How do you like your chicken?

[Cajun]

I grew up in the Boston area and I live here now. We have a large Portuguese and Portuguese-speaking community (Brazilians, Cape Verdeans, etc.) here. But piri piri chicken isn't a thing locally.

When I lived in South Florida, I discovered piri piri chicken through South African cuisine. It's actually my favorite type of chicken.

When I was a kid, my best friend was half Puerto Rican and his PR mother would make arroz con pollo. That was my favorite form of chicken before I discovered piri piri.

As a teenager, my best friend was half black and half Irish. His black grandmother who was originally from Memphis would make southern fried chicken. Goddamn that was good too. I've had the privilege of enjoying cuisines from all over the US and the world as a whole.

I lived in Boston for 7.5 years. Was really surprised how large the Brazilian population is in Mass. Really enjoyed my time in Boston. Great city (except the cost of living lol). You ever try Shabu Shabu? They had a place in China town called Kaze. One of the things I miss most. They have it here but nowhere I found is as good as that one.

As far as chicken goes, I have never had Portuguese chicken. Spent 2 weeks in South Africa and don't remember piri piri. *Looks up both. And I don't know if I have a favorite chicken style. Love all chicken. But my favorite dish with chicken is chicken and sausage gumbo. That is hard to beat.

 

[Cajun]

The Japanese build a strong tolerance for this kind of eating. Usually the sushi restaurants in America aren’t truly raw. So you have American tourists visiting Japan, thinking they like raw sushi until they truly eat raw sushi for the first time and get mad sick.

It's just really fresh. Had raw chicken, shrimp, horse meat, whale etc in Japan with no issues.

 

[Hollywood Jack]

I lived in Boston for 7.5 years. Was really surprised how large the Brazilian population is in Mass. Really enjoyed my time in Boston. Great city (except the cost of living lol). You ever try Shabu Shabu? They had a place in China town called Kaze. One of the things I miss most. They have it here but nowhere I found is as good as that one.

As far as chicken goes, I have never had Portuguese chicken. Spent 2 weeks in South Africa and don't remember piri piri. *Looks up both. And I don't know if I have a favorite chicken style. Love all chicken. But my favorite dish with chicken is chicken and sausage gumbo. That is hard to beat.

Yeah. I hadn't had too much interaction with the Brazilian community until 10th grade. I was in public schools for grades K-6. Grades 7-9 was at a couple of private schools. For 10-12, I went back to public school until I graduated high school. The high school I went to had a TON of Brazilian students, most of them basically FOB. I started 10th grade in the mid 90s, so that probably explains a lot. Brazilians came to the US later than Italians or Irish or even Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, etc.

BIG Portuguese/Portuguese-speaking population but not too many restaurants for whatever reason. Especially when I was younger. We'd get the Portuguese sweet bread. But no piri piri chicken unfortunately. I didn't even realize it was Portuguese at first. I thought it was South African. I found out later that Portuguese immigrants brought it to South Africa. The SA version is pretty damn good in my experience. It'd be awesome if the Portuguese version is even better...

Awhile back in Boston, A LOT of people working in kitchens were Brazilian. Like you'd go to a nice Italian restaurant in the North End, and it'd be all Brazilian guys back there making the food and washing the dishes, etc. The last time I went to a fancy Italian restaurant in the North End, I walked past the kitchen to take a piss and it was all Mexican guys playing Mexican music and talking in Spanish instead of Portuguese. Not sure why that's changed, but...



PS - Didn't really know any Mexicans growing up. My brother had a girlfriend when I was around 18 who was half Mexican/half Irish, but she looked more like a Puerto Rican.

 

[I Am Legion]

I eat chicken in so many ways. Grilled, BBQ, in Burritos, tacos, roasted, in Arroz Con Pollo, Smoked, shit I could Bubba Gump this shit.

My all time favorite is Saltimbocca:

 

[Cajun]

I eat chicken in so many ways. Grilled, BBQ, in Burritos, tacos, roasted, in Arroz Con Pollo, Smoked, shit I could Bubba Gump this shit.

My all time favorite is Saltimbocca:

Never had this one either. Looks awesome though. Need to start taking some notes from this thread.

 

[Jesus X]

I lived in Boston for 7.5 years. Was really surprised how large the Brazilian population is in Mass. Really enjoyed my time in Boston. Great city (except the cost of living lol). You ever try Shabu Shabu? They had a place in China town called Kaze. One of the things I miss most. They have it here but nowhere I found is as good as that one.

As far as chicken goes, I have never had Portuguese chicken. Spent 2 weeks in South Africa and don't remember piri piri. *Looks up both. And I don't know if I have a favorite chicken style. Love all chicken. But my favorite dish with chicken is chicken and sausage gumbo. That is hard to beat.

I met a lot of brazilians in Arizona oddly enough they go there for some reason.

 

[Cajun]

I met a lot of brazilians in Arizona oddly enough they go there for some reason.

Interesting the states they choose to congregate. Im not sure why. Mass is the furtherest thing from Brazil both in terms of proximity and climate.

 

[Squintz]

chicken fried steak

 

[heavy_hands]

too many great dishes to pick one but I made a killer chicken parmesan a few days ago

 

[crabmeat]