We Rate Macau's Almond Cookies - But Do Locals Actually Like Them? | City Bites Macau Edition Ep3
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- Almond cookies are recommended as a must-buy souvenir of Macau, a city whose economy heavily relies on tourism. Due to their popularity among travelers, more and more pastry stores here sell these Chinese cookies. But the locals don’t actually eat them that often. So how did they become such an iconic item in Macau? And where can you get the best ones? Here, we search for the answers.
0:00 Are almond cookies a thing in Macau?
2:22 Becoming the city’s iconic food
5:07 Making almond cookies by hand
6:31 Where to find the best pastry store
11:29 A family that sticks together, stays together
12:38 Producer’s thoughts
14:22 Behind the scenes
Restaurant address:
📍Pastelaria Chui Heong
Edificio Mang Fat, 12 R. do Gamboa, Macao
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Sheila Leong, Content Creator
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This City Bites edition is supported by the Macao Government Tourism Office.
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Producer: Yoyo Chow
Videographer: Wayne Hon, César del Giudice
Editor and Mastering: César del Giudice
Narration: Dai Qian
Animation: Stella Yoo
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What’s your favorite Chinese pastry🥮?
BBQ pork buns, then almond cookies
Egg tart
Wife Cookies 老婆餅
Note that there is another type of almond cookie also from Zhongsan that is a lot looser. It is made with a carbonate leavening agent that fluffs up the dough in the oven.
Sak Kei Ma when young. Prefer Tau Sa Piah (salty green bean flavour) as an adult.
As a Malaysian chinese, I'm more inclined towards the almond dessert soup. Its amazing. Uses northern almonds.
Almond cookies and daan tat custard tart are my favorite Chinese pastries. Easy to find in H.K. and nice with morning tea. Enjoyed your Macau series. Looking forward to future Goldthread episodes. Thank you.
These videos always brighten my day. Also love hearing your thoughts in the end. Wonderful series indeed. 😊
It's like eating dust 😂
That texture seems so much fun to me tbh. I want it.
Personally, I prefer the peanut candy from Koi Kei so much more. Every time I visit Hong Kong I always buy bags of them. So good. Tried the almond cookie and they were just ok.
My cousin brought some fresh ones back for me. They are freshly roasted nuts and very crumbly not hard. The ones in the red and green box feature in this video. They got wolfed down fast. She didn't even get to eat any haha.
Love thisbseries- great hosting 😊
Amazing series!
Love your show. Have learned so much on your food travels show.
Have a blessed Christmas. 🌟🎄❄️⛄️🛍️🎁
Take Care and Stay Safe.
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I ate these as a child when my family would visit Macau in the 80s. Love their powdery goodness!
great season, great job
Glad you enjoyed it! 😃
Awesome video, told by young locals (well, not quite but close) about the local culture in English and the local language. You guys beat the BBC and PBS 😱Great job! 👍
I usually don't like the Almond cookies from the Asian market in the US but I got the fresh one from Macau and they were delicious. Probably can't beat the fresh cookies. Also probably depends on the brand and who made them too. Some taste dry and terrible like dust and some just have a nice sweet almond taste.
The one in the US is horrible. I love some certain brands from Macaus
Omg it’s that host again🥰🥰 Wanna eat almond cookies wif her😳
Listening to your Chinese makes me realize how much I don’t know! Cantonese speaker here… or at least I thought I was! :)
As a person grow up in Hong Kong, I like the almond cookie because I love almond
4:27 “these cookies have cookie flavor” 😂😂 lmaoo what
Arriving in Macau in in a few days., I am using your helpful info to maximise my time. I have been to Myanmar a few times. Its interesting to see what is the difference. The first bake is always the freshest. I reckon its bout 630am?
Please dont stop!
I like the almond crisp cookies better. They are thin and crisp with almond flakes on top
as a hongkonger, i loveee almond cookies
i think it's just like the "wife biscuit' of hong kong. i, the local, don't eat this much but tourist like to buy and believe local people eat wife biscuit every day
My mom loves it. She buys them in SF Chinatown. She’s from the village in China.
老婆餅 ( lou5 po4 beng2) is *sweetheart cake* or *wife cake* or *marriage pie* . It is a traditional Chinese cake with a thin crust of flaky pastry, made with a filling of winter melon, almond paste, and sesame, and spiced with five spice powder.
I like them.
It's like eating a biscuit of chalk. Dry, powdery, and hard. Prefer the yellow ones with egg wash and a single almond in the center.
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The first time I had almond cookies, they were soft and shaped like a cookie. Yellow, had almond bits, and a red dot in the center. I loved them. Then some time later, these came around- and I hated them. I thought they were fake! Hard, not sweet, sandy, not buttery, they're not good.
Two different kinds of almond cookies! I like both kinds but the soft one is definitely better
How do the hosts have accents in both English AND Cantonese?
Costlier and costlier
Already different from those days,melted inside mouth😅😅
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This place must be good, event the renowned food critic said those cookies taste like cookies....
Whaaat daisy’s voice sounds different
Heavy duty voice coaching from me
Cesar has a film director inside him :)
@@cesardelgiudice8506 please post a behind-the-scenes
They are like rocks. When you bite into them it feels like you might lose a tooth. I managed to bite off a piece and my jaw hurt as well as my head from biting it. It's not worth the pain to eat.
You eating a low quality one?
lol what cookie did you buy! its supposed to crumble in your mouth not be rock solid
It's pronounced as Ah ..mond.. The L is silent.. Just like salmon.. It's Sa MON..
Hi there! Both are technically correct if you check the Merriam-Webster Dictionary :))
These are the driest things known to man!
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Most tourist are stupid, not food savvy, nor know how to taste and follow the crowds who had been con by marketing and advertisements. Most lied and comfort themselves that to say its good after queued for an hour. Most Macau food are not nice at all except only the Portuguese Tarts which is good. Everywhere in world, when a shop is famous, tourist swamp in and the owner stop making himself. With mass tourist, owners employ foreign workers and qualities begin to deteriote. This resulted, many shops quality had plunged to be worse than average shops.
Ask yourself , where can you buy almond cookies in USA as good….None
As a 5th generation Macanese, I can assure youuuuuuuuuu, nobody really cares.
Don't like them. Aunt always buy those from Koi Kei whenever shes abroad. Just as souvenir. Easy no thinking lol.
You are no75, therefore there are 74 ahead of you.
If you are in a race and you overtake position 2, it does not make you the leader if the race.
i don't like those cookies either.
Not a fan 😂
😅
Personally, I don't like them. Marketing work on the mind, but not necessary the taste.
Junk foods!
Very dry and tasteless. Waste of money and tooth.