Festive season celebrated with special menus

February is a month of many celebrations. The first, and probably the most important of the whole year, is the celebration of the lunar New Year. In just a few days’ time, the biggest celebration of the year for couples and couples-to-be arrives with Valentine’s Day, which assumes its usual position on the calendar.
To celebrate these two big highlights of the current month, the Sands Resorts Cotai Strip Macau has created two brand new menus, tailored to each of the occasions.
To begin the Year of the Monkey with positive vibes, Chef Mak Wai Ming has prepared some seasonal specials for the Canton Restaurant. The menus, in which Canton’s “Poon Choi” assumes the centerpiece, were presented to the press this week.
This new year celebratory meal includes braised Australian seven-heads abalone, sea cucumber, fish maw, goose webs, dried scallops, dried oysters, tiger prawns, squid and vegetables, all perfectly seated inside a pumpkin.
This delicacy is available only on takeaway pre-orders, which you can arrange in advance in order to be picked up between February 4 and 22.
But that is not the only delicacy that Chef Mak has prepared for the season. Some of the other must-tries include: “steamed prawns with egg white in rice wine; crispy fried yellow croaker with rice vinegar and pine nuts; and deep-fried whole spring chicken with spiced salt.”
For Valentine’s Day, there is nothing better than a menu that appeals to the senses and to the romantic at heart. That is Portofino’s objective, pairing Italian classics with a contemporary setting.
Senior Chef Katia Soujol has prepared a full menu for this special occasion, featuring “open face ravioli with sautéed spinach, pan roasted Turbot, scallops and caviar beurre blanc,” or, for the meat lovers, a “veal loin involtini with Parma ham, and goose liver, with mushroom duxelle, forked potatoes and peas.” To end the meal, there is an amaretto crème brûlée, served with berry compote and vanilla ice cream, to complete the happy celebrations.