Macau Street Food

5 dishes in China

5 street foods from Macau, China: Zyu Pa Bao, Portuguese Egg Tart, Rou Gan, Serradura and Je Zap Gai Min. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

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Street foods of Macau

Sandwich · Fried & baked Zyu Pa Bao (Pork Chop Bun) Some Macau cafés also serve the pork chop in a sweet pineapple bun instead of the crusty Portuguese-style roll. A bone-in pork chop, marinated in soy, garlic, and spices, is deep-fried until crisp, then wedged whole into a crusty Portuguese-style bun.

Pastry · Baked Portuguese Egg Tart The egg tarts KFC sells across Asia trace back to Stow's recipe: his former wife Margaret Wong sold her version to KFC in 1999. A flaky, layered pastry shell is filled with egg custard and baked at high heat until the top caramelizes into dark, blistered spots.

Snack · Grilled & dried Rou Gan (Macau-Style Meat Jerky) Jerky shops on the streets leading up to the Ruins of St Paul's hand out free samples, and many also sell beef, spicy and even wild-boar versions. Thin sheets of sliced or minced pork, and sometimes beef, are marinated in sugar and soy, dried, then grilled over charcoal until glossy and slightly charred at the edges, cut and sold by…

Dessert Shop · Chilled Pudding Serradura (Sawdust Pudding) 'Serradura' is Portuguese for 'sawdust', a nod to the fine biscuit crumbs, and the Cantonese name, muk hong bou din, means the same thing. Layers of whipped cream sweetened with condensed milk alternate with finely crushed Marie biscuits, then the dessert is chilled for several hours until set. Cafes and dessert shops sell it… 🥥 Three Lamps Noodle Shop · Burmese Roots Je Zap Gai Min (Macau Coconut Chicken Noodles) It is a Burmese dish, brought by ethnic Chinese from Burma who settled around Macau's Three Lamps (Sam Chan Tang) district from the 1960s. Noodles or rice vermicelli in a rich coconut-milk chicken broth, sometimes curried, served with chicken, fried dough pieces, onion and a squeeze of lemon.

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