Has Portuguese Chicken Become the Thing to Eat in Montreal? Dining on a Dime
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Date: 2020-05-20
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Nguyễn
I used to eat the chicken sandwiches from Coco Rico on Sherbrooke when I lived in the city. I ate at a few other places, but that was my general Portuguese chicken stop, probably since it was right next to Schwartz. Portuguese cuisine is underrated in general. Actually, European cuisines outside of the usual suspects are often underrated. It may be blasphemy, or it may be because I'm half-white, but I personally prefer eating European and Latin American cuisines to Asian. I live in Massachusetts, my home, now and we oddly don't have much of a culture of selling Portuguese chicken here, at least North of Boston, despite a pretty large Portuguese diaspora. Non-Portuguese people pretty much never eat Portuguese food. I remember once my mother, who could be a picky eater, was once so adamant about not going into a Portuguese restaurant that she stayed in the car instead of entering the restaurant. For a white woman, she strongly preferred Asian restaurants and refused generally to eat in Boston if it wasn't Chinatown.
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I used to eat the chicken sandwiches from Coco Rico on Sherbrooke when I lived in the city. I ate at a few other places, but that was my general Portuguese chicken stop, probably since it was right next to Schwartz. Portuguese cuisine is underrated in general. Actually, European cuisines outside of the usual suspects are often underrated. It may be blasphemy, or it may be because I'm half-white, but I personally prefer eating European and Latin American cuisines to Asian. I live in Massachusetts, my home, now and we oddly don't have much of a culture of selling Portuguese chicken here, at least North of Boston, despite a pretty large Portuguese diaspora. Non-Portuguese people pretty much never eat Portuguese food. I remember once my mother, who could be a picky eater, was once so adamant about not going into a Portuguese restaurant that she stayed in the car instead of entering the restaurant. For a white woman, she strongly preferred Asian restaurants and refused generally to eat in Boston if it wasn't Chinatown.
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links2films
Piri-Piri means Hot-Hot in Swahili ( Bantu language from east Africa ) and Malagueta is a Yoruba word (language from west Africa) and they are chillies. The only other part of the world where there was chillies was Mexico, the Portuguese took chillies to Asia and Maize from south America to Africa. The piri-piri and Malagueta sauces were developed by the Portuguese. Mangoes and Coconuts are Asian fruits introduced to the Americas by the Portuguese and Spaniards. People have to keep in mind that things like Tomatoes and Potatoes only arrived in Europe in the late XVI century and they were used as indoors ornamental plants. Potatoes and Tomatoes only became popular edibles during the late XVII century. The Portuguese ate Piri-Piri and Malagueta sauce good 200 years before any European saw the first Potatoes or tomatoes. Piri - Piri it is a Portuguese sauce made with African or Mexican chilly peppers.
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Piri-Piri means Hot-Hot in Swahili ( Bantu language from east Africa ) and Malagueta is a Yoruba word (language from west Africa) and they are chillies. The only other part of the world where there was chillies was Mexico, the Portuguese took chillies to Asia and Maize from south America to Africa. The piri-piri and Malagueta sauces were developed by the Portuguese. Mangoes and Coconuts are Asian fruits introduced to the Americas by the Portuguese and Spaniards. People have to keep in mind that things like Tomatoes and Potatoes only arrived in Europe in the late XVI century and they were used as indoors ornamental plants. Potatoes and Tomatoes only became popular edibles during the late XVII century. The Portuguese ate Piri-Piri and Malagueta sauce good 200 years before any European saw the first Potatoes or tomatoes. Piri - Piri it is a Portuguese sauce made with African or Mexican chilly peppers.
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Chibi
Loved portuguese chicken in Toronto and fell in love with the piripiri sauce they had, and haven't been able to find another place with the sauce that was as good. I'll have to give this a try. The place I went to was 10 for a half chicken, side of parisian potatoes, rice, and drink, so glad to see that this place is almost as cheap for even more food.
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Loved portuguese chicken in Toronto and fell in love with the piripiri sauce they had, and haven't been able to find another place with the sauce that was as good. I'll have to give this a try. The place I went to was 10 for a half chicken, side of parisian potatoes, rice, and drink, so glad to see that this place is almost as cheap for even more food.
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Jan
HAHA they are pulling 1000 chickens a day out of large trash bags and and the owner still wants me to believe that the quality is slightly comparable to a nice gras fed chicken from portugal. Sorry bro, might be very tasty but not comparable since the portugese dont consume as much meat from industrial livestock farming.
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HAHA they are pulling 1000 chickens a day out of large trash bags and and the owner still wants me to believe that the quality is slightly comparable to a nice gras fed chicken from portugal. Sorry bro, might be very tasty but not comparable since the portugese dont consume as much meat from industrial livestock farming.
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PozoBlue
I watched the entire video listening to the owner thinking he was talking in Portuguese and kept wondering why it sounded so strange. I just realized he was in fact speaking in French with his Portuguese accent I speak both and I think my brain just merged them and got confused, lolThe poutine looks delish! yums!
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I watched the entire video listening to the owner thinking he was talking in Portuguese and kept wondering why it sounded so strange. I just realized he was in fact speaking in French with his Portuguese accent I speak both and I think my brain just merged them and got confused, lolThe poutine looks delish! yums!
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RawDog
I was there on the weekend. The value for money is crazy. Back Sydney, the suburb of Petersham has a few portuguese chicken places and Silva's is the best there, but this place had it beat. Also, every Portuguese person I know says that Portuguese chicken isn't a thing and they don't know how it started.
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I was there on the weekend. The value for money is crazy. Back Sydney, the suburb of Petersham has a few portuguese chicken places and Silva's is the best there, but this place had it beat. Also, every Portuguese person I know says that Portuguese chicken isn't a thing and they don't know how it started.
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fukpolitics
I went to this place like 4 years ago as a plan B because the poutine place across the street La bonquise was too busy. We all ordered small poutine and the poutine was actually that size. Ended up being a delightful surprise as it was really delicious! Cool to see an eater feature
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I went to this place like 4 years ago as a plan B because the poutine place across the street La bonquise was too busy. We all ordered small poutine and the poutine was actually that size. Ended up being a delightful surprise as it was really delicious! Cool to see an eater feature
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Zyx
Canada is a weird country, every country as different dialects, but Canada has 2 completely different languages (not including the natives. Are the French Canadians just as terrible with the English language as actual French people? I would be screwed to go to the one half of Canada.
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Canada is a weird country, every country as different dialects, but Canada has 2 completely different languages (not including the natives. Are the French Canadians just as terrible with the English language as actual French people? I would be screwed to go to the one half of Canada.
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Chikhan
So he's half Chinese, probably a little Chinese or some form of Chinese dialect in him. He's been to Rome apparently not knowing any Italian, but breezed through Rome. He also spoke Dutch to some passer by on one episode. Now he speaks French. English. WHATS NEXT LUCAS?
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So he's half Chinese, probably a little Chinese or some form of Chinese dialect in him. He's been to Rome apparently not knowing any Italian, but breezed through Rome. He also spoke Dutch to some passer by on one episode. Now he speaks French. English. WHATS NEXT LUCAS?
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