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Hi guys! We are about to try Porto's most iconic dish, the Franzesinha
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And this restaurant behind me is one of the best places in town to give it a try
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It seems that every local has their own favorite restaurant, but we decided to go to Cafe Santiago
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which is basically an institution here in Porto and we thought it was the best place to try our first ever Franzesinha
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Let's go in! I feel very good right now
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We have been in Porto for a few days and we've asked around the locals if they even like the
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Francesinha because we come from Chicago. We know that the Chicago deep dish pizza is super iconic but it seems like more like a
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touristy food. But the general sentiment here in Porto is, and I quote, everybody loves the Francesinha
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There we have it, the famous francesinha. If it looks intense now, just wait till I cut in and see the good stuff
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Right now it's just covered with cheese, a fried egg on top, a beer sauce, like a gravy over it
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It looks very good, I can't wait to dig in. Should I cut it? Yeah
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This thing is beautiful. Just the yolk running in there, fresh white bread, all those meats
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So the famous Pranzesinha was invented in the 1950s by a Portuguese chef who used to live in France but when he came back to Portugal he created his own version of France famous sandwich called Croque Mazier
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I don't know how to say it, but that's part of the story because people couldn't pronounce it here
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so they started calling it franzesinha, and that translates to little French woman
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And I like the name franzesinha better. I can pronounce it. Okay, so this looks amazing
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I'm gonna explain what's in here. I think there's beefsteak, Two types of sausage, a mortadella, a ham
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I think the different restaurants have different meat ingredients, but this is just a mix of all of Portugal's favorite stuff
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And like I mentioned, it's topped with the melted cheese, the fried egg, the fresh toast
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Oh my gosh, I'm gonna dig in. It's time for the first bite
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I drenched it in the famous sauce. Let's see. So obviously this is just an explosion of different flavors, but everything kind of comes through
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You can taste the different types of sausage, the cheese, obviously, the egg, everything perfectly soaked in that sauce
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It's very, very delicious. And it's not like dry and intense either, everything's perfectly cooked
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It just melts in your mouth. I'm digging the Francettina. I'm going for more
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The french fries are just soaking here in the sauce. This is very decadent
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You ready for this? Mmm. I like it. I like the França Zinha
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And the essential thing to wash down the Fran Zinha is a Superbac beer This is the best beer in all of Portugal actually It North Portugal most famous beer It also my favorite We had a bunch in Lisbon
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It's the meal of champions. This is the first time I'm eating a sandwich with a fork and knife
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And to bring into the heated debate, because locals hate that you call this a sandwich
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and I agree, this is not really a sandwich. If it was a sandwich you could hold it with your hands and you cannot
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My first bite ever of a franzasinha. I have a feeling this is not going to be the only one
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That sausage is really good and the sauce is delicious and one of the main reasons why people
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recommended this place too is because not a lot of places make the sauce like from scratch. Some
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some places like buy it in the grocery store. And this sauce is a secret sauce made from scratch
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with like several alcoholic beverages and like beer, tomatoes, and sure, like spices
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a bunch of vegetables. We don't really know because it's secret, but the sauce is really a game changer, right
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Oh my gosh. And like all of them. Yep. Whatever that means
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And the fries like soaked in like that sauce. Oh my gosh
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Mmmmm. This is really good. I know. It's really good. The secret sauce It the secret sauce It funny because this is like exactly the type of thing that you would only expect to see in the U
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Like I totally picture this being like a famous diner in like southern U.S
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and man versus food like go in there like finish that sandwich
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Thank you. This one's yours. That was sick. It'll be nice to try while it's still hot
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And one very important thing that we forgot to mention is that the bread is somehow like
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protected by the cheese so it doesn't get soggy and I love it because I really don't
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like soggy bread. So what they do is that they assemble the sandwich and they put cheese on top
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and the cheese like protects the bread and then they pour like the sauce on top of it
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after they put the fried egg and it's genius and the sandwich, or not a sandwich, sorry, it's a work of art
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That's how you eat 2000 calories in 10 minutes. That was delicious, it was completely worth it
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Let us know in the comments if you would try the panzecina if you come to Porto
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And if you are from Porto or from Portugal and you have a favorite place, also leave it in the comments so other people see it and they try it too
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And yeah, thank you for watching. If you guys like Portugal videos, we are going to be here for five weeks and we are going to share the playlist here so you guys can check out more Portugal videos
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I promise it's going to be a lot more food. Thanks for watching. Bye
