@freemo I am sure you can find it easy in Philly. Any large city should have an immigrant community, and the stores have many great food items.

I will have to prepare and share a post about Chouriço too!

@freemo Piri-Piri was a surprise discovery for me too -- even growing up on a spice loving country, I had never encountered it. It is linked to the Great Navigations, and I have talked about it with friends in Philippines, India and Japan that confirm it can be found there.

Amazing traditions and history. I love the taste of it, not caustic, just yummy and adds much flare.

@design_RG We have mexican Chorizo here, a similar sausage by the looks of it.

I'm sure the portugese variety has some differences but its certainly similar. I had the portuguese variety a lot in the Netherlands.

The problem with finding spanish and portuguese foods here is that unless you find a store devoted to spanish/portugese you will find a lot of blending with mexican ingredients and not really get an authentic expiernce.

But yea in terms of food philly has far more ethnic selection than many cities. we love our food and as someone who loves to cook its a nice city to be in.

I will often mix in ethnic foods into what I make. I bought some.

We have a particularly strong italian and mexican presence here which allows me to get some odd food from time to time. I recently found some of this cheese and its sitting in my fridge: https://www.sardiniafooddistrict.com/en/goat-milk-cheese/9-cazu-de-crabittu.html