Portugal

🇵🇹Centro, Portugal

Queijo Serra da Estrela

Queijo da Serra da Estrela

Creamy sheep's milk cheese from the Serra da Estrela mountains, curdled with thistle.

🇵🇹Azores, Portugal

Queijo São Jorge

Hard Azorean cow's-milk cheese, PDO.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Queijo Terrincho

Transmontano sheep cheese, PDO.

🇵🇹Portugal

Rabanada

Portuguese-style French toast soaked in milk, fried, and rolled in cinnamon sugar.

🇵🇹Portugal

Rissóis

Breaded and fried savory turnovers filled with shrimp, meat, or cod.

🇲🇴Macao

Roast Suckling Pig

Leitão assado no forno

Leitão assado no forno is Portuguese roast suckling pig, slow-roasted until the skin is crisp and the meat is tender.

🇵🇹Portugal

Rocha Pear

Pêra Rocha do Oeste

Pêra Rocha do Oeste is a protected Portuguese pear from Oeste with green-yellow skin, russeting, crisp-to-melting flesh, and balanced sweetness.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Rojões

Minho braised pork pieces, often served with potatoes.

🇵🇹Porto, Portugal

Sanduíche de pernil

Sanduíche de pernil is a roast-pork sandwich served in Porto and São Paulo, with sliced pork piled into a crusty roll and optional cheese.

🇧🇷Bahia, Brazil

Sarapatel

A Brazilian offal stew of pork or beef blood, liver, heart and tripe, cooked with tomatoes, peppers and vinegar. Dark, rich and popular in Bahia and the northeast. In Pernambuco the cow-foot version is known as sarapatel de mocotó.

🇵🇹Portugal

Sardinha em Lata

Sardinha em lata is a Portuguese packaged product of sardines preserved in olive oil, tomato, or spiced sauces in illustrated tins.

🇲🇴Macao

Sawdust Pudding

Serradura

Macau's iconic dessert; whipped cream layered with crushed Marie biscuit crumbs; the name means sawdust in Portuguese, referring to the biscuit crumbs; impossibly simple but tastes like childhood; a Macanese invention; served cold in a glass; the texture varies according to the cream; the dessert that defines Macau's sweet culture.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Sericaia

An airy, cinnamon-dusted egg pudding from Alentejo, often served with Elvas plum.

🇵🇹Madeira, Portugal

Sidra da Madeira

Sidra da Madeira is a crisp island cider fermented from Madeiran apples, served cold with a tart, orchard-fruit finish.

🇵🇹Lisbon Region, Portugal

Sopa caramela

Sopa caramela is a Portuguese soup from Palmela, built around a seasoned broth and the region’s staple ingredients.

🇵🇹Lisbon Region, Portugal

Sopa da Pedra

Sopa da Pedra is Almeirim’s bean soup enriched with chouriço, pork, vegetables, and a stone-soup legend.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Sopa de cação

Alentejo shark, bread and coriander soup.

🇵🇹Algarve, Portugal

Sopa de lingueirão

Sopa de lingueirão is a Portuguese soup from Algarve, built around a seasoned broth and the region’s staple ingredients.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Sopa de tomate alentejana

Sopa de tomate alentejana is a Portuguese soup from Évora District, built around a seasoned broth and the region’s staple ingredients.

🇯🇵Japan

Tempura

天ぷら

Seafood and vegetables in a light, airy batter, deep-fried to a delicate golden crisp.

🇧🇷Minas Gerais, Brazil

Torresmo

Crispy fried pieces of pork belly or rind, a bar snack and side dish from Minas Gerais. Salty, crackling and often served with lime and farofa.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Toucinho do Céu

A rich almond and egg yolk sweet from Guimarães, despite the name meaning bacon from heaven.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Touriga Nacional

Portugal's flagship red grape, used for both Port and powerful dry reds.

🇵🇹Lisbon Region, Portugal

Travesseiros

Long, sugar-dusted pastrys from Sintra with a soft egg-cream filling.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Tripas aos molhos

Tripas aos molhos is a Portuguese meat dish from Vila Real District, cooked with local seasoning until the defining cut is tender and well browned.

🇵🇹Centro, Portugal

Tripas de Aveiro

Tripas de Aveiro is a Portuguese pancake from Aveiro, made from a thin batter and served with its regional sweet filling or topping.

🇵🇹Porto, Portugal

Tripas à Moda do Porto

Porto-style tripe and bean stew with chorizo, a hearty dish that gave Porto its nickname Tripeiros.

🇵🇹Braga, Portugal

Tíbias de Braga

Tíbias de Braga is a Portuguese sweet from Braga, shaped as a pastry and finished with its characteristic sugar, nut, or egg filling.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Vinho Verde

Young, lightly effervescent white wine from Minho with citrus and green-apple notes.