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>> jose: ehh, special big cities, especially oporto, it's changed a lot. it was never a tourist town. now it's packed with tourists. >> anthony: so is that good news or bad news? >> jose: it's good news, it's good. i mean it's good for the economy, especially if you came up during the financial crisis and all that. so, it was a great help for the city. >> anthony: i mean it looks even prettier than it looked last time. they seemed to have fixed up a lot of buildings. >> jose: because this downtown area, historically oporto was completely degraded. old buildings collapsing with the flux of tour...

>> anthony: during the cold gray months, it's lamprey season. oh, hell yeah. so i'm here at just the right time. what do you call this dish in portuguese? it's lamprey eel? >> ricardo: yeah, lamprey bordelaise. >> anthony: awesome. lamprey are butt ugly damn creatures, but delicious when cooked right and my man pedro knows how to cook it right. very traditional, cooked in its own blood. >> ricardo: yeah, its bordelaise style, when it's bordelaise it means it has the blood. >> anthony: mm, it's good. it's fantastic.

Grappa to get them drunk so the meat gets tender. >> anthony: it's the least you can do. >> jose: exactly. >> anthony: here, right here on jose's family farm is where i saw my first animal die. a pig too, this after years and decades of being a chef, serving meat, ordering up my death over the phone at a comfortable distance. up close, it was not so comfortable. >> anthony: i think he's starting to get the bad news. >> jose: and that's their dna, they know what's going to happen, and they know -- >> anthony: they know it's coming. yeah well, the pigs are smart. >> jose: and sometimes they mana...

>> anthony: good to meet you both. those who know me even a little bit are familiar with my unholy attraction to the mutant hotdog. is it actually called a hotdog here or is it called -- >> sofia: here we call it quiosque. >> anthony: quiosque. >> sofia: toasted bread, fresh sausage. >> anthony: fresh pork sausage. >> sofia: and a cheese and spicy sauce. >> anthony: and spicy sauce? >> joana: and cut in a very specific way. >> anthony: wow i really, fast knife work. >> sofia: he's asking if you want fork and knife, no we can eat it with the -- our hands. >> anthony: this is delicious. >> joana...

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