Creating Macau in the Kitchen...

I have handed the kitchen to the hubby to prepare difficult and top notch dinners. I have calculated that if I spend the only day that I'm not working by standing the kitchen, life will be very meaningless for me. I will end up having done nothing that I really wanted to do. Thus, I asked hubby to skip his afternoon nap which lasted for many hours to jump straight to the kitchen to prepare dinner. Hubby is slow in preparation but I refused to help or else I will be the one doing all the cooking. I let him take his own sweet time while I starved upstairs doing what I like.

Giant Shrimp a la Macau...

Macau was a Portuguese reigned for many years. When I was in Macau, I did not get to seriously taste the authentic food in the restaurant. We have marched up to the front door of the restaurant just to see so many people lining up like they are going for audition for American Idol or whatever talent show. Maybe they were waiting to be interviewed to work at the casino. To our dismay, all of them were waiting for an empty table in the restaurant. Since we were not staying over in Macau, thus we have really limited time to spare in hand. The wait would be roughly around 2 hours and at that point of time lunch time was already creeping into tea time. If the wait was for 2 hours, that would be going into dinner time. We left and thus, the chance to taste Macau food vanished into thin air. 

So, yesterday, I asked hubby to create Macau in our kitchen, minus the gambling den of course. That's Giant Shrimp a la Macau. It's quite spicy with the use of 8 chillies. But we don't really know what type of chilli does Macau use in their cooking. It's different from Chinese cuisine though.

Macau Chicken...

Then, we had this Macau Chicken dish with coconut gravy. It's superb. Other than coconut milk gravy, the use of freshly grated coconut added to the taste. There's potatoes, tomatoes and hard-boiled eggs. One of this should be enough on any other days but we hardly settle for one dish menu in our kitchen.

Caldo Verde

This is Macau's style of soup. It's called Caldo Verde with Chinese sausage and vegetables. Nice soup I should say. We will not go to Macau again because we really don't have anything to do there except to walk around. None of us gamble and what I like most was the Portuguese egg tart by Kok Kei. Kok Kei is not overrated. It's really nice. There's another overrated Portuguese egg tart which I don't really remember the name of the stall.

Thank you love... So I cooked for you 4 days and you cook 1 day... fair la...