I only spent two days in Macau yet this place fascinates me. Not only Macau stands beautifully with all it's "east meet west" building, it's culinary culture is amazing. Since I have limitations in terms of eating because of no-pork policy, I indulged myself more on what Macau has to offer in sweet foods department.
If you go to Macau's most crowded puic space, Senado Square, go direction Grand Lisboa hotel and you can find this lovely condensed milk pudding with red bean on top at a shop on your left. The shop is modest yet easy to find because the big cow poster right on the left side. The milk taste amazing! It's watery, not too sweat yet cover your mouth in softness that spoils you a little too much. It is available in hot or cold with different toppings to choose from. My friend happens to chose the hot one and it tasted sweeter than the hot one. So if you like sweet, go with the hot one.
Coming out of Senado Square, continue your journey toward Grand Lisboa direction again until you find "avenida da praia grande" before you turn to the left after crossing the street. When you find the first intersection with a little park on the middle, turn right and walk less than 50 meters before making another turn to the right. Margaret cafe e nata, one of Macau's most famous egg tart seller is on the left side of the street. It's so easy to spot this amazing place because of the crowd. Crowds are flying around like hungry bee looking for honey there. The reason is simple, the Cafe's egg tart is to die for
The egg tart is best eaten when its hot. Crunchy on the outside but super soft and sweet on the inside. The egg custard just make my tongue dancing in joy. One serving wont be enough. So the cafe made it easy for its customer to buy not only a single egg tart. They can buy in 6 or 12 for 45 or 90 Macau mops. It's soooooo deliciously alluring.
My culinary travel didn't end there. Once I was full with 2 egg tarts, I made my way back to Senado square to see what that place has to offer. After a little walk around, I found this little shop of manjoo in front of another Macau's famous seller of its own interpretation of pork burger. The shops sells manjoo in a shape of fish. It comes small in size but eating 6 of them equals to a lunch serving for me ;p
Filled with custard or chocolate paste, this little fish shaped manjoo is easy to be plopped into my mouth in no time. It's crunchy yet soft. Remind me much of Japanese's taiyaki. Only this time, it comes in much smaller size and no red bean inside. Yet to be perfectly honest, this dish might not entirely Macau but more of South Korean. A little twist than the one in Seoul but it goes more with how Japanese taiyaki tastes like.
My journey was not over yet. Since I need to make my way back to the post office at the center of Senado square, I walked past by St. Dominic Church, or more precisely what's left from it. That's when I stumbled upon Mc Donald's store that offered two things I love the most in one serving. Sundae ice cream on top of apple pie with chocolate sauce.
Call me cheap but I'm a big fan of McD's pie. Something that I could not find in Jakarta sadly. It comes in different variety of fillings which fascinatingly different in each country: apple, piennaple, taro, blueberry, corn, etc. In Macau, so glad that it comes only as Apple pie. Hahahaha.. So in hot and humid September Macau, eating ice cream with Apple pie among the crowds in front of post office offers a very delightful experience. At least for me ;)
With all the sweets in my system, I was a happy camper in Macau.
