If you want to eat the best Macau food, there are many top choices. The stunning variety of distinction cuisine available in Macau makes this small but international city a paradise for food lovers.

Macanese Cuisine

With over 450 years of history, Macanese cuisine is unique and irresistible. It is a special combination of Portuguese and Chinese cuisines. Common cooking techniques include bake, grill and roast. Signature dishes include African Chicken, Macanese Chili Shrimps and Crabs. The best bake Macau food would be ‘Baked Duck Rice’. Different chef produces different specialty, but some can make it crunchy with gold color outside, soft and chewy inside. For the grill dishes, the most popular being grilled sardine or eel. Roast veal and lamb are also widely popular.

Portuguese Cuisine

With Macau’s unique historical background, here you can find the most authentic Portuguese cuisine away from Portugal. Typically seasoned with salt and various spices – Portuguese cuisine has a briny and zesty combination. Bacalhau is one of the highlight of Portuguese cuisine which can be prepared in more than a thousand delicious ways. Most popular dishes include deep fried bacalhau cakes, bacalhau fried rice, stir fried cabbage with bacalhau. I must say this is one of the best Macau foods that you must try.

Dessert is also featured. “Serradura” is the item that cannot be missed.

Local Favourites and Snacks

Street foods can be extremely delicious, unique and rich in local Macau taste. Some of the local signature dishes are the ‘must-try’ items, though they are usually found on the streets. Two of the Macanese snacks, Portuguese egg tarts and pork chop buns are highly favoured by Hong Kong people. Some shops even have customers lining up just for a pork chop bun. You can smell the fragrance while walking on the street. Another uniquely renowned local snack is ginger milk. Milk being controlled to a certain temperature being poured into ginger juice will cause the milk to curdle. Hence it has to be made to order making it extremely fresh and silky smooth.

Avenida de Almeida Robeiro, Rua da Felicidade, Travessa do Matadouro and Rua do Cunha in Taipa Village are the streets to find local snacks. Packed with shops selling Macau’s delicacies including almond cakes, egg rolls, peanut candies, roasted beef/pork sheets and many local specialties with so many options to choose from. Some of the snacks are even cooked right in front of you, such as the making of egg rolls, baking of almond cakes and making of peanut candies. Almost all of those shops offer free tasting. Apart from enjoying them yourself, these items are best handy souvenirs for friends.

International Buffet

If you want to taste a bit of everything, buffet is quite an option although it may not include all the best Macau food that you want to eat. But you need to be very careful as buffet restaurants quality varies widely. One that is most quality guaranteed and reasonably priced is 888 Buffet situated within the Vegas style casino Sands.