Taipa Cunha Street, Seng Cheong Restaurant, Macau 官也街, 誠昌飯店

Cunha Street (官也街 or Rua do Cunha in Portuguese) is a narrow pedestrian street located in the town centre of Taipa Island, Macau. 

As the shuttle bus from our hotel - Galaxy Macau provides free shuttle bus to the old Taipa Village, which is just at the entrance of Rua do Cunha, we took the shuttle there as we had some time to spare after we checked into the Galaxy.

Shuttle bus stops just in front of Cunha street entrance.  

Koi Kei (鉅記) must be the number 1 most popular shop found almost everywhere in Macau. The first shop you see at Cunha street is Koi Kei. 

The smell of bbq meat whiffs over once you approach Koi Kei. Their bbq meats is also one of the popular items for souvenirs. Their variety of bbq meats is even more than Bee Cheng Hiang!

The lineup of shops along Cunha street consists mostly of restaurants, cafes and local snacks. Gelatina Mok Yi Kei seems famous for their durian ice-cream, but we were not in the mood for ice-cream at that time. 

Fong Kei Bakery was also recommended in many of the Macau guidebooks. There were many newspaper clippings of the shop pasted on the walls. Fong Kei is famous for their 肉切酥, or meat filling biscuits, not sure if it is the correct English translation for it.

Their packaging is not as nice as Koi Kei, as it is wrapped in a plastic roll. The boss will put your orders into the yellow box. I bought two 肉切酥 and two 杏粒杏仁餅 (Almond biscuit). 肉切酥 is very crispy, mum loves it. No wonder it is Fong Kei's best selling item. As for the almond biscuit, it's a tad too hard, still prefer Koi Kei's almond biscuit.

As we did not have lunch and it was already 5 plus in the evening, we decided to dine at Seng Cheong Restaurant 誠昌飯店 which is famous for their crab porridge 驰名水蟹粥.

Recommendation of some of their popular dishes.  

We ordered the crispy fried fish balls 酥炸鯪魚球. The fried balls were huge - almost the size of a ping pong ball. 鯪魚 is also known as mud carp and can be found along the Pearl River. This fish is usually made into fish balls. 

As usual, we needed vegetables in our diet, so we ordered the lettuce with dried scallops 瑤柱扒生菜. The broiled lettuce was covered in shredded dried scallops. Should be an easy dish to try at home.

Last came the star of the meal - crab porridge 水蟹粥. The portion was quite large even when we only ordered the small size. We had quite high expectations for the porridge, being the no.1 popular dish of the restaurant, but the porridge was too dilute, not like the cantonese style congee. Maybe locals like this type of flavour, as the lady next to our table came in to order this dish only, and managed to finish the whole big bowl by herself. Incredible!

Casa de Pasto Seng Choeng  誠昌飯店  

28-30 Rua do Cunha, Vila de Taipa

澳门氹仔舊城區官也街28-30號 

Opening hours: 12 noon - 12 midnight