Tel: +853 2831 3193
Opening hours: Wed-Mon 12:30pm-3:00pm , and 6:30pm-11:00pm
Tourist attractions nearby: The Maritime Museum and A-Ma Temple
We picked one of Macau's most famous restaurants, serving divine Portugese influenced cuisine, for our OLDHAM HALL REUNION dinner.
Best identified by its white-washed walls, an architectural feature repeated in the interior of the tiny restaurant with its arched, low ceiling. A Lorcha's name refers to a type of Portuguese boat, which is appropriate for a colony founded by seafaring explorers!
The waitress was very pleasant and service all night was good, she had to make recommendations for our large part of ten as the menu was truly unique and foreign to us!
Here's us eating together, 18 years after first meeting at Oldham Hall, Singapore!
One more shot ... Brothers in unity.
A simple wine for the night, it was rather good. We ordered another eventually!
A Lorcha is described as ...
Casual yet often filled with businesspeople, it offers feijoada, codfish in a cream sauce, chargrilled king prawns, clams prepared in garlic and olive oil, grilled lamb chops, baked minced beef potato pie, and other traditional dishes that are consistently good.
We agree!
Lovely clams cooked in 2 styles (one spicy, and one not) ...
Oh yes, this is the very warm bread which we enjoyed after a long day of travelling to Macau.
Some simple mixed veges ...
Delicious! Portugese-style Chicken Rice in a Casserole.
Another delicious rice dish ...
The Oxtail stew was so tender and full of flavour, we ordered it twice as well!
Cod fish ... firm to the bite and full of herbs and flavour. Served with a rather large spud (potato!).
Another casserole ... chicken?
Large prawns grilled with garlic ... Fresh and gorgeous!
Roast Lamb ... again beautifully marinated.
Roast Lamb ... again beautifully marinated.
Other recommended dishes which we didn't get to savour that night, from my surfing of others write-ups of this restaurant ...
Caldo verde, Portuguese kale soup with slivers of savoury/spicy chourico sausages
Rissois de Camarao, which are crisp crescent-shaped parcels filled with shrimp in a creamy sauce
Pasteis de bacalhau ... No one makes better use of dried (and later re-hydrated) cod fish than the Portuguese, or should I say in this case, the Macanese.
Feijoada ... a distinctly Macanese-style pork knuckle, chourico, red beans & cabbage stew
Galinha a Africana or grilled “African” chicken, smothered with an intensely-flavoured, spicy gravy.
2 comments:
Great post!
This is a great restaurant.
Macau is such a wonderful place. Like they say in Portuguese, “não há outra mais leal” (there is no other more loyal).
Helder Fraguas
Thanks for the kind comments, hope you enjoyed the food there too!
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