Macau Eats: What to Eat / Buy in Macau (澳门)

27 April 2026

Macau, a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China on the Pearl River Delta, is famous for its unique blend of Portuguese-Chinese culture as a result from being a former Portuguese colony for over 400 years. Its food culture is recognised as the world’s first fusion cuisine, blending Cantonese (Chinese) and Portuguese traditions with spices and ingredients from India, Africa, and Southeast Asia — combining European cooking methods (roasting, stewing) with ingredients like soy sauce, coconut milk, and turmeric.

Macau is well-known for its Portuguese egg tarts, pork chop bun, minchi, African chicken, curry fishball, serradura (sawdust pudding), almond cookies and a lot more. When exploring Macau, be sure to explore its food scenes too.

Food Places

Below is a list of food places in Macau that we have visited. Most of them are recommended by Macau Michelin Guide, since 2016, as we have used it as a reference to find great places to eat.

Use the following tags to filter the list:
Macau Michelin | Taipa Village | Coloane Village

Macau Eat: Hon Kee Cafe (汉记手打咖啡) Hand Beaten / Dalgona Coffee @ Coloane Village

Hon Kee Cafe is popular for its hot and cold hand-beaten coffee, also known as “Chow Yun Fat Coffee”. Go for their Macau-popular dishes with the coffee.
Macau Eat: Cafe Vong Kei (旺记咖啡) @ Taipa Village

Cafe Vong Kei is a traditional cafe popular with locals and tourists for its pork chop bun, curry beef brisket, signature iced milk tea and iced coffee.
Macau Eat: Cheong Kei Noodle House (祥记面家) Shrimp Roe Noodle

Cheong Kei Noodle House serves a wide range of noodle dishes and is well-known for its specialty shrimp roe dry noodle and blanched fish skins.
Macau Eat: Gelatina Mok Yei Kei (莫义记) Serradura Pudding & Durian Ice-Cream @ Taipa Village

Gelatina Mok Yei Kei, a Michelin-recognised dessert shop in Taipa, is well-known for its Musang King durian ice-cream (猫山王雪糕) and Serradura pudding (木糖布丁).
Macau Eat: Sei Kee Cafe (世纪咖啡) Pork Chop Bun

Sei Kei Cafe is well-known for its huge pork chop bun — available at takeaway outlets only — and homemade claypot-brewed milk tea and coffee. It has cafes too.