For a soup we suggest you to try Caldo Verde (green vegetable soup) and for starters ameijoas (clams) together with chouri?o (Portuguese sausage) and olives. Cozido Portuguesa is also very popular. Carne de Porco Alentejana (from the Alentejo province of Portugal ) and sardines (sardinhas assadas are especially tasty during summer time) all evoke images of Portugal . In addition all these restaurants serve Portugal 's beloved bacalhau (codfish). There are literally hundreds of ways of cooking the codfish. Try Bacalhau Gomes de S (prepared with egg and onions), Bacalhau com Natas (with cream) or Bacalhau Assado (grilled). For dessert try delicious serradura or any of the convent sweets; barrigas de freira, papos de anjo, toucinho do c u, doce de ovos, etc.
As is to be expected, Chinese cuisine is of excellent quality in Macau . Restaurants are found in every part of the city and on the islands. Most serve Cantonese food but some specialize. If you're in Macau during the winter time try Ta Pin Nou, a Chinese version of fondu with a huge variety of different seafood, meats and vegetables that are boiled in a tureen on the clients' table.
Chinese menus are long and varied, but include all the favourites: sharks' fin soup, sweet and sour pork, fried chicken, meat with vegetables, steamed fish, beancurd or tofu prepared in several ways, Peking duck and Beggar's Chicken. Try different kinds of noodles, which are called "fitas" in Macau , and rice. For more exotic dishes take a look and maybe try the restaurants in Rua da Felicidade (parallel to the main street Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro) where snakes, frogs, eels, seafood and fish -- many of them alive -- are on display in tanks in the windows.
In Africa and India the Portuguese learned how to use spices with the result that Macau’s most popular dishes include African and Goan’s chicken and piquant prawns, all baked or grilled with peppers and chilies.
Some ingredients such as Portuguese sausage and sardines are imported but most foodstuffs come from the fertile Pearl River Delta and Bountiful water of the South China Sea . Local produce includes quail, pigeon, duck, fresh vegetables, the famous Macau sole, African chicken and enormous juicy prawns.
In contrast are the restaurants serving Dim Sum, a favourite of all foreigners and one of Southern China 's great gifts to dining. Here are the names of some Dim Sum favourites: H Kau (steamed dumplings filled with shrimp), Shiu Mai (steamed dumplings stuffed with pork and shrimp), Tsun Guen (shrimp fried rolls, stuffed with pork, chicken, mushrooms, bamboo sprouts and beans), Char Siu Pau (steamed buns stuffed with pork), Ngau I k (little beef balls seasoned with ginger), Tchau min (fried noodles) and Tchau fan ( fried rice).
Over the centuries Macau developed a unique cuisine that combined elements of Portuguese, Chinese, Indian, and even Malay cooking. Among the most popular dishes are African Chicken (grilled in piri piri peppers), Tacho (a hearty stew of Chinese vegetables and different meats), Galinha Portuguesa (Chicken cooked in the oven together with potatoes, onions, egg and saffron), Minchi (minced beef with fried potatoes, soy, onions and a fried egg), Linguado Macau (Macau sole fried and usually served with green salad) and Porco balich?o (Balich?o' pork). And for dessert try Jagra de ovos (sweet egg tart
燒餅 Clay oven rolls
油條 Fried bread stick
韭菜盒 Fried leek dumplings
水餃 Boiled dumplings
蒸餃 Steamed dumplings
饅頭 Steamed buns
割包 Steamed sandwich
飯團 Rice and vegetable roll
蛋餅 Egg cakes
皮蛋 100-year egg
鹹鴨蛋 Salted duck egg
豆漿 Soybean milk
稀飯 Rice porridge
白飯 Plain white rice
油飯 Glutinous oil rice
糯米飯 Glutinous rice
鹵肉飯 Braised pork rice
蛋炒飯 Fried rice with egg
地瓜粥 Sweet potato congee
餛飩面 Wonton ＆ noodles
刀削面 Sliced noodles
麻辣面 Spicy hot noodles
麻醬面 Sesame paste noodles
鴨肉面 Duck with noodles
鱔魚面 Eel noodles
烏龍面 Seafood noodles
榨菜肉絲面 Pork , pickled mustard green noodles
牡蠣細面 Oyster thin noodles
板條 Flat noodles
米粉 Rice noodles
炒米粉 Fried rice noodles
冬粉 Green bean noodle
魚丸湯 Fish ball soup
貢丸湯 Meat ball soup
蛋花湯 Egg ＆ vegetable soup
蛤蜊湯 Clams soup
牡蠣湯 Oyster soup
紫菜湯 Seaweed soup
酸辣湯 Sweet ＆ sour soup
餛飩湯 Wonton soup
豬腸湯 Pork intestine soup
肉羹湯 Pork thick soup
魷魚湯 Squid soup
花枝羹 Squid thick soup
愛玉 Vegetarian gelatin
糖葫蘆 Tomatoes on sticks
長壽桃 Longevity Peaches
芝麻球 Glutinous rice sesame balls
麻花 Hemp flowers
雙胞胎 Horse hooves
點 心
牡蠣煎 Oyster omelet
臭豆腐 Stinky tofu (Smelly tofu)
油豆腐 Oily bean curd
麻辣豆腐 Spicy hot bean curd
蝦片 Prawn cracker
蝦球 Shrimp balls
春卷 Spring rolls
蛋卷 Chicken rolls
碗糕 Salty rice pudding
筒仔米糕 Rice tube pudding
紅豆糕 Red bean cake
綠豆糕 Bean paste cake
糯米糕 Glutinous rice cakes
蘿蔔糕 Fried white radish patty
芋頭糕 Taro cake
肉圓 Taiwanese Meatballs
水晶餃 Pyramid dumplings
肉丸 Rice-meat dumplings
豆幹 Dried tofu
冰 類
綿綿冰 Mein mein ice
麥角冰 Oatmeal ice
地瓜冰 Sweet potato ice
紅豆牛奶冰 Red bean with milk ice
八寶冰 Eight treasures ice
豆花 Tofu pudding
果 汁
甘蔗汁 Sugar cane juice
酸梅汁 Plum juice
楊桃汁 Star fruit juice
青草茶 Herb juice
其 他
當歸鴨 Angelica duck
檳榔 Betel nut
火鍋 Hot pot