Food & Drink

09 Aug 2022

Top 5 restaurants in Macao for Macanese food

Finding restaurants that specialise in Macanese cuisine can be challenging in a city where the best recipes tend to be closely guarded family secrets. But we’ve rounded up a few of our favourite places to enjoy the time-honoured classics and a few modern interpretations.

05 Aug 2022

Inside the shop that makes Macao’s famous silky dragonbeard candy

At Yau Kei Candy, home of Macao’s famous million-strand cotton candy, Kenny Yuen is keeping the centuries-old confectionary and intangible heritage form alive.

In partnership with: Macao Government Tourism Office

04 Aug 2022

How i-Bagel brought the New York staple to Macao

Former casino workers Henry Chiang and Rachel Kou opened the city’s first proper bagel shop at the end of 2020. Find out what led them to start up their business.

21 Jul 2022

Unfiltered: The rise of Macao’s natural wine movement

With the increase of available natural wine in Macao, sommelier Maggie Kim shares her insights and tackles a few common misperceptions.

02 Jun 2022

Chef Benny Wu of Michelin-starred Ying restaurant returned to the bottom to rise to the top

The chef de cuisine of Ying, a celebrated Cantonese restaurant at Altira Macau, says old-school values of hard work and persistence were the keys to his success.

26 May 2022

Unfiltered: Which wine glasses should you have at home and why

Not sure which wine glasses are really essential or how they impact the wine-drinking experience? Sommelier Maggie Kim explains where to start.

04 May 2022

How Jade Dragon’s Kelvin Au Yeung went from ‘tail wok’ to 3 Michelin stars

Originally from Hong Kong, the young executive chef manages three Michelin-starred Jade Dragon at City of Dreams with passion and grit.

28 Apr 2022

Unfiltered: Expert picks for pairing wine with mapo tofu

Thinking about ordering a trusty bottle of baijiu when you see mapo tofu on the menu? Think again, says sommelier and Macao News wine columnist Maggie Kim.

18 Apr 2022

Cooking comes from the heart for Sarimanok’s Chefs Rubyrosa Badua and Carlito Galsim

The duo retraces their journey from the Philippines to ‘Filipino Street’ in Macao, where they run the show at one of the city’s best-known Pinoy eateries.