People can experience all the excitement, colour and
fascination of Macau on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 October 2011, when the inaugural 2011 Macau Festival will
be held in Tumbalong Park, Darling
Harbour, Sydney, Australia.
This Festival is being organised by the Macau Government Tourist Office.
The Festival will feature a stage program of contemporary
and traditional Portuguese dance, featuring members of the long established
Aldeias de Portugal, Lion dancing, song and music throughout the two days.
There will be a host of activities and rides for children and
adults.
There will also be plenty of Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese food to satisfy hearty
appetites. Food stalls will preparing and serving such delicacies as chorizo
rolls, Spanish meatball rolls, spicy peri peri chicken, calamari, octopus,
barbecued seafood, Portuguese chicken burgers, marinated steak rolls, seafood
paella, dim sum platters, steamed dumplings and Peking duck with pancake.
Helen Wong, general manager of the Macau Government Tourist
Office Australia, said “Guests
will see a merger of cuisines which sums up the dining characteristics of Macau which has its own Macanese cuisine. Make sure to sample
as many dishes as possible – at affordable prices.”
Coinciding with the festival will be a Macau Food Week at the
Four Seasons Hotel
Sydney from October
14-21. The hotel’s restaurant Kable’s will offer a special traditional Macanese
menu for both lunch and dinner throughout Food Week, the menu featuring a
selection of traditional dishes including the famous Macanese Egg Tarts and
African chicken. Macanese food is best described as a combination of
Portuguese, Chinese, Indian and African cuisine.
Adding to the authenticity of the experience, two guest
chefs from the sister property, Four Seasons Hotel Macau, Gary Wong and Alex
Lim, who will be preparing the Macanese dishes throughout the week. Guests who
make a reservation will go into the draw to win two nights’ accommodation in Macau with dinner for two.
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