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Street Snacks You CAN'T MISS in Portugal
Aug 17, 2025
With many restaurants closed in the afternoons in Portugal, tourists need to know what snacks they should try to get them through the day on their Portuguese vacation. Here we talk about tosta mista, folhados, and so many more great Portuguese treats like pastel de belem! Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal #portugal #portuguesefood #portugaldiaadia Wolters World for Food! Our videos focus on helping travelers know what to eat when they travel, the traditional food that you always want to eat when you travel. Copyright Mark Wolters 2025 Our Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/woltersworld Visit Our Amazon Store for Drinkware, cookingware, travel gear, and other necessities of life. http://www.amazon.com/shop/woltersworld Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Wolters World on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/woltersworld Follow Our Shorts Channel for quick travel tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSIWRrLCcqamLlTEEBLFLA
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Hey there fellow hungry travelers, Mark here with Walter's World and today we're in Lisbon, Portugal
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and today we're going to talk about are what snacks you should have in Portugal. And you're
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probably asking yourself, Mark, why are you doing a video on snacks? I mean, I'm going there to eat
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a sorda and going to have all the fish that's there and the sardines and all this kind of stuff. Well
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I hate to tell you this, but between about between about 3 p.m and 7 p.m, 8 p.m
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most of the restaurants actually close their kitchens. So you don't have an opportunity to
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have some of the fantastic Portuguese food. You're stuck with having some of the snacks
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So I want you to know what snacks you should be looking out for so you can enjoy them when you're
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waiting for the restaurants to open, okay? And I think the first kind of snack I want to talk
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about is a sweet one. If you're coming here to Lisbon, it will be all over the place
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Pastel de Natas or Pastel de Belém. The original one is Pastel de Belém. It's a custard tart
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If you see anything about Portugal, they will show you the custard tart, the Pastel de Natas
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the Pashtel de Belén from Lisbon, okay? Now if I'm you, and I'm not you, but if I were you
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I would realize that they sell them all over town, but if you really want to get a good one
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if you're here in Lisbon, you go to Pashtais de Belén, the original home for it in the Belén district
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That's why if it's from the Belén district, it'd be called Pashtel de Belén. If it's not made in
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Belén, they call it Pashtel de Natta, okay? Just a cream custard tart. But that's one sweet treat
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that probably most tourists do have when they come here to Portugal, especially if you're here in
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Lisbon, okay? So that's one thing. And a little bonus, put the powdered sugar and cinnamon on top
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that's the way to go, all right? Now if sweetness isn't your deal, if you're looking for like
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a to-go sandwich, actually this is going to sound silly, but a tosta mista, a toasted ham and cheese
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sandwich here in Portugal is actually fantastic. And sometimes you go to little kiosks in the parks
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they might make them there for you, okay? The thing is it's just a ham and cheese sandwich
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you show some nice bread and they put butter on the top of it. It's kind of a little messy sometimes
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on your fingers, so make sure you use the napkin. You'll notice the locals use their napkins to eat
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them a lot. But yes, you can't go wrong with the Tosta Mista. And if you don't like, you know
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if you don't like ham or cheese, you can get a Torrada, which literally is just make toast with
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butter for you. Sometimes they'll put like garlic stuff on there. Sometimes they'll get with jelly
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but it's something simple and that's just it. Some of these things are very simple to enjoy and
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simple snacks to tide you over before you have a three hour dinner when you're here in Portugal
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OK, now another kind of savory snack that I used to have all the time when I did my I did my PhD years
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I lived here for five years and my go to snack between classes
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was a foliado and what foliado is it means folded OK it puff pastry that gets folded over and they put a filling inside And it can be a lot of different fillings Sometimes I had it goyabada I had different fruits in there
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But my personal favorite, going back to that tosta mista, is the foliado misto
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And what it is is ham and cheese inside. And they warm it up and it's all flicking yummy, yummy, yummy
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Yes, that's one thing you can have. But there's lots of different foliados to try. Now another snack you might get, which actually might be free sometimes
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you buy a beer, they might give you a little plate of termosus. And termosus are these little
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yellow beans, they're called lupin beans or lupini beans depending where you're from. And what you'll
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do is you'll bite off this end of it like like snap the end so it opens up and then you shoot
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it into your mouth and eat it. You do not eat the shell, the casca, the shell, you don't eat that
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They give you like a separate plate to put those on okay, but that's a nice salty treat to have
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with your beers and the parks and stuff like that. So that's a nice one. Now sometimes you want more
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more than just some beans or a pastry. Well, they also have what's called
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pau con chorizo, which is just bread. And in the bread, they basically stuff salami in there
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like chorizo in there, it's spicy salami. They put that in there and bake it up
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so you can have that, that's to go. Also, a lot of times you'll see it with caldo verde
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which is a, it's like a kale soup they have here that's very popular. So a pau con chorizo with some caldo verde
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that's a nice little kind of filling snack you might have when you're here
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Now the Portuguese like to throw people off, okay? And so one of the things they have is called bifana
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Now, if I say bifana, you think, oh, it's beef. No, no, no, no. A bifana is just bread with like a little pork steak in the middle
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You might put some mustard on there and to go. It's very popular at festivals
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They're very popular at concerts because it's easy grab-and-go sandwich, right? And so bifana is a very popular, the pork one
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And then there's one that's called prego. And prego, that's actually the bread with the beef inside
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And then you put some mustard on there, okay? So those are two quick snacks you can see and they sell those most of the day too
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That's a bifana. See it's just the bread, meat and cheese. Remember bifana is pork, but prego that's beef
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So don't get confused. Another snack you can have here in Portugal is caracol, snails
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Notice they do not look like escargot. They're much smaller and you're going to need some toothpicks to get them
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But this is also a really good snack when they're in season. while we're sitting down and having
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Just letting you know my kids enjoyed having them. You can enjoy them too when you're here
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but look for a catacoish, because it will always say that outside the stores
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So what tasty Portuguese treat is this fantastic food here? It catacoish and it was just like the tiny little snails that used to be in my garden here in Lisbon And they lovely So if you here in the summer definitely want to have some karekos
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And you'll see things that says, ah, karekos. Karekos, do you like the karekos
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A man, you want some karekos? Whatever. So step three with karekos is the mini
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I don't know why they have little tiny bottles, but you always have a little tiny bottle of beer
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With your, um, with your face. So, that's part of three. But not for the kids
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For 43 for the cake. Yes, of course you need your bacchia
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We're in Portugal. If you can't have bacchia 365 days a year, are you truly Portuguese
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So, yes, there is a paché de bacchia, or bolo de bacchia
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basically it's a little fried I mean it's like a bucky house codfish so it's a
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codfish cake okay so it's codfish potatoes some other like spices in there
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and some other veggies and they make it into a ball and fry it up you might have
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it you know put on your plate before you sit down but the cafes they'll have that
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there when you're going to get drinks it's a very common thing to have but there's other pastéis you can have as well in different flavorings and when I
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talk about pastéis what usually comes up are salgados and salgados are
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savory treats okay so one I like to have is a croqueta and the croqueta is
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basically meat paste battered and fried and you eat it now if you're used to
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croquetas in Spain it has more of a potato inside this one's all meat
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inside okay well meat purified it with something else yes it's a different
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thing than the Spanish croqueta but you have that also you can have coxinhos de
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frango it's something from Brazil and what it is it's shredded chicken and and then there's sometimes it's got the piri and then there's potatoes and then they put like
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a a shell around it of dough and then they fry it and it looks kind of like a teardrop okay
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and so you take a bite out of the top and you put piri piri that's the hot sauce you need the
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hot sauce when you're here you put that in there and eat that that's a really good one that was one
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of my go-to snacks to have when i was here and you'll probably see pau de queijo as well but
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that's a brazilian snack the cheese bread but if it's a brazilian bakery they'll have those that
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that can be a nice little snack too. Another international treat you'll see is
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samusas or chamusas, depending where you are in Portugal. The triangles that are filled with either beef
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or chicken or vegetables, you can have those. Again, put the piri-piri when you start eating
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you'll have those, those are quite nice. And then I think it's important to talk about empadas
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or empadinhas. Empadas are little pies So if you see a empada de galinha it like a little chicken pot pie And so they have those empares around And then usually at those kiosks those bars they have those Chickens inside sometimes they be veggie
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Tuna fish is also popular. Sometimes they'll be in the small, little tiny ones, sometimes medium size
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Sometimes you get a long, flat one as well. It looks like a cow tongue. That's usually with tuna fish inside, so be warned
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But honestly, the tuna fish one, better than you think it's going to be. Now, when you're going into the cafes for a drink
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You might notice something that looks like a muffin. And that thing that looks like a muffin is bol de ros, or a rice cake
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It's made out of rice, but it doesn't taste like a rice cake like if you're used to in the U.S. or in the U.K
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It's more like a muffin that has a rice thing in there, and it's actually got more of a lemon flavor
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Another thing you might see is like a half-shell thing, rizois, which is basically more dough, fried stuff with, like, shrimp or something
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There's different stuffings in there, but that's another one you can have. So you see there's a lot of like a lot of similar snacks you can have when you are here
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And I think when you're going to have those snacks, you should know the drinks to have when you're there
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I mean, one thing you need to realize is the Portuguese love their coffee. So you can get a cafe, it's coffee or uma bica, which is like an espresso
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You can have that. The beers here, cerveja is good. You can have this for an imperial, which is a small beer, a caneca, a big beer
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You can get wine when you're here as well. Vinho Verde is the green wine, which is like a very, it's like a slightly sparkling white wine
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That's really nice. you can have that, but the red wines and the white wines are both good when you're here
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I probably wouldn't go for port wine for a snack setting that's more of an after dinner
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drink when you're here in Portugal. And if you got your kids, I mean, they have all the sodas you want when you're here, but
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I think the best soda to have or soda-like drink to have for kids or adults that are
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thirsty is sumo. And sumo is just like an orange soda or a pineapple soda you can have, but it has like
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the fruit pulpiness in it. So it really tastes like you're more drinking like a juicy soda than like a Coke kind of soda
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I know my kids get it every time we come here. When I was flying in, my wife's asking, did you have sumo yet
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And yes, I had. So just know you can have that to kind of help you kind of cool off when you're going around
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and help you enjoy some of those snacks. So I hope that helps you know some of the snacks you might want to enjoy when you're here in Portugal
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There's so many good snacks to enjoy that even if the restaurants are closed from 3 to 7 or 3 to 8
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you still have plenty of opportunity to have great food as well. So what are your favorite snacks here in Portugal
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Please put it down in the comments below so other travelers here in Portugal can have some of those wonderful snacks as they wait until 8 p.m
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so they can actually go in the restaurant and then wait until about 8.30, 9 o'clock before your food comes
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Anyway, have a great time. Eat well when you're here in Portugal. Adios
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