Portuguese cuisine influenced the world. You can find remnants of it on almost every continent. Salted cod found everywhere, piri-piri chicken ( like nandos) , to chicken vindaloo, egg tarts in Asia, tempura in japan, Hawaiian sweet rolls and Malasadas, and fish and chips as some examples.
In the case of "chamuças", I think it was the other way round: the Portuguese *brought* them from India. What we did take to India was "vindalo" (original: "vinha d'alhos").
An Australian MasterChef judge described a Portuguese dish as "looking so simple but being so complex" and I think that describes pretty well the whole Portuguese cuisine. I've seen some reactors think some of our dishes are expensive dishes you'll eat for a family dinner once in a blue moon, but all of the dishes on that video, mainly the seafood ones, were just regular dishes you'd cook on a weekday evening. I think one of the most beautiful things about Portuguese cuisine is that most of our best dishes were created by farmers or fishers or other people without many possessions in medieval times, using only basic ingredients they could afford at the time, so now we have this rich history all over the country where each town you go to has a wildly different cuisine from the town a few miles away, some even rooted in legends and historical events. Alheira, for example, which is a type of sausage made from chicken, bread, and spices, which is also often grilled on liquor like the chorizo shown in the video, was supposedly invented by Jews who pretended to have converted to Christianism to avoid persecution during the Portuguese Inquisition. Given the fact that eating pork was forbidden for them, having no pork in your home was a giveaway that you were probably Jew, so these sausages were great at resembling pork sausages and not draw any suspicions, or so the legend says. The original recipe for Pastéis de Nata, which you can buy at Pastéis de Belém in Lisbon, is said to only be known by three people who never travel or eat together to avoid an accident or food poisoning from making the recipe lost forever. While highly unlikely, given that the workers must know the recipe to produce it, it's nowhere near as wild as the Galo de Barcelos origin history, where a dead rooster on a plate came to life to prove a man hadn't committed a crime he was accused of. While these are mostly legends or embellished facts, there's a whole form of pastry cuisine, Doçaria Conventual, which originated from nuns making tons of different pastry recipes using egg yolks, lots of sugar, and nuts, mainly almonds, from the times Portuguese convents were part of the largest exports of eggs in Europe and we had more yolks than what we knew what to do with, given that only the whites were exported, mostly for wine production and ironing clothes (those were some wildly different times). It is so spread out across our country, culture, and history, that it is an actual course you can take at universities and culinary schools, almost like its own field of study.
@@hyzenthlay7151 Naaa, you're not biased, you are speaking facts! Also the other side of the Merditerranean sea has kickass cuisine! Moroccan food? Yes please!
You need to try “travesseiros de Sintra da Piriquita” while they’re still hot. Infinite better than pastéis de Belém (pastéis de nata). Also try “queijadas de Sintra da Casa do Preto” and “pastéis de feijão de Torres Vedras”.
@@miki1510 I have little experience with morrocan food, but what I have tried was very tasty, especially a proper home made couscous I had with a morrocan family!!
Portugal, with more than 4 million km2 of maritime areas, is the largest coastal state in the EU and also one of the largest in the world. If we consider only the terrestrial territory, Portugal is a relatively small country, with just over 92,000 km2. However, considering its maritime dimension, Portugal is one of the largest countries in the world. With the extension of the continental platform, we will have a country with almost 4 million km2, where the marine territory is 40 times larger than the terrestrial one... so yes indeed, we eat a lot of fish.
My father is from Plasencia, in the Extremadura region of Spain, which borders with Portugal, and that part of the Iberian peninsula is definitely a meat eater's paradise on both sides of the border. Both countries have very similar, and at the same time very different cuisine. And of course, a beautiful part of the world to see!!
same with the baltics,, in bulgaria and turkey some form of multi meat dish is like half of what people eat haha. Wed alwasy get these huge boards of spiral sausages, pork chops, doner meat etc
The bread in Portugal is awesome. Pão de Mafra, pão alentejano, pão da avó, pão de lenha, pão de Rio Maior, etc. If you like bread, you’ll have to try it in Portugal.
Portugal, some of the best food and friendliest people you would ever hope to meet👍👍 Also in Portugal they eat more fish and seafood than just about anywhere else in the world, fresh and delicious. Also you may very well have tried Portuguese food without knowing it, check out "How Americans Eat Portuguese Food EVERYDAY (Without Knowing)"
Believe, unless you're full already, eating a whole francesinha is no trouble. I'm not a big eater and I have no trouble finishing one plus a side of fries. In fact, one of that dishes' problems is it's slightly addicting! Salutations from Porto!
One quick comment - we don't usually use chicken stock (nor any sort of fish or meat stocks) in our soups. Just plain water. However, we do strive to extract as much flavour as possible from every single ingredient. Our food tends to be hearty and confort food, but trying to celebrate each ingredient instead of covering it. That's the reason why you won't find a ton of side sauces and salsas in Portugal, nor you'll find that we add sugar and a bunch of other stuff in our food.
I am almost 100% sure that you would not split a "francesinha" it in two and share it with someone else. You would eat it all and cry for more, just like we all do here. lol
I see the word Portugal I click! And I love that I'm watching her eat a vegetarian version of a Francesinha while I'm literally eating a hot dog version with the cheese and beer sauce and fries right now 🤣 Also wanted to add a fun fact about the Bifanas: when there is local fooball/soccer matches from small clubs, there is always a giant pot in the bar with bifanas in the sauce (not unlike the one that they showed in this video at 2:15) and plenty of beer of course XD. There is almost always 2/3 people working there: one cutting the bread in half, another stirring the pot and putting it on the bread, and one pouring the beer into plastic cups. There is always people eating bifanas no pão and drinking beer and in the half-time, even the players go and eat XD (at least from what I remember...I don't know about now but I imagine that it hasn't changed much :P)
When it come's to food, you usualy think french cuisine, italian food etc, but imo, Portugese food is so underrated. It's usually really simple food with good quality indredients and very, very generous portions. PS: pro tips for normal people just ask "meia dosa" . Same dish but less quantity.
The guy from the video, the couple, is also a huge fan of German sausages and has plenty of visiting Germany videos where he indulges in sausages all day long. Worth watching!
2:44 - Every other european country always rave about their bread being the best. Meanwhile the portuguese bread is a somewhat well-kept secret. 😉 9:17 - Wow Ian, who would've thought that you, as an american, would one day say "yeah, I wouldn't want to eat that whole thing" for something that's considered "bite-size" compared to the portions they serve in the US? 😄 12:20 - Portugal is the top seafood consumer per capita in Europe - and usually ranks in the top 4 worldwide - so if our seafood wasn't good we wouldn't be. Think about that. 15:15 - Search on Yelp or Trip Advisor for Portuguese restaurants in Chicago and you'll find many.
I love fish, but even if it's not your favourite I think you'd struggle not to find a fish dish you like in Portugal (the British favourite fish 'n' chips was introduced to us from Portugal, as was marmalade, and tea drinking), and it's always nice to eat fish on the shore of the sea where they caught it. The British mostly borrowed food from the countries we colonised, but the Portuguese were great exporters of dishes and cooking methods, such as the Indian curry style vindaloo, hot pepper sauce piri piri, and Japanese tempura. This video didn't say much about the traditional dessert pastel de nata, but if you're down in Lisbon the most famous place to buy it is the Fábrica de Pastéis de Belém, which is worth a visit for the beautiful decoration of the building alone, with its traditional ceramic tiles inside and out. Don't be put off by the long queue of tourists outside, it moves quickly and the pastries are worth waiting for.
Pastel de nata and Pastel de Belem are not the same thing. One has just egg and maze/corn starch. The other has milk cream although more and more bakeries and pastry shops are imitating the Pastel de Belem and no longer serve Pastel de Nata.
I have visited Portugal 4 times over the years and have some friends from Portugal. Portuguese food really isn't bad stuff! Grilled Sardines (and the way of eating them) are not my cup of tea. Also the national fish Bacalhau, is not for everyone. But in general, Portuguese seafood is really great. The meat dishes (especially flambéed skewers) are really great. The desserts, particularly sweet bits and cakes, are far too sweet for me and are only surpassed by Turkish and Arabic stuff. Bolos, of course, should be sweet. But the same applies to the use of sugar as to everything else, there is use and abuse. Unfortunately, Portuguese bread is, first and foremost, white wheat bread. But given the possibilities that wheat offers as a raw material, the Portuguese bakers are doing a good job. What might also be worth mentioning is that the Portuguese (in contrast to some other European nations) know how to brew a decent beer. Superbock and Sagres beers are ubiquitous and really not overpriced. All in all, one can say that Portuguese cuisine is really very good. And if you should really be on the road there, then take a break in one of the long-distance driver's bars. The food there(which has always been affordable) is not expensive and with a bit of luck you will have an elderly lady in her 60s in the kitchen who will cook you just as well as she would cook for her grandson... My insider tip: Lulas fritas If all you've ever known is these chewy, breaded squid rings, this dish will take you the other way... 😃
Lol...the thing with superbock vs sagres is almost a region dispute here in Portugal. Generally seems like SuperBock is more famous and tastier. SuperBock is from the north and Sagres from the south. I also heard that we do some nice artesanal beers.
Many thanks for choosing the video i recomended. Hope you see more of the videos of Portugal, its a very underated country unfortunally and am proud people learn about this awesome country i live in. Also you could eat an whole Francesinha, the trick is to only eat the sandwich first them the potatoes... and of course no entry courses, only the main meal. And a "pro" tip, the francesinha is eaten from the corners, like small triangles, its the best way to eat it without messing it up and make the tower go down. @IWroker you got a Portugal restaurant near you called "Nando's PERi-PERi"
Nando's is near Portuguese cuisine (kind of fast food version) but differs from one another to suit costumer's taste. The only way to check Portuguese cuisine is to eat at a 'regular portuguese costumer's restaurant' far from turist's areas.
@@vcarvalho193 i know, it's only the chicken with the piri piri sauce. But it's a start... Also in America the ingredients aren't as fresh has here... If it was NY or long island, I know there's very broad Portuguese cuisine restaurants, seem them several times in RUclips.
True bro, it’s always Italy, Spain and Greece, we are always forgotten. Portugal ist so damn nice. But it’s also okay this way, so Portugal is not overflowing with tourists compared to the other three. No light without shadow 😀
Thank you for your great videos. I'm portuguese, and despite being a small country, Portugal has a huge variety of meat/fish-based cuisine, from North to South, East to West. You are very welcome to visit us and have one of the best gastronomic experiences in the world. Mind you, it will include sweet and savory food.
i have had many holidays in Portugal and i can assure people that whether you are looking for meat, veg or seafood they know what they are doing...depending on where you go you may find more of some things than the other...like where i used to holiday it was more coastal so seafood was plentiful but i love that so works for me. i'm sure inland they are more versatile and some of their best desserts are quite infamous even outside the country nowadays...you can them in EU or UK.
They do sell Portuguese custard tarts in some bakeries and even some supermarkets over here the UK, only I've never seen nor tried them - and I'm a massive fan of custard tarts!
@@chrisperyaghin London you have a very nice portuguese cafe with its own bakery the name is cafe de nata ,and in almost every city in the UK there is Portuguese products including coffees and and snacks
@@lm4122 totally agree!! Specially as a Portuguese citizen but in London there is a really good place called cafe de nata ,and they have their own bakery in the back the owners are Portuguese specially chef Lucio the owner is also a baker and a kitchen chef and a high rank military person
I'm from the South of Portugal. I once spent a couple of weeks in Porto recording an album and when I got home I had gained 5Kg. You eat well in Portugal, all across the board, but in the North is just brutal.
That 1st place they showed (A Conga) is the best place to have the Bifana. If you ever come to Portugal (especially to Porto), you have to try the Francesinha (minute 6:50). I can't eat a whole Francesinha, but most people here can. If you ever come here, yes, try the fish, especially in the coastline towns. It's top-quality! Thanks for the video!
@IWrocker I know it is not close to the Chicago area, but if you end up going to New York one of this days, you should stop by Newark, NJ. It is know as Little Portugal in America, biggest Portuguese community and lots of restaurants...
You would love our sea food, believe me. I would say that one of the best "bacalhau" (codfish) dishes i prefer the most are this one: Bacalhau com natas. And if you go to Porto you need to eat a Francesinha, but francesinhas are all over the country, it's something that a lot of us eat, maybe more famous in the north tho.
I don't know where this guys are eating Bifanas and Pregos, but i'll explain you better, they are a sandwich with just bread and meat, you had cheese, ham or even a fried egg if you want ( its not common), they had it nowadays just to make people spend more money, if you want to eat a really good Bifana or Prego just had a bit of Mustard and you will come here thanking me, your welcome xD
I know you somewhere mentioned you were a delivery guy. I am too and portuguese. Best advice here is to stay out of higways and when you find a restaurant eith alot of trucks, stop and eat there.
I spent 3 months in Cascais a while ago, and there is a place there with crazy delicious charcoal barbequed chicken. All the locals where queing for it. If I was handing out awards for food, they would get most of them. Also, the fish (sardines?) festival dished out some nice food, though nothing like that heavenly chicken. It was a very pleasant stay, especially because of the food.
Portugal. The country where you can find a typical historic desert in every town you go, that doesn't exist nowhere else in the country or, obviously, the globe. And let me tell you I haven't even once tried a bad one. As a 44 years old Portuguese I haven't even tried half of our dishes.
Seafood in Portugal is amazingly fresh Tasty and doesn't taste fishy due to ots freshness Portuguese food is fresh simple and full of flavour.... Love it Live it...
Oh yeah, you will eat real good in Portugal. Not complicated but so full of flavour. Its like eating homemade food everywhere.👍✌ Portugal is well worth a long visit. And a couple of days at least in Lisboa is a must. But do get a rental and drive around. You want regret it. Oh, do not forget to try the Portuguese wines, all 4 types. (Red, White, Port and Green)
I go to spain at least once every year (not 2021), but people hyped up portugal.. and. Let me tell you they was right. Portugal is a freqking amazing destination. Its easy and simple. Its cheap. They have loads of great nature and cities.. while a lot of spanish desrination is sort of one trick ponies...... .... but that trick is kind of good. You want a wide experiance. Portugal is the place. Its like nowhere else in europe (and people understand english) To be fair. Iberian penisula use to be.. well more or less, 4 countries. 3 of them is today spain. And one part of spain is very diffrent from a other. Still. Portugal is much mure pur
Ian, I’ve never seen Americans eat sausages, only hot dogs. Do you even have butchers in America? In Australia, our butchers make a variety of sausages in their shop and sell them to us. We can find beef, chicken, pork, lamb, and vegetarian, along with a variety of herbs and spice mixes that create lots of variety for our barbecues, etc. Even Bunnings uses butcher-made sausages! Did you notice her cutlery etiquette? It’s the same as in Britain and Australia.
Out of all those foods, I ate: Pasteis de nata Bifanas Francesinha Prego Chorizo na braza(burned with alcohol) I live in Portugal, 40 to 50 min away from Lisbon My fav dish is called Bacalhau com Natas. Hope you can enjoy the good food someday.
Portuguese food is one of the best in the world. Very rich and diverse. Meat, fish and candy. I lived outside Portugal and what i missed more is the food.
I'm from Porto. I've been in all places except Tapas&Friends, but I took the bus and the tram from a stop nearby. There's a lot to eat and taste, including cuisine from other countries like Spain, Italy, Mexico, Venezuela, India, Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, North America, Brazil, Argentina and many others, as well as plenty of bread, pastries and even ice cream! If you ever visit Porto, please give us a shotout and let's have a nice meal 😉
funny - that bread - is actually Hamburger - pastry taken into US from Hamburg (of course not this particular, but as style of pastry known in US) -and now, hamburger/burger is pre-chewed piece of meat - that is how words are created
The pastel de Belém is literally considered the best pastry in the world by Taste Atlas with 4.9 stars out of 5. The second? Pastel de nata, a variation of the pastel de Belém 😂
Porto is one of the most beautiful cities in portugal. And not just because of the arquitecture, what makes it so special is mostly the people. The north is so welcoming that you feel like you are n a big village ( lisbon is very beautiful as well but lacks the good mood and hapiness of the north). It's so easy to just start walking and before you know it you've walked the entire city. The food is simply amazing as all food the in Portugal (underrated and unknown) And! It has the most beautiful football (soccer) stadium of Portugal: estadio do dragão or dragon's stadium Its a city placed at the end of one of the biggest rivers and because of that you have so many bridges and beautiful ones as well. View over the river and over the Atlantic ocean. Suberb wine from the region and amazing cultural places and gardens. If you ever decide to visit Porto (there's an airport so you dont have to go through Lisbon) try to visit the rest of the north because it's a life changing experience ( even for a Portuguese person myself)
Lots of vegetarians order those Vegetarian Francesinhas because of the sauce.. which is made with meats and bones simmering... but anyway the sauce is great so any spot will have different meats, sometimes really simple but as along as the sauce is good its great.
You can get Portuguese food in the US where Portuguese immigrants have settled. Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Jersey have large Portuguese communities.
You would need a whole series just to cover some of the Portuguese gastronomy. We have a cookbook called Pantagruel that is 240x170 mm (A4 is 210 x 297 mm) with 878 pages, and it still doesn't cover everything.
I laughed a lot at this couple's visit to Poland in the cities of Krakow and Wroclaw . They gave me a taste for food, so I'm going to cut myself some Polish cheesecake for tonight's dessert 😁
We can get portugues egg custard tarts in Australia, but they’re much smaller than our own sty9e and at least twice the price. However they’re delicious!
I’m sorry but francesinha is the best food. I know I’m Portuguese but I live in Italy and I can not wait to go back to my countries food. Not only francesinha, but the variety of the Portuguese food is amazing!! And my mama’s food😭 I can’t wait to go back for Christmas
Dude, there are vast differences between an oyster from Wal-Mart and an oyster on a small row boat you took to the mussel fields of the farmer who took you there in Croatia in Mali Ston and he opens the fresh oyster in front of you, so you can eat it. These two oysters are like heaven and hell difference, my friend. The fresh ones are as different to the store ones like bananas to strawberries.
@IWrockwer if you visit Porto some day on your life, i will be your free guide to this INVICTA city of Porto. Francesinha, once you put in your mouth, you would want to eat it all, my francesinha sauce has 26 different ingredients, with the "company" of a SUPER BOCK beer. About fish, trying a grilled seabass, you would be amazed. Thank you for the video
There are a lot of portuguese communities in the U.S, specially in the Este coast. So although it might not be the very same but... you could have a taste of portuguese cuisine. Yay Portugal 👍
In Portugal we love good food, long lunches with friends and family, for a small country, we have a lot of execent food. Try to see this one: ruclips.net/video/cHPEURJ0lMA/видео.html , "20 best portuguese foods to try", by a Danish couple. Love your videos by the way...
Dude, I bet a fortune on you being absolutely stunned by some simple stuff like a Brezel from a Swabian bakery or a Croissant from Lyon/France in the early mornings...some bakery goods from some place in Palermo/Sicilly/Italy.
Whenever I've ventured outside Europe, it's always the bread I've ended up missing... Guess it's just been our obsession since roman times... we like bread with taste and chew.
The US has received a lot of Portuguese migrants over the decades so there should be restaurants and bakeries run by Portuguese people, just unsure if they are in the Chicago area. I think they have gone mostly for NY and California but pretty sure they are scattered around. There isn't a country where you won't find a Portuguese, we are everywhere 😆 and if there is a thing we like to do is share good food with everybody.
Inspite of having finished dinner of Hungarian Goulash, home cooked, only about a hour ago, this video leaves me hungry again for some of those dishes. Though it would likely be a problem of being too full already.😮❤❤❤
Just got back from porto 2 days ago and had it all.cachorros,francesinha and natas(every day),Jesus i want to go back right now i just got 5 kilos in 15 days so u can imagine how much i hate lol$
As a portuguese sub i can tell you caldo verde doesn't take chicken stock. Fish here usually is grilled , garlic, slat and 🫒 oil on top with a salad. Prego its a snack and not a meal. Like a cheeseburger. The orange.drink is sangria. Pica pau it's a snack to share with friends while watching a ⚽ match. If u came to Portugal,buzz me . IL take u out for a 🍺 and to see some different cars and trucks!!! Best to u!! PS. Unlike races. Check out BTCC !!!! Best racing series ever
Not the real portuguese food. Theses peoples are going foreigners places. As you can see, there is no portuguese peoples eating here. Go Fado restaurant or go country side and ask for a coffee and a aguardente ! :o)
Portugal has the best food in the world in my opinion period
Portuguese cuisine influenced the world. You can find remnants of it on almost every continent. Salted cod found everywhere, piri-piri chicken ( like nandos) , to chicken vindaloo, egg tarts in Asia, tempura in japan, Hawaiian sweet rolls and Malasadas, and fish and chips as some examples.
Portugal took samusas to India and tempura to Japan, is very underrated country in terms of food
Verdade verdadinha eheheh
In the case of "chamuças", I think it was the other way round: the Portuguese *brought* them from India. What we did take to India was "vindalo" (original: "vinha d'alhos").
@@GazilionPT nop, we introduced Samusas in India.
An Australian MasterChef judge described a Portuguese dish as "looking so simple but being so complex" and I think that describes pretty well the whole Portuguese cuisine. I've seen some reactors think some of our dishes are expensive dishes you'll eat for a family dinner once in a blue moon, but all of the dishes on that video, mainly the seafood ones, were just regular dishes you'd cook on a weekday evening. I think one of the most beautiful things about Portuguese cuisine is that most of our best dishes were created by farmers or fishers or other people without many possessions in medieval times, using only basic ingredients they could afford at the time, so now we have this rich history all over the country where each town you go to has a wildly different cuisine from the town a few miles away, some even rooted in legends and historical events.
Alheira, for example, which is a type of sausage made from chicken, bread, and spices, which is also often grilled on liquor like the chorizo shown in the video, was supposedly invented by Jews who pretended to have converted to Christianism to avoid persecution during the Portuguese Inquisition. Given the fact that eating pork was forbidden for them, having no pork in your home was a giveaway that you were probably Jew, so these sausages were great at resembling pork sausages and not draw any suspicions, or so the legend says. The original recipe for Pastéis de Nata, which you can buy at Pastéis de Belém in Lisbon, is said to only be known by three people who never travel or eat together to avoid an accident or food poisoning from making the recipe lost forever. While highly unlikely, given that the workers must know the recipe to produce it, it's nowhere near as wild as the Galo de Barcelos origin history, where a dead rooster on a plate came to life to prove a man hadn't committed a crime he was accused of.
While these are mostly legends or embellished facts, there's a whole form of pastry cuisine, Doçaria Conventual, which originated from nuns making tons of different pastry recipes using egg yolks, lots of sugar, and nuts, mainly almonds, from the times Portuguese convents were part of the largest exports of eggs in Europe and we had more yolks than what we knew what to do with, given that only the whites were exported, mostly for wine production and ironing clothes (those were some wildly different times). It is so spread out across our country, culture, and history, that it is an actual course you can take at universities and culinary schools, almost like its own field of study.
Pasteis de nata is genuinely in my top 5 of the best things i have ever eaten in my life. And being italian, i've eaten a lot of good stuff.
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece... That entire Mediterranean belt has some of the finest food in the world!! But then I'm biased, beibg from Spain 🤣🤣
@@hyzenthlay7151 Naaa, you're not biased, you are speaking facts! Also the other side of the Merditerranean sea has kickass cuisine! Moroccan food? Yes please!
You need to try “travesseiros de Sintra da Piriquita” while they’re still hot. Infinite better than pastéis de Belém (pastéis de nata).
Also try “queijadas de Sintra da Casa do Preto” and “pastéis de feijão de Torres Vedras”.
@@miki1510 I have little experience with morrocan food, but what I have tried was very tasty, especially a proper home made couscous I had with a morrocan family!!
Since when, Portugal has an Mediterranean coast...?@@hyzenthlay7151
Portugal, with more than 4 million km2 of maritime areas, is the largest coastal state in the EU and also one of the largest in the world. If we consider only the terrestrial territory, Portugal is a relatively small country, with just over 92,000 km2. However, considering its maritime dimension, Portugal is one of the largest countries in the world. With the extension of the continental platform, we will have a country with almost 4 million km2, where the marine territory is 40 times larger than the terrestrial one... so yes indeed, we eat a lot of fish.
My father is from Plasencia, in the Extremadura region of Spain, which borders with Portugal, and that part of the Iberian peninsula is definitely a meat eater's paradise on both sides of the border. Both countries have very similar, and at the same time very different cuisine. And of course, a beautiful part of the world to see!!
same with the baltics,, in bulgaria and turkey some form of multi meat dish is like half of what people eat haha. Wed alwasy get these huge boards of spiral sausages, pork chops, doner meat etc
The bread in Portugal is awesome. Pão de Mafra, pão alentejano, pão da avó, pão de lenha, pão de Rio Maior, etc.
If you like bread, you’ll have to try it in Portugal.
Portugal, some of the best food and friendliest people you would ever hope to meet👍👍
Also in Portugal they eat more fish and seafood than just about anywhere else in the world, fresh and delicious.
Also you may very well have tried Portuguese food without knowing it, check out "How Americans Eat Portuguese Food EVERYDAY (Without Knowing)"
You haven't been to Dalmatia, have you?
Seafood? Yes!!!
@@Kivas_Fajo What can I say, apparently the Portuguese eat three times as much seafood per person than Croatians do but I’m sure it’s delicious
Believe, unless you're full already, eating a whole francesinha is no trouble. I'm not a big eater and I have no trouble finishing one plus a side of fries. In fact, one of that dishes' problems is it's slightly addicting!
Salutations from Porto!
you have to come here to Portugal and try our cuisine! I can tell you that you will love all of it! because all Portuguese cuisine is fantastic! 12:13
One quick comment - we don't usually use chicken stock (nor any sort of fish or meat stocks) in our soups. Just plain water. However, we do strive to extract as much flavour as possible from every single ingredient. Our food tends to be hearty and confort food, but trying to celebrate each ingredient instead of covering it. That's the reason why you won't find a ton of side sauces and salsas in Portugal, nor you'll find that we add sugar and a bunch of other stuff in our food.
I am almost 100% sure that you would not split a "francesinha" it in two and share it with someone else. You would eat it all and cry for more, just like we all do here. lol
I see the word Portugal I click!
And I love that I'm watching her eat a vegetarian version of a Francesinha while I'm literally eating a hot dog version with the cheese and beer sauce and fries right now 🤣
Also wanted to add a fun fact about the Bifanas: when there is local fooball/soccer matches from small clubs, there is always a giant pot in the bar with bifanas in the sauce (not unlike the one that they showed in this video at 2:15) and plenty of beer of course XD. There is almost always 2/3 people working there: one cutting the bread in half, another stirring the pot and putting it on the bread, and one pouring the beer into plastic cups. There is always people eating bifanas no pão and drinking beer and in the half-time, even the players go and eat XD (at least from what I remember...I don't know about now but I imagine that it hasn't changed much :P)
vegetarian version of a Francesinha should be considered a crime, foda-se....
I feel you would had a great time in Portugal , their food is amazing , and the country is so beautiful and peaceful... Try it if you can ...
Well Ian... Learn something else more from us. 😁
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When it come's to food, you usualy think french cuisine, italian food etc, but imo, Portugese food is so underrated.
It's usually really simple food with good quality indredients and very, very generous portions.
PS: pro tips for normal people just ask "meia dosa" . Same dish but less quantity.
"dose"* It's the same as english. Means half dose.
The guy from the video, the couple, is also a huge fan of German sausages and has plenty of visiting Germany videos where he indulges in sausages all day long. Worth watching!
2:44 - Every other european country always rave about their bread being the best. Meanwhile the portuguese bread is a somewhat well-kept secret. 😉
9:17 - Wow Ian, who would've thought that you, as an american, would one day say "yeah, I wouldn't want to eat that whole thing" for something that's considered "bite-size" compared to the portions they serve in the US? 😄
12:20 - Portugal is the top seafood consumer per capita in Europe - and usually ranks in the top 4 worldwide - so if our seafood wasn't good we wouldn't be. Think about that.
15:15 - Search on Yelp or Trip Advisor for Portuguese restaurants in Chicago and you'll find many.
I love fish, but even if it's not your favourite I think you'd struggle not to find a fish dish you like in Portugal (the British favourite fish 'n' chips was introduced to us from Portugal, as was marmalade, and tea drinking), and it's always nice to eat fish on the shore of the sea where they caught it.
The British mostly borrowed food from the countries we colonised, but the Portuguese were great exporters of dishes and cooking methods, such as the Indian curry style vindaloo, hot pepper sauce piri piri, and Japanese tempura.
This video didn't say much about the traditional dessert pastel de nata, but if you're down in Lisbon the most famous place to buy it is the Fábrica de Pastéis de Belém, which is worth a visit for the beautiful decoration of the building alone, with its traditional ceramic tiles inside and out. Don't be put off by the long queue of tourists outside, it moves quickly and the pastries are worth waiting for.
Pastel de nata and Pastel de Belem are not the same thing. One has just egg and maze/corn starch. The other has milk cream although more and more bakeries and pastry shops are imitating the Pastel de Belem and no longer serve Pastel de Nata.
I have visited Portugal 4 times over the years and have some friends from Portugal. Portuguese food really isn't bad stuff! Grilled Sardines (and the way of eating them) are not my cup of tea. Also the national fish Bacalhau, is not for everyone. But in general, Portuguese seafood is really great. The meat dishes (especially flambéed skewers) are really great. The desserts, particularly sweet bits and cakes, are far too sweet for me and are only surpassed by Turkish and Arabic stuff. Bolos, of course, should be sweet. But the same applies to the use of sugar as to everything else, there is use and abuse. Unfortunately, Portuguese bread is, first and foremost, white wheat bread. But given the possibilities that wheat offers as a raw material, the Portuguese bakers are doing a good job. What might also be worth mentioning is that the Portuguese (in contrast to some other European nations) know how to brew a decent beer. Superbock and Sagres beers are ubiquitous and really not overpriced. All in all, one can say that Portuguese cuisine is really very good. And if you should really be on the road there, then take a break in one of the long-distance driver's bars. The food there(which has always been affordable) is not expensive and with a bit of luck you will have an elderly lady in her 60s in the kitchen who will cook you just as well as she would cook for her grandson...
My insider tip: Lulas fritas
If all you've ever known is these chewy, breaded squid rings, this dish will take you the other way... 😃
Lol...the thing with superbock vs sagres is almost a region dispute here in Portugal. Generally seems like SuperBock is more famous and tastier. SuperBock is from the north and Sagres from the south. I also heard that we do some nice artesanal beers.
@@jvam16 😀
12:41 The Portuguese word is actually "chouriço". "Chorizo" is Spanish.
Many thanks for choosing the video i recomended.
Hope you see more of the videos of Portugal, its a very underated country unfortunally and am proud people learn about this awesome country i live in.
Also you could eat an whole Francesinha, the trick is to only eat the sandwich first them the potatoes... and of course no entry courses, only the main meal.
And a "pro" tip, the francesinha is eaten from the corners, like small triangles, its the best way to eat it without messing it up and make the tower go down.
@IWroker you got a Portugal restaurant near you called "Nando's PERi-PERi"
Nando's is near Portuguese cuisine (kind of fast food version) but differs from one another to suit costumer's taste. The only way to check Portuguese cuisine is to eat at a 'regular portuguese costumer's restaurant' far from turist's areas.
@@vcarvalho193 i know, it's only the chicken with the piri piri sauce. But it's a start... Also in America the ingredients aren't as fresh has here...
If it was NY or long island, I know there's very broad Portuguese cuisine restaurants, seem them several times in RUclips.
True bro, it’s always Italy, Spain and Greece, we are always forgotten. Portugal ist so damn nice. But it’s also okay this way, so Portugal is not overflowing with tourists compared to the other three. No light without shadow 😀
Thank you for your great videos. I'm portuguese, and despite being a small country, Portugal has a huge variety of meat/fish-based cuisine, from North to South, East to West. You are very welcome to visit us and have one of the best gastronomic experiences in the world. Mind you, it will include sweet and savory food.
i have had many holidays in Portugal and i can assure people that whether you are looking for meat, veg or seafood they know what they are doing...depending on where you go you may find more of some things than the other...like where i used to holiday it was more coastal so seafood was plentiful but i love that so works for me. i'm sure inland they are more versatile and some of their best desserts are quite infamous even outside the country nowadays...you can them in EU or UK.
yes, respect my country 🇵🇹, and the food around the world 🌍
Great food in Portugal and Porto is one of the best places to try seafood
They do sell Portuguese custard tarts in some bakeries and even some supermarkets over here the UK, only I've never seen nor tried them - and I'm a massive fan of custard tarts!
u should try the ones from where the recipe comes, the original ones :)
@@lm4122 I haven't got a passport, otherwise I'd be on a flight over there in a heartbeat.
Thank brexit for that.
@@chrisperyaghin London you have a very nice portuguese cafe with its own bakery the name is cafe de nata ,and in almost every city in the UK there is Portuguese products including coffees and and snacks
@@lm4122 totally agree!! Specially as a Portuguese citizen but in London there is a really good place called cafe de nata ,and they have their own bakery in the back the owners are Portuguese specially chef Lucio the owner is also a baker and a kitchen chef and a high rank military person
I'm from the South of Portugal.
I once spent a couple of weeks in Porto recording an album and when I got home I had gained 5Kg.
You eat well in Portugal, all across the board, but in the North is just brutal.
If you want some Portuguese food come to fall river Massachusetts its basically little portugal
in USA you have Newark NJ have alot portuguese restaurants, pastry shop..
That 1st place they showed (A Conga) is the best place to have the Bifana.
If you ever come to Portugal (especially to Porto), you have to try the Francesinha (minute 6:50). I can't eat a whole Francesinha, but most people here can.
If you ever come here, yes, try the fish, especially in the coastline towns. It's top-quality!
Thanks for the video!
@IWrocker I know it is not close to the Chicago area, but if you end up going to New York one of this days, you should stop by Newark, NJ. It is know as Little Portugal in America, biggest Portuguese community and lots of restaurants...
You would love our sea food, believe me. I would say that one of the best "bacalhau" (codfish) dishes i prefer the most are this one: Bacalhau com natas. And if you go to Porto you need to eat a Francesinha, but francesinhas are all over the country, it's something that a lot of us eat, maybe more famous in the north tho.
I don't know where this guys are eating Bifanas and Pregos, but i'll explain you better, they are a sandwich with just bread and meat, you had cheese, ham or even a fried egg if you want ( its not common), they had it nowadays just to make people spend more money, if you want to eat a really good Bifana or Prego just had a bit of Mustard and you will come here thanking me, your welcome xD
I know you somewhere mentioned you were a delivery guy. I am too and portuguese. Best advice here is to stay out of higways and when you find a restaurant eith alot of trucks, stop and eat there.
I spent 3 months in Cascais a while ago, and there is a place there with crazy delicious charcoal barbequed chicken. All the locals where queing for it. If I was handing out awards for food, they would get most of them. Also, the fish (sardines?) festival dished out some nice food, though nothing like that heavenly chicken. It was a very pleasant stay, especially because of the food.
Come to Portugal and go to Setúbal,lisbon,porto , Alentejo,vendas novas those are the places whit some of the best food of Portugal
Portugal. The country where you can find a typical historic desert in every town you go, that doesn't exist nowhere else in the country or, obviously, the globe. And let me tell you I haven't even once tried a bad one. As a 44 years old Portuguese I haven't even tried half of our dishes.
Seafood in Portugal is amazingly fresh
Tasty and doesn't taste fishy due to ots freshness
Portuguese food is fresh simple and full of flavour....
Love it
Live it...
Oh yeah, you will eat real good in Portugal. Not complicated but so full of flavour. Its like eating homemade food everywhere.👍✌
Portugal is well worth a long visit. And a couple of days at least in Lisboa is a must. But do get a rental and drive around. You want regret it. Oh, do not forget to try the Portuguese wines, all 4 types. (Red, White, Port and Green)
Naaaah mate. Francesinha it's one of the best things o ate. It's sooooooo gooooood! And you would eat all of it, even if you think you wouldn't
I go to spain at least once every year (not 2021), but people hyped up portugal.. and. Let me tell you they was right. Portugal is a freqking amazing destination. Its easy and simple. Its cheap. They have loads of great nature and cities.. while a lot of spanish desrination is sort of one trick ponies......
.... but that trick is kind of good.
You want a wide experiance. Portugal is the place. Its like nowhere else in europe (and people understand english)
To be fair. Iberian penisula use to be.. well more or less, 4 countries. 3 of them is today spain. And one part of spain is very diffrent from a other. Still. Portugal is much mure pur
as a portuguese i love galiza somehow i feel at home there and i love the caldo galego, its similiar of caldo verde but more meat flavor heavy
Please dont call "Francesinha" a sandwich.. it's so much more than that.. it's a work of art
Ian, I’ve never seen Americans eat sausages, only hot dogs. Do you even have butchers in America? In Australia, our butchers make a variety of sausages in their shop and sell them to us. We can find beef, chicken, pork, lamb, and vegetarian, along with a variety of herbs and spice mixes that create lots of variety for our barbecues, etc. Even Bunnings uses butcher-made sausages! Did you notice her cutlery etiquette? It’s the same as in Britain and Australia.
Out of all those foods, I ate:
Pasteis de nata
Bifanas
Francesinha
Prego
Chorizo na braza(burned with alcohol)
I live in Portugal, 40 to 50 min away from Lisbon
My fav dish is called Bacalhau com Natas.
Hope you can enjoy the good food someday.
Portuguese food is one of the best in the world. Very rich and diverse.
Meat, fish and candy.
I lived outside Portugal and what i missed more is the food.
I'm from Porto. I've been in all places except Tapas&Friends, but I took the bus and the tram from a stop nearby. There's a lot to eat and taste, including cuisine from other countries like Spain, Italy, Mexico, Venezuela, India, Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, North America, Brazil, Argentina and many others, as well as plenty of bread, pastries and even ice cream! If you ever visit Porto, please give us a shotout and let's have a nice meal 😉
funny - that bread - is actually Hamburger - pastry taken into US from Hamburg (of course not this particular, but as style of pastry known in US)
-and now, hamburger/burger is pre-chewed piece of meat - that is how words are created
The pastel de Belém is literally considered the best pastry in the world by Taste Atlas with 4.9 stars out of 5. The second? Pastel de nata, a variation of the pastel de Belém 😂
Porto is one of the most beautiful cities in portugal. And not just because of the arquitecture, what makes it so special is mostly the people. The north is so welcoming that you feel like you are n a big village ( lisbon is very beautiful as well but lacks the good mood and hapiness of the north).
It's so easy to just start walking and before you know it you've walked the entire city. The food is simply amazing as all food the in Portugal (underrated and unknown)
And! It has the most beautiful football (soccer) stadium of Portugal: estadio do dragão or dragon's stadium
Its a city placed at the end of one of the biggest rivers and because of that you have so many bridges and beautiful ones as well. View over the river and over the Atlantic ocean. Suberb wine from the region and amazing cultural places and gardens.
If you ever decide to visit Porto (there's an airport so you dont have to go through Lisbon) try to visit the rest of the north because it's a life changing experience ( even for a Portuguese person myself)
You can go to New Jersey there is a big portuguese comunity where you could try everithing.
Lots of vegetarians order those Vegetarian Francesinhas because of the sauce.. which is made with meats and bones simmering... but anyway the sauce is great so any spot will have different meats, sometimes really simple but as along as the sauce is good its great.
You can get Portuguese food in the US where Portuguese immigrants have settled. Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Jersey have large Portuguese communities.
If you ever get to Portugal and try a Cataplana - a pork & seafood stew.
Aqui neste video nao viram a comida tradicional portuguesa que isso sim é incrivelmente saborosa. E acompanhar com um bom vinho
13:00 ou can do it at home. Same nice meat chourico and same alcohol /rum/cheap whisky/ etc...
Pica-Pau its Wood -Pecker in English,its a mix of different meats,olives and pickles!
You would need a whole series just to cover some of the Portuguese gastronomy. We have a cookbook called Pantagruel that is 240x170 mm (A4 is 210 x 297 mm) with 878 pages, and it still doesn't cover everything.
I laughed a lot at this couple's visit to Poland in the cities of Krakow and Wroclaw . They gave me a taste for food, so I'm going to cut myself some Polish cheesecake for tonight's dessert 😁
You need to came here to eat and watch the Rallye de Portugal!
Great
Nice vídeo ❤🇵🇹👌
We can get portugues egg custard tarts in Australia, but they’re much smaller than our own sty9e and at least twice the price. However they’re delicious!
Same in UK...deelish 👍🇵🇹🇬🇧
Believe me. If you start eating a Francesinha, you would end it and ask for more. Its that damn good.
We have a saying that goes: "There are a thousand ways to cook cod", so...
Right about the bread.
I’m sorry but francesinha is the best food. I know I’m Portuguese but I live in Italy and I can not wait to go back to my countries food. Not only francesinha, but the variety of the Portuguese food is amazing!! And my mama’s food😭 I can’t wait to go back for Christmas
You def need to do a Brazilian version of this video!
Greetings from Porto :) I live very close to all those place here in Porto. Come here and I`ll take you to all of them :D
Believe in me: you will eat the entire Francesinha😊
What a coincidence. I happen to eat Portuguese food every day :D
Dude, there are vast differences between an oyster from Wal-Mart and an oyster on a small row boat you took to the mussel fields of the farmer who took you there in Croatia in Mali Ston and he opens the fresh oyster in front of you, so you can eat it.
These two oysters are like heaven and hell difference, my friend.
The fresh ones are as different to the store ones like bananas to strawberries.
I am living in Porto due to work and I definitely need to keep out of restaurants and coffee shops...
Yeh chorizo sausage is the best tasting sausage on the planet and I'm an Australian thanks to the Spanish for a great creation
@IWrockwer if you visit Porto some day on your life, i will be your free guide to this INVICTA city of Porto. Francesinha, once you put in your mouth, you would want to eat it all, my francesinha sauce has 26 different ingredients, with the "company" of a SUPER BOCK beer. About fish, trying a grilled seabass, you would be amazed. Thank you for the video
There are a lot of portuguese communities in the U.S, specially in the Este coast. So although it might not be the very same but... you could have a taste of portuguese cuisine. Yay Portugal 👍
In Portugal we love good food, long lunches with friends and family, for a small country, we have a lot of execent food. Try to see this one: ruclips.net/video/cHPEURJ0lMA/видео.html , "20 best portuguese foods to try", by a Danish couple.
Love your videos by the way...
Did you know that there is Australian truck simulator on steam although it is unreleased. It is called "Truck World Australia"
Bread in Portugal is just diferent.
Dude, I bet a fortune on you being absolutely stunned by some simple stuff like a Brezel from a Swabian bakery or a Croissant from Lyon/France in the early mornings...some bakery goods from some place in Palermo/Sicilly/Italy.
I live in Nz and ive heard alot about the Chicago Dog definitely a bucket list eat.
Whenever I've ventured outside Europe, it's always the bread I've ended up missing...
Guess it's just been our obsession since roman times... we like bread with taste and chew.
The US has received a lot of Portuguese migrants over the decades so there should be restaurants and bakeries run by Portuguese people, just unsure if they are in the Chicago area. I think they have gone mostly for NY and California but pretty sure they are scattered around. There isn't a country where you won't find a Portuguese, we are everywhere 😆 and if there is a thing we like to do is share good food with everybody.
New England has the most Portuguese communities. Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut have more Portuguese immigrants than all of California.
Migrants or immigrants?
Inspite of having finished dinner of Hungarian Goulash, home cooked, only about a hour ago, this video leaves me hungry again for some of those dishes. Though it would likely be a problem of being too full already.😮❤❤❤
My in laws are Portuguese. The little custards are so good.
Petiscos - the Portuguese word that was switched for "tapas" at 11:50.
If you want to taste good Portuguese food in the USA, do visit Newark
The orange drink is an Aperol Spritz...a summer drink in Europe's places...
It's this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spritz_(cocktail)
Caviar, oysters natural not my thing, oysters Kilpatrick however yum!!
Just got back from porto 2 days ago and had it all.cachorros,francesinha and natas(every day),Jesus i want to go back right now i just got 5 kilos in 15 days so u can imagine how much i hate lol$
Ah yes pasteisde nata. Many an unsuspecting tourist has lost his soul to Portugal thanks to these babies.
13:36 i would assume its aperol spritz
As a portuguese sub i can tell you caldo verde doesn't take chicken stock.
Fish here usually is grilled , garlic, slat and 🫒 oil on top with a salad.
Prego its a snack and not a meal. Like a cheeseburger.
The orange.drink is sangria.
Pica pau it's a snack to share with friends while watching a ⚽ match.
If u came to Portugal,buzz me . IL take u out for a 🍺 and to see some different cars and trucks!!! Best to u!!
PS. Unlike races. Check out BTCC !!!! Best racing series ever
Surely you can find some Portuguese food in Chicago
Not the real portuguese food. Theses peoples are going foreigners places. As you can see, there is no portuguese peoples eating here. Go Fado restaurant or go country side and ask for a coffee and a aguardente ! :o)
Francesinha is amazing
Orange drink probably sangria the other one might be water
IWrocker - if you ever visit Porto, ping me in a comment, as I am local, and it would be my pleasure to guide you arround the city. Cheers.
The orange drink most likely is "Aperol spritz" :)