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Kapok Cantonese Restaurant
Next to the peaceful tea house Chun Yu Fang is this bustling restaurant, which is arguably the best place for dim sum in Taipa, and is always full during the weekends.
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Kwun Hoi Heen
Though it boasts alfresco dining and sumptuous views, it's the superb Cantonese cuisine that makes Kwun Hoi Heen stand out among the hotel restaurants on Coloane Island. Dim sum is MOParound MOP$18 to MOParound MOP$22 . The Saturday buffet lunch (MOParound MOP$180 ) and dinner (from MOP$198) are excellent value.
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Long Kei
This landmark place is a straightforward Cantonese restaurant with more than 300 dishes on offer. The food may not be the best but its location makes it a handy choice.
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Long Wa
Next to the red market, this yellowish two-storey tea house's ambience and age-old tiled floors tell you it's a rare survivor of the traditional Cantonese tea houses in Macau. There is no English menu, but you can just point to the dim sum carts. No smoking, no pets, no alcohol.
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Mang Pan Koi
This pocket-sized, homely restaurant is a hidden gem near Lou Lim Iok Garden and gets a thumbs-up among the Chinese in Macau. The food specialties here include abalone and shark fin and are all carefully prepared with fresh ingredients by the wonderful, hospitable chef Mr Dai, cooking with heart and soul. If possible, bring a Chinese friend for communication.
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Nga Tim Café
This café itself is no work of art, but it has a unique and laidback setting just in front of the Chapel of St Francis Xavier. Enjoy the scene, and the hybrid Sino-Portuguese food.
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Portas Do Sol
Portas do So changes its dim sum menu regularly to keep you surprised every time you visit and it has a very spacious dining hall. Make sure you have a reservation if you go on the weekend as it gets pretty full during lunchtime when families get together for dim sum.
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Pou Tai Temple Restaurant
If you get tired of the meat-laden Portuguese cuisine, this strictly vegetarian restaurant, set in a Buddhist temple in northern Taipa, is a great find for the health-conscious. It's housed at the basement of the building next to the main hall.
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Sai Nam
Handily located in the specialty foods shopping area and housed in a characteristic former two-storey shop house, this is another decent place to sample abalone, though it's a bit overpriced.
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Seng Cheong
This simple Chinese restaurant is celebrated for its fried fish balls, steamed eel and congee (rice porridge with savoury titbits). It's open till late.
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The Eight
Elegantly designed in black, the main dining hall will impress you at first sight with its water-lily pool; at first taste, so will its dim sum.
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Tou Tou Koi
Located down the alley just opposite the Pawnshop Museum, this nominally Chinese restaurant serves some very traditional Cantonese dishes you can no longer find in other Chinese restaurants. Among the wide range of sumptuous dishes is its signature deep-fried stuffed crab with shrimp.
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Wong Chi Kei
Visit this centrally located Chinese eatery for a fix of cheap late-night noodles. It is particularly renowned for its noodle soup with wontons.
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