My Passion, My Life v2.0

At last, the food is here. I know many of you have been waiting for this entry.
CK Lam, Allie, SlowCatchUpKuan, CindyC … I know how much you guys indulge in food blogging, as trust me, I like to eat as much as you do! Hehe thank you very much for your comments, you guys inspired me to blog even more! Here you go with the food from Macao.

One step at a time, k? Jordin Sparks taught me this way.

So, what is the most-freaking-famous food in Macao? I bet you guys should have noticed the preview of my post in my *NEW* “Coming Up Next” sidebar section. Portuguese Egg Tart it is, and hence a prolonged introduction.

As many of you might know, Macau used to be colonized by the Portuguese for quite sometime and the cultural exchange is almost as much like some of the Serani’s in Malacca. Even now, wherever you go in Macao, there is signboards written in Portuguese language. But the funny thing is, when you ask any of the Chinese locals, they do not understand a single word of Portuguese, and the Portuguese locals,…they do not know anything much about the Chinese. Hmm…not much cultural exchange though, but definitely not for food.

The original Portuguese Egg Tart, as in the most famous one is located in the suburb of the furthest island down south called Coloane. Unfortunately, it is too far and I decided not to travel just for the tarts due to time constraint. My previous research about the tarts sold there are much cheaper, wider variety (they even sell bird nest egg tarts!) and tastes superb. But, I found this shop and it is equally famous in the heart of the city.

Margaret’s Cafe e Nata is the name of the shop. The shop is pretty hidden behind the tall buildings in the city and thank god there is a nice local lady who guided me there. If you are somewhere near Hotel Sintra, you know you are within 50m meters away. Just get yourself into the smaller lanes and you will notice a huge crowd enjoying the tarts… RM8 per egg tart, freakingly expensive for me, but heck I even packed a dozen all the way to Penang! Compared to the ones sold in Zhuhai, it is only RM2 per piece and it tastes smooth and tasty too. Well, you know…China maa… sure got ciplak stuff wan! LOL

Next, the road side stalls while on the way up to The Ruins of St. Paul. There got huge variety of Dried Sliced Meat (Bak Gua) and also some local cookies. Tastes equally nice like the Kiew Brothers of Malaysia but their slice of meat is thicker and way more expensive. Maybe it is because it is being sold at the highly visited tourism spot.

They’ve got the small restaurants selling local fast food like what they call the “Food Burger” or “Chinese Burger” … comes with the crystal milk tea. I thought it is just snacks but heck it is damn filling.

Luckily the way up to the Ruins of St. Paul is quite long, so by the time I returned downhill, I fully digested and ready to eat again LOL. This time, the fried and barbecue roadside stall selling fishballs, pork & chicken floss, etc… just like the ones sold at pasar malam. I must say Hong Kong, Macao and China’s curry fish ball beats our Malaysian ones FLAT! Even the ones sold in their 7-Eleven tastes so good!

Up next is about getting a proper meal at a restaurant. If you been to Dragon-i in Penang or KL, then you might have tasted the “Xiao Long Bao” and the Ramen before. This shop in Macao (near to Grand Lisboa Hotel) sells the similar type of food and has a similar concept. Pardon me for not knowing the name of the shop, I’m English medium educated.

This is the drunken chicken rice. The chicken is silky smooth boiled to perfection. Fret not, you won’t get drunk by eating this. You will get hungry and wanting for more food… only.

My dried ramen looks pretty much like the dried (kuan low) chilly pan mee we have in KL. Initially it comes without chilly, but somehow I have this habit of putting lots of chilly to my ramen. Oops, it did killed my taste buds for the moment.

The nicest part of dining in this restaurant is of course the “Xiao Long Bao” itself. Slowly suck up all the juice from the tiny hole of the “bao” before you gallop the whole “bao” into your mouth - that’s the proper way to eat a “Xiao Long Bao”.

Do notice that there’s only a few dishes from each place, it is not that we can’t eat much. We eat many times at different places LOL. I summed up at the end of the day, we ate 7-8 times each day. 2 days in Macao really did the damage to our tummy.

Next restaurant for dinner is the San Si Toi Chinese Cuisine at the Macao Peninsula. They serve pretty nice seafood at an affordable price.

We had this combo seafood porridge. inside this porridge, there are crabs, prawns, scallops and paddy frog (tin kai). It supposed to be a one person meal but 3 of us had to struggle to finish it. Total mistake by the chef, we could not proceed to eat anymore supper. Bloated.

Also, we ordered the Chicken Feet noodle. Supposed to be a backup since we only ordered a “single-person” porridge. Hmm… bloated and re-bloated again. It was worth it though. I like the soup.

Enough anot? The following day, right before departing we still managed to grab ourself 2 types of spicy beef noodle.

Indeed it was “save the best for last”. Ever since I touched down for this Macao-Zhuhai trip, the spicy beef noodle never fail to impress me. Spicy-ness level: top notch. Beef meat: nicely cook and tantalizing. Noodle: awesomely handmade. I think I tried 5-6 types of beef noodles in my overall 4D3N trip. This special one is surprisingly found at Macao International Airport!

When I reached my hotel room, I weighed myself. I did not believe it. I double checked my weight when I returned to Penang. I again found myself in disbelief. I only gained 1 kilogram? Where the hell did my food go???

*the ladies gonna kill me for my last sentence, LOL*

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