Now comes an even more poignant moment, when the flag he loves so much is hauled down for good. But he will be staying on. But I want to see the passing of the millennium in my birthplace. When Isabel Eusebio was 16, her family sent her to live with an uncle in Brazil. I was one of them.
Macanese cuisine is basically Portuguese, but with local ingredients and embellishments.
The concept springs from the days when Chinese wives tried to reproduce Portuguese dishes for their husbands, but often lacked the right ingredients. All with a smidgen of Thai, Vietnamese or Philippine food. 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. The difficulty for restaurants serving this food is that dishes were usually prepared in large portions for family sittings, and so many do not lend themselves well to smaller servings. Still, some are relatively economical to prepare and will undoubtedly survive even as the Macanese community fades away.