After our excursion to the Venetian, we walked to the nearby food haven, Taipa Village. It is basically a street filled with small shops selling Macau street food. One of the famous souvenir food shop in Macau is Koi Kei, famous for their almond biscuits and bak kwa. My friends bought a big packet of pepper BBQ meat.
Unlike most BBQ meat, the shop uses the whole meat, without mincing them. Yes, the meat is slightly on the tough side, but still very tasty and great to munch on. We finished the whole packet on the spot!
Just near Taipa Village is a famed shop, 新好利咖啡饼店 ( San Hou Lei Bakery ). They are famous for their Pork Chop Bun , Egg Tarts and Bird Nest Tarts.
We got a couple of Bird Nest Tarts to try it out. They were fresh out of the oven and were piping hot still!
Unfortunately, they had run out of buns, so we got the Pork Chop Sandwich instead. Its pork chop was a little fat. Unknown to us then, we'll be tasting a better Pork Chop Bun the following morning.
What would a trip to Macau be without sampling their famous Macanese food ( Portuguese fusion). Alorcha Restaurant happens to be the most famous in the island. We saw many patrons turned away at the door due to it being fully booked. Thank god we were smart enough to reserve weeks before.
One famous Macanese dish is the Grilled African Chicken. The chicken is served with a tangy, sour sauce which did not fail to whet our appetite, even though we were already stuffed from all the snacks we had all day long.
This is mixed seafood rice, which due to its wet appearance, tasted and looked like the Italian Risotto. The sauce was flavourful and the rice fragrant. Overall a very very good dish.
This is what the Macanese call the Bacalhau Fritters, or fried codfish fritters. It was very salty and made me really thirsty. It was flavourful, but i wished the chef had been a little light on the salt.
Ahhh...Lemon Coke.... a Hong Kong and Macau specialty. It tasted a little odd at first, but i soon got used to the flavour.
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