Category: Breakfast

25th August 2021

Chui Yuen Kei Macaroni

Every time after a weekend Coloane trial hiking, we would definitely go for a quick visit “The furious Macaroni guy”; Coloane Chui Yuen Macaroni Cha Chaan Teng. Though it sounds scary; the name actually came from my husband one time when he hurried rushing for his “food order”. The shop go extremely busy and causes this old folk made a...

Categories Alleyways/Breakfast/Cha Chaan Teng/Family Recipe/Intense soup/Macau Culture/Old Street/Photography/Rice Noodle/Uncategorized/Wooden House

17th August 2021

The Bird’s Paradise Midnight Bakery

The Wheat Bakery located in Horta da Mitra, has been patronized them when young till now for more than thirty years; I believed many locals might not aware of this shop. Most products are home-made, mainly wholesaling local supermarkets within Macau like say Seng Cheong, Veng Kei supermarkets, etc; available for sale at specific period, which, they quite popular. As...

Categories Alleyways/Breakfast/Cha Chaan Teng/childhood memories/Family Recipe/Heritage/Old Street/Uncategorized

15th June 2021

Bird’s Paradise Continuing Food Search

Speaking of local street food, there are several shops start from neighboring street stalls to dine in great spots almost half a century. It is worthwhile mention it again here. Kung Chai Kei The Bird’s paradise at Rua da Colina established almost half a century since 1977 back then. The traditional hand crafted, silk pulling coffee and milk tea is...

Categories Alleyways/Breakfast/Cha Chaan Teng/childhood memories/Chinese Bakery/Dried Noodle/Festival/Fuk Tak Chi/Heritage/Macau Culture/Rice Noodle/Uncategorized

11th June 2021

Street Food at Bird’s Paradise

As one of the neighboring grown ups from Bird’s Paradise, made up three meals a day in the nearby restaurants and street everyday indeed, always inseparable. Why called Bird Garden? The Bird Garden is an historical residential area, divided by the old city wall in early Macau. The nearby woods and green bushes all densely scattered, which lots of birds...

Categories Afternoon Tea Time/Alleyways/Breakfast/Cha Chaan Teng/childhood memories/Chinese Bakery/Chinese Herbs/Dried Noodle/Uncategorized

30th April 2021

Mercado de S. Domingos Municipal Complex

St. Dominic’s Food Mall is located on the third floor of the Municipal Complex Market, one of the oldest property stationed in Macau. Counting back its operation since 1998, it has a long history of more than twenty years. If you wish to eat some authentic local flavors, the Dominic’s Food Mall can find lots of varieties and specialties that...

Categories Afternoon Tea Time/Alleyways/Barbecue pork/Beef and Pork offal/Breakfast/Cha Chaan Teng/Chicken Rice Noodles/childhood memories/Dessert/Dried Noodle/Family Recipe/Fish Paste Noodles/Food/Uncategorized

30th March 2021

Portuguese Bakery

Portuguese Bakery is located in one of the hidden street corners; A very well known street named Beco do Sal “Salt Lane”. Yet which, that already existed from the 1950s onwards, a closeby alleyway directing to Rua da Praia do Manduco, a main street focusing on food tradings. When you see the street named “Salt”, everyone might aware already the...

Categories Afternoon Tea Time/Alleyways/Breakfast/Crunchy Snacks/Family Recipe/Heritage/Lunch/Macanese/Macau Culture/Market/Photography/Portuguese Cake/Portuguese Cuisine/Uncategorized

16th March 2021

Heavy Weighted Beef Tongue with XO sauce and Fried Egg Bun

Unknowingly, Tak Fung Gourmet has opened several branches, located in Rua da Bairro and Fai Chi Kei. Every time you reached there, you don’t have to worry about what you want gonna eat that day; All food photos plastered on the entire wall area, so you can see at one glance. The hot and spicy XO sauce, stacked with fried...

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11th March 2021

Horta da Mitra Seng Kei Rice Rolls

Every time revisiting Horta da Mitra, it always immerse with a kind of simple, easy to find location looking for great food. They never appeared as one of the most busiest tourist attraction point; What they try to promote themselves was the true human touches of Macau’s neighborhood area and captured over hunderd years of homy-hearted ambience; that’s why their...

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10th March 2021

Fai Chi Kei Tea Restaurant Cheung Kong

For most Macau local communities, yum cha is part of their lives. From the past called “the tea house stairs”, till today’s “chinese restaurants” or even the famous “Cha Chaan Teng”, made chinese dim sums; It has entirely transformed to its current eating habits. In the past, the traditional flavor of “one cup two dim sims” traditional dining habit almost...

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25th February 2021

Coloane Kiu Kei Cafe

Today just finished off walking around the Morro de Hac Sa Family Trail at Long Chao Kok; it mearly took us an hours walk journey. Right after, everyone’s start to think of Kiu Kei Cafe which, needless to say; all arrived at Coloane’s Avenida de Cinco de Outubro meeting area; all spent only five minutes time for a street car...

Categories Afternoon Tea Time/Alleyways/Breakfast/Cha Chaan Teng/childhood memories/Chinese Bakery/Dried Noodle/Family Recipe/Food/Heritage/Lunch/Macanese/Macau Culture/Old Street/Photography/Set Lunch/Street food/Temple/Uncategorized/Wooden House