The Incredible Story of Thailand's Portuguese

[@BiSkJukebox]

I am Portuguese and I can say with some degree of confidence these dishes look like the ones my grandma made, so ... I'm pretty impressed. I guess I have to go to Thailand soon

[@North42-gz5et]

I am Portuguese Canadian, There is so much to learn of Portuguese history around the world, I met someone once from Bangladesh and they shared amazing stories that I had no idea the extent of the Portuguese culture.

[@user-fx8xg8xj1y]

Do you have Azorean ancestry? Come visit Florianópolis, Brazil. Originally settled by Azoreans. Youll love it.

[@flaviaboa9822]

​@@user-fx8xg8xj1yThis video is about beautiful Portuguese culture and history, not only about Azores.

[@dnuno75]

If we are linked by food, we are linked by the heart ❤ 🇹🇭 🇵🇹

[@kenwongsa5273]

Os portugueses são bons amigos da Tailândia. Outros impérios ocidentais tentaram colonizar-nos, os portugueses ajudaram-nos a defender a Tailândia. Amo Portugal da Tailândia.

[@Orange-ic2mp]

Hey im Thais, that kingdom maybe destroyed but our love for Portugal and Portugese are eternal

[@999carlosjorge]

thanks same to you !!

[@filipasales9291]

​@@999carlosjorgeThe same to Thai people from Portugal ❤.

[@alexandrapatricio2727]

A portuguese woman thanks the compliment.

[@mariam.3224]

❤️🌸

[@criminologydocumentaries5669]

Portuguese here, i love Thailand, fell in love have to go back, I even have a Thai girlfriend I let there ❤

[@stark8894]

A Thai here! A lot of our desserts are actually of Portuguese origins/influence, especially ones made with egg yolk and sugar, often with "thong" (gold) in their names (eg. "Foi Thong" originating from "Fios de ovos")

[@OTRontheroad]

We were actually planning on filming a video on that topic (and Maria Guyomar) this week, but that got pushed back a bit- will get there this summer for sure.

[@stark8894]

@@OTRontheroad I was actually going to request a video on that as well, looking forward to it!

[@ririvespertine]

Can’t wait!!

[@marie-francoisebarillot2658]

So good

[@FartSquirel]

@@OTRontheroad people here still waiting for Maria Guyomar de Pinha video.. what happened got lost on Fios de Ovos again?

[@วศินีกองแก้ว]

I am a Thai living in Belgium. I love Portugal and the Portuguese people. I’m going back to live in Portugal soon. Because for me Portugal made me feel like I was in Thailand due to the weather, food, etc.❤❤

[@TheCysma]

You will be well received 😊 come and enjoy our amazing country🇵🇹

[@silveriorebelo2920]

welcome to Portugal

[@madcena01]

I'm portuguese and my dream country to visit is Thailand

[@DigitalicaEG]

Thai Food Stuffs?

[@alexeru6154]

Good luck in Portugal ❤, I wouldn’t trade it for Belgium in your place 😂

[@zitarodrigues7336]

The Portuguese heritage in Friendship, Biology and Traditions. Thank you very much, love and a big hug. We are together!

[@flaviaboa9822]

Do Thai people have Portuguese blood in them??? I just know they are stunning

[@pailinnorton]

Wow! Very interesting story. I'm Thai and have been living in Portugal for 3 years now. Very proud of the connection between Thailand and Portugal❤

[@MegaSreis]

I’m Portuguese and visited the Portuguese neighborhood of Bangkok in 2022. The relations are excellent but they could be commercially much better. Even educated Portuguese don’t know that Thailand is actually a developed and industrialized country, they just think of beaches.

[@winter10x06]

I come from Philippines, and became interested in Portuguese cuisine and culture because I was shocked at how much influence they had with food in almost every continent! I dated a Brazilian before and they told me that they were amazed at how much influence Portuguese food had with other countries from Japan (tempura), India (vindaloo) to even US with Hawaiian dinner rolls.

[@mygoawithmathewalmeida3357]

Greetings from Goa

[@filipasales9291]

Hugs to Goa from Portugal ❤.

[@lfsm9380]

From Portugal with love to Goa and to the Goans. ❤

[@North42-gz5et]

Keep Goa beautiful and make Portuguese proud.

[@flaviaboa9822]

Yeah, Keep going Goa! Love from Brazil 💚

[@fernandoanacleto4373]

Greetings from London, Ontario Canada from someone born in the Azores in 1958 and immigrated to Canada in 1970 a proud Portuguese and Canadian with with five brothers and a sister who all married into multicultural the new Anacleto generation is Chinese Italian Canadian Portuguese all proud of our ancestry. My nieces and nephews are the new generations of multicultural peace and love to you and Goa one day I will come and visit.

[@azroyazhar4481]

Im from northern Malaysia..and lots of thai food also influenced us...indirectly...the Portuguese influenced us too 😊

[@Alfablue227]

Sending Malaysia, a country I visited twice and much loved, lots of warm hugs from Portugal.

[@flaviaboa9822]

❤

[@flaviaboa9822]

Love from Brazil to Malaysia

[@ginagabriel2613]

Amazing video. Here in Toronto I eat that food. The Portuguese are a very special ethnic group. I would like to say hello to my people there. Keep the culture alive. God Bless you all. 🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏💕

[@jayhuxley2559]

Portuguese are the original Templars and they still are. No one expanded more Christianity than Portugal!

[@boomyminecraft2more]

and then the Protestant British came a couple centuries after and started influencing nations all over the world to kick us out because our form of Christianity was "evil" all in a ploy to gain influence and markets owned by the Portuguese their oldest still standing allies... what great allies they are...

[@carlosnunes3701]

I can see the traces of Portuguese Heritage in the faces of the people especially in the woman interviewed

[@professionaltaxevader4638]

Faz-me lembrar um bocado a Rita Blanco.

[@chasedoe2594]

I know from school that Portuguese is the very first European that arrived and influence us on many dish like Foi Thong, but I never knew that there are still a Portuguese town. Their 23 and Me results would be really diverse.

[@makcikloveseverydaymusic]

the portuguese village in melaka is so colourful during christmas, it's a must visit!

[@Pheyniex]

Thank you for your research! Small detail: Alfonso is spanish. Afonso is Portuguese.

[@OTRontheroad]

Noted and point well made. Apologies. Pretty sure I botched the last name too, with my American pronounciation.

[@iskisenna]

Malaysian here. In our history lessons it's spelled Alfonso. Is the "l" silent?

[@Pheyniex]

@@iskisenna no 'L' is used in Portuguese, although modifications where frequent as translations of christian names between diferent languages. The british might have left you with the spanish version

[@jcm4377]

​@@OTRontheroad Afonso and Alfonso both have same Latin origin Alphonsus, which on the other end, came from Germanic word Athalfuns that means Warrior.

[@goldenfroggy5739]

Hi, a native Thai form Bangkok here. Thank you soo much for doing the culinary history in Thailand! I lived near Kuti Cheen for a couple of years before the pandemic and this is truly something crazy about Bangkok.

[@LusoSky-bm3sr]

A big hug from Portugal!

[@omereris852]

Oh, my tiny and poor Portugal, it's good to know I have brothers and sisters scattered around the globe.

[@cvanvslivs2406]

Learning about Thailand's employment of Portuguese mercenaries is an awesome fever dream crossover. The East-West cultural and aesthetic contrast is just so fascinating!

[@platinummad4389]

thanks for coming I lived here since born now am 23 years old but it's kinda sad you didn't see you come here I wish you will come back and see my home again

[@hugodias2449]

I’m Portuguese and I love Thai people and their culture, so proud to know about this.❤

[@keepcalmlovedinosaurs8934]

Criminally underrated video!

[@OTRontheroad]

Hah thanks! I think so too! Actually had a chance to go back out there recently for the first time since we filmed. Special place.

[@vitorcarvalho4985]

Very insightful. A beautiful neighbourhood presented with much respect and admiration. Very nice job and shout out to Portugal for bringing people together for centuries.

[@1960rose]

I am Portuguese and find this very interesting. Thanks❤

[@eymael2]

Hellow from Brazil. I just loved this video. Wonderfull. We Brazilians are the off spring of a fast network of trade created by our portuguese great-grand-parents. Sometimes, here, I run into people that look so south east asia. Of course you can say that most likely they have native americans ancestors, that being the most likely explanation. But....given that the portuguese and the spanish were more likely to intermarry with locals from their colonies, I still wonder...thank you again for the video.

[@MegaSreis]

My husband is Timorese, South East Asian, and many people think he is Brazilian. His DNA test shows some cousins in Peru and Brazil

[@Portugal2100]

That Khanom Farang is similar to our Portuguese pastrie called "queques"

[@Banana-eg1dr]

I was amazed when I started to study history seriously. While almost every other country has a problem with races. We turn it into our strength.

[@OTRontheroad]

I think it’s safe to say that the world’s greatest cultures and innovative countries succeed because of inclusivity

[@koalakoom]

It's funny that I have the same thought, I heard this story about...one of the city in Burma celebrates Hindu festival because during it was under Siam control, our King appointed Indian/Hindus as a ruler over that city. I am sure you also know about our royal Russian descendant like พระเจ้าวรวงศ์เธอ พระองค์เจ้าจุลจักรพงษ์ too Seem like us Thai are more opened and willing to adjust than our neighbors, and result shows !! because pre-colonial era, Siam is pretty much rules these regions. Some how we are slow to adapt with our current governance LOL meritocracy always rules though !

[@FartSquirel]

@@OTRontheroad inclusivity is the wrong term, fusion is the right term. Inclusivity does not work but everyone thinks it does and keeps making the same mistake.

[@ruisantos8850]

Não é bem assim, talvez melhor ir um pouco mais a fundo. Até aqui em Portugal só recentemente alteraram os racistas manuais de historia que ensinavam nas escolas. Fica a cultura que é fantástico mas o respeito de raça não

[@Banana-eg1dr]

@@ruisantos8850 I'm not Portuguese. I'm Thai.

[@mestreinsolito]

Brazilian here, what an amazing story you've told us, thanks!

[@PEDROGAITASCNFANS]

AM PORTUGUESE AND THIS IS AMAZING I GOO NOW AGAIN TO THAILAND AND PORTUGAL.

[@ricdesouza1]

so incredible.. tracing the footsteps of one side of my ancestors in Asia. The Chilli journey is just amazing and how Asia now thinks of it as a native fruit/veg is mad. I still see a lot of Portuguese influence in obviously the chilli, pinaeapple, guavas, etc but also in the cookies and bread...

[@saviogodinho1282]

We also make a similar portuguese dessert called toucinho do ceu containing almonds.

[@alexandrapatricio2727]

Toucinho do céu é maravilhoso. Em casa dos meus familiares ( em portugal) cozinhava-se maravilhosamente, as festas de anos e dias santos tinham uma mesa grande cheia dos salgados e doces mais maravilhosos que já comi. A minha mãe á alguns anos atrás ainda fazia o melhor toucinho do céu, nunca comi nada igual.

[@helderfilipe6599]

Really great content here! Thank you for this excelent and interesting video! I'm portuguese and I can assure that I can see the portuguese influence in all of those dishes.

[@ameliamhenriques3259]

I´m portuguese and pork roasted with potatoes is a loved dish by us...and pastas too wauuu

[@juliandco]

This one might just be my favorite video yet! So good!

[@neilsbruno9842]

Wow. You found the real deal. Real restaurants with real food!

[@user-wt3bk9nl5x]

Thailand "Terra do Sião " as it was called in the 16th century by the Portuguese.

[@Disciplina-k1y]

Os gatos Tailândeses nos chamamos de siameses ... O antigo reino da Tailândia era o Sião

[@lucasribeiro7534]

11:16 Rojões com batata e arroz 11:44 Massa à lavrador 11:53 Frango estufado 😋

[@mb9948]

I am afraid to travel while COVID is around, but this channel is helping me make my list of future destinations. The combination of history and food is perfect!

[@icarojose6316]

Portuguese’s invention Caravela Portuguesa, the biggest and most modern Boat was the thing that allowed them to conquer all those lands that Europeans never reached. And other Europeans nations who conquered other territories like British, Dutch and Spaniards only did using Portuguese’s boats

[@realhawaii5o]

Every time I tell my friends Portuguese food isn't well known but it's hiding everywhere around the world, they don't believe me :(

[@sohardtogetID]

By far, the most informative local thai food. It is not just about food but also its history. Great job!

[@ruisantos8850]

Uau has a portuguese I knew about Malaca and obviously Macau, but This, doesn't come on the history books! Everything you report all makes sense cause the food its what unites people and after 500 still there? I too use those ingridients here in Lisbon😮 ThankYou very much for these story❤obrigado 🇵🇹

[@okaygecko]

Incrível! I must visit ! Much love from Portugal ❤

[@HansWurst-bx3pg]

Very interesting and nice quality video!

[@MFporto]

I'm Portuguese and I didn't know this.. 😮😮 We gave meaning to the world

[@spidspeed]

Great video! I just watched all of the videos. Love the food and history combination. Feel like watching the documentary in television or Netflix. Keep up the work, I am sure this channel will get big very soon. Glad to be here at the beginning.

[@OTRontheroad]

Thanks so much!

[@nameinvalid69]

if only history lesson in school is this exciting & being presented with passion. 🤣🤣😂😂😄😄 you can be a great history teacher actually 😄😄

[@tul17]

loving your content, can't get enough of it! amazing storytelling

[@megrimlockmesmart.1200]

The first one is a variation of what we call here in Portugal "Bolo de arroz".

[@joepathaichant7144]

Great content. Great production. Keep up doing what you do. You’ll be fine.

[@mono2go]

This channel is giving me a long list of places to visit and eat next time I'm in Bangkok. Feeling a bit ashamed to have known very little about my home town!!

[@carlagthinkbig8638]

Portuguese here! I had no idea about this! 😊

[@ikebanaJc]

🤗 a food tour guide took us to the final house. The food was delicious.

[@hollish196]

This is absolutely fascinating! Another wonderful video from you. Your research time must be excessive, even if some of it is spent walking about as a Knowledge Tourist.

[@OTRontheroad]

Thanks! Yeah I really like this video. Daria gets credit for finding this story, I can’t claim it

[@xanasantos1]

So fascinating! I had no idea.

[@johnnewton3837]

Fascinating, thank you for your curiosity and your beautiful documentary .

[@MarcusPereiraRJ]

I don't know what Khanon means, but Farang is an old designation for Portuguese due to Arabic spread of the word "frank" after the Europeans Crusades. Since the Portuguese challenged Ottoman control over the Indian Ocean, the Europeans seen there were the Portuguese and the name stuck.

[@Ben_Gosh]

*Precious...*

[@helder4u]

thank for your hard work in sharing this 💖

[@jiraratboonwej2816]

I'm a Low-Tech one , just hop on Choa Phraya taxi boat (the orange flag) to the end of Northern Route , walk straight from Nonthaburi Pier , Talaad Non is on the right hand side , ask for Khanom Khai Mea Nite , the booth always busy due to the whole sale unit..

[@Ben_Gosh]

Meia-noite (Portuguese)=Midnight

[@rungshiwshiw]

try to research the story of Maria Guyomar de Pinha (ท้าวทองกีบม้า) , known in Thailand for having introduced new dessert recipes in Siamese cuisine. It is a very fascinating story.

[@khemmakimbo6177]

I wish Jose Mourinho would come to coache Thailand National 🇹🇭 football team. 😅❤😅

[@North42-gz5et]

Perhaps some day, don't give up.

[@12345678939218]

I'm Portuguese, I live in Portugal, my grandmother used to prepare chicken stew several times, she passed away 20 years ago and I still make this recipe but it doesn't have the same taste, I miss the way she cooked it, it's a simple dish but I confess I don't have a talent for cooking 😅😅

[@saraswatkin9226]

Goa in India was Portugues until 1960s and the culture is still very portugues. Since Indian invasion the infrastructure of transport and roads has improved but brought with it environmental pollution on a large scale.

[@Alfablue227]

Absolutely love Goa despite the pollution and crazy invasion by non Goan people. Sending love FM Portugal!

[@alexmarcus9009]

The reason one finds Portuguese influence in agriculture, foods, cakes and desserts in so many countries is because Portugal was the first European country to launch the maritime global discoveries in the 14th century. They were even the first to establish agriculture in Hawaii. One of its popular pastries to this day is the “malassada” which translates to under baked/cooked.

[@diethuis]

Great and very interesting video. I like this neighbourhood, and the surrounding neighbourhoods very much. We had lunch at that little restaurant too and tasted the pork with the potatoes. Really nice dish. The Khanom Farang are a bit to dry for my taste, we have a similar cake called "eierkoek" (eggcookie) in our country ( the Netherlands) and I do not eat that much either. Thank you very much for sharing this story!

[@manuelsilva6926]

Thank you for the History video, i am Portuguese and didn t knew this part of Portuguese Sailors...allways the food, makes the cultures to mix

[@antespajictwo]

Wow dude, you and your work are amazing! Keep it up please ☺

[@spharion7988]

Obrigadinho!...

[@ชมพรรณโชติดิลก]

Perfect story

[@adolfoformoso5445]

Very good. I living in London and I am Brazilian.

[@tinalisboa1874]

Wow...😮interesting to see the Portuguese influences around the world 🌎 I love eggy sweets 😋

[@vishypai7554]

Fascinating!

[@marta9932]

I'm portuguese. The food looks so much like ours, specially the ones in 8:53. They look delicious (even without potatoes 😂 - I'm kidding! We also eat it with rice !!!) I would love to taste it 😋

[@dr.tetraminflakes3187]

feel like Taiwan in 1960 1970 where i grew up, total different now.

[@Dan-xx5jq]

Wow! Incredible video!! Who knew??

[@jatc11yey]

I tried tried the khanom farang thanks to your recom!!!

[@OTRontheroad]

Not gonna lie, it's a little bit dry- but still such a cool experience trying it fresh. Hope you enjoyed it.

[@altang884884]

Whenever we get back to Bangkok, I’m going to this neighborhood

[@heirimenezes2251]

I think that if you look closely, more than half the world is of Portuguese descent

[@sm-zn8xm]

Another Portuguese influence desert would be fol thong.

[@Scuba_Bro]

14:24 that egg tart is commonly known quejada ❤

[@estebancorral5151]

Every other other Fado song in Portuguese is about a poor mariner forced to cast out his fate to the sea with a long yearning to see home. This report is about those mariners whose fate was to never return.

[@jiraratboonwej2816]

There is one Kanom Khai(Thai word in general for Kanom Farang ) in Nonthaburi fresh market(Talaad Non) "Mea Nite" , the very best in BKK Kanom Khai challenge for the review..

[@OTRontheroad]

Oh interesting! Can you send me a pin for the market?

[@Alfablue227]

That "Mea Nite" is directly from Portuguese meaning "Meia Noite" or "Midnight"...market. Amazing stuff!

[@user-kg7hz9kx4l]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@Alfablue227Actually the shop name is 'Mae Nai' not Mea Nite and has nothing to do with 'Meia Noite' becasue Mae = Mother in Thai and Nai is the owner Name, so the shop's name is just 'Mother Nai'😂

[@Alfablue227]

@@user-kg7hz9kx4l Got you, but if it were Mea Nite...the Portuguese relationship would definitely make sense, just as it makes sense with "Mae Nai" , as "Mãe" in Portuguese means mother just as it does in Thai!

[@Alfablue227]

@@user-kg7hz9kx4l I am not sure why my response was deleted. So ok, it has nothing to do with Portuguese because it's "Mae Nai" well...."Mãe" means mother in Portuguese, so it has everything to do with Portuguese

[@emanuelcipriano]

Before social media exists, we (Portuguese) were the real influencers...! 😂

[@supattarachai]

Very good content.

[@ginettevandenkerckhove6593]

Yes very nice neighbour en nice people

[@MarcusPereiraRJ]

Anglocentrism and Hollywood movies only showing Englishmen, Frenchmen and Spaniards as sailors on pirate movies (due the lesser influence of Portuguese in US History) blurs Portuguese legacy to the World as the first global empire and practically the creator of the transoceanic globalization.

[@คมสันแกมทอง-น3ฎ]

Very delicious and cheap too. I LOVE them so much.

[@FGB1201]

VIVA PORTUGAL!!!!❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

[@zeafonso7094]

As a Portuguese, once visiting Maldives, on a Museun in Malé, looked to a canon and saw the Portuguese Cross on it. It was a great experience and reminded me the great it was Portuguese History. But we got our asses Kiked in Thailand🤣

[@fourtails1192]

interesting 😊🙏

[@andrewdunbar828]

Digging the farang pronunciation of "farang" (-:

[@nadeeshadissanayaka2015]

We call that kingdom Ayodhya

[@djogou]

I guess you don’t know the queen of dessert in Ayutaya was the wife of the first minister at that time

[@miguelvaledealmeida175]

Please, Alfonso is Spanish. In Portuguese it’s Afonso.

[@manfredbogner9799]

Sehr gut

[@onelima1968]

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