Famous Cow Offal Shop in Macao and Hong Kong

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Eat cow offal? Maybe it is too unbelievable for visitors from other countries. But it is popular in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and mainland China. Speically cooked cow offal, with curry or sauce, is such a delicacy.Cow offal is the famous street food in Macao and Hong Kong. 

Here are the recommended shops for eating cow offal in Macao and Hong Kong. 

Macau Kam Wai Restaurant

Though Kam Wai Beef Offal Restaurant is very small, its beef offal attracts visitors from home and abroad. It is recommended to taste the curry beef offal.

Kam Wai Cow Offal

The owner of the store said that their curry is imported from Thailand, Burma and India, and he uses his secret recipe to make the curry special. In order to give the best flavor to customers, he insists that the ingredints need to be mixed with any preservatives. So all the food here is safe to eat.

Address: No.12 Travessa da Se, Peninsula ( Near Ruins of St. Paul's)

Tel: 00853-66383517

Macau Comidas Chi Kei Restaurant 

Macau Comidas Chi Kei Restaurant 

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Noodle with Cow Offal

During holidays and weekends, the small store is filled with people and the long line of people is waiting up. So it would be better to go there earlier. The soup ingredients are special, which is the main reason why this restaurant is so popular. 

Address: Comidas Chi Kei Restaurant  is located on the 3rd floor of the Market at Rua dos Mercadores. 

Tel:  853-2837 4091

Hong Kong Block 13 Cow Offal

Fatty, richly marinated beef innards are as deeply ingrained in Hong Kong’s street food culture as curry fishballs. And when it comes to skewered cow organ goodness, Block 13's is hard to beat. The eatery’s braised cow offal skewers is a potpourri of contrasting textures, including the chewy honeycomb tripe, springy cow lungs, and tough cow’s intestines. For an extra flavor kick, there’s runny mustard and sweet sauce available at the counter.

Location: Block 13 Cow Offal, G/F, 1 Shu Kuk Street, North Point

Tel: +852 3575 9299

Hong Kong Beef Brisket

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For many foreigners, animal innards are too disgusting to eat. But Chinese people use special cooking recipes and methods to make those animal innards into delicacies. Beef brisket is one of the good example.  

The brisket is a much maligned part of the cow in Western cooking, but you'll find huge chunks of it being slowly stewed in giant pots of sauce in noodle shop windows all over Hong Kong until they're tender and soaked with juicy goodness. 

Few of these places however, can live up to the reputation of Kau Kee, which sells its signature beef brisket cooked in either a clear broth or curry broth served with noodles. Or try On Lee in Shau Kei Wan on your day off -- the good stuff typically sells out by late afternoon.

Hong Kong won the nickname of " Food Paradise" and Kau Kee Restaurant is a must for visitors in Hong Kong. 

There is a most famous branch in NOHO District, which attracts many famous stars. Reservation is not provided in this restaurant and the rules in the restaurant is first come,first served and the door won't be opened untill 12:30.

Location: Kau Kee, G/F, 21 Gough Street, Sheung Wan

Tel: +852 2850 5967.

On Lee, Shop 4, G/F, Tung Wong House, 14-22 Shau Kei Wan Main Street East, Shau Kei Wan,

Tel: +852 2560 6897.

Margaret's Café e Nata - Great Egg Tarts

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My first time to Macao was in 2011 and that was my first time to taste the egg tarts in Margaret's Café e Nata. From then on, I miss the taste so much and I went to the shop again with my friend on December 29, 2012. We ordered 4 egg tarts (MOP 9 per 1), but my stomach can only enjoy one because the mixture of milk, egg and sugar is a little too sweet for me.  

See! The long queue. The egg tarts here are the most famous, so visitors from Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan and other countries waiting here to have a taste of the egg tarts. It is recommended to get here earlier to avoid such a long long queue. 

Some waitress here are so rude, maybe just because there are too busy to be kind. But the egg tarts are really worth trying. 

Margaret's Café e Nata is not far away from Grand Lisboa Hotel and Ruins of St. Paul's, so after having the great egg tarts, you can easily access to the Macao attractions.

Price：MOP 9

Opening hours：6：30-19：00

Egg Tarts in Macao and Hong Kong

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Egg tarts are the most popular desserts in Macau and Hong Kong. People like having 2 egg tarts and a cup of coffee or milk tea for breakfast or high tea. Paying a visit to Macau, the egg tarts of Margaret's Café e Nata are the must-eat. 

See! The long queue. The egg tarts here are the most famous, so visitors from Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan and other countries waiting here to have a taste of the egg tarts. It is recommended to get here earlier to avoid such a long long queue. 

The crispy pastry and milky stuffings make the egg tarts in Margaret's Café e Nata a hot dessert. Egg tarts are usually made from short crust pastry, eggs, sugar, milk or cream, and vanilla, sprinkled with nutmeg and baked.

Price: MOP 9

Recommended shop: Margaret's Café e Nata

Like many classic Hong Kong dishes, the origins of the egg tart are a bit murky, but it seems likely that they are yet another example of British tea time snacks -- custard tarts, in this case -- that were adapted to local Chinese tastes. Since they became popular in the 1940s, two varieties of egg tarts have emerged: one with a flaky puff pasty shell and another with a sweet shortbread crust. Both are filled with a rich custard that is much eggier and less creamy than English custard tarts or Portuguese pastéis de nata. 
 

Recommended shop: Tai Cheong Bakery, 35 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central, Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 2544-3475

Famous Sang Kee Congee Shop @ Sheung Wan

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Sang Kee Congee Shop is highly recommended by the Hong Kong famous gourmet Cai Lan. Congee in Sang Kee has the marvellous taste, which is fleecy, smooth and yummy. Nowadays, congee is no longer the food for the poor but the popular food for every Chinese.  

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A more than four decades old establishment in Sheung Wan of Hong Kong island; Sang Kee Congee Shop has been one on the list of most MUST-TRY places in Hong Kong for congee.

Congee, also known as porridge has always been known as a poor man’s food, or a bowl of tummy-warming delight usually served at home, especially when someone’s under the weather.

Okay, I was being liberal with my words. I hate congee/porridge/nasi bubur/’jook’ whatever. But I can’t deny the fact that Hong Kong folks LOVE their congee to the max. Even on a blistering hot day during lunch hour.

Beats me as to why they would submit themselves to such torturous ordeal, but after a bowl or two, I  began to see the light. So to speak.

Don’t laugh. You don’t get leg space as much in most Hong Kong eateries.

And so, I skip the posts on Mong Kok and its vicinity temporarily, and let’s see whatCentral, Sheung Wan and Wan Chai on the island have to offer. Ready?

The plate of ‘you tiao’/yau char kwai/fried breadsticks did not come complimentary. HKD5/RM2 per serving. But how can congee goes without some crispy yau char kwai eh?

It was not easy deciphering a menu with predominantly Chinese characters. Yes, to an extent that I had to thicken my already inch-thick face and pushed my luck by asking for recommendations.

Why the extra effort? If you’re familiar with most Hong Kong folks running the food and beverage business, you would have been able to attest to the fact that they are NOT the most accommodating and friendly chaps on earth.

Fish Belly Congee (Yue Lam Jook) (HKD27/RM10.80) – Definitely a must-try here, the sheer sweetness, firm and smooth flesh of the belly rendered this experience almost priceless. Hard to find a bowl of fish porridge worthy of such praises, but this one at Sang Kee was really good.

Pork Balls Congee (HKD19/RM7.60) – Okay, this was supposed to be pork balls, not pork meat balls. So don’t complain. But again, though the chewy/bouncy texture might put off those who are used to the coarse texture of minced meat balls, the flavour of the pork shone through in this one, with aa predominantly pepper-ish aroma.

They serve their congee with a side serving of soy sauce, sesame oil and strips of spring onion and ginger. You don’t actually need this to enhance the flavour of the congee, which was already boiled to a creamy extent with their broth. But the addition of chopped spring onion onto the gruel actually lifted the experience up a notch. Not to mention that when you dip the slices (more like chunk) of fish belly into the sauce, the combination just work wonders.

This was on a late lunch session, about 3-4pm. So you don’t see the usual lunch crowd. Read from somewhere that this place can be really packed during peak hours. Since you don’t need to jostle with the lunch crowd from Central, why should you?

SANG KEE CONGEE SHOP

7-9, Burd Street,

Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Business hours : Monday to Saturday – 7.00am until 9.00pm, Closed on Sundays.

Hong Kong Preserved Sausages

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Preserved sausages have the special flavor, salty, a little sweety and sometimes a little spicy. The meat was carefully selected and then preserved with special sauce made by secret recipes. Preserved sausages usually used to fried with vegetable or rice, which is a kind of food that Hong Kongers cannot live without. 

Some Chinese sausages can be heavy on the salt and spices, but Cantonese laap cheung is a perfectly well-proportioned mix of slightly-sweet pork fat and meat. Rose water and rice wine gives it a pungent edge and soy sauce serves as a salty counterpart to the sweetness. Preserved sausages, which are mildly sweet and have tiny pockets of fragrant fat, are usually steamed, sliced and served with rice. Leung Wan, who owns the 52-year-old preserved food specialty store Man Lee Long, cautions against buying preserved sausages that are too red in color.

“It indicates there’s a lot of artificial coloring," says Leung. "A good quality preserved sausage should also be free of stale smells and feel bouncy to the touch.”

As for cured pork belly, good ones should have alternating layers of fat and thin pork, giving it the moniker 'five-storey meat.' Leung suggests boiling preserved meats for 15 minutes to remove the surface layer of fat before cooking or frying them. 

Hong Kong Dried Seafood Market

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Dried seafood enjoy a great market in Hong Kong, over 200 shops in Sheung Wan’s 'dried seafood street' providing different kinds of dried seafood. China's Lunar New Year is coming, dried seafood are in great demand. 

With Chinese New Year around the corner, Sheung Wan’s 'dried seafood street,' which stretches along some 200 shops on Des Voeux Road West, is humming with frantic activity. Housewives haggle over preserved sausages and delivery boys whiz past with overloaded bikes. It’s all part of the Chinese custom of stocking up for the new year and dried goods are in particular demand. Many of them have names that pun on auspicious phrases, and they are prized in Cantonese cuisine. They are used liberally in Chinese New Year dishes and also make generous traditional new year gifts.

dried fish maw

dried Oysters

dried conpoy

dried abalone

black moss

Hong Kong Megan's Kitchen Valentine's Day Hot Pot

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Valentine's Day is coming, Hong Kong Megan's Kitchen introduces Valentine's Day Hot Pot for all the couples, providing fresh seafood, deluxe fatty beef, Louis Perdrier Brut and one rose. 

About Megan's Kitchen

Nice décor and cosy ambience with a little western fine dining design. All tables are fitted with induction cookers which are safe and easy to use. There are VIP rooms equipped with toliets and LCD TVs for added privacy and comfort.

Megan's Kitchen is famous for:    

innovative hot pot soup base such as Tomato and Crab Soup Base with Souffle Finish    

healthy meatballs with special fillings such as cuttlefish balls with cherry tomato, etc.      

Megan's Kitchen provides a huge selection of beef from local markets, Australia, USA as well as Japan ! The selection includes sirloin, rib eye, beef tongue, beef cheek, etc.      

Location: Megan’s Kitchen, 5/F, Lok Kei Centre, 165-171 Wan Chai Road, Wan Chai

Tel: (852) 2866-8305

Hot Pot in Macau & Hong Kong

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Having hot pot is a great "excuse" to get together with families or friends, which is the favorite for Chinese people in winter. In Macau and Hong Kong, you can have the chance to taste the special seafood hot pot and the sauce made by secret recipes. 

Try it in Macau XIN Restaurant and Hong Kong Megan’s Kitchen.

Macau XIN Restaurant Hot Pot

Discover an innovative take on a vibrant Asian seafood market on the ground floor of the hotel. Reflecting its name, which translates as “freshness,” Xin offers just-caught seafood, Asian barbeque, signature Hot Pot cuisine and more.

Gather around the renowned Hot Pot Buffet, offering a range of fresh seafood that comprises many varieties of lobster, oysters, clams, prawns and more. Luxury Hot Pots, like the Luxury Lobster Set or Luxury Kobe Set, are also available. Or select one of the signature Asian Soups, including Vietnamese Prawn Soup and Sichuan Hot and Sour Soup.

Location: Level one of Sands Macao Cotai Central

Opening Hours: 12:00-15:00/ 18:00-23:00

Hong Kong Hot Pot

Hot pot is truly a social event for people in Hong Kong, especially for families looking for an excuse to get together on a chilly winter's night. And as a true testament to the innovation and picky palates of Hong Kongers, there's no shortage of new things to try. Megan's Kitchen is one of the latest trend-setting hot pot restaurants famous for their rainbow meatballs in different flavours and colors, where the surprise is inside, like Kinder eggs. Our favorite is Megan's pork balls with a mango centre. Soup base is another divisive issue at the dinner table: from a simple vegetable base to congee and soymilk base to Megan's tom yum koong “cappuccino” soup base.

Recommended restaurant: Megan’s Kitchen, 5/F, Lok Kei Centre, 165-171 Wan Chai Road, Wan Chai

Tel: (852) 2866-8305

Hong Kong Dessert - Ginger Milk Curd

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Spicy, creamy, soupy -- this is wintertime dessert at its best (though it's good in the summer too). The special taste makes ginger milk curd into a timeless Cantonese treat. The ginger milk curd is also a great dessert for warming stomach and dispelling damp.

Ginger milk curd, also known as ginger-juice milk curd, ginger milk pudding or simply ginger milk, is a Chinese hotdessert originated in Shawan town of Panyu District, Guangzhou in the Guangdong Province in southern China. The main ingredients areginger, milk, and sugar. Water buffalo milk is used in the original recipe.

Method of preparation

First, squeeze the juice from a piece of ginger, then filter the juice finely and put into a bowl. Next, dissolve sugar in milk, then heat until it simmers. Take off heat immediately and allow it to cool a little. Finally, pour the mixture quickly into the bowl of ginger juice and wait for two to three minutes. The milk will then solidify, and may be eaten with a spoon.

Underlying biochemical principle

Ginger contains protease. When milk is added to ginger juice, protease catalyses denaturation of the protein in the milk, changing it from a water-soluble form to a water-insoluble form, and leads to the formation of milk curd.

Recommended restaurant: Yee Shun, 506 Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay

Tel: (852) 2591-1837

Miniature Wife Cakes - Hong Kong Traditional Pastry

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Miniature wife cake is a round flaky pastry with a translucent white winter melon paste centre. It is a famous snack in China. The sweet stuffings and the flaky skin make the taste special. There is another saying that if you love you wife, you bring her wife cake.

As much as we love traditional Chinese pastries, their heavy combination of lard and sweet pastes made from various beans and roots don't exactly make for easy snacking. Luckily, Hang Heung has come up with a solution to that problem: miniature wife cakes. Wife cakes have a flaky skin made from pork lard and a firm, chewy filling made with almond paste and winter melon. The combination of the pastry and mellow winter melon sweetness makes them particularly tasty, while their bite size makes them particularly digestible.

Location: Hang Heung, 64 Castle Peak Road, Yuen Long

Tel: (852) 2479-2141

Hong Kong Weird Snack - Chicken Feet

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Chicken feet are the popular snack in Hong Kong. It is so weird and awful that these wrinkled, claw like chicken feet look like something from a witches cauldron. May be you need to take courage to have a try, but once you taste the flavor you will love the chicken feet.

So it looks awful, but once you get over that, what is there not to love about chicken feet? Just like head cheese or coq au vin, Cantonese-style chicken feet is a perfect marriage of thrift and culinary genius. Euphemized as 'phoenix talons' in Chinese, the chicken feet are typically deep fried then stewed in a blackbean sauce. The cartilage softens to a melt-in-the-mouth consistency and great practice is needed to spit out the little bones in that dainty manner perfected by grandmas in dim sum restaurants across town. Lei Garden skips the deep-frying and stews their chicken feet in abalone sauce, resulting in a wholesome, more texturized treat.

Hong Kong Pineapple Bun

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Pineapple bun is not the bun stuffed with pineapple, on the contrary ,there are no stuffings in the bun. We call it "pineapple bun" just beause it looks like a pineapple after baking. Paying a visit to Hong Kong, pineapple bun is the must eat in breakfast and high tea.

The boh loh baau (literally meaning 'pineapple bun') is the holy grail of what may generously be termed the Hong Kong school of baking. It's firm on the outside, soft on the inside and topped by crunchy, sugary pastry. Popular enough to have been exported around the world -- step into a Chinese bakery in Toronto, Taipei or Tianjin and you're likely to find one -- it's ubiquitous in Hong Kong. It's the perfect complement to milk tea, especially if you have it with butter, a variation known as boh loh yaau.

Recommende restaurant: Mongkok cafés Kam Wah, 47 Bute Street, Mongkok,

Tel: (852) 2392-6830

Hong Lin, 143 Tung Choi Street, Mongkok

Tel: (852) 2391-8398

Hong Kong Street Food - Stinky Tofu

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What is stinky tofu? It is called “chou doufu” in Mandarin. Do you feel weird that why the smelly tofu is so popular in China? The specially fermented tofu, is manufactured and prepared in a myriad of ways depending on the region where it is sold.

The strong odor is formidable to say the very least and not for the faint of heart. Stinky tofu is a very popular snack in East and Southeast Asia where it is easily found with no place to hide at night markets or roadside stands.

Stinky tofu

No doubt you will have heard or read about the stench emanating from one of the strangest foods to come out of this part of the world. But nothing can really prepare you for the stink. Smelly tofu, like durian, is one of Asia's most iconic 'weird foods.' The stench is a result of fermentation of the tofu and it is such an overpowering smell you'll be hard-pressed to shake it off for months to come. But Hong Kongers really love that stink. Well, most Hong Kongers.

In Hong Kong, stinky tofu is a trademark street food along with fish and beef balls, which are deep fried and eaten with hoisin sauce. Sold by the bag, it is guaranteed to contain almost enough grease to oil a diesel truck.

Recommended resaurant: Delicious Food

Location: shop 10, G/F, 30-32 Nullah Road, Prince Edward, Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 2142-7468

Charms of Macao Tower

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Macao Tower, 338 meters high, is the must-visit landmark. Right here, you can enjoy the best buffet and try the adventures to extend your own limits. Macao Tower has the world's highest platform for bungy jump and sky jump, and it is the only place for visitors to enjoy the buffet and watching people bunjy jumping at the same time.  

Macao Tower Buffet

360° Café is on the 60 floor of Macau Tower, from which customers can not only enjoy delicious food but also beautiful scenery.

360° Café was opened in 2004, with its special design and perfect dining environment, attracts a lot of return customers. Lunch buffet, dinner buffet and food at teatime are available here.

Macao Tower Adventures

1. Bungy Jump

 

AJ Hackett Adventure is taking the altitude limit of similar adventures to a new height, entering the Guinness World Records.

Plunging from a platform 233m high, challengers will experience a 4-5 second freefall before stretching the 50 meter bungy cord nearly four times its unloaded length and rebounding at approximately 30 meters above the ground.

2. Sky jump

 Taking off from the outer rim of Macau Tower 233m aboveground, the SkyJump will take guests on a 20 second flight over the breathtaking cityscape of Macau.

Based upon the principle of 'fan descenders', a technology used in skydiving training and in performing 'falling stunts' in movies, the SkyJump lets its
guests fly through air at 75km/h in 20 seconds before decelerating to a comfortable landing speed upon reaching ground.

This exciting attraction, designed and operated by two of the world's greatest adventure master-minds, AJ Hackett and Waitomo Adventures, is taking the altitude limit of similar adventures to a new height! 

3. Skywalk X

Look! No handrail! Very thrilling walk around the main outer rim of the tower, 233 meters above ground. Safety is guaranteed by a world-first overhead rail system. 

Series adventure activities are set in Macao Tower which are available individually or in group. It is the best choice for children’s party, friends’ together, companies’ or schools’ activities. Right here, you can have a very different experience with freshness, challenges and victory. So, what are you still waiting for?

4. Mast Climb

Conquer Macau's highest summit, at 338 meters, and stand at the top of the world's 10th tallest free-standing tower by climbing 100 meters up the mast's vertical ladders. The ascent and descent takes approximately 2 hours and is not for the unfit or faint-hearted. Maximum height exposure and best views of Macau guaranteed.

If you just want to pay a visit of the Macao Tower, you can just buy an entrance ticket.

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