This old cha chaan teng has been around since 1966 in the same old venue and most locals young and old knows the spot and occasionally you’d see groups of Japanese or Taiwanese tourists coming to eat the famed egg omelette sandwich with spam and charsiu. It’s called the Nam Peng sandwich on the menu, […]

In my Column for Macau Closer last month, I wrote about my favourite spots for milk tea – the pièce de resistance of the cha chaan tengs (local diners). The Cantonese traditional milk tea is available on the menu of all local diners across Hong Kong and Macau- a thick and freshly brewed tea poured on […]

Macau like Hong Kong have plenty of local diners/cafés that serve up typical dishes of pork chop buns, instant noodles with spam and egg to an assorted range of noodles from deep fried pork chops (Asian rendition of schnitzel) to curry beef noodles with tripe and wanton/shrimp roe noodles. There are also local confectionary buns […]

The best thing about living on the West side of the island is how local the neighbourhood is. Saiyingpun is home to the seafood street that sells all sorts of sea animals in their dried forms and the whole street smells like scampi. And then there are the local noodle joints, hole in the wall […]