If you’re in Macau and you’re looking for a restaurant that serves scrumptious Macanese delicacy, then one of the recommended dining places is Fat Siu Lau. It is located at the Rua da Felicidade, which used to be a red light district. But now, the street is filled with establishments that provide food and entertainment for the whole family. For many tourists, it also serves as a starting point for many travel explorations in Macau City.
A taste of Macanese dishes at Fat Siu Lau
Macanese cuisine is the blend of Portuguese and Chinese ingredients, seasoning, and cooking styles. As Macau was once an important trading center, it’s inevitable that the two cultures would mix; one of the wonderful offsprings of that union is Macanese cuisine. Macanese dishes are characterized by the use of Portuguese sauces and seasoning, combined with Chinese ingredients and methods of cooking. If you want to sample this fare, then better head over to the Fat Siu Lai.
Fat Siu Lau is one of the oldest restaurants in Macau, more than a hundred years old. When you think about it, that’s more than a century of experience and excellence in Macanese cooking. The signature dish of the restaurant is the Shek Ki Superb Roasted Pigeon. The dish features a crisp, golden-brown skin and juicy, moist pigeon meat. The marinade recipe for the dish has been a well-guarded secret for over a century, making the dish a culinary legend. Other dishes that established the name of Fat Siu Lau are the African Chicken, Grilled King Prawns, and the Curry Crab. The restaurant is well known not just in Macau; its good reputation in Macanese cooking reaches all the way to Hong Kong and may soon capture the rest of the world.
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