Macau is mainly Cantonese but also has Portuguese cuisine and Portuguese colonial cuisine. The best known colonial dish is African Chicken. This is not African at all but an Indian dish with the addition of a few olives on top. With errors in nomenclature as wide as this, many feel that other aspects of the cuisine may be prone to mishap in other areas. The adventurous traveller with a taste for chillies and chicken gizzards may enjoy piri piri and other dishes.
Bars come in three categories.
Raving Disco with drunks dancing on the tables and Wan Chai topless with names like Pussycat and Popeye. These last are peopled by sad but determined hostesses who can empty a credit card with three small glasses of cold tea. Tourists have walked or sometimes crawled out of these places unwitted and unwitting that they have run up a Visa bill of 3,500 for three drinks. If the visitor is still reeling at the bar tariffs, they should try the hotel mini-bar where that sum will get you 250ccs of distilled water. The Hong Kong economy was originally based on the sale of opium but has progressed through the manufacture of artificial flowers, garment manufacture and the ownership of sweatshops on the Chinese mainland.