Wong Chi Kei Noodle & Congee House, Macau 黃枝記

Wong Chi Kei (黃枝記) is a noodle and congee restaurant located at Senado Square, Macau which has a long history since opening in 1946 and has established themselves as one of the popular noodle shops in Macau. They also have another 3 branches, one in Macau (old shop) and the other two in Hong Kong, at Central and Hong Kong International Airport. 

Wong Chi Kei is located on the left side of Senado Square. 

Wong Chi Kei shop exterior

Besides the popular noodles in soup, they have an extensive menu of braised noodles, fried noodles, congee, rice and other specialities. 

We ordered a variety of food from their menu - Ms K had wanted to try the braised noodle with shrimp eggs, one of Macau's popular noodle dishes, I suggested to order it with the wanton, to try out Wong Chi Kei's wantons. (雲吞蝦子撈麵). The dark red powder on the noodles is not chilli flakes, it is actually the shrimp (蝦子) which makes this dish so popular. 

Next came the congee - 艇仔粥. It had cuttlefish, fish slices, jellyfish, roasted peanuts. 

Cow flank rice noodle soup - 牛腩河. Cow flank was what was written on the menu - it's actually beef brisket.  As we had too much noodles these few days, we decided to go with rice noodles instead. 

Deep fried wanton - 酥炸雲吞. I had tried this the previous time I came to Wong Chi Kei and I just love their crispy wanton skins with the eggy flavour. The wantons are huge, and also comes with a sweet dipping sauce. 

Needed some vegetable input into our body, so we added another vegetable dish - kailan with oyster sauce 蠔油芥蘭. The kailan in Hong Kong and Macau is slightly different from those we have in Singapore, their stems are huge, but crunchy as well. Oyster sauce kailan is a very popular vegetable dishes which can be found in most noodle and congee shops. They just blanch the vegetables in hot water and drizzle some oyster sauce over it. Simple yet delicious. 

Total bill came out to be MOP145 which is around SGD24. Cheap for 3 persons. The most expensive dish was the shrimp noodles with wanton (MOP43 / SGD7) - I guess the shrimp is the costly part of the dish. 

Even ex Hong Kong governor Chris Patten also came to support!

Wong Chi Kei 黃枝記

17 Largo do Senado, Macau 
澳門議事亭前地17號
Open daily: 8am - 12midnight














*Note on currency in Macau: You can use Hong Kong dollar in Macau - all shops big or small do accept. However, some of them will return you change in Macau dollars, so be careful to check and make sure you spend away them before going back to Hong Kong.