I decided to tackle Portuguese food. Obviously, I loathe Portuguese cuisine. I simply had to do this video as a response to all the endless talking up of Portuguese food that seems to happen on other RUclips channels. Anyway, let me know what you think. I am prepared for some hate with this one.
Why live there if it doesn't have the entertainment infrastructure that "meats" your needs? I have eaten in a number of very adequate restaurants in Lisbon, the western end of the Algarve and the mid Atlantic Coast. All served good fresh produce and the salads provided were organic In UK food is often appalling at lower end restaurants and pubs so I do not use any without a modicum of research. I suggest you take a similar approach
Is that not a bit of a racial stereotype don't you think? You have probably spent more time in the UK than I have in the last 25 years - even if you only went on vacation.
Coming from someone whose national cuisine revolves around fried fish and chips, that’s quite something! Regardless of what you might think, Portuguese cuisine is undeniably Mediterranean, with olive oil as the primary fat. But we understand-your palate might be a bit compromised from all that fried bacon and Heinz canned beans!
@@thecryptostrategist2433 The "fish" component of fish and chips is believed to have been influenced by Sephardic Jews who fled the Iberian Peninsula (including Portugal and Spain) during the Inquisition in the 16th century. They brought with them a method of frying fish in batter, known as pescado frito, which became popular in England. This dish was often made with white fish and fried in oil, similar to how fish is prepared for fish and chips today.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 theres plenty of diversity in portugueses food. Plenty to choose from. I mean for me even the bread. You wont find a better loaf that isnt in portugal.
@@jonnyblunts6013 False. People can like or hate things subjectively. Objectively, it takes into account facts like those I presented related to health. Portuguese food is overrated from the perspective of health and also the idea that most of the expats here are loving it is just wrong.
So, you are hyper-worried about your health (which is great), not much of a fan of an animal based diet and, not sure about how a Country that as a lot of fish available, as meat because of older people in smaller cities and rural areas, can consume so much while being poor. Can the question actually be the answer? Being a Country with centuries, where people were effectively poor, and dependent on creatively cooking the fish they would fish or the cows, pigs, goats, etc... they owned, literally from nose to tail? Or needing to find a way of bringing cod, a misused fish in nearby countries, from the northern atlantic to home, preserved for months, and then also creating 1001 recipes of it.... Are we talking about Food in Portugal (history, richness and diversity taking to account the resources available at time when stablishing a Country's cultural identity), or are we talking about typical portuguese restaurants, today, being a good choice for someone mainly focused on health parameters? Don't you think is weird not understanding why some portuguese eat so much meat being poor, but also not understanding why they consume so much cheap processed food? Also making it sound like "enchidos" and processed ham belong to the same category in terms of value or preference for the majority of the consumers. So... you have been seing Palm Oil in the majority of restaurants?? Although... yes, they use vegetable oils of course. I think, after the last sentences, it's easy to guess why, isn't it? I can recommend many where you won't have that problem. I go to a lot of them, very often, they just aren't affordable for the majority of the portuguese. I mean, there a few still affordable that use animal fat, which have been reported in many studies as an healthier option to most vegetable oils, but not sure if all the health related American Associations will support that claim. Might depend on who is funding them. About people burning food in "barbecues"... you're right. Criminals! And I'm not joking. A lot of portuguese think they are the kings of charcoal and have no clue of how fish and meat should be eaten. That also happens in a lot of restaurants. Society in general is wrongly used to it, not only in Portugal. I mean, when I lived in China, it was a bit harder to understand how the fish was or it's quality because of the 10 ingredient spicy sauce. Curious to know what's the reason why you find a lot of italian restaurants in other countries and not portugese. We think it's obvious but, I'm guessing you have another pov. Do you want recommendations of restaurants with healthier flavourful options? They are on the rise. The culinary scene is changing fast around here, and you won't believe why... there are tourists and some portuguese with money to spend on quality. Maybe in a few years we can also buy organic food and not only be able to get it from our grandparents. Wouldn't it be great for a normal restaurant to be able to choose between "buying cheapest to sell affordable" and "buying healthy and not going bankrupt or labeled as a tourist only place"? I wonder how would it be if there were some countries with much more financial ressources, and demographics, that still would have a poorer culinary scene than this small poor country.
I have basically resolved to eat at home. I have the same attitude in Portugal as I had in China or Thailand. Restaurant food is toxic. I understand that the economic level in Portugal is not high and therefore processed meat / carb consumption is also high. The video was already long and I do not want to delve into socio-economic reasoning. The video already made people angry. Calling them poor will not help. Anyway, thanks for the constructive comment.
Agreed, the cultural identity of the Portuguese revolves a lot about food and and integrating the exotic spices from the colonies to our diet and life style, people have no idea how food independent the regular Portuguese household was up to the 70's
You could simply give your opinion on your experience with Portuguese food. There's no point in talking about our diet and gastronomy, because you're clearly not educated enough about it to do so.
I did give my experience. Perhaps you fall into that sad category of Portuguese who seem to think that only those born in the country have the right to comment on it. As for my level of knowledge about Portuguese food, I wish i knew less. If I stand in a dog poo, I know enough to avoid it in future. It is not necessary to study the poo in depth in order to know that it is nasty, unhealthy and something that one should steer clear of. The statistics i provided are objective measures. The Portuguese diet is not very healthy - objectively. It is not the worst, but neither is it good.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 I have nothing against your opinion, since after all tastes are always subjective and I'm not patriotic enough to think that Portuguese food is the best in the world. But to say that Portuguese cuisine is too "meaty" shows that you clearly don't know enough about it. I'm not going to repeat arguments that others have already used. Just read the comments, from Portuguese and non-Portuguese, and you'll see that much of what you say is factually incorrect.
For someone that admits that eats mainly at home and avoids going to restaurants it doesn’t surprise me that you know so little about Portuguese food. What surprises me is that despite that you decide to do a video about it. No problem in expressing your opinion but at least be accurate. Some examples: You say that Portuguese food is very meaty when Portugal has the 6th highest consumption of fish and seafood per capita in the world. It’s 6t in the world in fish and seafood consumption, not meat as you wrongly mention. What is the point in saying that suckling pig is meaty? Any prejudice there? What about beef? You mention Feijoada is a Brazilian dish when in fact it's originally from the north of Portugal and was introduced in Brazil by the Portuguese. The Brazilians developed their own version that is usually served in Brazilian restaurants. Francesinha is not a national speciality, it's a regional dish from Porto and the bread is not fried. You are so worried about the quality of the diet but you forget to mention the importance of soup in the Portuguese diet. Only country in the world that serves soup in Mcdonalds!
I avoid restaurants in Portugal because I have been to many at the start of my time here. I mention that Portugal was 6th for meat & fish consumption and 16th for meat alone. 16th is still high. especially for a poor country. The soup here is OK. A bit too salty but OK. The other details you mention are merely details. They are not significant. Both Francesinha and Feijoada are widely consumed in Portugal. That is what matters. In the case of the former, it is promoted in restaurants in Coimbra, Leiria etc. It is not confined to Porto.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 What you call details are just examples of the many inaccuracies in your video that seems based more in opinion than facts. As is saying that a country's diet is very meaty when it has the 6th highest seafood consumption in the world. This is for seafood alone and not for meat & fish as you mention. Regarding meat consumption, you presented the charts but also said this: ruclips.net/video/qw2slRgRMpU/видео.htmlsi=xWbXzcI-RGUX6qJq&t=801 No problem in expressing your opinion but at least keep your facts straight.
@@rfgfreitas Seafood is meat. It is just another kind. Do not imagine it is healthy. It is potentially worse than other meats. Farmed fish dominate and crustaceans etc are replete with heavy metals and other pollutants.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Seafood is a good protein source and rich in omega-3 fatty acids which meat does not have, and this is even more true for farmed fish because of fortified feeds. Regarding heavy metals and other pollutants, sorry to say but more studies point to no significant differences whatsoever than to farmed fish being worse. If there is a difference, I would say that farmed fish are better because the occurrence of such compounds is highly regulated. Wild fish swim everywhere so you'll never know.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Seafood is meat?! really? As far as I know, seafood generally refers to any sea life that is considered edible by humans such as fish, molluscs and crustaceans. Is fish meat? Your conversation about food seems to revolve more around your health concerns (food is too salty, too sweet, charred, adulterated, loaded with pollutants,...) than gastronomy or anything else. And this in a country where you can still find organic produce and wild fish at reasonable prices. Good luck with your Hipocondria. I hope you start enjoying more food instead of worrying about it.
Dude failed to taste portuguese food, failed to get a decent michrophone to make the video, says he lived in china and thats how he knows what good food is (?), starts the video talking about health, which is great but has nothing to do with food taste. Fails to say exactly what he tried that he hated, leaves. Clickbait succesfull.
Good food is food that tastes good and is not bad for you. I also commented on the taste. What else do you think "too salty" means? I tried all the dishes discussed except the francesinha, which my wife tried. The fact is that I pricked your fragile national ego. I am sorry about that. Reflect on the fact that you could make a video about how bad UK or US food is and the people there would think that is fine. In Portugal though, the nation has no real accomplishments in the last several hundred years and therefore any criticism is perceived as serious. I am sorry for this situation.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 All the dishes discussed are barely 10%. You also failed to mention where and how you tried them. That is why your "restaurant" part has barely any info on it. But i guess a rage clickbait video sells better than a well constructed one ;) And you succeeded at that, so congratulations.
@@eduardoborges506 It was really not my intention to enrage anyone. If you actually look at my channel (which i only do as a hobby) you will find videos about Portugal and others about crypto. It is not a professional channel. It is not monetized. I make videos about my opinions. For example people dumping rubbish in the forests or how terrible the banks are in Portugal. I never received comments like this before. However, these people are making a mistake. I am not some guy who will apologize etc. I am a troll and I will troll their Chega asses quite happily. If the fools said nothing the video would get 50-100 views like they normally do. Now they blew it up with all their engagement. So stupid.
Sorry, but I can't take this video seriously when you state that SNS is on of the best health services in the world. Are you sure you're talking about the same Portugal as me? SNS has been degrading over the years to the point where a lot of Portuguese people are switching over to private insurance. About the restaurant's food being hit or miss. Never in my 27 years of living in Portugal have I had bad food in PORTUGUESE restaurants. The emphasis on the Portuguese is because, from your described experience, it seems to me that you've either gone to a tourist trap which is almost everything in main Lisbon, or you've gone to a 5-star Google reviewed restaurant and assumed it as a good Portuguese restaurant when in fact most of the good authentic Portuguese restaurants barely have reviews. Either this video is satire or 4/5 rage bait.
The SNS is pretty good. I can tell you that I live with many older expats around me and they have all made use of it and feel satisfied - at least compared to healthcare in their home nations. For me, i have never used the SNS - probably because I avoid Portuguese food. Bad food is subjective. What you like, I may hate. I lived in Coimbra, Figueira da Foz and now Leiria. I avoid Lisbon or Porto and restaurants there. I actually do not want to set foot in those cities due to the migrant situation.
@@EnderKhaos It would not be rage bait for reasonable people. For instance, if a Portuguese guy made a video about why he hates X, Y or Z in the UK, it would be accepted and many people would echo the sentiment. Only in societies in which the people have an underlying sense of inferiority or underachievement and therefore cannot accept any negativity , would such a video provoke rage.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 "SNS is pretty good" thank you for confirming that you have 0 idea of what youre talking about. Keep making a fool of yourself talking to portuguese people who lived their whole life here telling them that you know more about Portugal than them. Keep embarrassing yourself.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Tasteatlas awarded Portugal as the 4th best cuisine in the world, English are 39th. Is not a sense of inferiority when we got organizations backing up with facts.
Well as a Potuguese myself, I totally disagre with you, as our cuisini/ Bakery and Pastry is still one of the best in the wordl. I don't really where you've been, but it does't look you've been in Portugal.
Unfortunately, I have been living in Portugal for 3 years. Mostly central Portugal. The bread is decent here on the bakery side. The pastries etc are too sugary for me.
Thanks for the "kind words." You missed the point that I basically only eat Chinese food. My wife is Chinese and cooks everything at home. I do not like UK food either.
@@thecryptostrategist2433chinese food is not even in top 20 rank lol, and the quality is terrible and they also eat dogs, and no animal or human rights
@@thecryptostrategist2433 you are just a hater and don't know what you are saying, go to Tenerife and eat your frozen fries with vinagre and beer in the morning while you get red at the beach 🤣🤣🤣
Hey... people are free to have their personal tastes and - surprise - they may differ from ours! Even very well established cuisines (italian, french, mexican or chinese) have their cuisines questioned or hated by a few individuals so it's only natural that other cuisines, that are only up and rising in the international market - like the portuguese, the spanish, the greek and turkish - get their detractors as well. No biggie. No need to react harshly to someone's not liking what most people seem to enjoy. I love the beach, for instance. My mother-in-law hates it. It's just what it is.
Have you ever tried proper grilled sardines, boiled potatos with olive oil, pepper salad and had it with broa and vinho verde? I cannot believe you don't rate it as first class.
I hate sardines. I do not consume álcool. On the potatoes and the pepper salad, these are fine. However, these are not the dishes that you usually see in restaurants. Broa bread is also good and I like it (too much) with various cheeses found here. Yes, there are good features of the diet, but overall it is too meaty, too salty, too calorific and too burned - I would include the sardines in that.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 sardines are actually very good for you. Healthy wise. But no worries. What about a freshly caught seabass in a incredible tomato rice with fresh coriander? You might have it with a delicious lemonade and you're also allowed to keep the broa. Naa... you can't get better than this. Mate, you're probably homesick... It happened with me whilst living in Britain.
@@isidrocosta Homesick? I have spent my entire adult life outside of the UK. I think that is unlikely. I mentioned in the video that i avoid fish consumption, so sea bass is out.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 So you dont eat meat and fish.Live on vegetables.That sounds like culinary hell to me.And btw in Japan they eat tons of seafood.
In China, they cook with gutter oil. I find the food in Portugal to be excellent. The fruit and veg and meats available at local markets are in my opinion High Quality. I can buy directly from the producers in my area. Most of my life Ive been a vegetarian, so yes, Portugal is not India, where I lived for a few years. I miss good Indian food and spices. But I mostly cook my own food so this is not a problem. Food tends to be on the heavy side, but I do a fair amount of Physical activity everyday, so I like a heavy meal. I buy my olive oil from the people who make it, They dont use solvents or other things to increase the yeild, its all extra virgin, I can tell by the taste and color.
In China (also Thailand and other places) some street vendors and low end restaurants cook with gutter oil (Di gou you). However, it is not what people choose at home, nor is it legal. In Europe, there are unscrupulous restaurants doing similar things - certainly using the oil way beyond the point that it ought to be used. I agree the food in Portugal is heavy and the olive oil is good. For the vegetables etc, at least in supermarkets they tend to be not as fresh as I would hope for, but the main issue is the lack of variety. if you have lived in India, you will know what I mean. Basically 50% of vegetables do not exist here.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 That is true about the Variety of Vegetables, especially greens. One mystery I notice is that people everywhere seem to grow what look like to me to be Collard greens, but ive never been served them, nor seen them on a menu. In the Spring, my neighbor gives me various greens and weeds from her garden which I really enjoy. I tend to grow most of my vegetables if I can. Have you ever tried" Heart" Tomatoes? I think that is what they call them, They are fantastic! What amazes me, is that they ripen with different colors and sizes on the same plant. Some are small and yellow, some are very large and red, some are multi colored. They are all delicious. They also have a varrity of onions that Ive never seen in a store. Its a bit like a cross between an Onion and a shallot.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 I know gutter oil is illegal, but it ends up in many places, not just low end restaurants. India has similar problems with oil being made from toxic plants, but in this case it can kill if not heated high enough.
I have met many foreigners in the last 4 years (on average 2 per week) and they all love Portuguese food... What I notice is that they usually know few dishes... To get to know Portuguese food you need to go with a Portuguese person who knows Portuguese dishes and not just what is sold in restaurants (sometimes they are variants of the real thing in order to be more profitable)... But of course this is a subjective matter...
A reasonable comment. I will say this. Having lived as an expat in China, Thailand and Portugal, I know that most of us lie to avoid causing offence. It is just like when the waiter in the restaurant asks you if everything is OK. Everyone says it is great, but that may well not be the case.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 This is true for all countries and all foods, right? hahaha Of course we never know the true opinion... Maybe the real test is to get people to choose dishes in an environment without social pressure (that's almost impossible to do hehehe). In my case the opinions are from stangers (that many times I will never talk again) when I'm helping foreign people to practice portuguese. It is a nich group of people it is not a random experience and for that reason don't have any statistical value - because don't use the correct methodology :P One interesting experience done many time is between testing cheap wines and expensive wines and what people choose when they don't know what are the cheap and expensive ones hehehe... It's very revealing how we decide what is good or bad heheheh
Taste wise - completely subjective, you're free to have your opinion. Health wise - While it's true that most Portuguese food isn't all that healthy I can't think of any other traditional european cuisine being really healthy at all. Specially if you have some rather extreme standards of what counts has being healthy or not. It seems like a bit of a redounded video to make and clearly a way to seek engagement. It's particularly interesting to watch this video coming from someone who doesn't seem to be even that healthy aside of just being thin.
Interesting take on me not being healthy. I have not had need of hospital treatment since I was born, I walk 2-3 hours a day, row for half and hour and use my home gym. I also eat a diet that is vegetable based and shun salt / sugar. I have just over 16% body fat and take no prescription medications. I am not sure what your definition of healthy is, but it would have to be extreme for me not to fit it. As for being thin, I am 67kg. In Thailand, I was only 62kg - mainly because Portugal has nice cheese and bread. As for your comment about traditional European food, I am no expert on every type of food in Europe. What I will tell you is that the vegetable based cuisines of Asia suit me better and in my view are much healthier.
What do you mean by overrated ?... It means if even I like Portuguese food I should change my mind because of your video?... Everyone must be wrong..thank you very much for open our eyes...
@@Markinhos_40 he is a nobody looking for atention, and to be fair he got it. It’s not because of this clown that we are ranked 4th in the world for sure
It simple means that you are Portuguese and probably cannot accept any criticism of Portugal from a foreigner. It is a common situation here. If you like it, go ahead and eat it. I don't care.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 no it's just that nobody cares about your opinion and the 4th ranking won't drop because of you, is it that hard to understand in your litlle mind? Lol
@@thecryptostrategist2433 don't play that card bro.. I can take criticism about Portugal, being a foreigner its not the problem..the problem is that you started your video saying that you need to "debunk the myth" that portuguese cuisine is good..and how it is overrated, in other words, everyone is wrong but you... I don't like sushi..should i rant on internet about how overrated japanese cuisine is?..because everyone that enjoys it must be wrong... And if "you don't care", why winning about?... And if u really feel that portuguese food isn't good enough for you, and you crave your "homeland cuisine" there are plenty of McDonald's restaurants around....
@@Markinhos_40 If you actually listened to the video, you would know that I eat only Chinese food and 95% vegetarian cuisine at that. You can rant about Japanese food all you like. If Portuguese food is so good, where are all the Portuguese restaurants overseas? Crickets.
Ah yes, but I spent 20 years living in China and I learned what good food is and isn't there. UK food is also bad, but this video was not about UK food.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 and China has no bad food? No fried food? No processed food? They eat pork intestines by the truck load. You are extremely ignorant
I could go on... In my opinion, a problem with the British is that our humour is so self-deprecating that we start to believe it... we have some fantastic cuisine.
I am actually pretty close to a BTC Maxi. If you are referring to my airdrop videos, if you watched them, you would see that I think the coins are crap and I sell them to BTC instantly.
I got curious with this thinking you would complain about food taste and this and that - which would be funny after all. But then all we get is a hypocondriac manifesto.
I think I did mention the food taste. How else would you classify too salty and too sweet? I presented plenty of evidence to indicate that Portuguese food is unhealthy. if you call that being a hypochondriac, so be it.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Maybe,but I will die a happy man,lol.In my native Argentina,we have the world record on meat eating,and we live quite long.I preffer to live less,than to be happy.You,dont look exactly like a happy person.Like most of the vegetarians,they look unhappy and sickly,no offense.
Whats up with all the hostility guys😂 Cant a person just give his honest opinion? We all know our food is amazing, the problem that foreigners face is that they have no idea where the good restaurants are, and because we have so much turism we also have a lot of restaurants and that dilutes the quality!I can guarantee that almost any of us could take him to a real good restaurant and he would love it...and i am not talking about expensive restaurants.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 mate you are a bellend lol why go to such lengths? youre just a mean hypocondiact go eat your own food then and leave us alone lol
Congratulations, on a successful video, A great title, a decent video but the comments section is hysterical. Regarding Portuguese food, I disagree with you as I think it is excellent, but clearly our palettes are very different....bring on that meaty, salty goodness and a Patel de nata for dessert. I have a RUclips channel based around food in the Algarve. We review a lot of Portuguese restaurants but also review restaurants IN the Algarve. The hatred we receive from the Portuguese when we review, non-Portuguese food is actually hysterical. HOW DARE YOU COME TO PORTUGAL AND EAT A BURGER - GO BACK TO SCOTLAND! Portugal stop being food bigots, and arrogant about your food, every country has good food which most are proud of because it is entwined in our history and culture. You are not unique in this regard. Just let people eat what they want. I had one comment, saying I know nothing about food as I am from Scotland, and that is not a country famous for food... well hold my coat…. Scotland has some exceptional and world leading restaurants with many Michelin starred chefs ... what you would never hear from a Scotsman is... "how dare you eat Italian, Portuguese, Chinese or (fill in the blank)... you are in Scotland you MUST eat Scottish food" So Portugal on ya bike.... and take your salty fish with you, it tastes like pish. I want a deep fried Mars bar and I am going to eat it on the beach in Albufeira, with the contents dripping all-over ma big fat Scottish belly!!!!
Seriously, thou been in Portugal for 3 years and have lost about 20 kg, without dieting so I think it must be reasonably healthy. We eat far more fruit and veg here than we did in the UK
As a fellow Scot, I think we have the same mindset. Our way of approaching stuff does not compute for many Portuguese though. Therefore, we get the hate comments.
If I lost 20kg, I think i would be dead. I would not argue that the Uk diet is superior. I never said that. However, UK food was the target of a lot of nasty remarks nonetheless.
Vi o vídeo até ouvir dizer que em Portugal consideram batatas fritas como legumes...para além de não perceber nada de culinária também não sabe a diferença entre proteína, carbo hidratos e fibras. Basicamente não percebe quais os elementos que uma refeição deve conter 🤦🤦🤦
Se segue uma dieta portuguesa, estou totalmente confiante de que a minha dieta é muito superior à sua. Batatas fritas não têm lugar no prato de uma refeição. Eles são um lanche.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Quem és tu para determinar tal coisa? Estás em negação, mas a verdade é que não percebes nada do que falas no vídeo! Já contribuí demasiado para o algoritmo do yt em teu benefício...e tu não mereces!
@@thecryptostrategist2433 You do know Portugal has a very wide spectrum of food. We have a lot of fish and seafood. Codfish is made in 1000 different recipes. You can eat only fish and never repeat a dish. The same with meat. It seems you really limited yourself eating here and I dont know why
@@marianavaz2425 Maybe the fact that salty cod is not my thing and I try to minimize my meat consumption might have something to do with it? I made this clear in the video.
@@ex3mely Compreendo o suficiente para dizer com convicção que não gosto da comida portuguesa e que, de um modo geral, não é especialmente saudável. Esses foram os meus dois pontos centrais. Os nacionalistas portugueses não podem aceitar qualquer crítica percebida. Esse não é o meu problema.
@@thecryptostrategist2433Your video is just stupid and ignorant, not to be taken seriously, you need to respect the country you are visiting or living, spitting on the plate you ate not a smart move!
Do you perhaps mean "sun"? I am of northern European heritage and thus have a pale complexion and blue eyes. I know many Portuguese have Moorish blood (about 10%). This makes them darker, not necessarily solar exposure.
Have you been to Portugal or are reporting just from the what you listen around? Your compatriots in general do not agree with you or in Portugal have you only at McDonald’s?
If you watched the video, you would know that I have lived in Portugal for 3 years. Most of my expat contacts here definitely agree with my stance on Portuguese food. McDonalds is so popular in Portugal. Very crowded and not with expats. I wonder why that is?
@@thecryptostrategist2433 of course your expats contacts “suffer” from your tasting disease! I disagree 100% you, keep your opinion, all the colleagues from all over the world who have been in Portugal have a different opinion from your’s!
You ain't gonna get any friends here with this video brother 🤣. You are bound to get so much flake, after all, fish and chips is not the top of world cuisine, and group dinners are not at all a way to judge Portuguese food. I honestly only ate better or equal in Italy, being a fan of pasta, and never had any country with better fish recipes... I guess food taste is like ass, each of us has their own.
I am well aware that this is not a popular take, but I had to tell the truth. Italian food is also basically my favorite, so we have that in common. I have lived all over the world, so the fact that i was born in the Uk should not matter. Of course, i have had plenty of fish and chips comments. People have their own views - whether well-founded or not.
AT 5 seconds into the video I saw that hideous bracelet and stoped the video. There's no frigin way I'll take ANY sort of advice from some one using one of those. What is he on about anyway??
I am yet to meet an expat who is passionate about it. RUclips is full of people saying how great it is. However, in real life, I am yet to meet these fans.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Here you have one guy who lived in Portugal and loved the food.And I find asian food to be from the mediocre to the disgusting.And god bless meat.
@@arielabril1981 He said he thought the food was OK. He did not say it was fantastic or anything. On the Asian food thing ask yourself this very simple question: how many Portuguese restaurants do you see overseas and how many Chinese, Indian, Japanese or Thai ones? Hmmmm.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 How many indians or chinese you have living overseas versus how many Portugueses?Popularity is irrelevant,or mcdonalds is good food now?
I prefer to believe this is a clickbait. Still, it´s very shamefull being rude for this reason. If it´s not a clickbait it´s even worse. By « «rude » I don´t mean giving your honest opinion about something. You got to the point of mocking, not knowing what you are talking about. If it´s not a clickbait, it seems the result of inefficient communication, of lack of knowledge about portuguese culture and cuisine, and of a biased thinking. To this, a derisive tone can also be added and, with some of your answers in the comments, the end result is easily perceived as a lack of respect and an unreasonable attitude (the same attitude you complained about). And the result to all of this can be seen in the comments you got. Of course, some would always exist, but not like this. I am curious if you are going to answer me. And how. 1. Check this: Why Portuguese Food is Hiding Everywhere ruclips.net/video/eiXtAPfMj6o/видео.html~ 2. « If you go look for restaurants of portuguese food in the US or the UK or in another country, you are not going to find many, and I think there might be a reason for that » (derisive tone). You do not have to, it is already there, but I want to point out an example of your biased thinking. Do you find many restaurants, all over the world, with traditonal french, Italian (excluding pizza and pasta), spanish cuisine? And don´t you think that the ratio population of a country/ number of restaurants could be a factor to have on account? Do you know many examples of a traditional cuisine, of a country with a small population, spread all over the world? And how about affordable access to the necessary ingredients, in order to maintain a business? And about the restaurants that can be found everywhere… Do they serve really traditional food or they adapt it? Would the adaptability of the cuisine also be a factor ? However, the only thing you appear to see is : « It simple means that you are Portuguese and probably cannot accept any criticism of Portugal from a foreigner. It is a common situation here. » « The fact is that I pricked your fragile national ego. I am sorry about that. Reflect on the fact that you could make a video about how bad UK or US food is and the people there would think that is fine. In Portugal though, the nation has no real accomplishments in the last several hundred years and therefore any criticism is perceived as serious. I am sorry for this situation.» « You cannot accept criticism of Portuguese food. Having spent 3 years in Portugal, that does not shock me. It is a common characteristic of poorer countries to view aspects of their culture (including food) as unassailable. » Honestly, if you are not being serious… no coments. If you are being serious… no coments. 1. BIAS: Your title : FOOD IN PORTUGAL: Not great and certainly not for me. You reduced portuguese cuisine (and this is different from food) to your experience of restaurants and your personal valorization of the healthness of a diet over taste. "Obviously, I loathe Portuguese cuisine”. The same applies. If you showed that you knew what you were talking about, It would be absolutely fine! 2. You cannot have a valid opinion about the portuguese cuisine, taste and habits, without experiencing the portuguese regular home food and without having been guided by locals to restaurants in several regions. 3. And no, just saying that « taste is subjective so we need to go to an objective measure » is not enough. I am 100% sure that if your tittle was « My experience in portuguese restaurants and on the healthness of portuguese food » the « unreasonable » comments you got would have been a lot less. 4. BIAS : « 1st, let´s go to the subjective matter… 2nd, the objective measure, and that is about how healthy is portuguese food. I think there is somewhat of an ilusion here » So you start the objective measure with a subjective point of view. 5. BIAS : « Ah yes, but I spent 20 years living in China and I learned what good food is and isn't there. UK food is also bad, but this video was not about UK food. » No, you learned what food fits your criteria of good. 6. LACK OF KNOWLEDGE : «Salted cod » educate yourself: www.hospitaldaluz.pt/covilha/en/health-and-wellness/recipes-cod-by-our-nutritionists 7. « The soup here is OK. A bit too salty but OK. » WHAT ??!! Again, are you talking about what was served to you or about the receipt? Do you know the meaning of seasoning to taste? So… for you, the usual way the food is seasoned in restaurants, means that the recipt is not good? 8. BIAS « Part of the illusion blabla everyone is using extravirgin olive oil » (derisive tone) I can tell you right now most restaurants are not using extravirgin olive oil. You are generalizing your experience in restaurants to portuguese habits. It is not uncommon for us to have several kinds and brands of olive oil for different aplications. I lived in the UK and, everytime I came her, I took my extravirgin olive oil with me. 9. BIAS : « Lastly a word on restaurant food.» Excluding the mention of « some barbacues » your video was all about restaurants and health. (and the example of a menu you showed had Galinha piri piri! That is not restaurant focused on locals.) 10. “It´s all meaty” “I´m not a straight vegetarian”. Most people will believe you are talking about meat, when, apparently, you are including fish in that category. There are many people that eat almost no meat, but eat a lot of fish. Therefore, something like “The vegetarian options are scarce » would have been a lot less confusing. 11. “Portuguese Pastery is very sweet”. In general, true. 12. Traditional portuguese food is not healthy, but it´s really annoying that it took you a lot of effort, using a lot of statistics, graphics, etc. to try to prove a point and you reached a biased conclusion. In conclusion, clickbait or your personal food preferences, your bad experiences in restaurants (without propper guidance), your absolute lack of knowledge about portuguese cuisine and portuguese food habits, your biased opinions about how portuguese people think (that allows you to self justify being unrespectful) lead to this video. Don´t know what is worse.
God this video must have annoyed you so much. For me the healthiness of food and how it is rated are not separable. Others seem to separate the two and I really do not understand why. Fish is clearly meat. Many commentators seem to think it is not for some bizarre reason. It reminds me of a time in China when a university student tried to convince me that a chicken was not a bird. Basically, equally stupid. As for the question of respect, I honestly do not care what some Chega nationalists think, if they think or even if they continue breathing. It is irrelevant to me. Some of these fools came at me with a lot of impolite remarks and they got back exactly what they deserved. Those who were more reasonable were treated far better - as you yourself have been. Above all, I have deleted no comments (as most creators would) and let the conversation evolve as it has. I am not doing clickbait. I retired at 37, I have no need of clickbait or YT income. It is just my hobby. If people do not like my videos, don't watch them.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 It did not annoy me. At first, I felt offended, like many of the viewers. And we are not Chega nationalists and it´s not because we are a small and poor country that cannot handle criticism to certain aspects of our culture (the only explanations that your limited mindset could create). Then, I understood what kind of person you are, and just felt pity for you. I´m not being offensive. It´s really incredible how you do not have the cognitive flexibility to see things from different points of view. Americans and British would not care because they don´t have an emotional connection to their food. For us it´s not just an aspect of our culture, it´s a huge part of it, it´s connected with our way of life, with family gatherings, with pleasure, with friendship, with childhood memories. Would you travel 100 km just to eat a specific dish? Many of us, would. The food, in the UK and China were a decisive factor for my departure. Yes, I value food enough to move away from a country. UK food is just bad. China, lacks diversity. All around China, you can find good food, after you understand how to do it. My first experiences were horrible. The food in Sichuan is awsome, but no bread, no olive oil, too much hydrates, very expensive to import meat and good wine. It´s good, but gets boring after a while. And i´m talking about being able to cook at home. I´m sure you don´t cook. Another example of your lack of cognitive flexibility is your meat classification, that includes fish. "Others seem to separate the two and I really do not understand why." We are not talking about science. Gastronomically, fish is treated distinctly from meat due to differences in cooking methods, flavors, and meal compositions. Fish’s versatility and distinct taste profile set it apart in the culinary world, often leading to its separate classification from meat (we have specific cutlery and wine profiles for each). It´s so obvious that if you do not understand this, I know I´m wasting my time, because you will not understand anything anyone said. It´s like explaining yellow to a visual impaired person. (Actually, I´m not wasting my time. I know you won´t understand, but you were given the opportunity to do so and I find it funny to read your answers - your no-answers would be more appropriate. It´s similar to the example you gave of the chicken and the bird, but you are the student and don´t understand that). Wouldn´t many Americans and British be offended if someone, ignorantly and derisively, criticized (mocked, that is what you did in your video) certain aspects of their culture that they really value? Yes, they would. For many of us, talking about our food culture, it´s like talking about our mother. If you are going to do it, be fair about it. You were not. And, of course, you did not answer my points. It would imply admitting you are wrong. Knowing that you are just 37, but appear to be a lot older (I thought you were 45, at least) may be a sign of your health issues. And maybe that´s why you appear to live in a bubble and are so afraid of dangerous places and of unhealthy food. I bet that when you said "I lived in China for 20 years", you meant Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Every other place must be very dangerous. What really confuses me is you being married to a chinese wife. I feel at ease talking about this because, in a comment, you said that living in Asia made you not having problems talking openly about other cultures, so I know you won´t be offended. How can you deal with the lack of hygiene and manners?! The spitting and the smell... blagh! Unbearable.
Obviously you dont know nothing about portuguese cousin history... Cozido á portuguesa Arroz de pato Bacalhau todos Evrvilhas com ovos Bacalhau á Brás Açorda Feijoada Cataplana Im sure you dont know how taste are these dishes... We have the best Atlântic seefood, top Michelin chefs were amazed about Portugal fish markets! We have km of lands to grow cattle! Posta Mirandesa you know??? Obviously not... Of course you didnt taste a good olive oil, from the "cooperativa"... You talked about "leitão"!! Did you eat leitão at Mealhada region? Course not... Of course you dont know the country side on the "serra algarvia", like S.bras, Loule, Monchique, and many other places... Coimbra and Aveiro regions of central Portugal, are renowned for eel stews and lamprey seasonal dishes and festivals. Arganil and Penacova have popular dishes such as Arroz de Lampreia or Lampreia à Bordalesa. Did you eat our cheese from "Serra da Estrela"?? Obviously not!! This one has higher score than italys most famous. chesses. "Portugal boasts one of the world's finest culinary traditions, with its exceptional gastronomy recently earning recognition on the TasteAtlas platform. In a notable achievement, Portuguese dishes secured the fourth position among 100 countries in the gastronomic rankings. Now, this widespread recognition has transformed into a formal distinction, as the gastronomic platform Taste Atlas has ranked Portuguese cuisine as the fourth best in the world. " The fourth my friend....the fourth!!! Unfortunately your country have the worst food ... everything is junk food/ processed. About coffe, to taste real coffe you dont need to add sugar. Do you like cooking my friend?!
My wife likes cooking. I know more than i want to about Portuguese cooking. I have suffered enough. I did have Leitao in Mealhada - it was served with potato chips!! The bread and the cheese are good, I will give you that. I would say the cheese is underrated.
You don't know our food and products. If you only eat in restaurants, congratulations, many of them don't even reflect our food and traditions and many aren't even Portuguese. But I honestly think you made this video just to be controversial and get views...
I do the channel for fun. It is not and won't be monetized. I say what I think. My experience of eating in Portuguese homes has been worse than in restaurants. At least in the restaurants there is a some choice. In homes, you take what you get and pretend to like it. Exceptions would be soups and some cakes, which are decent is a bit salty / sweet for me.
You can't put all those graphs and use them to classify the food quality in a country. As an example obesity and life expectancy has more to do with life style, economy and healt care then food. "Leitao ... incredibly meaty", better be ... is a small pig. You can't be a food critic and say something like "I don't like meat that much", you are being extremely bias when judging food. It's clear that you don't like meat and fish, which in Portuguese food it's everywhere, and that's fine if you don't but don't do a video about it because you don't have any idea how to judge food in general. Really no credibility. I'm perfectly conformable with the food in Portugal and how great it is. There is huge amount of tourists from all the world that come and eat here and are very please with the food.
No. There are a huge amount of tourists / expats that are too polite to tell you how they really feel. I am not attempting to be a food critic. Obesity is linked to calorific intake as well as exercise levels. It is directly relevant to points in the video such as sugar and oil consumption in Portugal. You cannot accept criticism of Portuguese food. Having spent 3 years in Portugal, that does not shock me. It is a common characteristic of poorer countries to view aspects of their culture (including food) as unassailable. The response to this video says a lot about this sentiment in Portuguese society. I may do a follow up video just to ram home this point. In societies that are more secure with their position in the world (UK, US etc) you can say whatever you like about them and nobody cares.
No friends like you anyway. A source of happiness.If I need to make friends with someone who earns 1500 Euro a month and thinks that's good, I will reach out.
Besides cod, none of the dishes you mentioned are regularly eaten in Portuguese households. You are confounding traditional Portuguese cuisine in restaurants with Portuguese food habits. Indeed, portuguese food habits have (a lot) room to develop... but this has nothing to do with the quality of traditional Portuguese cuisine and the Mediterranean diet. This would be true for any other country, Portugal, UK, or even your beloved China. So why are you whining about it? it is your perception and it means nothing. We understand you reached enlightenment because you lived in China... Chinese cuisine has incredible dishes. But applying your fallacious logic, what about soy sauce, palm and coconut oils, battered and fried food, MSG? What about coronary heart disease, which is highly related to food habits, being higher in China? Regarding vegetarian options, I agree.... you have few options in restaurants and they are usually not very interesting. As they are also similar in price to non-vegetarian alternatives, Portuguese people would probably adhere more to vegetarian dishes if the price was lower. Nonetheless, you have a lot of restaurants dedicated for plant-based dishes... you are free to go to them. Just don't expect to find traditional Portuguese cuisine there, like you wouldn't find a pizza in a Japanese restaurant. PS: Potatoes are vegetables... you are concerned by the fact they are fried. And no, that is not Portuguese traditional cuisine, this type of salad dish is common in restaurants where a lot of workers go eat during lunch hours due to the low price. Here we have that, in other countries such as the UK it is probably MacDonalds and Starbucks. We're not that bad.
I would say processed meat is regularly eaten as is barbecued food. Heart disease in China has more to do with smoking an pollution levels than diet, in my opinion. Basically every Chinese man over 60 is a smoker and many are very heavy smokers. It takes a toll. I eat Chinese food that is vegetable based using EVOO or Ghee. I do not eat in Chinese restaurants, or really in any restaurants unless I am forced to. Portuguese food can be unhealthy objectively (it is) without comparing it to any other types of food in the UK or wherever.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 However, you are proving my point. You eat Chinese food using extra virgin olive oil, which is definitely not an ingredient in traditional Chinese food. Following your logic, I can say the same. Without comparison, traditional Chinese food is very unhealthy. Because it objectively is. Particularly in restaurants, and those do not reflect one's food habits. Maybe spend your time doing more friends instead of uniformed videos, I'm sure they'll invite you to take a better look.
@@ricardomatias9450 Doing more friends? I think you may mean making friends. I actively avoid making friends with most Portuguese people. It is difficult due to different economic situations. It is hard to make friends with people across a chasm like that. It is awkward to be honest.
@@ricardomatias9450 I have lots of expat friends. Mainly people far, far older than me though. I am happy with my social situation here and certainly do not crave Portuguese companionship. I will be here for another 2 years and then will happily return to Asia.
On balance, so would I. The video was not about UK food though. It was not a comparison. I spent almost my entire adult life living in China. I tend to compare Portuguese food to that.
@@mariateixeira9769 I have not been to McDonalds since I was maybe 22. A long time certainly. One thing I notice is that McDonalds is super busy in Portugal. If Portuguese food is sooo good, please explain this. Why are so many Portuguese going to McDonanlds?
@@thecryptostrategist2433 yes yes yes OMG you re good at raising hatred from your own hatred that probably is part of your personality based on édipo ' s complex and low self estime therefore when you find something Better than yourself and your culture you bash the quality and realty of the best something that you find on your way as if your fucking taste is the law or represents the fucking taste of the entire world you re just a disgusting being
Are you aware of how childish and ridiculous your remark is? Leave a country because you do not like the food? I can simply not eat the food and enjoy the rest of what the country has to offer - which is what I do.
@@exeuropean What makes you think I am from the UK? The food in the UK (native food) is not great either. However, this video was not about British food or making comparisons aside from those based on objective measures like salt content.
@@exeuropean there is no such thing as british food. it's all stolen from other cultures like everything over there. also it has really greasy food that is the only thing that you guys changed, which is extremely unhealthy
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Just ignore them. Something being on RUclips has made me aware of is that a lot of very low IQ people consume content here... that guy actually thinks he gotcha... let him have it. The problem is, you probably have an IQ that is above average... think about how many people have an IQ of less than 100... you're probably rarely exposed to them in every day life... well, here they are!
Oh my god...as a Brit who lived in China for 20 years where we all know the food and food safety (like the live animal markets) is bulletproof you are used to more refined and healthy cooking, I understand your life here must be terrible, salt, sugar, meat, meat processing (?!?) but regardless of the living hell you face here, please stop using EVOO to cook, it's nonsense and a waste of money (the smoke point of EVOO is too low to cook).One more thing, incidentally, feijoada is not a Brazilian dish. It dates back to Roman times and was brought to Brazil by the Portuguese.
What you say about EVOO is a commonly repeated myth. Home cooking seldom reaches the temperatures of the smoke point and it is easily managed by a good cook adept at handling a wok. Chinese cuisine is many times better than Portuguese - especially if you mainly eat vegetables. The variety of fruit and veg in Portugal is bad and the quality is not high compared to China or Thailand. Food safety issues in China are mainly centered around meat, restaurants and pre-prepared foods. I avoid all.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 I respect your opinion. It's an opinion that will get you a lot of views, and I guess that's your goal, that's fine. About EVOO you are wrong, it is not an opinion, it is a fact, although you can use it to cook at lower temperatures, but again why would you (I suppose in Asia they don't use extra virgin olive oil to cook, so why would you?). You are wasting our precious extra virgin olive oil for cooking and that is outrageous. You have a lot of Chinese restaurants in Portugal, maybe you could be happier with those restaurants, the ones that have not been closed due to food safety standards are fine. I understand that Portuguese cuisine is not a paradise for vegetarians, yes, we're more about fish and meat. That's true, but you didn't refer to this particular disclamer, you just talked about our food in general. About our fruit and vegetables... are you kidding? Where do you live? You can't say that the quality of fruit and vegetables in Portugal is bad, unless you live in the middle of nowhere, and even in that case, i serioulsy doubt
@@srmaporto Sounds like you know a great deal about Chinese food. From your multiple trips to Chinese restaurants in Portugal? About the smoking point of oil, homecooking would not normally wait for the oil to go on fire before cooking. It is controlable.
@@Michelle-hp8vn No, I do not like Chinese restaurants, in Portugal or anywhere else, I am just trying to improve the crypto-strategist's life while he is living in Portugal, as he does not like Portuguese food and seems to prefer Chinese food, get it? As for your remarks about smoking point, you may not know what smoking point is, so I'll try to be pedagogical about it. Extra virgin olive oil, it's great for seasoning, for cooking - at the temperatures we use at home - it's not the most suitable oil, seed oils or coconut oil, for example, are better for cooking at high temperatures because they have higher smoking points, you don't burn them while you're cooking, but if you really want to use olive oil for cooking, you can use virgin olive oils, the basic ones, using extra virgin olive oil is a waste and doesn't add anything to your cuisine, from a taste or health point of view.
@@srmaporto If it's OK for you not to like a certain type of restaurant, why is it not OK for him? So what is actually giving off the bluish smoke from heated oil? It’s the burning of free fatty acids, which account for less than 1% of the oil, that creates this visual effect. Yes, refined oils, including refined olive oil, typically have a higher smoke point. This is because most of them go through processes like bleaching and deodorizing, among others, to remove impurities-unfortunately, antioxidants are lost in the process as well. Do you still believe in the smoke point myth? Let me introduce you to another, far more relevant indicator: oxidative stability. Because EVOO is rich in monounsaturated fats, it is more stable when heated than seed oils, which are high in PUFAs (omega-6). If you're as health-conscious as you claim to be, you should be aware of the consequences of daily consumption of refined oils (like seed oils). Now, will most restaurants use EVOO for your health benefits? No! The reason? Price. But for home cooking, I don’t see why EVOO can’t be used daily. After all, it has been a part of Mediterranean cuisine for millennia. Has the rise of refined oils suddenly pushed it aside and reduced it to dressings?
Portuguese guy here. The food is ok, nothing 5-stars for sure. I prefer italian, thai or japanese food myself, for instance. I don't think it's bad by any means though. The overbearing number of tourists each year and the gigantic influence portuguese cuisine has had in the world (for example, Thai food being heavily influenced by portuguese recipes and ingredients and even landmarks of japanese food like Tempura or Castella cake being in fact portuguese) confirm this. There's even a video here on youtube called "Why Portuguese Food is Hiding Everywhere". I agree with you though. It's overhyped. It's nostalgic for me for obvious reasons, but it's not as great as people like to portray it as.
A reasonable comment. I can accept that. Though if you go to Thailand (I lived there) and said that their cuisine had Portuguese influences, that opinion would be very badly received. I think the fact that there are very few Portuguese restaurants overseas, communicates a lot.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 I have also lived in Thailand for a year and Thais would be the ones saying it whenever they discovered I was Portuguese. In fact, I found them to be quite knowledgeable about Portugal and proud of the Portuguese-Siam Alliance. It was them who showed me how far Portuguese food had travelled. I agree with the restaurant criticism. However, it may also be due to emigrant communities being more localised than for the chinese, italians, etc. There are plenty of Portuguese restaurants here in Luxembourg, for example.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Have you checked how many portugueses are in the world?you can find plenty of brazilian restaurants,and their cuisine comes from Portugal.
@@thecryptostrategist2433no it would be well received. Some of the best indian restaurants are in Goa and many of this restaurantes have portuguese owner and portuguese recipies. Again why is a british doing review of food, it can’t get any lower than that. Don't talk about things you don't know nothing about
I agree, any burger made by a portuguese place is pretty crappy compared to say the Angus Grill or The Outback. The morons add egg and ham crap to a burger, and it´s usually undercooked with crappy beef. You have to go buy the beef yourself and make your own burgers to get something close to what should be eaten.
Get ready for pushback! I said similar in a video and many people, mostly Portuguese, were very angry... for me, given that we're surrounded by France, Spain, Italy... Greece, even Morrocco... claiming that Portugal is a foody's paradise is absurd! Food here is boring, dry and salty... It's a no from me on Portuese food.
Yeah I did get a little pushback as you predicted. Nothing too serious though. I am going to do one soon on my experience of learning the language and how crap the unis are here. I attended Coimbra. They will love it.
I decided to tackle Portuguese food. Obviously, I loathe Portuguese cuisine. I simply had to do this video as a response to all the endless talking up of Portuguese food that seems to happen on other RUclips channels. Anyway, let me know what you think. I am prepared for some hate with this one.
You understand as much of food as i undertand of barbies. It's even funnier when we have a british doing a review of food Lol
you had plenty of time to delete this video to not make sad figures online. How long will it take Mr. 78 subscriber? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Why live there if it doesn't have the entertainment infrastructure that "meats" your needs? I have eaten in a number of very adequate restaurants in Lisbon, the western end of the Algarve and the mid Atlantic Coast. All served good fresh produce and the salads provided were organic
In UK food is often appalling at lower end restaurants and pubs so I do not use any without a modicum of research. I suggest you take a similar approach
The level of ignorance, misinformation and mistrust in this video is overwhelming. Please leave the country if you're not happy. I would.
@@RhysDavies-n9f It is odd that in a video about Portuguese food, people feel the need to attack UK food. I do not eat UK food, nor do I like it.
How will anyone take this video about food in Portugal seriously, coming from a Brit who eats beans on toast 😱 or Marmite 🤮?
Is that not a bit of a racial stereotype don't you think? You have probably spent more time in the UK than I have in the last 25 years - even if you only went on vacation.
@@thecryptostrategist2433there is no such thing as english food, it's all stolen from other cultures just like usa
@@Zizakuu He thinks chinese garbage food is good food,lol
@@thecryptostrategist2433 I didn't know the Brits saw themselves as a separate race. That may explain a few things...
@@arielabril1981 Because it is. You know nothing about it evidently.
Coming from someone whose national cuisine revolves around fried fish and chips, that’s quite something! Regardless of what you might think, Portuguese cuisine is undeniably Mediterranean, with olive oil as the primary fat. But we understand-your palate might be a bit compromised from all that fried bacon and Heinz canned beans!
I do not eat British food. I am sorry that you have an inferiority complex that compels you to attack any critique of your nation.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 No,you eat asian garbage and think thats good food,lol
The fish in "fish and chips" is Portuguese, it's just fried fish.
@@anibalcaixinha So are your boiled potatoes British? Frying fish was done in Roman times. Portugal cannot claim it.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 The "fish" component of fish and chips is believed to have been influenced by Sephardic Jews who fled the Iberian Peninsula (including Portugal and Spain) during the Inquisition in the 16th century. They brought with them a method of frying fish in batter, known as pescado frito, which became popular in England. This dish was often made with white fish and fried in oil, similar to how fish is prepared for fish and chips today.
ahahahha portugal has the most delicious food on the planet. and ive been to places, not even french pastry match up.
If you love it, good for you. It is a subjective opinion after all. Everyone has their own preferences.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 If it is a subjective opinion, it is impossible for the PT food to be overrated, right? Be coherent!
@@thecryptostrategist2433 theres plenty of diversity in portugueses food. Plenty to choose from.
I mean for me even the bread. You wont find a better loaf that isnt in portugal.
@@jonnyblunts6013 False. People can like or hate things subjectively. Objectively, it takes into account facts like those I presented related to health. Portuguese food is overrated from the perspective of health and also the idea that most of the expats here are loving it is just wrong.
@@Humbledandelion If you like meat maybe. The bread is good. Not better than France, Spain or Italy though.
you are ignorant about Portuguese food.
I have suffered from exposure to it for 3 years now. I am not as ignorant as I want to be.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Wow, 3 years, tell me more.
You must be going to the wrong places in portugal lol
Or Portugal just has a lot of "wrong" places.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Sure bud, make a list of the places you went for me to laugh a bit.
I thought this also...
So, you are hyper-worried about your health (which is great), not much of a fan of an animal based diet and, not sure about how a Country that as a lot of fish available, as meat because of older people in smaller cities and rural areas, can consume so much while being poor. Can the question actually be the answer? Being a Country with centuries, where people were effectively poor, and dependent on creatively cooking the fish they would fish or the cows, pigs, goats, etc... they owned, literally from nose to tail? Or needing to find a way of bringing cod, a misused fish in nearby countries, from the northern atlantic to home, preserved for months, and then also creating 1001 recipes of it....
Are we talking about Food in Portugal (history, richness and diversity taking to account the resources available at time when stablishing a Country's cultural identity), or are we talking about typical portuguese restaurants, today, being a good choice for someone mainly focused on health parameters?
Don't you think is weird not understanding why some portuguese eat so much meat being poor, but also not understanding why they consume so much cheap processed food? Also making it sound like "enchidos" and processed ham belong to the same category in terms of value or preference for the majority of the consumers.
So... you have been seing Palm Oil in the majority of restaurants?? Although... yes, they use vegetable oils of course. I think, after the last sentences, it's easy to guess why, isn't it?
I can recommend many where you won't have that problem. I go to a lot of them, very often, they just aren't affordable for the majority of the portuguese.
I mean, there a few still affordable that use animal fat, which have been reported in many studies as an healthier option to most vegetable oils, but not sure if all the health related American Associations will support that claim. Might depend on who is funding them.
About people burning food in "barbecues"... you're right. Criminals! And I'm not joking. A lot of portuguese think they are the kings of charcoal and have no clue of how fish and meat should be eaten. That also happens in a lot of restaurants. Society in general is wrongly used to it, not only in Portugal. I mean, when I lived in China, it was a bit harder to understand how the fish was or it's quality because of the 10 ingredient spicy sauce.
Curious to know what's the reason why you find a lot of italian restaurants in other countries and not portugese. We think it's obvious but, I'm guessing you have another pov.
Do you want recommendations of restaurants with healthier flavourful options? They are on the rise. The culinary scene is changing fast around here, and you won't believe why... there are tourists and some portuguese with money to spend on quality. Maybe in a few years we can also buy organic food and not only be able to get it from our grandparents. Wouldn't it be great for a normal restaurant to be able to choose between "buying cheapest to sell affordable" and "buying healthy and not going bankrupt or labeled as a tourist only place"?
I wonder how would it be if there were some countries with much more financial ressources, and demographics, that still would have a poorer culinary scene than this small poor country.
I have basically resolved to eat at home. I have the same attitude in Portugal as I had in China or Thailand. Restaurant food is toxic. I understand that the economic level in Portugal is not high and therefore processed meat / carb consumption is also high. The video was already long and I do not want to delve into socio-economic reasoning. The video already made people angry. Calling them poor will not help. Anyway, thanks for the constructive comment.
Agreed, the cultural identity of the Portuguese revolves a lot about food and and integrating the exotic spices from the colonies to our diet and life style, people have no idea how food independent the regular Portuguese household was up to the 70's
You could simply give your opinion on your experience with Portuguese food. There's no point in talking about our diet and gastronomy, because you're clearly not educated enough about it to do so.
I did give my experience. Perhaps you fall into that sad category of Portuguese who seem to think that only those born in the country have the right to comment on it. As for my level of knowledge about Portuguese food, I wish i knew less. If I stand in a dog poo, I know enough to avoid it in future. It is not necessary to study the poo in depth in order to know that it is nasty, unhealthy and something that one should steer clear of. The statistics i provided are objective measures. The Portuguese diet is not very healthy - objectively. It is not the worst, but neither is it good.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 I have nothing against your opinion, since after all tastes are always subjective and I'm not patriotic enough to think that Portuguese food is the best in the world. But to say that Portuguese cuisine is too "meaty" shows that you clearly don't know enough about it. I'm not going to repeat arguments that others have already used. Just read the comments, from Portuguese and non-Portuguese, and you'll see that much of what you say is factually incorrect.
For someone that admits that eats mainly at home and avoids going to restaurants it doesn’t surprise me that you know so little about Portuguese food. What surprises me is that despite that you decide to do a video about it. No problem in expressing your opinion but at least be accurate.
Some examples:
You say that Portuguese food is very meaty when Portugal has the 6th highest consumption of fish and seafood per capita in the world. It’s 6t in the world in fish and seafood consumption, not meat as you wrongly mention.
What is the point in saying that suckling pig is meaty? Any prejudice there? What about beef?
You mention Feijoada is a Brazilian dish when in fact it's originally from the north of Portugal and was introduced in Brazil by the Portuguese. The Brazilians developed their own version that is usually served in Brazilian restaurants.
Francesinha is not a national speciality, it's a regional dish from Porto and the bread is not fried.
You are so worried about the quality of the diet but you forget to mention the importance of soup in the Portuguese diet. Only country in the world that serves soup in Mcdonalds!
I avoid restaurants in Portugal because I have been to many at the start of my time here. I mention that Portugal was 6th for meat & fish consumption and 16th for meat alone. 16th is still high. especially for a poor country. The soup here is OK. A bit too salty but OK. The other details you mention are merely details. They are not significant. Both Francesinha and Feijoada are widely consumed in Portugal. That is what matters. In the case of the former, it is promoted in restaurants in Coimbra, Leiria etc. It is not confined to Porto.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 What you call details are just examples of the many inaccuracies in your video that seems based more in opinion than facts.
As is saying that a country's diet is very meaty when it has the 6th highest seafood consumption in the world. This is for seafood alone and not for meat & fish as you mention.
Regarding meat consumption, you presented the charts but also said this:
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No problem in expressing your opinion but at least keep your facts straight.
@@rfgfreitas Seafood is meat. It is just another kind. Do not imagine it is healthy. It is potentially worse than other meats. Farmed fish dominate and crustaceans etc are replete with heavy metals and other pollutants.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Seafood is a good protein source and rich in omega-3 fatty acids which meat does not have, and this is even more true for farmed fish because of fortified feeds. Regarding heavy metals and other pollutants, sorry to say but more studies point to no significant differences whatsoever than to farmed fish being worse. If there is a difference, I would say that farmed fish are better because the occurrence of such compounds is highly regulated. Wild fish swim everywhere so you'll never know.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Seafood is meat?! really? As far as I know, seafood generally refers to any sea life that is considered edible by humans such as fish, molluscs and crustaceans. Is fish meat?
Your conversation about food seems to revolve more around your health concerns (food is too salty, too sweet, charred, adulterated, loaded with pollutants,...) than gastronomy or anything else. And this in a country where you can still find organic produce and wild fish at reasonable prices.
Good luck with your Hipocondria. I hope you start enjoying more food instead of worrying about it.
Dude failed to taste portuguese food, failed to get a decent michrophone to make the video, says he lived in china and thats how he knows what good food is (?), starts the video talking about health, which is great but has nothing to do with food taste. Fails to say exactly what he tried that he hated, leaves. Clickbait succesfull.
Good food is food that tastes good and is not bad for you. I also commented on the taste. What else do you think "too salty" means? I tried all the dishes discussed except the francesinha, which my wife tried.
The fact is that I pricked your fragile national ego. I am sorry about that. Reflect on the fact that you could make a video about how bad UK or US food is and the people there would think that is fine. In Portugal though, the nation has no real accomplishments in the last several hundred years and therefore any criticism is perceived as serious. I am sorry for this situation.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Imagine keep writing BS after these many comment. I would be hiding under your bed after this embarrassment.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 All the dishes discussed are barely 10%. You also failed to mention where and how you tried them. That is why your "restaurant" part has barely any info on it. But i guess a rage clickbait video sells better than a well constructed one ;) And you succeeded at that, so congratulations.
@@eduardoborges506 It was really not my intention to enrage anyone. If you actually look at my channel (which i only do as a hobby) you will find videos about Portugal and others about crypto. It is not a professional channel. It is not monetized. I make videos about my opinions. For example people dumping rubbish in the forests or how terrible the banks are in Portugal. I never received comments like this before. However, these people are making a mistake. I am not some guy who will apologize etc. I am a troll and I will troll their Chega asses quite happily. If the fools said nothing the video would get 50-100 views like they normally do. Now they blew it up with all their engagement. So stupid.
Sorry, but I can't take this video seriously when you state that SNS is on of the best health services in the world. Are you sure you're talking about the same Portugal as me? SNS has been degrading over the years to the point where a lot of Portuguese people are switching over to private insurance.
About the restaurant's food being hit or miss. Never in my 27 years of living in Portugal have I had bad food in PORTUGUESE restaurants. The emphasis on the Portuguese is because, from your described experience, it seems to me that you've either gone to a tourist trap which is almost everything in main Lisbon, or you've gone to a 5-star Google reviewed restaurant and assumed it as a good Portuguese restaurant when in fact most of the good authentic Portuguese restaurants barely have reviews.
Either this video is satire or 4/5 rage bait.
The SNS is pretty good. I can tell you that I live with many older expats around me and they have all made use of it and feel satisfied - at least compared to healthcare in their home nations. For me, i have never used the SNS - probably because I avoid Portuguese food.
Bad food is subjective. What you like, I may hate. I lived in Coimbra, Figueira da Foz and now Leiria. I avoid Lisbon or Porto and restaurants there. I actually do not want to set foot in those cities due to the migrant situation.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 “probably because I avoid Portuguese food” now I am sure this is rage bait.
@@EnderKhaos It would not be rage bait for reasonable people. For instance, if a Portuguese guy made a video about why he hates X, Y or Z in the UK, it would be accepted and many people would echo the sentiment. Only in societies in which the people have an underlying sense of inferiority or underachievement and therefore cannot accept any negativity , would such a video provoke rage.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 "SNS is pretty good" thank you for confirming that you have 0 idea of what youre talking about. Keep making a fool of yourself talking to portuguese people who lived their whole life here telling them that you know more about Portugal than them. Keep embarrassing yourself.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Tasteatlas awarded Portugal as the 4th best cuisine in the world, English are 39th. Is not a sense of inferiority when we got organizations backing up with facts.
Well as a Potuguese myself, I totally disagre with you, as our cuisini/ Bakery and Pastry is still one of the best in the wordl. I don't really where you've been, but it does't look you've been in Portugal.
Unfortunately, I have been living in Portugal for 3 years. Mostly central Portugal. The bread is decent here on the bakery side. The pastries etc are too sugary for me.
Keep eating beens on toast and french fries with vinagre and rotten fish 😂😂😂
Thanks for the "kind words." You missed the point that I basically only eat Chinese food. My wife is Chinese and cooks everything at home. I do not like UK food either.
@@thecryptostrategist2433chinese food is not even in top 20 rank lol, and the quality is terrible and they also eat dogs, and no animal or human rights
@@thecryptostrategist2433 you are just a hater and don't know what you are saying, go to Tenerife and eat your frozen fries with vinagre and beer in the morning while you get red at the beach 🤣🤣🤣
Hey... people are free to have their personal tastes and - surprise - they may differ from ours! Even very well established cuisines (italian, french, mexican or chinese) have their cuisines questioned or hated by a few individuals so it's only natural that other cuisines, that are only up and rising in the international market - like the portuguese, the spanish, the greek and turkish - get their detractors as well. No biggie. No need to react harshly to someone's not liking what most people seem to enjoy. I love the beach, for instance. My mother-in-law hates it. It's just what it is.
Thank you for being a reasonable person. There are not many of those in this comment section.
Have you ever tried proper grilled sardines, boiled potatos with olive oil, pepper salad and had it with broa and vinho verde? I cannot believe you don't rate it as first class.
I hate sardines. I do not consume álcool. On the potatoes and the pepper salad, these are fine. However, these are not the dishes that you usually see in restaurants. Broa bread is also good and I like it (too much) with various cheeses found here. Yes, there are good features of the diet, but overall it is too meaty, too salty, too calorific and too burned - I would include the sardines in that.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 sardines are actually very good for you. Healthy wise. But no worries.
What about a freshly caught seabass in a incredible tomato rice with fresh coriander? You might have it with a delicious lemonade and you're also allowed to keep the broa. Naa... you can't get better than this.
Mate, you're probably homesick... It happened with me whilst living in Britain.
@@isidrocosta Homesick? I have spent my entire adult life outside of the UK. I think that is unlikely. I mentioned in the video that i avoid fish consumption, so sea bass is out.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Well, I guess Portuguese food isn't your thing. But fear not-there are certainly worse things in life!
@@thecryptostrategist2433 So you dont eat meat and fish.Live on vegetables.That sounds like culinary hell to me.And btw in Japan they eat tons of seafood.
In China, they cook with gutter oil. I find the food in Portugal to be excellent. The fruit and veg and meats available at local markets are in my opinion High Quality. I can buy directly from the producers in my area. Most of my life Ive been a vegetarian, so yes, Portugal is not India, where I lived for a few years. I miss good Indian food and spices. But I mostly cook my own food so this is not a problem. Food tends to be on the heavy side, but I do a fair amount of Physical activity everyday, so I like a heavy meal. I buy my olive oil from the people who make it, They dont use solvents or other things to increase the yeild, its all extra virgin, I can tell by the taste and color.
In China (also Thailand and other places) some street vendors and low end restaurants cook with gutter oil (Di gou you). However, it is not what people choose at home, nor is it legal. In Europe, there are unscrupulous restaurants doing similar things - certainly using the oil way beyond the point that it ought to be used. I agree the food in Portugal is heavy and the olive oil is good. For the vegetables etc, at least in supermarkets they tend to be not as fresh as I would hope for, but the main issue is the lack of variety. if you have lived in India, you will know what I mean. Basically 50% of vegetables do not exist here.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 That is true about the Variety of Vegetables, especially greens. One mystery I notice is that people everywhere seem to grow what look like to me to be Collard greens, but ive never been served them, nor seen them on a menu. In the Spring, my neighbor gives me various greens and weeds from her garden which I really enjoy. I tend to grow most of my vegetables if I can. Have you ever tried" Heart" Tomatoes? I think that is what they call them, They are fantastic! What amazes me, is that they ripen with different colors and sizes on the same plant. Some are small and yellow, some are very large and red, some are multi colored. They are all delicious. They also have a varrity of onions that Ive never seen in a store. Its a bit like a cross between an Onion and a shallot.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 I know gutter oil is illegal, but it ends up in many places, not just low end restaurants. India has similar problems with oil being made from toxic plants, but in this case it can kill if not heated high enough.
I have met many foreigners in the last 4 years (on average 2 per week) and they all love Portuguese food... What I notice is that they usually know few dishes... To get to know Portuguese food you need to go with a Portuguese person who knows Portuguese dishes and not just what is sold in restaurants (sometimes they are variants of the real thing in order to be more profitable)...
But of course this is a subjective matter...
A reasonable comment. I will say this. Having lived as an expat in China, Thailand and Portugal, I know that most of us lie to avoid causing offence. It is just like when the waiter in the restaurant asks you if everything is OK. Everyone says it is great, but that may well not be the case.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 This is true for all countries and all foods, right? hahaha
Of course we never know the true opinion... Maybe the real test is to get people to choose dishes in an environment without social pressure (that's almost impossible to do hehehe).
In my case the opinions are from stangers (that many times I will never talk again) when I'm helping foreign people to practice portuguese. It is a nich group of people it is not a random experience and for that reason don't have any statistical value - because don't use the correct methodology :P
One interesting experience done many time is between testing cheap wines and expensive wines and what people choose when they don't know what are the cheap and expensive ones hehehe... It's very revealing how we decide what is good or bad heheheh
Taste wise - completely subjective, you're free to have your opinion. Health wise - While it's true that most Portuguese food isn't all that healthy I can't think of any other traditional european cuisine being really healthy at all. Specially if you have some rather extreme standards of what counts has being healthy or not. It seems like a bit of a redounded video to make and clearly a way to seek engagement. It's particularly interesting to watch this video coming from someone who doesn't seem to be even that healthy aside of just being thin.
Interesting take on me not being healthy. I have not had need of hospital treatment since I was born, I walk 2-3 hours a day, row for half and hour and use my home gym. I also eat a diet that is vegetable based and shun salt / sugar. I have just over 16% body fat and take no prescription medications. I am not sure what your definition of healthy is, but it would have to be extreme for me not to fit it. As for being thin, I am 67kg. In Thailand, I was only 62kg - mainly because Portugal has nice cheese and bread.
As for your comment about traditional European food, I am no expert on every type of food in Europe. What I will tell you is that the vegetable based cuisines of Asia suit me better and in my view are much healthier.
What do you mean by overrated ?... It means if even I like Portuguese food I should change my mind because of your video?... Everyone must be wrong..thank you very much for open our eyes...
@@Markinhos_40 he is a nobody looking for atention, and to be fair he got it. It’s not because of this clown that we are ranked 4th in the world for sure
It simple means that you are Portuguese and probably cannot accept any criticism of Portugal from a foreigner. It is a common situation here. If you like it, go ahead and eat it. I don't care.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 no it's just that nobody cares about your opinion and the 4th ranking won't drop because of you, is it that hard to understand in your litlle mind? Lol
@@thecryptostrategist2433 don't play that card bro.. I can take criticism about Portugal, being a foreigner its not the problem..the problem is that you started your video saying that you need to "debunk the myth" that portuguese cuisine is good..and how it is overrated, in other words, everyone is wrong but you... I don't like sushi..should i rant on internet about how overrated japanese cuisine is?..because everyone that enjoys it must be wrong... And if "you don't care", why winning about?... And if u really feel that portuguese food isn't good enough for you, and you crave your "homeland cuisine" there are plenty of McDonald's restaurants around....
@@Markinhos_40 If you actually listened to the video, you would know that I eat only Chinese food and 95% vegetarian cuisine at that. You can rant about Japanese food all you like. If Portuguese food is so good, where are all the Portuguese restaurants overseas? Crickets.
You are literally British lol
Ah yes, but I spent 20 years living in China and I learned what good food is and isn't there. UK food is also bad, but this video was not about UK food.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 and China has no bad food? No fried food? No processed food? They eat pork intestines by the truck load. You are extremely ignorant
@@thecryptostrategist2433there is no such thing as british food lol it's all stolen like all the british colonization
@@thecryptostrategist2433 nobody care where you lived, you could have lived in the trash and nobody would care for.
I could go on...
In my opinion, a problem with the British is that our humour is so self-deprecating that we start to believe it... we have some fantastic cuisine.
If microplastic masculinity was a video this would be it. A fine representation of the shitcoiner community.
I am actually pretty close to a BTC Maxi. If you are referring to my airdrop videos, if you watched them, you would see that I think the coins are crap and I sell them to BTC instantly.
I got curious with this thinking you would complain about food taste and this and that - which would be funny after all. But then all we get is a hypocondriac manifesto.
I think I did mention the food taste. How else would you classify too salty and too sweet? I presented plenty of evidence to indicate that Portuguese food is unhealthy. if you call that being a hypochondriac, so be it.
3rd best food in the world, voted by foreigners from all over the world, of course no one is perfect.
Yes, one has to wonder if the Portuguese food association sponsored that survey.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Testatlas international platform you should know better.
And is not 3rd but 4th position for Portugal.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 the same logic would apply for other countries, but you are as low as a human being can get lol
Ok,part vegetarian,with this you told me you know nothing about food.Keep eating your vegetables,lol
Sure and you just keep on ignoring all the research that shows meat (especially fried, processed or barbecued meat) is basically deadly.
Vegetables alone can be made to taste nice.
@@chencoco2011 vegetabes is what the food eat,and then we eat the food,lol.At most,is a side dish.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Maybe,but I will die a happy man,lol.In my native Argentina,we have the world record on meat eating,and we live quite long.I preffer to live less,than to be happy.You,dont look exactly like a happy person.Like most of the vegetarians,they look unhappy and sickly,no offense.
@@arielabril1981 Hello apex predator, the higher up you are on the food chain, the higher the concentration of toxins that accumulates in the body.
Whats up with all the hostility guys😂 Cant a person just give his honest opinion?
We all know our food is amazing, the problem that foreigners face is that they have no idea where the good restaurants are, and because we have so much turism we also have a lot of restaurants and that dilutes the quality!I can guarantee that almost any of us could take him to a real good restaurant and he would love it...and i am not talking about expensive restaurants.
Well, I am happy to accept invites.
I like Portuguese food.Lived in Portugal.
Have you considered treatment for this condition?
@@thecryptostrategist2433 mate you are a bellend lol why go to such lengths? youre just a mean hypocondiact go eat your own food then and leave us alone lol
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Is not the best of the world,but is nice.Where are you from originally?
@@arielabril1981he is the devil disguised
@@rafael6693 lol
Congratulations, on a successful video, A great title, a decent video but the comments section is hysterical.
Regarding Portuguese food, I disagree with you as I think it is excellent, but clearly our palettes are very different....bring on that meaty, salty goodness and a Patel de nata for dessert.
I have a RUclips channel based around food in the Algarve. We review a lot of Portuguese restaurants but also review restaurants IN the Algarve. The hatred we receive from the Portuguese when we review, non-Portuguese food is actually hysterical. HOW DARE YOU COME TO PORTUGAL AND EAT A BURGER - GO BACK TO SCOTLAND!
Portugal stop being food bigots, and arrogant about your food, every country has good food which most are proud of because it is entwined in our history and culture. You are not unique in this regard. Just let people eat what they want.
I had one comment, saying I know nothing about food as I am from Scotland, and that is not a country famous for food... well hold my coat…. Scotland has some exceptional and world leading restaurants with many Michelin starred chefs
... what you would never hear from a Scotsman is... "how dare you eat Italian, Portuguese, Chinese or (fill in the blank)... you are in Scotland you MUST eat Scottish food"
So Portugal on ya bike.... and take your salty fish with you, it tastes like pish. I want a deep fried Mars bar and I am going to eat it on the beach in Albufeira, with the contents dripping all-over ma big fat Scottish belly!!!!
Seriously, thou been in Portugal for 3 years and have lost about 20 kg, without dieting so I think it must be reasonably healthy. We eat far more fruit and veg here than we did in the UK
As a fellow Scot, I think we have the same mindset. Our way of approaching stuff does not compute for many Portuguese though. Therefore, we get the hate comments.
If I lost 20kg, I think i would be dead. I would not argue that the Uk diet is superior. I never said that. However, UK food was the target of a lot of nasty remarks nonetheless.
About vegetarians, the human race is NOT herbivore but omnivorous!
Vi o vídeo até ouvir dizer que em Portugal consideram batatas fritas como legumes...para além de não perceber nada de culinária também não sabe a diferença entre proteína, carbo hidratos e fibras. Basicamente não percebe quais os elementos que uma refeição deve conter 🤦🤦🤦
Se segue uma dieta portuguesa, estou totalmente confiante de que a minha dieta é muito superior à sua. Batatas fritas não têm lugar no prato de uma refeição. Eles são um lanche.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Quem és tu para determinar tal coisa? Estás em negação, mas a verdade é que não percebes nada do que falas no vídeo! Já contribuí demasiado para o algoritmo do yt em teu benefício...e tu não mereces!
@@thecryptostrategist2433 You do know Portugal has a very wide spectrum of food. We have a lot of fish and seafood. Codfish is made in 1000 different recipes. You can eat only fish and never repeat a dish. The same with meat. It seems you really limited yourself eating here and I dont know why
@@marianavaz2425 Maybe the fact that salty cod is not my thing and I try to minimize my meat consumption might have something to do with it? I made this clear in the video.
@@ex3mely Compreendo o suficiente para dizer com convicção que não gosto da comida portuguesa e que, de um modo geral, não é especialmente saudável. Esses foram os meus dois pontos centrais. Os nacionalistas portugueses não podem aceitar qualquer crítica percebida. Esse não é o meu problema.
This video is a joke, your videos have the quality of your country cousine 😂
The video is not about UK cuisine, Irish cuisine or the cuisine of any other country in which I am a national. It is about Portuguese cuisine.
@@thecryptostrategist2433Your video is just stupid and ignorant, not to be taken seriously, you need to respect the country you are visiting or living, spitting on the plate you ate not a smart move!
Go get some son before talking about food. My god, you have no idea about what you talk about 😂😂😂
Do you perhaps mean "sun"? I am of northern European heritage and thus have a pale complexion and blue eyes. I know many Portuguese have Moorish blood (about 10%). This makes them darker, not necessarily solar exposure.
Clearly your going to the wrong places😂😂😂😂
That's true. All places in Portugal. I should have chosen Italy or some place with a half decent cuisine.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 dont go to Portugal then keep tou your little fantasy world and leave us alone
@@thecryptostrategist2433italy for italians and for mediterranean people only, go to china
@@thecryptostrategist2433 just go
@@thecryptostrategist2433 you can always relocate, mate. What's keeping you?
Have you been to Portugal or are reporting just from the what you listen around? Your compatriots in general do not agree with you or in Portugal have you only at McDonald’s?
If you watched the video, you would know that I have lived in Portugal for 3 years. Most of my expat contacts here definitely agree with my stance on Portuguese food. McDonalds is so popular in Portugal. Very crowded and not with expats. I wonder why that is?
@@thecryptostrategist2433 of course your expats contacts “suffer” from your tasting disease! I disagree 100% you, keep your opinion, all the colleagues from all over the world who have been in Portugal have a different opinion from your’s!
You ain't gonna get any friends here with this video brother 🤣. You are bound to get so much flake, after all, fish and chips is not the top of world cuisine, and group dinners are not at all a way to judge Portuguese food. I honestly only ate better or equal in Italy, being a fan of pasta, and never had any country with better fish recipes... I guess food taste is like ass, each of us has their own.
I am well aware that this is not a popular take, but I had to tell the truth. Italian food is also basically my favorite, so we have that in common. I have lived all over the world, so the fact that i was born in the Uk should not matter. Of course, i have had plenty of fish and chips comments. People have their own views - whether well-founded or not.
5-7 coffees a day is a big overestimate.
Really? I see people around me knock back at least 5 a day. Both foreigners and expats.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 I think 3-4 a day is more typical. But perhaps I am biased.
My guy is quoting the WHO and The American Heart Association 🤣...this is becoming hilarious!Cmon now my fellow Brit...you can do better than that!
I am a person who pays a lot of attention to health. I am not a typical Scot. It borders on obsessive.
I agree, its only good if you get it from the ground and use a crock pot.
Conversa para encher chouriços, não precisamos que nos venha visitar! Obrigado
Same with Italian food, spent 17 days there, all over the place and it seems to be just pizza & pasta, small portions and very over price.
True but I love pizza and pasta. In Italy, they also do a lot of meat.
@@bullet-catcherhohoho250 Another ignorant.Orobably american.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Keep enjoying your vegetables,lol
My uncle send you a message
"Emotional damage!"
I hope he recovers. I suggest a non Portuguese diet to assist with this process.
This guy is clueless
Sure, 420. Keep smokin the good stuff.
AT 5 seconds into the video I saw that hideous bracelet and stoped the video. There's no frigin way I'll take ANY sort of advice from some one using one of those.
What is he on about anyway??
I understand. You prefer your men with fewer accessories. May I suggest a Grindr search?
I do not hate the food here. I agree that it is not healthy, but for me, it is OK. I am not passionate about it by any means though.
I am yet to meet an expat who is passionate about it. RUclips is full of people saying how great it is. However, in real life, I am yet to meet these fans.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 You have met one now. Complete fan. The issue is that ex-pats just want a copy of what they had in their own country.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Here you have one guy who lived in Portugal and loved the food.And I find asian food to be from the mediocre to the disgusting.And god bless meat.
@@arielabril1981 He said he thought the food was OK. He did not say it was fantastic or anything. On the Asian food thing ask yourself this very simple question: how many Portuguese restaurants do you see overseas and how many Chinese, Indian, Japanese or Thai ones? Hmmmm.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 How many indians or chinese you have living overseas versus how many Portugueses?Popularity is irrelevant,or mcdonalds is good food now?
I prefer to believe this is a clickbait. Still, it´s very shamefull being rude for this reason. If it´s not a clickbait it´s even worse. By « «rude » I don´t mean giving your honest opinion about something. You got to the point of mocking, not knowing what you are talking about. If it´s not a clickbait, it seems the result of inefficient communication, of lack of knowledge about portuguese culture and cuisine, and of a biased thinking. To this, a derisive tone can also be added and, with some of your answers in the comments, the end result is easily perceived as a lack of respect and an unreasonable attitude (the same attitude you complained about). And the result to all of this can be seen in the comments you got. Of course, some would always exist, but not like this.
I am curious if you are going to answer me. And how.
1. Check this: Why Portuguese Food is Hiding Everywhere
ruclips.net/video/eiXtAPfMj6o/видео.html~
2. « If you go look for restaurants of portuguese food in the US or the UK or in another country, you are not going to find many, and I think there might be a reason for that » (derisive tone). You do not have to, it is already there, but I want to point out an example of your biased thinking. Do you find many restaurants, all over the world, with traditonal french, Italian (excluding pizza and pasta), spanish cuisine? And don´t you think that the ratio population of a country/ number of restaurants could be a factor to have on account? Do you know many examples of a traditional cuisine, of a country with a small population, spread all over the world? And how about affordable access to the necessary ingredients, in order to maintain a business? And about the restaurants that can be found everywhere… Do they serve really traditional food or they adapt it? Would the adaptability of the cuisine also be a factor ?
However, the only thing you appear to see is :
« It simple means that you are Portuguese and probably cannot accept any criticism of Portugal from a foreigner. It is a common situation here. »
« The fact is that I pricked your fragile national ego. I am sorry about that. Reflect on the fact that you could make a video about how bad UK or US food is and the people there would think that is fine. In Portugal though, the nation has no real accomplishments in the last several hundred years and therefore any criticism is perceived as serious. I am sorry for this situation.»
« You cannot accept criticism of Portuguese food. Having spent 3 years in Portugal, that does not shock me. It is a common characteristic of poorer countries to view aspects of their culture (including food) as unassailable. »
Honestly, if you are not being serious… no coments. If you are being serious… no coments.
1. BIAS: Your title : FOOD IN PORTUGAL: Not great and certainly not for me. You reduced portuguese cuisine (and this is different from food) to your experience of restaurants and your personal valorization of the healthness of a diet over taste. "Obviously, I loathe Portuguese cuisine”. The same applies. If you showed that you knew what you were talking about, It would be absolutely fine!
2. You cannot have a valid opinion about the portuguese cuisine, taste and habits, without experiencing the portuguese regular home food and without having been guided by locals to restaurants in several regions.
3. And no, just saying that « taste is subjective so we need to go to an objective measure » is not enough. I am 100% sure that if your tittle was « My experience in portuguese restaurants and on the healthness of portuguese food » the « unreasonable » comments you got would have been a lot less.
4. BIAS : « 1st, let´s go to the subjective matter… 2nd, the objective measure, and that is about how healthy is portuguese food. I think there is somewhat of an ilusion here » So you start the objective measure with a subjective point of view.
5. BIAS : « Ah yes, but I spent 20 years living in China and I learned what good food is and isn't there. UK food is also bad, but this video was not about UK food. » No, you learned what food fits your criteria of good.
6. LACK OF KNOWLEDGE : «Salted cod » educate yourself: www.hospitaldaluz.pt/covilha/en/health-and-wellness/recipes-cod-by-our-nutritionists
7. « The soup here is OK. A bit too salty but OK. » WHAT ??!! Again, are you talking about what was served to you or about the receipt? Do you know the meaning of seasoning to taste? So… for you, the usual way the food is seasoned in restaurants, means that the recipt is not good?
8. BIAS « Part of the illusion blabla everyone is using extravirgin olive oil » (derisive tone) I can tell you right now most restaurants are not using extravirgin olive oil. You are generalizing your experience in restaurants to portuguese habits. It is not uncommon for us to have several kinds and brands of olive oil for different aplications. I lived in the UK and, everytime I came her, I took my extravirgin olive oil with me.
9. BIAS : « Lastly a word on restaurant food.» Excluding the mention of « some barbacues » your video was all about restaurants and health. (and the example of a menu you showed had Galinha piri piri! That is not restaurant focused on locals.)
10. “It´s all meaty” “I´m not a straight vegetarian”. Most people will believe you are talking about meat, when, apparently, you are including fish in that category. There are many people that eat almost no meat, but eat a lot of fish. Therefore, something like “The vegetarian options are scarce » would have been a lot less confusing.
11. “Portuguese Pastery is very sweet”. In general, true.
12. Traditional portuguese food is not healthy, but it´s really annoying that it took you a lot of effort, using a lot of statistics, graphics, etc. to try to prove a point and you reached a biased conclusion.
In conclusion, clickbait or your personal food preferences, your bad experiences in restaurants (without propper guidance), your absolute lack of knowledge about portuguese cuisine and portuguese food habits, your biased opinions about how portuguese people think (that allows you to self justify being unrespectful) lead to this video. Don´t know what is worse.
God this video must have annoyed you so much. For me the healthiness of food and how it is rated are not separable. Others seem to separate the two and I really do not understand why. Fish is clearly meat. Many commentators seem to think it is not for some bizarre reason. It reminds me of a time in China when a university student tried to convince me that a chicken was not a bird. Basically, equally stupid.
As for the question of respect, I honestly do not care what some Chega nationalists think, if they think or even if they continue breathing. It is irrelevant to me. Some of these fools came at me with a lot of impolite remarks and they got back exactly what they deserved. Those who were more reasonable were treated far better - as you yourself have been.
Above all, I have deleted no comments (as most creators would) and let the conversation evolve as it has. I am not doing clickbait. I retired at 37, I have no need of clickbait or YT income. It is just my hobby. If people do not like my videos, don't watch them.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 It did not annoy me. At first, I felt offended, like many of the viewers. And we are not Chega nationalists and it´s not because we are a small and poor country that cannot handle criticism to certain aspects of our culture (the only explanations that your limited mindset could create). Then, I understood what kind of person you are, and just felt pity for you. I´m not being offensive. It´s really incredible how you do not have the cognitive flexibility to see things from different points of view. Americans and British would not care because they don´t have an emotional connection to their food. For us it´s not just an aspect of our culture, it´s a huge part of it, it´s connected with our way of life, with family gatherings, with pleasure, with friendship, with childhood memories. Would you travel 100 km just to eat a specific dish? Many of us, would. The food, in the UK and China were a decisive factor for my departure. Yes, I value food enough to move away from a country. UK food is just bad. China, lacks diversity. All around China, you can find good food, after you understand how to do it. My first experiences were horrible. The food in Sichuan is awsome, but no bread, no olive oil, too much hydrates, very expensive to import meat and good wine. It´s good, but gets boring after a while. And i´m talking about being able to cook at home. I´m sure you don´t cook.
Another example of your lack of cognitive flexibility is your meat classification, that includes fish. "Others seem to separate the two and I really do not understand why." We are not talking about science. Gastronomically, fish is treated distinctly from meat due to differences in cooking methods, flavors, and meal compositions. Fish’s versatility and distinct taste profile set it apart in the culinary world, often leading to its separate classification from meat (we have specific cutlery and wine profiles for each). It´s so obvious that if you do not understand this, I know I´m wasting my time, because you will not understand anything anyone said. It´s like explaining yellow to a visual impaired person. (Actually, I´m not wasting my time. I know you won´t understand, but you were given the opportunity to do so and I find it funny to read your answers - your no-answers would be more appropriate. It´s similar to the example you gave of the chicken and the bird, but you are the student and don´t understand that).
Wouldn´t many Americans and British be offended if someone, ignorantly and derisively, criticized (mocked, that is what you did in your video) certain aspects of their culture that they really value? Yes, they would. For many of us, talking about our food culture, it´s like talking about our mother. If you are going to do it, be fair about it. You were not. And, of course, you did not answer my points. It would imply admitting you are wrong. Knowing that you are just 37, but appear to be a lot older (I thought you were 45, at least) may be a sign of your health issues. And maybe that´s why you appear to live in a bubble and are so afraid of dangerous places and of unhealthy food. I bet that when you said "I lived in China for 20 years", you meant Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Every other place must be very dangerous. What really confuses me is you being married to a chinese wife. I feel at ease talking about this because, in a comment, you said that living in Asia made you not having problems talking openly about other cultures, so I know you won´t be offended. How can you deal with the lack of hygiene and manners?! The spitting and the smell... blagh! Unbearable.
You should exercise caution because the crocodile on your shirt appears enraged by your viewpoint and may bite you.
This is probably one of the nicer comments.
Obviously you dont know nothing about portuguese cousin history...
Cozido á portuguesa
Arroz de pato
Bacalhau todos
Evrvilhas com ovos
Bacalhau á Brás
Açorda
Feijoada
Cataplana
Im sure you dont know how taste are these dishes... We have the best Atlântic seefood, top Michelin chefs were amazed about Portugal fish markets! We have km of lands to grow cattle! Posta Mirandesa you know??? Obviously not...
Of course you didnt taste a good olive oil, from the "cooperativa"...
You talked about "leitão"!! Did you eat leitão at Mealhada region? Course not...
Of course you dont know the country side on the "serra algarvia", like S.bras, Loule, Monchique, and many other places...
Coimbra and Aveiro regions of central Portugal, are renowned for eel stews and lamprey seasonal dishes and festivals. Arganil and Penacova have popular dishes such as Arroz de Lampreia or Lampreia à Bordalesa.
Did you eat our cheese from "Serra da Estrela"?? Obviously not!! This one has higher score than italys most famous. chesses.
"Portugal boasts one of the world's finest culinary traditions, with its exceptional gastronomy recently earning recognition on the TasteAtlas platform. In a notable achievement, Portuguese dishes secured the fourth position among 100 countries in the gastronomic rankings.
Now, this widespread recognition has transformed into a formal distinction, as the gastronomic platform Taste Atlas has ranked Portuguese cuisine as the fourth best in the world. "
The fourth my friend....the fourth!!!
Unfortunately your country have the worst food ... everything is junk food/ processed.
About coffe, to taste real coffe you dont need to add sugar.
Do you like cooking my friend?!
My wife likes cooking. I know more than i want to about Portuguese cooking. I have suffered enough. I did have Leitao in Mealhada - it was served with potato chips!! The bread and the cheese are good, I will give you that. I would say the cheese is underrated.
You don't know our food and products. If you only eat in restaurants, congratulations, many of them don't even reflect our food and traditions and many aren't even Portuguese. But I honestly think you made this video just to be controversial and get views...
I do the channel for fun. It is not and won't be monetized. I say what I think. My experience of eating in Portuguese homes has been worse than in restaurants. At least in the restaurants there is a some choice. In homes, you take what you get and pretend to like it. Exceptions would be soups and some cakes, which are decent is a bit salty / sweet for me.
I recommend you to stay in you country, I think it is UK, stay at and enjoy you your fish and chips!
You can't put all those graphs and use them to classify the food quality in a country. As an example obesity and life expectancy has more to do with life style, economy and healt care then food.
"Leitao ... incredibly meaty", better be ... is a small pig. You can't be a food critic and say something like "I don't like meat that much", you are being extremely bias when judging food. It's clear that you don't like meat and fish, which in Portuguese food it's everywhere, and that's fine if you don't but don't do a video about it because you don't have any idea how to judge food in general. Really no credibility.
I'm perfectly conformable with the food in Portugal and how great it is. There is huge amount of tourists from all the world that come and eat here and are very please with the food.
No. There are a huge amount of tourists / expats that are too polite to tell you how they really feel. I am not attempting to be a food critic. Obesity is linked to calorific intake as well as exercise levels. It is directly relevant to points in the video such as sugar and oil consumption in Portugal.
You cannot accept criticism of Portuguese food. Having spent 3 years in Portugal, that does not shock me. It is a common characteristic of poorer countries to view aspects of their culture (including food) as unassailable. The response to this video says a lot about this sentiment in Portuguese society. I may do a follow up video just to ram home this point. In societies that are more secure with their position in the world (UK, US etc) you can say whatever you like about them and nobody cares.
Yeah, I am not a huge fan either. I like seafood though and Portugal does have that in abundance. The rest, I could happily ignore.
I understand. For me, it's an even worse situation.
No.
You can tell this person has no friends..
No friends like you anyway. A source of happiness.If I need to make friends with someone who earns 1500 Euro a month and thinks that's good, I will reach out.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Best of luck mate, must be tough being a weirdo
@@joaopontes1760 If being you is normal, being weird is definitely what I desire.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Fantastic, glad you're embracing it!
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Fantastic, glad you're embracing it!
Besides cod, none of the dishes you mentioned are regularly eaten in Portuguese households. You are confounding traditional Portuguese cuisine in restaurants with Portuguese food habits.
Indeed, portuguese food habits have (a lot) room to develop... but this has nothing to do with the quality of traditional Portuguese cuisine and the Mediterranean diet. This would be true for any other country, Portugal, UK, or even your beloved China. So why are you whining about it? it is your perception and it means nothing.
We understand you reached enlightenment because you lived in China... Chinese cuisine has incredible dishes. But applying your fallacious logic, what about soy sauce, palm and coconut oils, battered and fried food, MSG? What about coronary heart disease, which is highly related to food habits, being higher in China?
Regarding vegetarian options, I agree.... you have few options in restaurants and they are usually not very interesting. As they are also similar in price to non-vegetarian alternatives, Portuguese people would probably adhere more to vegetarian dishes if the price was lower. Nonetheless, you have a lot of restaurants dedicated for plant-based dishes... you are free to go to them. Just don't expect to find traditional Portuguese cuisine there, like you wouldn't find a pizza in a Japanese restaurant.
PS: Potatoes are vegetables... you are concerned by the fact they are fried. And no, that is not Portuguese traditional cuisine, this type of salad dish is common in restaurants where a lot of workers go eat during lunch hours due to the low price. Here we have that, in other countries such as the UK it is probably MacDonalds and Starbucks. We're not that bad.
I would say processed meat is regularly eaten as is barbecued food. Heart disease in China has more to do with smoking an pollution levels than diet, in my opinion. Basically every Chinese man over 60 is a smoker and many are very heavy smokers. It takes a toll.
I eat Chinese food that is vegetable based using EVOO or Ghee. I do not eat in Chinese restaurants, or really in any restaurants unless I am forced to.
Portuguese food can be unhealthy objectively (it is) without comparing it to any other types of food in the UK or wherever.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 However, you are proving my point. You eat Chinese food using extra virgin olive oil, which is definitely not an ingredient in traditional Chinese food.
Following your logic, I can say the same. Without comparison, traditional Chinese food is very unhealthy. Because it objectively is. Particularly in restaurants, and those do not reflect one's food habits.
Maybe spend your time doing more friends instead of uniformed videos, I'm sure they'll invite you to take a better look.
@@ricardomatias9450 Doing more friends? I think you may mean making friends. I actively avoid making friends with most Portuguese people. It is difficult due to different economic situations. It is hard to make friends with people across a chasm like that. It is awkward to be honest.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 I see that nobody would want to be friends with you as well... you are not above anyone else
@@ricardomatias9450 I have lots of expat friends. Mainly people far, far older than me though. I am happy with my social situation here and certainly do not crave Portuguese companionship. I will be here for another 2 years and then will happily return to Asia.
Granda menino!
Continue to eat your delicious fish and chips anda potato with beans world class 😂
I only eat Chinese food. You would know that if you actually watched the video instead of just making stupid comments without basis.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 The same thing can be said about your video 🤣
Ok I agree it's salty,and dry and bland! Overcooked but I rather have Portuguese food,then British food 😂😂😂😂!
On balance, so would I. The video was not about UK food though. It was not a comparison. I spent almost my entire adult life living in China. I tend to compare Portuguese food to that.
Is it bad to your stomach? Poor you 😢😢😢😢😢😢
More like bad for my taste-buds and prejudicial for my longevity.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 ohhhhhh so sad to hear 😔😔😔😔 that is why portuguese live longer 😔😔😔😔😔 everything is fresh 😭😭😭😭
You better eat McDonald's, man, please eat McDonald's 😢😢😢😢 I fear for your stomach 😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@mariateixeira9769 I have not been to McDonalds since I was maybe 22. A long time certainly. One thing I notice is that McDonalds is super busy in Portugal. If Portuguese food is sooo good, please explain this. Why are so many Portuguese going to McDonanlds?
@@thecryptostrategist2433 yes yes yes OMG you re good at raising hatred from your own hatred that probably is part of your personality based on édipo ' s complex and low self estime therefore when you find something Better than yourself and your culture you bash the quality and realty of the best something that you find on your way as if your fucking taste is the law or represents the fucking taste of the entire world you re just a disgusting being
Alright then, pick your stuff and move out of the country.
exactly; move back to the UK Which has really healthy food. Like porkpie and mash with smashed green peas or a full English breakfast.
Are you aware of how childish and ridiculous your remark is? Leave a country because you do not like the food? I can simply not eat the food and enjoy the rest of what the country has to offer - which is what I do.
@@exeuropean What makes you think I am from the UK? The food in the UK (native food) is not great either. However, this video was not about British food or making comparisons aside from those based on objective measures like salt content.
@@exeuropean there is no such thing as british food. it's all stolen from other cultures like everything over there. also it has really greasy food that is the only thing that you guys changed, which is extremely unhealthy
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Just ignore them. Something being on RUclips has made me aware of is that a lot of very low IQ people consume content here... that guy actually thinks he gotcha... let him have it. The problem is, you probably have an IQ that is above average... think about how many people have an IQ of less than 100... you're probably rarely exposed to them in every day life... well, here they are!
Oh my god...as a Brit who lived in China for 20 years where we all know the food and food safety (like the live animal markets) is bulletproof you are used to more refined and healthy cooking, I understand your life here must be terrible, salt, sugar, meat, meat processing (?!?) but regardless of the living hell you face here, please stop using EVOO to cook, it's nonsense and a waste of money (the smoke point of EVOO is too low to cook).One more thing, incidentally, feijoada is not a Brazilian dish. It dates back to Roman times and was brought to Brazil by the Portuguese.
What you say about EVOO is a commonly repeated myth. Home cooking seldom reaches the temperatures of the smoke point and it is easily managed by a good cook adept at handling a wok. Chinese cuisine is many times better than Portuguese - especially if you mainly eat vegetables. The variety of fruit and veg in Portugal is bad and the quality is not high compared to China or Thailand. Food safety issues in China are mainly centered around meat, restaurants and pre-prepared foods. I avoid all.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 I respect your opinion. It's an opinion that will get you a lot of views, and I guess that's your goal, that's fine. About EVOO you are wrong, it is not an opinion, it is a fact, although you can use it to cook at lower temperatures, but again why would you (I suppose in Asia they don't use extra virgin olive oil to cook, so why would you?). You are wasting our precious extra virgin olive oil for cooking and that is outrageous. You have a lot of Chinese restaurants in Portugal, maybe you could be happier with those restaurants, the ones that have not been closed due to food safety standards are fine. I understand that Portuguese cuisine is not a paradise for vegetarians, yes, we're more about fish and meat. That's true, but you didn't refer to this particular disclamer, you just talked about our food in general. About our fruit and vegetables... are you kidding? Where do you live? You can't say that the quality of fruit and vegetables in Portugal is bad, unless you live in the middle of nowhere, and even in that case, i serioulsy doubt
@@srmaporto Sounds like you know a great deal about Chinese food. From your multiple trips to Chinese restaurants in Portugal? About the smoking point of oil, homecooking would not normally wait for the oil to go on fire before cooking. It is controlable.
@@Michelle-hp8vn No, I do not like Chinese restaurants, in Portugal or anywhere else, I am just trying to improve the crypto-strategist's life while he is living in Portugal, as he does not like Portuguese food and seems to prefer Chinese food, get it? As for your remarks about smoking point, you may not know what smoking point is, so I'll try to be pedagogical about it. Extra virgin olive oil, it's great for seasoning, for cooking - at the temperatures we use at home - it's not the most suitable oil, seed oils or coconut oil, for example, are better for cooking at high temperatures because they have higher smoking points, you don't burn them while you're cooking, but if you really want to use olive oil for cooking, you can use virgin olive oils, the basic ones, using extra virgin olive oil is a waste and doesn't add anything to your cuisine, from a taste or health point of view.
@@srmaporto If it's OK for you not to like a certain type of restaurant, why is it not OK for him?
So what is actually giving off the bluish smoke from heated oil? It’s the burning of free fatty acids, which account for less than 1% of the oil, that creates this visual effect. Yes, refined oils, including refined olive oil, typically have a higher smoke point. This is because most of them go through processes like bleaching and deodorizing, among others, to remove impurities-unfortunately, antioxidants are lost in the process as well. Do you still believe in the smoke point myth? Let me introduce you to another, far more relevant indicator: oxidative stability. Because EVOO is rich in monounsaturated fats, it is more stable when heated than seed oils, which are high in PUFAs (omega-6). If you're as health-conscious as you claim to be, you should be aware of the consequences of daily consumption of refined oils (like seed oils).
Now, will most restaurants use EVOO for your health benefits? No! The reason? Price. But for home cooking, I don’t see why EVOO can’t be used daily. After all, it has been a part of Mediterranean cuisine for millennia. Has the rise of refined oils suddenly pushed it aside and reduced it to dressings?
78 subscribers 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Really? It was only 68 this morning. I am not doing this channel for subs or income. It is a hobby. I have no objectives.
What? Lol
It's not funny. Portuguese people have to grow up eating this crap. They deserve our compassion.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 this crap? You re right and the rest of the world that thinks diferent is wrong.
Portuguese guy here. The food is ok, nothing 5-stars for sure. I prefer italian, thai or japanese food myself, for instance.
I don't think it's bad by any means though. The overbearing number of tourists each year and the gigantic influence portuguese cuisine has had in the world (for example, Thai food being heavily influenced by portuguese recipes and ingredients and even landmarks of japanese food like Tempura or Castella cake being in fact portuguese) confirm this. There's even a video here on youtube called "Why Portuguese Food is Hiding Everywhere".
I agree with you though. It's overhyped. It's nostalgic for me for obvious reasons, but it's not as great as people like to portray it as.
A reasonable comment. I can accept that. Though if you go to Thailand (I lived there) and said that their cuisine had Portuguese influences, that opinion would be very badly received. I think the fact that there are very few Portuguese restaurants overseas, communicates a lot.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 I have also lived in Thailand for a year and Thais would be the ones saying it whenever they discovered I was Portuguese. In fact, I found them to be quite knowledgeable about Portugal and proud of the Portuguese-Siam Alliance. It was them who showed me how far Portuguese food had travelled.
I agree with the restaurant criticism. However, it may also be due to emigrant communities being more localised than for the chinese, italians, etc. There are plenty of Portuguese restaurants here in Luxembourg, for example.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Have you checked how many portugueses are in the world?you can find plenty of brazilian restaurants,and their cuisine comes from Portugal.
you aint portuguese
@@thecryptostrategist2433no it would be well received. Some of the best indian restaurants are in Goa and many of this restaurantes have portuguese owner and portuguese recipies. Again why is a british doing review of food, it can’t get any lower than that. Don't talk about things you don't know nothing about
What a load of crap! 😂
I would not go so far as to describe Portuguese food as a load of crap. However, if that is your opinion, you are entitled to it.
I agree, any burger made by a portuguese place is pretty crappy compared to say the Angus Grill or The Outback. The morons add egg and ham crap to a burger, and it´s usually undercooked with crappy beef. You have to go buy the beef yourself and make your own burgers to get something close to what should be eaten.
I hope you do not get flamed for this comment. I have been getting flamed a lot.
@@thecryptostrategist2433 Flame me, see if I care, truth to power.
Get ready for pushback! I said similar in a video and many people, mostly Portuguese, were very angry... for me, given that we're surrounded by France, Spain, Italy... Greece, even Morrocco... claiming that Portugal is a foody's paradise is absurd! Food here is boring, dry and salty... It's a no from me on Portuese food.
And a "hell no" from me. My wife doesn't mind the seafood though. I think most Chinese feel Portuguese food is OK, but basically just for that reason.
Yeah I did get a little pushback as you predicted. Nothing too serious though. I am going to do one soon on my experience of learning the language and how crap the unis are here. I attended Coimbra. They will love it.
Surrounded by France and Italy?have you seen a map?Greece?
@@arielabril1981 He means that these nation are close EU neighbors - which they are. The comparison is valid.
It actually is i have been to Greece and italy and it's way too overrated. And many people have this opinion
seed oils...
Not sure what to make of that, but thanks for the comment anyway.