When it comes to Macau cuisine, many people immediately think of a series of snacks such as egg tarts, pork buns, beef offal, eggs, curry fish balls, and many Michelin restaurants, including 18 Michelin restaurant and dozens of Michelin recommended restaurants.
Perhaps, you may not be interested in numbers and legends, but if you have really experienced them, you may feel more deeply.
My feelings about Macao, no matter which restaurant or food stall, are delicious. You don't have to read the food guide. Sometimes when you walk into an obscure restaurant, the food you cook will still be impressive.
This may be one of the reasons why Macau was rated as the four gourmet capitals of China by UNESCO. The other three cities are Chengdu, Shunde and Yangzhou, each with its own characteristics.
Some people may argue that food is more profound and delicious, but I want to say, experience it yourself, even if it is a roadside snack for comparison. I live in Beijing and have been to many cities. Compared with the palm-sized Macao, it is not necessarily comparable.
This time in Macau, I went to a place called Quezai Garden, where there is a century-old vegetable market surrounded by enviable food and snacks. Tourists generally don't know this place, but if you ask the local people, they will generally say that the snacks here are authentic.
Quezai Garden originated from 1863 and was originally an open-air market. Later 1939 was demolished and a western-style vegetable market was built until today. We came here specially to find snacks, only to find that every family is delicious. We are full, but we eat a lot.
Rice rolls, pork intestines noodles, chicken wings noodles, beef noodles, Hainan chicken rice, fried ribs, Dongyin Gong, etc. Everything is delicious, and it's especially delicious. In fact, there are not many stalls and small shops, but each one is really delicious and the price is very cheap.
I am very emotional, why can they cook so delicious?
Macao people told me that many small shops have existed since childhood, and they still exist today. In fact, many shopkeepers don't need to go out to make money, and the money at home is enough for the elderly, but for the sake of their neighbors, they usually continue to do it, perhaps because they have formed a habit. I can't help thinking of the place where I grew up. There is an old man selling newspapers at the door, who has been selling newspapers here for 56 years.
This may be the so-called craftsmanship. Are their snacks delicious because they are made of good materials, enough materials and treated with a normal heart?
The bird garden is really a gathering place for snacks. I strongly recommend giving it a try. I won't recommend any one in particular, because they are all delicious.
For example, as far away as the Sixth Ring Road in the south of Macau, there is the headquarters of Andrew Egg Tart. There are all kinds of delicious food around. I remember eating abalone noodles at Luhuan Coffee, which was 72 Australian dollars a bowl, and it was also delicious. In addition, there is also a super famous local cafe among online celebrities: Hanji handmade coffee. Coffee is delicious, noodles are super delicious, but the facade looks like an ordinary food stall.
For example, there are many snacks on Fifth Avenue in October. TVB's TV series "Macau Street" is about this old street, which has a history of several decades to hundreds of years, including Pinfang bakery, Ji Fen roasted meat, Cantonese opera teahouse, Nanping Xu Ya and even a century-old drugstore. The old man who barbecued in Ji Fen is very old. He is called the best barbecue in the universe by the locals, but the shop looks very humble.
Of course, there are more famous places like Rua do Cunha, all kinds of cakes, all kinds of stories, and many unknown snacks. After nightfall, many food stalls and restaurants are very busy, such as Huiji seafood and Prince Fishing Village, which are all good places to eat supper, and each dish is particularly particular.
Besides these snacks, the food in those colorful restaurants is also delicious. Like Wynn Palace, every dish is unique. Like the Italian restaurant in Galaxy Hotel, western food is delicious. Of course, Portuguese food is also worth mentioning. A Portuguese descendant named Anna is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, Portuguese and English. She opened an "old place" in Longfu Street, known as Shark's fin Street, which has a unique name in China. She said that Portuguese food and Portuguese food are actually two concepts, and Portuguese food is actually a fusion of Chinese and Western. The dishes she cooked were delicious, too.
It is said that it is a place of cultural integration and the food is particularly delicious. Hong Kong, Vancouver, Sydney and other places are delicious places for Chinese food, and Macau is certainly one of them. It is said that Macao chefs have won gold medals in the World Food Competition for many years.
I don't just think that the fusion of cultures or the ingenious persistence of craftsmen have shaped Macao's cuisine. More than 30 square kilometers, more than 600 thousand people, a small place, a university asked.