura’s roots trace way back to 16th century Portugal with a dish known as Peixinhos da Horta. Here’s the story of how the Portuguese delicacy made its way to the Japanese coast.
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Due to the period of the Age of Exploration, Portugal influenced lots of cuisines around world, especially coastal countries in the Indian Ocean and far east Asia, Africa and of course south America. Portugal was in turn also influenced by those countries, for example, the Portuguese are by far the biggest consumers of rice in Europe per capita.
Vietnam also influenced by Portugal when one Portuguese missionary,Francisco de Pina try to Latinized Vietnamese language in 1610s,in this time we useHán-nôm character that make many missionaries confused because it's very hard to read so he try to romanized Vietnamese and that make many missionaries can spread Christian easier.Modern Vietnamese letters is based from his work and many scholar considered him as a first European Latinized Vietnamese language
Variety of Thai desserts also have Portuguese influences.
True stories. Amazing legacy and common connections to one such small country. Of course, if we ignore the dark side of it.
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@@renatolima1166 e isso quer dizer o quê mesmo? O que é que esse tipo de comentário tem a ver com a conversa?
I love how its referencing back to the older episodes.
Taihei......I mean ONNI CHAN!!!!!!!!!!!
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shortfuse87 YT damn onichan knows how to use RUclips
Me : telling my friends that tempura is actually from Portugal and not Japan.
My friends who didn't even know it was from Japan : 👁👄👁
Lol
actually Portuguese food culture is so prominant and has such a deep root in many countries' cuisine around Asia if not the world. a lot of sweet dishes in Macau and Southeast Asia are originated from Portugese delicacies as well.
genocidegrande yes, in indonesia we called cheese "keju" derived from portugese word queijo
theworldhere247 I have something to say to you in Portuguese... "vai pró caralho"... good night sir...
Yea, in Macau bc it was colonised by Portugal until recently.
Many of the dish and desert in Thailand are also influenced by the Portuguese.
I was in Macau for a week and there were SOO MANY Portuguese restaurants, the food was so good too and I fell in love with this dessert called Serradura
For all these people saying that 'tempura' comes from the Portuguese word 'tempeiro' you're wrong.
Tempura comes from the word 'têmpora'.
Têmporas were religious days in which Portuguese Christians couldn't eat meat, so the would fry fish and vegetables etc.
That's the origin of the word 'tempura'.
Nowadays the characters for the word indicate a meaning similar to, "heavenly oil"
In India, we do it with plantain. Maybe it also has a Portuguese connection since they were the first European colonists to arrive here.
Nope tempura is a portuguese cooking technique. We were the ones that introduced it to Japan and that is a fact.
Tempura isn't frying vegetables in oil. Tempura is the batter made of water (or sparkling water) flour and eggs that coats the vegetables (or fish) and after being coated you fry it in whichever oil you want. We were the ones that introduced it to japan and the word "tempura" is of portuguese origin. In Japan, the restaurants that specialize in making tempura are called tempura-ya.
Flour is not a batter. This is the batter I'm speaking off ruclips.net/video/5Wsg0xyZ_Hc/видео.html and this is portuguese. The word tempura comes from the portuguese word "Têmporas". Têmporas were the days we didn't eat red meats due to the catholic religion so "we" made that batter to coat fish or vegetables and ate them in those days. We also introduced pan (bread) and kasutera (ruclips.net/video/UGxYoenxNl0/видео.html) as well as other things such as guns to Japan. Also yes there are many things from the east that made their way to the west.
We brought bread to Japan livejapan.com/en/article-a0000045/ and tempura is a dish that has its origins in Portugal komabatimes.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/the-interesting-history-of-tempura/ written by a person named Yoshihiro Nakamura which I believe is a japanese name but there are other articles www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170808-the-truth-about-japanese-tempura. We, westerners brought many things from the east such as fireworks, pasta, gunpowder, tea (quite important for the industrial revolution in the UK), spices and most likely many things that I don't know about but bread and tempura were things that the portuguese introduced in Japan.
By the way I didn't know that we were the 1st western gaijins (I believe that's the correct word) to arrive in Japan and as someone that honestly loves Japan, its culture and exports I find this simple fact to be really cool and makes me even more proud of being portuguese.
First time I bought tempura I thought :
Wait, I know this dish since childhood !
In Portugal the taste of "rissois de camarão" (fried shrimp turnovers) is even better than tempura. It's filled with shrimps and a delicious mixture of egg, paprika, olive oil and onion. A blessing. I still like tempura by the way.
Portuguese also introduced baking in Japan.
No wonder I’m a Portuguese American who loves Japanese food.
I actually already learned this when I asked my Japanese workmates what the meaning of the actual word was. I was curious since "ten" is sky/heaven but I had no idea what "pura" was supposed to be. One of them knew the Portuguese origins of the dish!
Portuguese here, the word "tempero" in Portuguese means seasoning. *sails away
@@nowherefast840 im portuguese and when we say seasoning we say "sazonal"(i know that my english is the worst im still improving )
Japan has a long history of adopting new, foreign influences into their own culture, language and customs. They take something and make it their own version. That doesn't make it less japanese.
it does actually. A lot of the things they've "adapted" or carbon copied are simply not Japanese at all. People just need to start recognizing things for what they actually are.
I do applaud their marketing strategy though. Japan started manufacture and international trade ahead the rest of Asia. So to this day we have to call certain things by its Japanese name instead of their more commonly used name. Such as shiitake mushroom, edamame, etc.
That recipe came to Japan 4 centuries ago, it is different than the portuguese version they adopted it from, that's why it's japanese. With your argument katanas aren't japanese, because they didn't invent the sword, and every japanese car brand isn't japanese, because they didn't invent the car, etc, you get my point.
food for thought: Are you sure that the original was portuguese? Because I'm pretty sure they didn't invent the batter nor deepfrying.
This is actually pretty much what the whole world does. Started with bread and all other types of food. We all learn from everyone else and unless you completely copy the exact recipe then that new type of food becomes that countries style.
yeah I mean according to wikipedia, the earliest traces of deep frying are from classical greece and rome: does that mean that Churros, Falafel, Scotch Eggs and chips are all greek now?
Wait, but in your maple leaf tempura video, the woman you interviewed said making that type of tempura originated in the 1200s, predating Portuguese influence :/
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O boy, here we go.
wiat that’s weirrrrd*
I read a very long time ago (pre-Internet days) that the word tempura is derived from “temporal,” a reference to the fact that the Portuguese traders showed up in Japan at roughly the same time each year. I wish I could remember the source.
I love this video's style!
I did not know this, this is why i love this channel
By the way, Tempura comes from the portuguese word for seasoning, tempeiro. The same for the Kasutera, a sweet bread, the Pão Castelo.
Tempero and kasetura its what we call pão- de-ló which is a kind of sponge cake
tempero*
but their is no seasoning in tempura...
Pretty sure it comes from the word Têmpora.
That's right, Tempura is Yōshoku, basically is a western-style food, just like Karē, all types of Katsu, Korokke, Omurice.
Hmm. Tempura is not Yoshoku because it is too old when Japanese imported the cooking style. Yoshoku is used for foods that are invented after Meiji restoration such as Ton-Katsu, Korokke, and Omurice.
malu2in ae coeg
+森裕紀 Meiji restoration begin after the defeat of all samurai by a hired western gunmen right?
omnipotentum :
WHY, classifying French cuisine and Italian cuisine as Yoshoku which means "Western-Style Cuisine" is considered as a DISRESPECTFUL act ?
Do you think that "French Cuisine" and "Italian Cuisine" is SUPERIOR to the cuisine of other western countries or all countries in the world ?
omnipotentum :
Oh ! come on, Yoshoku is a term to refer to "JAPANESE CUISINE" influenced by western cuisine, not to mention the western cuisine itself.
FYI, Washoku is the term used to refer to traditional Japanese cuisine, the original one.
Out of the three you mentioned in the beginning, only sushi was the one I thought of that you mentioned. I was thinking more like ramen, udon, or onigiri
How does this channel put out so much content
That outro music was beautiful
0:45 *Hino da Carta noise*
Nice info
We also have that [In Philippines], its called Torta. But with ground pork and eggs as batter. Usually Eggplant is used.
シャボン玉の「シャボン」や 「カボチャ」(南瓜)、更には おんぶしてもらうの「おんぶ」も全てポルトガル語から由来してます。
Nice
Now I understand why I could find it at my city's renaissance fair. It was always fire
This is cool!
Muito Obrigado para Os Tempuras
There was a question on HQ trivia about this
Tempura is so Good!🍤
Funniest part of tempura is that its considered 'Washoku' in Japan which means traditional Japanese cuisine and not foreign (Sushi, Sashimi, etc are also Washoku) yet it's Portuguese in origin lol
Even in Japan the Portuguese influence has been forgotten and they consider Tempura equivalent of Sushi in "Japanesness".. Also, Bread was introduced to Japan by the Portuguese which is why they sa "pan" for bread based off Portuguese word "Pão" and Castello Cake.
I'm part Portuguese and did not know that tempura was Portuguese.
1337 me too
Legend says the word "tempura" comes from Portuguese "tempeiro" which means sauce.
Source: I am part Portuguese as well 😅
Well... maybe because you are part portuguese. All portuguese people know this dish. We call it "peixinhos da horta" wich means "Garden little fishes"...
m8inho its not "tempeiro" its tempero.
C B I am part I said okay pl0x and I don't look like one
"Tem-poor-ah"
How do you say it? It doesn't really matter unless you're some history-heavy person, as long as what you mention comes to their mind accurately.
"Tor-till-ah"
Portuguese left in Macau Pastéis de Nata, which then became popular in almost every corner of China.
Oh man Tempura is soooo good!
tem-pOOOORAH
you tried your best
Edit: except you pronounce Peixinhos da Horta correct-ish.
This channel never fails to amaze me
Japanese 天麩羅 (てんぷら, tenpura), borrowed from Portuguese and ultimately from Latin. Different dictionaries link two different original terms: Portuguese tempero (“seasoning”) or tempera (“he/she/it seasons; season!”)
That looks good
Is there facts based on this? Links, Link please thanks.
Idiot
How is he an idiot for asking for evidence?
oh boy here we go
When I Think Japan Ramen Will Always Come To Mine! I Tried Ramen And It's So Good I Can't Resist Eating More!😝
People traded goods and exchanged ideas in the past??? Really??? What a discovery!
Not only the tempura but also the bread(pão) was distributed to Japan by a Portuguese merchant.
? Isn't tempura batter made with seltzer and flour
I love these videos but as a portuguese woman I could not identify the cartoons as portuguese (as in the little men kicked off the island cartoons).. where did you based them upon?
My favorite food's history
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First like? Btw love this channel
i just love tempura
This is some Mendela Effect thing here wew
california roll from canada
salmon sushi from norway
tempura from portugal
brilliant
That's so weird, i had no idea!!!!
Yup...fried stuff is something we portuguese love ahah
I love to dip my tempura in spicy mayo 😋😋😍
Yes :D
I got a japanese arline ad before the video , for real
Interesting
the best comment from the video " oh boy, here we go "
hahahaha sound like someone get real tired about getting lectured^
In other country, tempura is just deep-fried dish. In Japan, it became fancy food.
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NANI?!?!!?!?!?!??
omayiwa mou shrimp deyu..
Skreeeeeeeeeeererrrreeeee
damn weebs
Nani football player
I mean, I’ve already known this for a while
São peixinhos da horta crlh!
Srsly, this was one my fav foods as a child!
ok... I've been in Portugal a few times and never saw tempura there. 🤔
Also, legend says the word "tempura" comes from portuguese "tempeiro" which means sauce.
Portuguese here, tempeiro means seasoning, and yes we do.
Matheus ACB you're right amigo!
temperio? tempero pa
Next time you visit Portugal, search for "peixinhos da horta", we don´t call it tempura.
The name "tempura" is drawn from the Latin "tempora" meaning "times" or season which referred to Lent (tempora quadragesimae, i.e. the time of 40 days). Portuguese missionaries introduced local converts to the use of batter for deep-fried vegetables and seafood to eat during days of abstinence. This quickly caught on and locals mistook "tempora" as the name of the innovative food. So the next time you have a yummy, crunchy bite into a deep-fried, batter-covered shrimp or vegetable, please say a little prayer for foodie Portuguese missionaries!
Why do i need to know this
I dunno, small talk?
This would make good small talk i guess
Because food
Yes
I guarantee if you started talking about this while eating Tempura you'd come off as a smartarse.
0:44 I think I heard a voicecrack
You forgot the part where tempura got its name
The word comes from the latin words "quator tempora" and "temporale", and consumed during ember days, the quarterly times where Catholics fast and abstain from eating meat simply to mark the start of a new season.
Japanese is an island nation. Most things would have come with the outsiders at some point in the past.
The word of tempura is Portugal, but the contents have already evolved and become Japanese food.
In your country you will not even think of placing tempura on top of noodles or rice.
You will not be able to put raw eggs there.
Have you eaten at the tempura shop counter?
If you want to eat seasonal food, please go to a tempura shop. Speaking of "OMAKASE", you can eat the most delicious tempura of the season.
"pikecongera sea eel" and "Puffer fish" know the recipe of Japanese food and can not be tempura unless you have a license.
Dessert is "ice cream" tempura. You must not be able to make it.
Ice cream tempura can only be made by craftsmen. Especially tempura of green tea ice cream is very delicious
Recommendation to eat it with a small amount of salt .
Clothing of tempura is hot But the contents are cold.
Have you ever eaten green tea ice cream with sweet, salty and bitter taste.
new history on my life wkwkwk
Hmmm, what else can you put in tempura batter
BuzzFeed: *Stay where you are*
Can you please do on how sauerkraut originated from China? :)))))
Same as ramen!
People didn't know this already?
Why did I watch that? Hey portu and japu..., That’s for you
Hi
Europeans brought the concept of "frying food" to Asian countries particularly those found on the Pacific Ocean.
The most used cooking oil in the world is soybean oil... soybeans were first domesticated and grew in east asia thousand years before Portugal was an idea. Earlier Japanese deep-fried food was either simply fried without breading or batter, or fried with rice flour. Toward the end of the 16th century, fritter-cooking with a batter of flour and eggs was introduced..... a new cooking technique was introduced but not ""fried food""
What about the closed door policy?
Here, more about Sushi, in more detail: ruclips.net/video/jtkTX4ul6-k/видео.html
NANI?!
Yum tempura
she said tempura like you would say temporary... im triggered
The only Tempura I know is the Tempura fried chicken at Market Basket.
When i think of Japanese cuisine i think of soba somen karage and unagi don
Great big story: this Japanese food isn’t Japanese
Everyone: ah shit, here we go again
Haha the Portuguese girl talking sounded like it was a drunk person talking backwards.
Meanwhile in Malaysia
MEE BANDUNG
SIRAP BANDUNG
NASI GORENG USA
Bandung is a place in Indonesia
Same way Ketchup isn't American, pasta isn't Italian, French Fries aren't French, and British tea isn't British. Making videos about those would be interesting as they're more prominent in these other cuisines. I'm sure you'll culture shock some people with those facts.
theworldhere247 I mean, who really thinks that tea is from Britain though? And anybody familiar with cooking knows what frenching something means. Honestly don't think those would be as surprising as the above
Where does ketchup come from? (I honestly don’t know) Also what about French fries? They might be Belgian or French. Likely they came from the French speaking area of northern France or even more likely southern Belgium before Belgium existed, where they spoke French, hence the name, but I get your point. Bravo friend. Good points.
Someone's salty.
ChocolateCake ?
Why not introduce new dishes? Pointing fingers at past relics are so pointless.
You can have chicken and pork tempura too. It doesn't have to be seafood, especially if you don't like it.
Top 10 anime plot twists.
日本の天ぷらの紹介ですね！旨いでしょ？
I am Portuguese , it is really ridiculous saying the Japanese dish called tempura is Portuguese, they are too different, of course there is a history. . With exchange just like anything else in the rest of the world... who would imagine the ancestor of the precious American burger meat came from mongolia a long time ago before crossing Eurasia with mongol-turkic tribes, then German merchants in the baltic sea, arriving in Germany, and after German emigration to the USA .. that's it.. or the ancestor of pizza is a flat bread( guess what pizza is just a bread that people forgot to call " a kind of bread " , something like a specialization in baking ) that came from ancient Greece , remember guys Naples is in southern Italy " the former magna greece" , and wheat and other several common " western crops " were first domesticated as well as wheat bread in the prehistoric middle east just soon after the last ice age ? Possible examples are countless. ..
Source : the basic history of food
a comida tempura do japao e mesmo de portugal ...portugal trouxe a comida para eles e eles introduziram na na sua cultura ...
Deep frying method was already popular in South East Asia before Portuguese came. And that time deep fry was not a thing in Europe, which price of Olive oil or animal fat was too expensive for this cooking method. Meanwhile Coconut oil was cheap in South India and South East Asia.
Maybe Portuguese copying Malacca cooking technique and recipe then introduce it to Japan. There are many kind of fritter in South East Asia.. from lunpia, shrimp bakwan, ote-ote, jackfruit, banana etc..
I think Asian not too backwards for cuisine back then. Hence everything must be introduced by Europe.
Being part Japanese and now I feel like Ive been living a lie. 😱
Full Japanese knew that
we all live in the same planet. we all share the same food basically.
I'm portuguese
NANI!!!
Another fun fact: peixinhos de horta meets little fish of the garden. Oh, and it's not "peh-sheens", it's "pay-sheen-yohs". The chef's accent swallows the last syllable.
My bad!! I know better too! Thanks-- I'll correct it. 🙂
Jorge Olino Sounds tasty to me either way,! Nomnomnom🤤
And Californian rolls are Canadian.
I've tried a lot of deep fried dish with batter (flour, eggs and water) and guess what they're not called tempura, I was eating this type of food, dipped in batter then cooked swimming in oil before I knew what tempura is. So just because an ingredient or different way of cooking was introduced to someone, they can't experiment or expand on it creating a new recipe and it can't be original? They may be some similarities but they're not exactly the same.
The most used cooking oil in the world is soybean oil... soybeans were first domesticated and grew in east asia thousand years before Portugal was an idea. Earlier Japanese deep-fried food was either simply fried without breading or batter, or fried with rice flour. Toward the end of the 16th century, fritter-cooking with a batter of flour and eggs was introduced..... a new cooking technique was introduced but not ""fried food"".
Whoa