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how are you guys today we're in Lisbon and one thing I noticed that since I got here from the airport I started to smell hey an amazing smell everywhere I went so I'm here for three days and I got a surprise for you guys but in this video I'm not going to show you that surprise in this video we're gonna go try tons of Portuguese food specific to Lisbon I'm super hungry I'm ready to binge let's go on a food tour in Lisbon vamos now one of the reasons I travel in love to experience local cultures is to try to understand the origin of the humans from each place I've often wondered about my own Origins and how this influences me while I travel and why I connect to certain places more than others that's why I've decided to partner with my Heritage DNA the world's leading DNA and family tree history service to really trace my own Origins and find out where the heck I'm from the process was simple I simply ordered the kit online and it arrived at my house in a few days where I was able to follow the clear step-by-step directions before mailing the test kit back to the lab where it would take around three to four weeks to get my results don't worry your DNA results are completely private and my Heritage is committed to never sell or license your genetic data meaning you are the sole owner of this data all right you guys it is the moment of truth I'm going to see where my ancestors are from let's check out the DNA results I'm so ready I've been wondering this practically my whole life let's go oh my God oh [Music] 37.8 Scandinavian okay okay all right I knew that a little bit 32.6 English all right I'm white very white 14.9 Eastern European all right I perhaps got some checking me some Polish or perhaps some Russian 4.4 Irish Scottish and Welsh I'm a bit surprised I thought I had a little bit more Irish in me with my red beard 10.3 three or more ethnicities okay
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again use the coupon code Elliott e-l-l-iot using the link below for free shipping where do I get good food good food I see see Chicago Bulls America thank you nice guys you want girls yes because I like the very girls you like American Girls what about no no Portuguese girls or American Girls all right are you are you from here where are you from where it is foreign now one thing that distinguishes Lisbon are these trams here now this is the 24 line which is the one that's less famous than the famous 28 tram but as you can see you got in here taking it on their daily stroll really you feel like you're back in time in Lisbon in fact it's the second oldest city in all of Europe older than Rome right it's second oldest behind Athens so yeah a lot different field than Spain although we're in the Iberian Peninsula Gotta Love coming to Lisbon all right let's go now I'm on the search for one of those pork or beef sandwiches the bifana because they got this nice thinly sliced pork and it's kind of cold you guys and it's very mellow Vibe here today it's um Thursday evening and the very beginning of February I really don't have that many expectations for Lisbon so I'm just kind of yeah going with the flow not used to this type of Vlog I'm used to an Adventure but we're gonna make an adventure out of this sister sister and I've just been walking around forever I think I'm in bairo Alto right now which is pretty Central and I just can't get over how quiet it is here on a Thursday night hardly anyone walking no traffic it's kind of spooky to be honest but I don't know it feels like I have the city to myself now I think there's a lot of restaurants here so like I said I'm stuffing I just want to get some food eat my way through the city in preparation for tomorrow I gotta love the super box [Music] Verde well you guys this whole time I've been searching for food the only thing I could find were these little convenience stores these little fruit and vegetable stores so I'm gonna sit down and have myself my first super Bach since two summers ago um that's a lie I had one in Gibraltar but this one's better because it's straight from Lisbon now you can't come to Portugal without getting the famous pastel de nata so we're gonna go get it right here the custard pie a little local cafe now you don't have to go to the famous places to get these things these are literally everywhere and one other thing that makes them so good so unique is that very few people except for the people that prepare it know the actual recipe it's very rich in flavor very sweet perfectly uh baked got a nice crust let's give it a go [Music] um [Music] never at night in the day in the day okay Obrigado [Music] say Cabo Verde precios what's your name yeah Miguel Elliot nice to meet you bro all right you guys we're gonna try the famous bifana what's beefana it's Pork yeah all right can you record maybe all right you guys we're gonna try the beefana nice hot sandwich it's cold out smells good it's got a nice sauce I think garlic sauce [Music] so let's do that wow I gotta say man such a simple sandwich is so good wash it down with the super box I would probably eat these every single day if I lived here amazing amazing another thing is you guys I almost have heard these uh informal places where you stand up you chit chat with the other guys eating and drinking like so everyone's relaxed not a formal sit-down place I really prefer these types of places whether it's in Spain here in Portugal okay I don't think it's like the traditional ball that they serve but let's give it a go it's cold wow some people say that the salted cod is far too strong for their liking I actually quite like it because now I've gotten used to eating seafood and fish in Spain but yeah if you're not like you know from a coastal area you're from Central United States most people don't like seafood and so yeah it does have a distinct strong taste but I do really like it guys that was only five euros and 10 cents for the bakalao the nice size bifana sandwich the pork sandwich and the beer there so yeah very happy with that let's go find some more food in Lisbon see you it's a night for nicular I think that's how you say it because Lisbon is made on so many Hills you guys I have been putting on a lot of steps so it's easy to burn off those beer those Cod calories so yeah do bring your walking shoes Lisbon is a little bit more rustic a little bit more beaten up the infrastructure is kind of crumbling but I think that's what adds to the charm of the city all right you guys so I found a place called Super Mario wow looks good I heard good things about it I got recommended let's go check it out oh wow Obrigado wow you guys saw it I think we found the perfect local joint here called Super Mario I got some like veggie soup to start which was only two euros and it's chorizo which was also three euros and of course gotta have the super box soup is absolutely perfect because it is a little bit chilly outside it's a bit nippy let's give it a go wow creamy you can taste so many vegetables in this soup I was actually looking for what's called Caldo Verde which is like a green broth it translates directly which is a soup with a kale or spinach and other vegetables that's famous here with chorizo om so far the Portuguese food experience has not disappointed I got a surprise dish coming that has some interesting history so we're gonna see that next wow now we got some Fair water from Cape Verde which is a former Portuguese Colony it's one of the interesting things about Portugal is all the diaspora we got Brazil we've got former colonies in Africa so it's all the Mercantile trade throughout the centuries obviously there's been a mix of concoction a transformation of the flavors of the ingredients that Portuguese food contains and therefore we do have dishes likewata from Cape Verde and also the one from Brazil that have since came back to Portugal and you know became their own recipes which are very famous here so this is just like a mix of garbanzo beans beans potatoes pork some greens maybe collard greens let's give it a go [Music] wow has a similar taste to fabara asturiana from Asturias Northern Spain very hearty great in the winter loads of calories loads of nutrients a very good flavor a little bit salty but not too salty and as I said you guys it's very cold here this really hits the spot in the winter it is very fatty but yeah you just gotta savor it take the flavor in think about the history you got to think about the legacy of Portugal and all the exploration they were the ones who started the Age of Exploration reaching the eastern part of the world treating the spices different flavors bringing them back to Europe you know it was revolutionary for that time for the Age of Exploration and this is kind of what you see the legacy of it For Better or For Worse the chorizo and the soup filled me up along with the beer I mean I'm eating like a king in Portugal this is only going to be around 15 Euros so yeah we've still got two more days of eating we're gonna be going to different neighborhoods we're gonna be trying things that we haven't seen yet and I'm gonna be trying to explain the food here so that when you guys come to Portugal you can try the stuff that is local not through the tourist traps you know come to these local joints just have a great time because food is everything when it comes to travel that's something that brings all of us together so I met a local here at German and Portuguese guy he told me that this street was a famous street there were so many local joints and Super Mario is the last one standing so cheers the street the famous street for the mom and pop shops we have the jinjina which is the cherry liquor specific to Portugal so let's give it a go nice and sweet very cherry-esque not part at all very sweet it ain't success good morning guys it's my second day here in Lisbon and I'm still super hungry I slept like a baby last night with all that food oh all that beard it's been so good and I just woke up I could just smell the food emanating from the Alleyways going into my hostel so we're in search of some more authentic food today so let's go explore a district called alafama I think it's called which is one of the more trendy historic neighborhoods here in the hills and go find some local food some bacalao maybe some Caldo Verde some seafood let's go see what happens say hi to the tourists that's how we always roll so the pastelerias here you guys are just absolutely amazing and they don't only have sweet food and coffee they've got sometimes beer they've got salty food local food as you guys saw previously I got some bacalao there which is cod I got um a bifana sandwich so yeah the pastelerias in Portugal are king and in fact um I learned over the years of traveling that a lot of the Portuguese immigrated to places like Venezuela Brazil they brought their pastelarias and their recipes to those countries and of course so in Venezuela some of the best bakeries are these pastelarias that have origin in Portugal it's just an absolute beautiful day today my parents back in Wisconsin sent me a photo of negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit snowy cold frigid weather in Wisconsin I do not miss that I'll take this any day one of the sunniest places in Europe along with like the Costa Del Sol in southern Spain and the Mediterranean in general you can't get enough sun it's a great place to live during the winter and it's obviously not super hot here so you still gotta dress a little warm but it's not freezing balls like up north in Europe so I found click on this little place here on the side of the road it was empty and it's a little pastel area so they got sweets but also like I said they have salty things so we got a little Cod tortilla you can see there's some vegetables in it and the Cod I just want to get used to this taste because later I'm going to try a bigger Cod dish so let's give it a go good morning Bon Appetit for breakfast I like the texture you can taste the vegetables with the fish at the same time not too salty not bad and it's said that there's just so many ways in which they prepare bakalao here like you know the grandma can prepare it at home you grow up eating different versions of bakalao you just can't get enough of it here in Portugal okay you guys so we've came to this little joint little hole in a while I love these places and I got the famous Caldo Verde which I was recommended online so we got I think it's kale he said or spinach either or potatoes and just a very simple broth and there's a little piece of chorizo in there but yeah gotta love it when it's really cold outside let's give it a go hmm it almost tastes like potato soup that you grew up with in the United States with kale or spinach very simple very delicious they make it right here this local joint and as you see everybody's here eating very close together this is the true lifestyle in Lisbon something about me you guys is I'm a really simple guy if I find something that I like in terms of food I just keep eating it so like here we got the spicy olive oil with the Chile and we have the bifana this time with cheese so this is like the fourth time I've ate a bifana here they're only like three or four Euros and they're the pork sandwiches I cannot get enough of them so I would eat these every single day almost if I could if I lived here and I'm gonna soak it in while I can so yeah let's try this again hmm it's similar to a pulled pork sandwich you guys that we would eat in the United States you know Southern United States Texas Etc but just a little bit different the pork is obviously prepared differently here and while this spicy stuff is really spicy now you can also eat it with mustard Which is popular right here we got the mustard let's give it a go Al [Music] so the bifana sandwich is a staple of Lisbon food so you have to absolutely try this they're basically everywhere do not miss the bifana now we're walking in the alafama district and here's a church that wasn't destroyed during the Great Earthquake of 1755. that completely totaled the city and this neighborhood is quite interesting quite cool I don't think I'm gonna get any food here I'm actually really full so I'm trying to walk off those calories to get hungry for the next place we're gonna go we're here in the banks of the tagus river that's of great importance to the amberian peninsula but in particular Portugal because of this strategic location of the city next to the Atlantic Ocean well the Portuguese were the pioneers during the Age of Exploration they invented the caraval the Swift boat that can navigate through the West African Coastline eventually cross the ocean it all started right here in the banks of the tagus river and in the distance there we have a long suspension bridge I think it's one of the longest suspension bridges in Europe it actually looks like the Golden Gate Bridge yeah Lisbon's a really picturesque place you guys so we're gonna end this food tour with a very popular recipe here this is called something like that I think it's like shredded potatoes and cod almost looks like hash browns so shredded potatoes and cod let's go mmm and it does have the texture of shredded potatoes a mixture of like kind of fried but or baked baked shredded potatoes we got some tomatoes and there's only nine euros and 40 cents we're gonna walk down with a stout beer yeah guys this is like real proper food I'm happy to say that my whole three days here in Portugal or two and a half days I haven't eaten anything like kebabs or Indian food pizzas none of that stuff only local Portuguese food and that's what it's all about when you guys travel you know you gotta come eat this loaf of food there's a lot to offer but you got to do a little bit of research so that's why I like to show you guys what I'm eating so you guys can do it yourself all right you guys so we ate our way through Lisbon uh it was great this is a food Paradise I definitely suggest that when you come here go to these mom and pop shops he's holding the walls get the local food it's not too expensive unless you go to the tourist traps of course and yeah we'll see where I go next so I hope you guys enjoyed that video I'll see you from another place not exactly sure where Adventure La peacing out hasta luego [Music]
2023-04-09 14:14
