Macau - 10th Anniversary of Macau Food Festival

The food culture of Macao has a long history and perfectly combines the Eastern and Western style, with strong local features and cultural connotations and fully representing the diversity, tolerance, harmony and international characteristics of Macao. It's a precious cultural resource.

The Macau Food Festival is a brand activity established after the reunification of Macao with the Motherland. The 1st Food Festival was held on Leal Senado Square in the summer holiday of 2000, with the purpose to resist impact from the Asian Financial Crisis, promote consumption and attract tourists.

The Macau Food Festival is a carnival of delicacy, happiness and excitement. With delicious foods as the main role, supported by the entertainment programs such as amusement rides and booth games the activity seems more lively and diversified. Both the old and the young can find delicacy and fun here, indulging in pleasures without stop. When they visit here today, they want to come here again tomorrow. A to the delicacies, dozens of local famous restaurants gather here, bringing over one hundred pitches of featured snacks from different countries and the Great China to this platform. The favourable interaction and gathering effect are thus generated to broaden the view of people in the food industry as well as to promote the progress, communication and enhancement of such people, 0 that the entire industry can keep learning, get united, help each other and strive to be stronger.

In November 2010, the 10th Macau "Food Festival is held as scheduled. To celebrate the 10th Macau Food Festival, Macao Post bas issued the stamp with the theme "10th Anniversary of Macau Food Festival". The stamps showed the five famous snacks which were the most popular in all past events are illustrated, including Wanton moodles, Xiao Long Bao (small steamed buns), Sushi, Portuguese Egg Tart and a famous local dish, Portuguese Chicken. Besides, the design of the souvenir sheet even better reflect the excitement and happiness on the site of the event set against the splendid fireworks.