Best Burgers in Macau: Pork Chop Bun and More

Any search for the best burgers in Macau starts with the pork chop bun, a marinated pork chop in a crusty roll, found in the cafés of Taipa Village and the old centre around Senado Square. For beef burgers, look in the Cotai resorts and on the busier streets of the Macau Peninsula.

The pork chop bun traces back to the Portuguese bifana, a pork sandwich, and a Taipa café founded in 1968 is widely credited with turning it into a Macau institution. It reflects more than four centuries of Portuguese and Chinese exchange, the same mix behind Macanese cooking, which UNESCO recognised when it named Macau a Creative City of Gastronomy in 2017. One Macanese home dish is worth knowing before you order a burger here: minchi, minced beef or pork cooked with potatoes and soy sauce, often topped with a fried egg. It shows how long minced meat has had a place on Macau tables.

Burgers in Macau: key facts

• Neighbourhoods to explore: Taipa Village, Senado Square, Cotai and Coloane.
• Local specialty: the pork chop bun, Macau’s own sandwich.
• Macanese dish to know: minchi, minced meat with potatoes and a fried egg.
• Currency: Macanese pataca (MOP); Hong Kong dollars are widely accepted.
• Getting around: the Light Rapid Transit Taipa line, public buses and free resort shuttles.

Every guide we publish on Macau is dated and lists only venues, addresses, prices and ratings we could verify. Hong Kong and other cities each have a page in our burger restaurants section.