Last week, four Macao and two Hong Kong restaurants were added to the Michelin Guide. While the eateries were not honoured with Michelin’s famed annual awards – Michelin stars and Bib Gourmands – being simply selected for the guide is regarded as a distinction in itself.
In Macao, the new selections are Nok Song, a fusion Thai restaurant; Albergue 1601, a traditional Portuguese restaurant; Unique, a restaurant specialising in Chinese soup dumplings; and Lakeview Palace, a restaurant that blends Jiangnan, Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine.
Located on Avenida do Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues, Nok Song specialises in blending high quality ingredients around the world with Thai flavours to create fusion flavours. The spicy raw shrimp salad, red curry with Iberian pork collar and the mango soufflé pancake roll are standout dishes.
Nestled within a century-old building in the St Lazarus Quarter, Albergue 1601 serves up traditional and home-y Portuguese cuisine. Deep-fried sardines, roast suckling pig with orange and fried potato rounds in a spicy sauce are highly recommended, as well as the chef’s home-brewed white wine.
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Unique is a small neighbourhood restaurant in Fai Chi Kei specialising in handmade “xiaolongbao”. Options range from traditional pork filling to cheese, truffle and pork with crab roe. Besides dumplings, their duck blood soup with vermicelli is also a signature dish.
The opulent Lakeview Palace within the Wynn Palace is helmed by a chef who has worked in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai across his extensive career. The menu offers dishes that blend Jiangnan, Sichuan and Cantonese flavours such as the exquisite “eight-treasure roast duck,” where glutinous rice is wrapped in crispy duck skin and topped with fresh caviar.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s Ho Ho Chak and Sushi Takeshi, both located in the city’s Tsim Sha Tsui district, have been added to the Michelin Guide.
