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In addition to pastel de nata, crab porridge and pork chop buns, Macao is also renowned for its Portuguese cuisine. The Portuguese cuisine in Macao is a blend of Chinese and Portuguese cuisines with other culinary influences. It is known as Macanese cuisine.  Macanese cuisine was created by Portuguese local in Macao. Many of them had lived in Malaysia and the Portuguese colonies in Africa. Therefore, they combined the African and Malaysian culinary skills with the local Chinese ingredients in Macao. This is how the unique Macanese cuisine was first created.  Macanese and Macanese Patois, a Portuguese-based creole language used by the Macanese community, have created the unique culture of Macao. If you like to have a try of the authentic Macanese cuisine, you can go to Cunha Street in the centre of Taipa. In Portuguese restaurants like the Restaurante Dumbo and Antonio Restaurant, you can have a feast of Macao – Portuguese chicken, African chicken, pastéis de Bacalhau and roast pork. After the feast, you may further indulge your taste buds on the street food and snacks with a full stomach!

Sweet and Sour Pork (Tang Cu Gu Lu Rou, sometimes called Gu Lao Rou) is very popular among foreigners in Guangzhou Province, China. They enjoy eating Sweet and Sour Pork Chops as well but they are not used to remove the bones when eating. Thus, Guangdong chefs mix minced pork with starch to make meatballs which are later being deep-fried and covered with sweet and sour sauce. Sweet and Sour Pork is very welcomed by people in China and abroad.

Dongpo Pork is a delicious dish enriched with color, aroma and taste. It is said that during the Song dynasty, great litterateur, calligrapher and painter Su Dongpo was appointed as the governor of the ancient Hangzhou.