Uncovering the ILLEGAL Chinese Restaurants of Lisbon 🇵🇹

Lisbon has had an issue with illegal Chinese Resturants popping up in apartment complexes and filled with illegal workers, after heaps raids and shutdowns they still exist and can still be found if you know where to search.

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[expat]

If they got raided while you were there, great chance to use the "What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?"

[RicLora]

As someone who watches loads of food reviews on YT (the weirder the better), you have no idea how refreshing it is for one of you to finally call out a shitty meal for being a shitty meal. So sick to death of every single reviewer saying that everything they put in their mouth is amazing because they are afraid it will affect their views if they don't. This is how it's done.

[davidximenes]

This place got raided this week, the police went there while people were having a "nice cozy lunch". They went to the kitchen and found cockroaches, rats, bad gas instalation and it was dirty all over the place. I mean, its a restaurant in a house what else do you want

[fichatripla]

Portuguese here.
There are a few of these clandestine chinese places that will only open the downstairs door, after having a look from top floor.
For the first one you just came to early and didnt ring the bell.
Also, the 'famous' one is legal.

[redsol]

Bro, I've been looking for someone who produces this content for so long. Watching you explore is a meditative experience.

[SpringLeafWolf]

It's really cool to see this. Restaurant apartments became normal in NYC during the pandemic. You couldn't eat inside, but cooks started selling their food from their apartments to get by, even better if they had a 1st floor apartment they could just pass the food out the window.

[Souliacc]

I'm portuguese and I've been to these chinese restaurants before, at the time, they served really nice food and they're really open minded and generally nice. I remember smoking blunts inside the actual restaurant when they were about to close, good times

[eonbettencourt]

Love your YouTube channel, I live in Lisbon and I’ve checked those illegal Chinese restaurants and I think the last one you visited is not illegal it’s a tourist trap and yes the food was terrible when I visited too.

[McEnomics]

Portugal - decriminalise drugs, criminalise fried rice

[MileRunningCrocodile]

The way this channel has been picked up by the algorythm is insane.
The subcount has risen soo much over the past few weeks / month.

Keep going cuzzzz ! :p

[Reginald]

Come a long way since the hood talks brother. the food content and hood exploring is absalute gold. Look forward too the next one 👍🏽

[Shansfishroom]

Love all your videos brother. Proud of how far you have come. Big ups

[Megaban]

As a Lisboner, I can tell that the last one is not ''illegal''. It was better in the past, now it is just another chinese restaurant in Lisbon. The first one is one i've never been at and will be definitely visiting thanks to you.
Props my man. Keep that up!

[LRVUU]

We all grew up watching Neighbours and there's something so comforting hearing an authentic Aussie accent. Adding "It's full poo-land" to my database of Australian adjectives. GOD bless this man!

[suffa]

Are you legal Coke Zero, did you come here legally !!! HAAHAHHAH had me dying 😂😂😂

[orange]

It’s crazy cause my ex girlfriend actually took me to one of these illegal Chinese restaurants in Lisbon like 10 years ago! Brings me fond memories. And I ended up traveling to China and living there for 5 years😂

[LotusAquatics]

I have been to an illegal pakistani restaurant in Lisbon. There are no menus and you simply order "food for 1" or "food for two". They did not sell alcohol but you were welcomed to bring your own. Food was not fancy but was really simple homemade and good. The price was inviting.

[joca]

Wait a minute, I used to go to that first restaurant but back in the day the owners were Africans and so was the food. They made an awesome "cachupa". There was always a crazy guy at the door that welcomed clients. I'm sure that many people recognize the place, I just can't remember how we used to call it. We would have "diner" at like 5am after leaving Alcantara Mar (best disco ever).

[Macaroniseller]

The housing problems are huge in Lisbon.

From what I’ve heard: A few years ago, the Chinese started coming in to invest in real estate in exchange for ‘Golden visas’. The buildings they bought are left to sh*t, unliveable, and will only, at some point be sold once 5x’ed I reckon. Therefore not much new housing is being offered. The government really f’ed the locals over with that. Rents are sky high.

[aneanderthalscout]

I'm an Australian born who's half Chinese Timorese and have had family born in all sorts of Portuguese speaking places such as Macau, Brazil, East Timor, Mozambique and including Portugal aswell of course for the past few centuries. I've been to Lisboa during 2017 when I was 14yrs old to visit the rest of my family as we've had a family reunion gathering and haven't met with the cousins until that time and I'm really surprised I've never heard of or went to one of these places at all. This has been an eye-opening experience to say the least, it's pretty sus to be eating at a "restaurant" in a literal apartment lol, but the food actually looks pretty good although I wouldn't really trust it to be honest (still most likely healthier than McDonalds or KFC though).