Portuguese cooking is not complicated or very refined. Its strength lies in its simplicity and the superb quality of its sea-food. Fish & shellfish are magnificent in Portugal. You have trout, salmon and lampreys in rivers. Sea fish include sardines, swordfish, monk-fish, sea bass, tuna, hake, sole, turbot, shark and lesser fish such as the stickleback and dogfish. Then there are shell fish, lobster, crab, prawns, octopus and squid.