Many youtubers speak fastly so lots of people who are not really good at English like me sometimes get hard to follow and understand all what they say, but Mark is not. He knows how to keep the presentation at a medium speed so that watchers can afford to get it easily.
I remember growing up in Queens, NYC my Grandmother & Grandfather (on my dad side ) lived upstairs from us, they were from Sicily in the mid 60's Grandma would on holidays like Christmas & Easter would make a 20-course meal from antipasto, soup, 3 or 4 Fish dishes (Baccala was one of them (mixed in with a tomato sauce with the pasta, Yum), 2 types of Pasta, & 4 -5 different types of meat dishes of beef, pork, chicken, rabbit or whatever the butcher had on hand. I'm 64 now but I miss that. After I was married I moved my family up to NH (in 1982), (my daughters were 4 1/2 and 1 1/2 years old). We used to live in the Seacoast area of NH not too far from Portsmouth, NH, and Kittery, ME. I used to take the kids down to the fishing docks in Portsmouth and buy directly from the boat captains I could get 3-4# Lobsters (for $2.00/#), Crabs, buy a 12-15# whole fresh Atlantic Salmon (sometimes I get a female with the roe sac intact inside and I would make my own salmon egg sushi & gravlax) Codfish, Bluefish, Steamer clams by the bushel, & during the Shrimp season I could get med size Maine sweet shrimp some still had roe sacs on them. I miss those times. my two daughters still live there.
Heyyy Mark, I'm portuguese and I saw everyday you videos.. I want to do something like this,.. Nice to see you eating food in my country.. Best regards .
The man who was sitting by your side at the restaurant teaching you how to eat the cod fish is one of the best researchers and college professors of Lisbon :O
Olive oil is excellent & will not kill you. On the contrary! If we think of duck fat, ghee, pure butter, lard etc; these are the true health risk oils/fats.@@rubencampos6136
Your facial expressions when eating are legendary. Having worked in over 70 countries and tried all their cuisines I can honestly say very few come close to Portuguese food. Not only is it extremely healthy but you can eat it everyday without feeling bloated. The Portuguese are very spoiled when it comes to food..
if you love seafood, you'll enjoy your culinary experience in Portugal..but the Portuguese also make great bread, pastries, olive oil, olives, cheeses, cured hams, sausages, rice dishes...
Mad respect for Portugal, and Lisboa in particular, homeland of the giant of the mind Fernando Pessoa. Cheers from Italy, I hope I can visit Rua dos douradores and the Café A Brasileira one day.
After my country Peru, Portugal has the best gastronomy i tasted...my god, i have eaten all, everything , and the people is very very friendly and kind, i was in Porto, Faro and Lisboa... i loved it Portugal....
Que aburrida me tienen con mi comida es mejor que la tuya. Soy cubana y mi comida NO ES NI REMOTAMENTE LA MEJOR. Soy la única honesta. He comido peruana, buena y mala que la he dejado en el plato. He comido portugués, que al otro día si me preguntan, no recuerdo que comí. He comido en Rusia, en Turquía, en Israel, riquísimo genuino mediterráneo. Italia es #1 Que aburrida de verdad.
Ana Irene Martinez 👏👏😭😭 Que Carajo estas hablando?! Cuba no tiene gastronomía mi amor, no sabes de gastronomía te falta mucho, tu mente es chiquita como la saya de cuba, estas en la calle, mejor ponte a hacer limonada... ni limonada sabes🤫🤫😂😂
Sou brasileira e adoro comida portuguesa. No Brasil, em geral conhecemos relativamente pouco da comida portuguesa para além do bacalhau, do caldo verde e do cozido. A comida típica de Cabo Verde, São Tomé, Angola e Moçambique, a África que fala português, também é pouco conhecida. Na verdade conhecemos os pratos, mas não sabemos a origem. Eu sei que a moqueca é na verdade angolana, e isso é muito engraçado, pois no Brasil há uma disputa entre capixabas e baianos sobre quem inventou a moqueca. O Caruru também é na verdade angolano. O Pirão é moçambicano. E a feijoada, o mais brasileiros dos pratos, é na verdade portuguesa.
@@diogonascimento7720 O que estou dizendo é que no Brasil não conhecemos muito mais que isso quando se fala em comida portuguesa. Por exemplo, a parte de frutos do mar e pescados que a série do Mark Wiens mostra em Portugal, não é muito conhecida no Brasil. Ou ainda é uma outra situação, o prato é de origem portuguesa ou da África Lusófona, as pessoas conhecem o prato no Brasil, mas não sabem a origem.
A culinária portuguesa aqui no Brasil ainda é muito preservada no Rio de Janeiro, onde há família tradicionalmente portuguesas e armazéns em que os donos portugueses trazem os ingredientes direto de Portugal todo natal.
@@Nat.ali.a Os armazéns vendem produtos de Portugal como sardinhas na conserva, azeites, queijos, embutidos, etc. Alguns botecos tradicionais vendem petiscos portugueses nos acepipes e bolinhos de bacalhau. Mas não tem grande variedade não.
Im doing my family tree, and found out that while i always knew my grandma on my dad's side is mexican, i just found out my grandad, Frank, his parents are from Portugal. So im learning about Portugal😊 and the food (I LOVE foreign cuisine, and i always found the best way to learn about a culture is by its food -- thats how I came to love Ethiopian cuisine)😀💖 That said, your ebthusiasm makes me want to get my passport and make a spontaneous trip to Portugal😀
Eating at restaurants with communal tables as a tourist in a foreign country has always been a great experience. The locals are always friendly and eager to help tourists with the menu, make suggestions etc. It always enhances the experience to know what to order and how to eat it.
Good old days... no social distancing, no masks, no sanitizer. Busy places, crowded streets, all restaurants full of people. Now we live in a never ending desert.
I lived in Lisboa in 2011/2012. Esta video me lembras de todas de cozinha maravilhosa. So glad you enjoyed yourself, Mark! And yes -- the coffee is so underrated! My Portuguese ex-husband used to say there were three things Portuguese worshipped: coffee, football, and beer, and not in that order.
Mark, we grew up with Bacalao fritters, but sometimes we didn't have the fish (We grew up relatively poor) so we just made the fritters as best we could with flour, salt, pepper, adobo and sazon (Some spanish seasonings.) and we just fried them in oil, we lovingly called them bacalaitos lol.
undo.kat bullshit Our pork is one of the best in the world (according to Bourdain the second best in the world and that man knows his pork) and so is our charcoal chicken with piri piri. Our bread and pastries are also some of the best in the world and things like tempura were invented by us. Our cheeses are awesome (Castelo Branco/ Serra da estrela/Açores) and have won countless awards in europe and so is our presunto. Francesinha is considered one of the best sandwiches in the world and we also have some of the best wines in the world (Porto and Madeira) and yes some of the best seafood oh and José Avillez just won best chef of the year award. Don't talk about things you know nothing about.
No, I mean considered one of the best sandwiches in the world by many www.shortlist.com/news/the-worlds-10-best-sandwiches/39073 and is a portuguese dish no matter what you say and here is another portuguese sandwich: bifana www.traveller.com.au/the-worlds-greatest-sandwiches-and-where-to-eat-them-gzp0ag. Heart strokes? We have a mediterrean diet which is just considered to be the healthiest in the world so don't worry if we indulge ourselves once or twice a month getjaunty.com/2017/09/07/portuguese-cuisine-perks-of-a-mediterranean-diet/ . Porto and Madeira wine are used in cooking all over the world by the BEST chefs in the planet due to their quality and are some of the best fortified wines in the world. What you suppose is meaningless considering that these wines are worldwide brands. Fish markets smell like fish? Who would have thought captain obvious! If you think that staying in Portugal for a few days gives you a good idea of our cuisine you're sadly mistaken and this is true for every country in the world. You need to come to Alentejo to experience the best portuguese food, not Lisboa or Porto and you need to come to the interior or north to experience the best cheeses and some of the best cured meats you'll ever eat.
See? That's how clueless you are. www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/02/mediterranean-diet-obesity-health-way-of-eating "In 2013, Unesco listed the Mediterranean diet as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity in Cyprus, Croatia, Spain, Greece, Italy, Morocco and Portugal."
I had the best time of my life in Lisbon and so its REALLY calming to watch this video from you. Its so nice and authentic! It's like being there again :)
I quite agree. The food is wonderful, Lisbon is wonderful and the rest of Portugal is wonderful too. And I've been around a bit . Sometimes I stayed for two months.Portuguese people are bloody great, especially if you try to speak Portuguese. My vocabulary consists of 10 words, but I do know the seafood words.
I think Portugal is the best tour of Mark in Europe so far. It's no coincidence since Portugal has, along with Spain and Italy the best cuisines in Europe.
Actually, all of Europe has the best food, every individual country. Most of these are very old countries with rich history, well refined culinary techniques that took centuries to perfect, and many of these countries were explorers at some point, so they enriched their own culinary traditions with ingredients and techniques from far away lands. The only reason why Portugal, France and Italy have more renown than other European countries is that they all dominated the rest of Europe at some point and travelled more, so they got to export their culture a lot more, too. These countries don't have the best cuisines, they have the most famous cuisines, and that's not the same thing. Look up Mark's videos in Hungary and THEN tell me that the Portuguese food is better. The fact is, all cultures have culinary culture, no people on this planet like to eat bland, boring food, and all peoples strive to make the best possible dishes.
@@AgrippaMaxentius No Brasil também há dobradas. Nós chamamos de "dobradinha" que é o bucho do boi ensopado com batatas, feijão branco, embutidos (acho que em Portugal é enchidos), salsinha e pimenta do reino. Eu adoro dobradinha! Ja vi tripas a moda do Porto na TV. Era uma entrevista com o chef de um restaurante na Cidade do Porto chamado "O Pombeiro". Lá também tinha a tal francesinha só que com massa folheada. Eu adoraria experimentar.
Queries dizer a comida de trás os montes y Galicia,somos outro país, celtas,gaita de foles, não fado nin flamenco xd mejor que en galicia y trás os montes no se come,y barato
I'm portuguese and watching you eat those "codfish pastry" (bolinhos de bacalhau) with coffee made me cringe so bad xD beer, man! Or a soda, or water... Coffee? Nooo xD
Thanks for sharing. Bring back memories. I was there last year and found Portugal to be a great destination for food lovers that speak English. I usually try to learn few phrases when I visit a country but didn't get have the chance to use much of it at all. Portuguese are very English friendly.
Mark, huge portuguese fan here. You MUST try the "Francesinha"! You can find it through Lisbon but it's a more typical dish of Porto. You should also of course try the "Cozido à Portuguesa" which is the most traditional food we have. Glad you are enjoying our food, keep up the great videos!
Remember the first time i ate it when i spent a month in Porto ( btw such a underrated city imo ). After trying it the first time i ate it like 3 times a week for the rest of my stay. insanely good.
A Francesinha foi horrível. The Francesinha was horrible. I even tried it in Porto. My boyfriend and I didn't even finish it; it was that gross. The sauce on top ruined it.
@Tomás Silva And this is not the best program Mark has ever did as it lacks a LOT of portuguese cuisine...someone should call him and do a TRUE portuguese food tour with him and preferably outside of Lisbon, in other cheaper and diversed regions...just saying...
As Portuguese I was thinking "oh no he is eating the codfish with no olive oil or vinegar" but luckily that man helped! Codfish and vegetables without olive oil just taste very dry
Jesus Christ Our saviour I could not find any decent food in Portugal. Had to go Asian during my stay. Anywho, Spanish & Italian are sooooo much better.
@@oaoJ69Joao bitter person, I also live here and, yes, it IS dreamy. You are just the kind of person who thinks that everybody lives or should live like you. Go to the pharmacy, dude!
@@vp2794 You don't know how I live, I can't complain about my life. But the majority of people in Lisbon have a not so dreamy life. Maybe you should start caring about other people other than you.
Actually, we do grow it. Portugal itself is not just the land you see in the map. We had extensions of our current land in Brasil and Africa for 600 hundred years, only to be forced to leave them by European corruption 50 years ago. But our people are still there, producing what they did for 300-400 years ago. Our coffee comes from Brasil, Angola, Moçambique and from our Isles. They are produced by Portuguese companies and refined in Portugal. I love it :p
You had slaves grow it for you. On land that you stole from them in the first place. Then you took the coffee, exported it and got away with all the money. Yes thats true. And criminal.
Man, our coffee really "portuguesed" you, didn't it? Many of us can't function properly throughout the day without one in the morning. :D Now I know why you looked a bit hyperactive in the videos, two at a time is a heavy dose of cafeine at once! XD I've watched all your Lisbon videos but the way you described and enjoyed our food made me so hungry that I had to watch the rest after lunch or dinner! Anyway, awesome videos and thanks for promoting Lisbon in particular and our food in general in such a pleasant way. : )
The same goes for other boiled or grilled portuguese fish dishes and salads...olive oil, vinegar, oregano, coriander, parsley are ALL essential seasonings...
FYI the garlic is supposed to be chopped very thinly with the onion, lots of olive oil and just a sip of vinegar then you add chopped parsley. Then you season the Codfish with that "sauce". This is the right way to do it.
For a full three and a half years straight, Septembro 1978 until 16 Marco 1982, I ate Portuguese food in dozens of restaurants all over Lisboa and at Monte Gordo, Algarve. Amo os Portugueses. Saudacoes, felicidades. I lived in a pensao, and two campismos, the Lisboa municipal Monsanto with city bus service, and the camping at Monte Gordo near Spain. Viva o Portugal. Deus vos abencoe.
Traveling to Portugal May 2018 (first time for me) with 4 other couples for a week, then another week with just my wife and i. I must say, with the research i've done so far, the food part of it looks amazing. Great job Mark. You're providing some damn fine info for us newbies.
peter daigle hey you should really go to porto it's very much worth it. Basically lisbon is way more trendy and porto is just traditional and genuine and has a celtic european look to it. Btw Sintra has the best landscapes and monuments. Hope you have a good time here!!
oh yes for sure, if you come to Portugal, you cant miss Porto, its an amazing city, and actually the people are quite nicer than in Lisbon, everyone will treat you like you're part of the family ^^
You butchered the cod dish. Here is how it's done and how to use the garlic, salsa and onions on the side: 1- Put olive oil on your plate until it covers the entire diameter. 2- Put as much pepper in the olive oil as you want. Skip it if you don't. 3- Put some vinegar in the olive oil and pepper. 4- Stir the whole thing until it becomes mixed together. 5- Chop as much garlic as you want and put it in the olive oil. 6- Do the same with the salsa and onions. 7- Then only you put the cod, chickpeas and potatoes on your plate. 8- Put some more olive oil OVER the cod. 9- Eat. This is how we eat many boiled cod dishes. You really didn't get the taste of it and ate it as an hospital patient would.
My friend (who isn't Portuguese) has traveled to different countries every two years and he said Portuguese food was the best he's had among all the countries he's been
Many people ask why Mark and Ying show so much appreciation for food they eat around the world. Very simple. They don’t stroll randomly. They precisely search the best places known internationally (or almost by the locals) to be the most representative of that specific food culture. Simple but effective. For example, that "Catinho do Aziz" place: it's a very simple place, but it's an icon of Mozambican cuisine in Lisbon, and obviously Mark and Ying honestly enjoyed their meal there.
@@lrec5783 I don't think it's overrated. It's super nice. Worth a try for sure, but definitely after exploring these more traditional and healthy dishes we do so well.
@@carolinacampos2588 fala Portugues estupida.. Do Porto hahaha... Entao nao sabes que O porto e O sporting andam namorando.. Dragartos De merda.. Benfica pra sempre
14:25 You need some olive oil in there. And you have to chop the garlic and mix that with the bacalhau. Eating bacalhau without olive oil...never, never , never!!!!
Like most of you, i've watched a lot of Mark Wiens food vlogs, but i've never seen him as happy eating as he is in the Portuguese series. I've eaten in few countries while travelling and Portuguese food is on my top 3. I don't know what is it about, it's probably due to good products + the easy preparation, nothing over-powering the product. But where you eat the best is in small family restaurants further away from the tourist areas, It's cheaper obviously but way tastier.
@Philipa Williams He only went to Lisbon and to very few places...if you want better food go to Porto/north of Portugal, Alentejo, Algarve regions and the portuguese island regions of Azores and Madeira...
Please, don't call Portuguese ham "jamon". That's just Spanish. Is just like calling Italian prosciutto jamon. You should either just call it Portuguese ham or "presunto": the Portuguese word.
bobby smith I’m so sorry you don’t even know what proper food is. You grew up eating crap from some package. And yes it’s presunto you travel to a country you learn about it. I know that is a foreign idea to some Americans lol
It’s HAM !!! Who cares people that like on the other side of the world try to make everything fancy !! Like Italians with pizza it’s Pizza that over priced !!
@@jancw its not doing ur homework before visiting/moving. Its literally learning the culture and the language before going. There's a reason why america doesn't have a native language. Cause the country caters to everyone.
Next time when you eat, boiled Bacalhau and potatoes or chickpeas,make sure you put a good amount of olive oil on the plate first, and then a bit of wine vinegar, some pepper and the garlic diced.Mix that altogether on the plate and then add the bacalhau and the other ingredients! That is the best way to enjoy it.
