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 Macanese cuisine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With over 450 years of history, Macanese cuisine is unique to Macau.
It is a blend of Portuguese and southern Chinese cuisines.
Typically, Macanese food is seasoned with various spices including turmeric, coconut milk, cinnamon and bacalhau, giving special aromas and tastes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Macanese_cuisine   (135 words)

  
 Revista 7 - Inglês
The fact of being Macanese results from the emergence of an autonomous cultural awareness that transcends the mere conjunction of a cosmopolitan Portuguese humanism with the millenary Chinese civilisation.
But the fact of being Macanese also extends to the members of the Territory's diaspora, inasmuch as the preservation of many of the daily rituals of their birthplace generates a strong sense of a common homeland.
In this sense the Macanese culture possesses an inner dynamic that is strong enough to overcome the vagaries of time - especially those of this new political period in which the Territory is returning to China.
www.instituto-camoes.pt /revista/revista7in.htm   (3487 words)

  
 MOZAMBIQUE: The right to survive - NI 192 - Country profile: Macau
The Macanese and an unknown number of illegal immigrants have found work but they are poorly paid and enjoy little protection.
The Macanese fear that their influence in the colony’s legislature, built up through the years of Portuguese indifference, will be lost when China’s bureaucracy takes over.
Macanese cooking, the drinking of wine not beer and the architecture all reflect Portugal as much as the Orient.
www.newint.org /issue192/profile.htm   (560 words)

  
 ASIANOW - Macanese population fears loss of identity - December 17, 1999
MACAU (CNN) -- The tiny portion of Macau's population known as Macanese -- the descendants of intermarriage between Portuguese and Chinese -- fear they will lose their cultural identity now that nearly 500 years of Portuguese influence in Macau is ending.
In some ways the uncertainty of the Macanese is a reflection of Portugal's fragile legacy in the region.
The Portuguese civil service and administration are about to leave, and the remaining Macanese are struggling to keep their culture alive.
archives.cnn.com /1999/ASIANOW/east/macau/stories/macau.macanese   (357 words)

  
 Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Especially the Taipa Houses-Museum, which includes five typical green houses with Macanese architectural characteristics of Portuguese Matrix, is considered one of the cultural relics and heritages of the Island.
The “Macanese House” is one of the Macao’s typical houses in colonial style.
The characteristic of the house, furniture, objects, replicas and decoration is from the beginning of the 20 th century.
housesmuseum.iacm.gov.mo /intro_e.html   (344 words)

  
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For example, a prestigious Macanese family, one of whose daughters is married to one of the principle figures of the Territory, originates in an interesting series of events.
A Macanese man to whom I was talking of what happens to a Macanese woman who marries a Chinese man told me: This depends on the role that woman plays within her famiy.
Macanese parents, however, were deeply preoccupied with teaching their children to speak, read and write a European language (Portuguese in Macao, English in Hong Kong).
www.ceao.ufba.br /fabrica/txts/cabral/Correl_asymm.doc   (7606 words)

  
 Small is beautiful   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Macanese cuisine is a mixture of Portuguese and Chinese cuisine, so it is unique - you can't find it everywhere in the world.
Twenty or thirty years ago, it was impossible to find Macanese restaurants, because Macanese food was made at home, and recipes were passed on from generation to generation.
Macanese cuisine is part of the heritage of Macau, and I think the government recognizes that.
www.macautourism.gov.mo /news/mttdetail.phtml?lan=en&id=2431   (905 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cebu - Dining Macanese
Macanese is a term that refers to a cuisine, people and all other things that is a combination of Chinese and Portuguese which were created in Macau, that cosmopolitan city on the south China peninsula, near Hong Kong.
Macanese cuisine is one of the pioneers of fusion cooking as the Portuguese conquestadores armed with European recipes combined it with Chinese ingredients and methods of cooking.
Although it is a typically Macanese dish, its name was coined by Macanese living in Hong Kong in the 1840’s who “chinglished” the English “mince” into “minchi”.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2003/02/01/life/dining.macanese..html   (650 words)

  
 Asiaweek.com | Special Report: Macau | A Proud People | 12/24/99
They are the Macanese - descendants of the soldiers and administrators who came out from Portugal and stayed on to marry local women and make their lives here.
Macanese cuisine is basically Portuguese, but with local ingredients and embellishments.
Hundreds of Macanese recipes have probably been lost to history, either because they were never written down or because some families kept them a secret.
www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/99/1224/sr.macanese.html   (1661 words)

  
 Macau Week Makes Splash in Las Vegas
Macanese virtuoso pianist brothers Kuok-Man Lio and Lio Kuok-Wai played a concert Tuesday night and are scheduled to appear again Friday at Wynn Las Vegas.
Macanese food -- a blend of Portuguese and Chinese cuisine -- is being offered with special menu items at Wynn's Terrace Point Cafi, the Venetian's Royal Star Restaurant and MGM Grand's Pearl Restaurant.
Macanese culture got a boost last month when Macau's historic center was listed as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
www.casinocitytimes.com /news/article.cfm?contentID=152671   (935 words)

  
 The Washington Times - Macau"
For those Macanese defined by their unique mixture of Portuguese and Chinese ancestry, whose lives are often reflected in the traditional themes of rootlessness found in many stories about Macau's colorful history, home has generally meant only a temporary anchorage.
For many Macanese, the ultimate sale of their properties to the Chinese was a fulfillment of their fractured past, and with their departure some of Macau's precious cultural fabric was in desperate need of mending.
Outside observers are confident that the racially mixed Macanese will continue to devote their tenacious strength and skills to the preservation and protection of their way of life in the changing face of Macau.
www.internationalspecialreports.com /archives/99/macau/3.html   (921 words)

  
 Macau Dining
A Macanese meal, essentially a Chinese interpretation of Portuguese cooking, is best described as a fusion of European and Asian food culture, one that reflects the cultural and racial influences within Macau.
During the Chinese New Year and the Mid-Autumn Festival the Macanese dust off the ornate doilies and elaborately embroidered tablecloths and set the family table for armies of grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins.
Great Macanese food can be consumed at the Dom Galo Restaurant and Restaurant Platao, both located on the Macau Peninsula, as well as at Pinocchios on Taipa, and Balichao and Café Nga Tim on Coloane.
home.carolina.rr.com /wormold/Macau.htm   (753 words)

  
 Macau: Chinese or Portuguese?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Macanese food has Portuguese, Indian, Malay, African and Chinese influences which were adapted from the various overseas colonies of Portugal.
Macanese cuisine is generally spicier and more flavorful than standard Portuguese and Chinese fare.
Among some of the more common Portuguese and Macanese dishes are caldo verde (potato soup with green veggies and Portuguese sausage), galinha a Macau (Macau chicken), Macanese chicken curry, chocos guilhados tinta (grilled squid), fei joada (red bean, pork and veggie stew), gambas grelhadas com molho (chili-garlic prawns) and bacalhau assado na braca (grilled codfish).
www.paksearch.com /globe/2000/Feb/macau.html   (1699 words)

  
 Tourist Highlights The Taipa Houses -Museum
This typical museum consists of the colonial style of officers?residence and the house of the Macanese.
The Macanese are group of the next generation from the marriages between the Portuguese, Chinese, Malaysians, Philippines or the Indians.
This witness the living condition of the Macanese, reflect the mix culture of Chinese and Portuguese also is the Portrayal of Macao.
www.cityguide.gov.mo /travel/promote8_1_e.htm   (227 words)

  
 Macanese - TheBestLinks.com - Macau, Portugal, Race, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Macanese - TheBestLinks.com - Macau, Portugal, Race, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub,...
Macanese, Macau, Portugal, Race, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, Stub...
Macanese is a special race in Macau, especially referring to people whose families coming from Portugal or with a mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry.
www.thebestlinks.com /Macanese.html   (108 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Macanese enforcement efforts, although well-intentioned, have been overwhelmed.
Every copyright industry suffers losses from this pirate production and export business, but the problem is so recent that reliable loss estimates are not available, except from the recording industry, which estimates a loss of $25 million due to piracy in the second half of 1997.
Government resources and manpower should be directed against piracy as a priority matter, and an inter-departmental task force should be established, under strong leadership, to co-ordinate efforts.
www.iipa.com /rbc/1998/rbc_macau_301_98.html   (1205 words)

  
 MACAO ---- A DIAMOND ON SOUTH CHIAN SEA
¡¡¡¡Although Macanese are brought up under the influence of both Oriental and Western cultures and many of them have Chinese background, they still identify themselves with Portugal and take Portuguese as their mother tongue, viewing it as a link between themselves and their "motherland".
Not to be left irrelevant, many Macanese and particularly the civil servants among them are taking crash courses in Chinese, believing that a command of both Chinese and Portuguese will enable them to play a role in the future governance of Macao.
As the rights and interests of Macanese are protected under the Macao Basic Law, many Macanese are optimistic about their future.
www.macaudata.com /Macau/overview/e53.html   (10395 words)

  
 Macau | Dining And Drinking | WCities Destination Guide
A Macanese meal is essentially a Chinese interpretation of Portuguese cooking--it reflects the cultural and racial influences within the city.
Cha gorda (fat tea) is possibly the most Macanese meal of all, a veritable feast from heaven--roast meats, soups, rice, potatoes, vegetables, cakes, egg tarts and tacho (a sausage and pig’s feet hotpot similar to the Portuguese cozido).
Delicious Macanese food can be consumed at the Dom Galo Restaurant and Restaurant Platao, both located on the Macau Peninsula, as well as at Pinocchio’s on Taipa, and Balichao and Café Nga Tim on Coloane.
www.wcities.com /en/guide/eat_drink/406/guide.html   (764 words)

  
 Oceanic - Around Town Hawaii - Leisure - Reviews - What's Cooking Around Town / Wokking Around Town by Anthony Chang - ...
Diversity is thus very much a part of Macanese life: women wear Iberian-style mantillas (scarves placed over the head and shoulders) with Chinese-style dresses; street signs are both in Portuguese and Cantonese; and children with Asian features speak with Portuguese accents.
Macanese cuisine was created by taking Portuguese recipes and using Asian ingredients, spices and cookery methods.
A typical Macanese meal, then, became a study in contrasts: olive oil and soy sauce, potatoes and rice, chourico sausage and preserved duck.
www.hawaii.rr.com /leisure/reviews/anthony_chang/2002-02_hkceewest.htm   (1349 words)

  
 Delicious India Partners : Michael   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
There is but one word to describe Macanese food, the cuisine of Macau.
If cuisine were to reflect the psyche of a city, then Macanese cuisine aptly describes the all-embracing cosmopolitan culture that has existed in the city since the last five to six hundred years.
Sample Macanese cuisine which, like the little island city is - vibrant, dazzling and interesting.
www.deliciousindia.com /Partners/Michael/mike.htm   (839 words)

  
 TIMEasia.com 04/19/99
Around the world a dozen Macanese associations hold regular events to promote their cultural legacy.
To Jorge Forjaz, author of a three-volume history entitled Macanese Families, the people are inseparable from their city's status as a colony--a meeting ground for East and West.
"It is purely mathematical: the Macanese will disappear." If they have anything to say about it though, one of the world's most exotic minorities will not pass unnoticed.
www.time.com /time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990419/macau2.html   (392 words)

  
 Asian Economic News: FOCUS: Portuguese dominates Macao courts 5 years after handover
A backlog of cases has accumulated as the Macanese government is slow in nurturing legal professionals in Chinese, critics say.
''Macanese people are very afraid of taking things to the court as it will take a long time and the procedures are complicated,'' he said.
Five of them are new judges trained under the Macanese government since the handover.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDP/is_2004_Dec_20/ai_n8581608   (712 words)

  
 Regions Central Asia - IIAS Newsletter Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
There has emerged a specific group of 'Macanese people', with a unique style, identity and a local Creole language (Batalha 1974), and they have been the mainstay of Macau society.
This situation of contact and mingling, brought about by economic interests, did not mean that Macau was always a peaceful place, or was without a strong social hierarchy of classes and ethnic groups and great differences in power, wealth, and privilege.
But comparatively speaking, Macanese history has been marked neither by great rebellions and violent struggles among its inhabitants, nor by acrimonious, implacable conflict with the Chinese on the mainland.
iias.leidenuniv.nl /iiasn/21/regions/21EA4.html   (1444 words)

  
 Rules - Contest for the Logo Creation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Associação Promotora da Instrução dos Macaenses (APIM) intends to criate a symbol representing the Macanese Communities Council, which will be used in its correspondence and in all activities related with this Council.
For this, the Management Committee of APIM decided that a public contest be open to all residents of the Macau SAR and to all members of the Casas de Macau or similar institutions.
The apposition of any form of identification on the outside of the envelopes is sufficient motive for the exclusion of the contestant.
www.apim.org.mo /en/logo_rules.html   (415 words)

  
 TIMEasia.com 04/19/99
(Some 40,000 Macanese now live abroad.) They and their once-graceful port at the mouth of the Pearl River will have a hard time maintaining a distinct identity under mainland rule.
As the handover approaches, more and more Macanese are trying to defy that prediction.
Last month a worldwide reunion attracted 1,300 members of the Macanese diaspora, many wanting to have one last look at the city before Beijing assumes control.
www.time.com /time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990419/macau1.html   (404 words)

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