Taipa Village Macau Guide: Food Street, Houses Museum & Flower Park

Taipa Village Macau Guide: Food Street, Houses Museum & Flower Park

This time, our Macau tripwas with my parents and my husband—
a 4-night, 5-day DIY trip together!

Honestly, four days in Macau is more than enough
to see pretty much everything around town.

We ended up checking off most of the famous spots,
and Taipa Village was definitely one of the fun ones.

If planning a DIY trip feels overwhelming, or if you’re coming over from Hong Kong
and want to hit Macau’s main highlights in just one day
while still eating really well,
a [tour that feels like independent travel]
could be a great option too.

From the Cotai hotel zone,
Taipa is just a short trip to the northwest.

The buildings are painted in soft pastel shades,
so the whole neighborhood feels charming and picture-perfect.

It’s one of those areas where every street feels photo-worthy.

Food street

If you search for the pedestrian street
known for “a wide variety of food,” Rua do Cunhaor
Taipa Food Street that’ll get you there.

The food street area isn’t very big,
so getting somewhere around here is enough.

Right by the entrance, there was a café absolutely packed with people:
Café Vong Kei

It’s supposedly famous for milk tea and chopa bao,
but the Google rating isn’t especially impressive.

We also passed by the famous Taipa Starbuckson the way.

Another spot that got even more famous after Baek Jong-won mentioned it
is the curry beef offal(?) Lao Day beef offal

My husband was curious about this place before the trip,

but I’m personally not someone who really loves offal,
and by the time we got there, he wasn’t that hungry either.
He also said the smell wasn’t calling to him, so we skipped it ^_^

Still, seeing it in person,
it actually looked cleaner than it did in Baek Jong-won’s video.
The line was seriously long too—definitely one of the popular Taipa spots.

One thing that’s wildly popular everywhere in Macau:
Lord Stow’s egg tarts.There’s a Taipa branch too.

Since we were planning to visit Coloane Village again anyway,
we didn’t feel the need to wait in the long line here.

Other famous
Taipa Village food spots include

limoncello ice cream (gelato),
Soda Bing (Baek Jong-won’s chopa bao and toast),
Sei Kee Café (chopa bao and milk tea),
and San Mui Oyster Noodles (made famous by Pani Bottle).

They’re a little outside the main Taipa food street area you see in these photos—still only up to about a 10-minute walk—so you can fit them in depending on your schedule.

Even if you don’t go out of your way for the places
that are especially famous among Korean travelers, there are so many cute shops around,
and the streets themselves are full of fun little details.

Whenever we spotted a colorful photo corner, we stopped for a few pictures too.

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After walking around Taipa Food Street, we headed up the stairs and kept strolling south.

If you follow the gentle uphill road,
you’ll come across a church.

Our Lady of Carmel ChurchThat said,
I wouldn’t say it’s worth climbing up just for the church itself,
but it’s a lovely walk when the weather is nice.

Then if you walk a little farther down from the church,
you’ll reach the Taipa Houses-Museum.

This wasn’t originally a must-see on my list either,
but I ended up really liking it.

These were actual homes once lived in by high-ranking Portuguese officials
during the colonial era, and five of the houses still remain.

The mint-colored exteriors feel so fresh, and the gardens are beautifully maintained, so it’s a great photo spot.

You can also go inside the houses,
admission is free, and it’s closed on Mondays.

Even now, they don’t feel all that dated—

you can kind of picture how luxuriously the upper class lived back then,
so it’s definitely worth a look.

There’s a souvenir shop too!

The buildings were so pretty that I kept asking my parents to stand here and there so I could take their photos.

My husband isn’t really into taking pictures,
so I mostly just kept making him take them for me.

If you look out in front of my husband,
there’s a pond,
and there are several benches facing the water, so it’s also a nice place to sit and rest for a bit.

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The last stop on this Taipa, Macau walk was Flower Park !

It’s just a short walk from the Houses-Museum,
and suddenly you’re in front of a bright, beautiful flower garden.

If you’ve already come to the Houses-Museum,
definitely keep walking to Flower Park too ><

It’s a surprisingly large garden space filled with
colorful flowers planted in neat, beautiful arrangements.

We had to do our family’s signature pose here, of course.

This time I made my husband do it too, and he was actually pretty good at it.

My dad is past sixty now and likes flowers more and more these days,

and from here, you can even walk
pretty easily to the Cotai hotels—we headed toward Galaxy Hotel.

Taipa Food Street and hotels like The Venetian
really aren’t that far apart,
so if you’re full, it’s actually a nice walk to help digest.

^{>Macau day tour option<}

No shopping stops, just Macau’s major highlights
and famous food spots, so for a one-day tour focused on the essentials,
I think it looks like a solid option and worth recommending!