When traveling, what else do you care about besides enjoying the views? That's right, gourmet food, of course! If you want to enjoy the best cuisine while viewing places of interest, Macau is definitely the first choice. There's a variety of food to offer, each of which will leave you salivating and endlessly unforgettable! Now let's take a look at the top 10 classics of Macau!
1. Portuguese egg tarts
Authentic Portuguese egg tarts, tarts are fragrant and crispy, the filling is full of milk flavor, and the crunchy tart skin and the smooth filling bite into the mouth, it is really evocative.
2. Wood bran burdon
"Wood bran" is a detritus made from Mary biscuits ground. The pudding is made up of Mary biscuit crumbs and creams, which taste similar to cream but not as thick as cream. Cookie crumbs neutralize the sweetness of the incorruptibility, making the pudding sweet but not greasy, and melting in the mouth.
3. Crispy pork chop buns
Pork chop bun is also a famous street food in Macau, the so-called pork chop bun, which is a delicious pork chop with crispy bread. The pork chops are delicious and very soft, and the bread is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the taste is excellent. Although it is only a simple combination, it can eat a different taste!
4. Large vegetable cake
The desserts that accompany the older generation of Macao to grow up belong to the classic nostalgic snacks of Macao. The entrance of the big vegetable cake is cool and smooth, the shape is frozen, but it is slightly harder than the jelly, and the taste is more abundant than the jelly, and many tourists will use the big vegetable cake as an after-dinner dessert.
5. Bamboo noodles
Also known as Bamboo Noodles. The dough maker sits on a thick bamboo stick and repeatedly presses for 2 hours, making the noodles thin and tough. The people of Macau love bamboo noodles to a greater extent than the Beijingers' love for fried sauce noodles, the Shanxi people for knife-cut noodles, and the Sichuan people's love for Dan dan noodles. Bamboo noodles are usually paired with fresh shrimp wonton, shrimp (made from dried shrimp eggs) or crab yellow, and when mixed, they can be eaten.
6. Mashed potatoes
Macau's mashed potatoes are absolutely unbeatable, and being able to make this simple side dish so delicious really requires superb cooking skills. This dish is silky and delicate to eat, and is cooked with a mixture of potatoes and cream in a 2:1 ratio.
7. Portuguese chicken
One of Macau's authentic delicacies is chicken nuggets and potato nuggets mixed with a Portuguese sauce made of coconut milk and curry, sprinkled with a little portuguese sausage and black olives, and baked in the oven for a while. The most famous way to eat it is mixed with Macau's famous pork bag, or bibimbap.
8. Ma Jie Hugh Ball
It is a pickled salted cod in Portugal, transliterated from the Portuguese language: Bacalhau. The fried, cookable, sautéed and grilled Ma JieXiu is one of the indispensable ingredients in authentic Portuguese restaurants. Fried Ma Jie Hu Ball is a traditional Portuguese snack, the main ingredients are potato paste and Ma Jie Hu Rong, freshly baked Ma Jie Hu Ball crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, which is very popular throughout Portugal and even the entire Mediterranean region.
9. African chicken
Its status in Macau can be said to be on a par with the Portuguese chicken. It is said that the Portuguese sailed all the way and brought African spices, Indian spices, Southeast Asian spices such as curry, jade gui, etc., combined with Guangdong cooking, to form a unique "Macao local cuisine". Although this "Local Macau Dish" carries some shadow of traditional Portuguese cuisine, the ingredients, cooking techniques and dishes are all influenced by Cantonese cuisine. The baked chicken is tender and juicy, can be eaten with bread or rice, sweet and spicy, very delicious.
10. Exempted beef rice
The common "dish head rice" in Macao tea restaurants refers to the rice and vegetable brine put on a plate to eat, which is similar to the rice pouring, and is divided into two kinds: dry and wet. Dry beef rice is a mixture of minced beef, minced onion and fried diced potatoes, stir-fried together, served with white rice and a sun egg. Wet beef rice is stir-fried with thick eggplant sauce on the basis of dry and free treatment, which is more like meat sauce rice.