7th MACAU FOOD FESTIVAL

Mais uma vez o Café Ou Mun estará presente no Festival de Gastronomia de Macau na Praça em frente à Torre de Macau.

Os clientes podem contar novamente com o Pão com Chouriço, Tigeladas, Bolo de Chocolate Ou Mun entre outros produtos.


7th Macau Food Festival

This major event features over 100 booths with themed delicacy areas: Macau area, Asian Cuisine area, Greater China area, Portuguese and European area, Japanese and Korea area, and Dessert area. Dance performances, magic shows, and other special activities will help put the fizz in this popular annual event. Once you're done eating, you may visit the "World of Dinosaurs" - where 13 lively mechanical creatures from the past are sure to leave you enraptured!

Date: Nov 16 - Dec 2, 2007
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. (Mondays to Thursdays);
3:00 p.m. to midnight (Fridays to Sundays)
Venue: Sai Van Lake Square
Admission free

Organizers:
Association of Macau Restaurant Merchants
Macau Restaurant Workers' Union

Co-organizers:
Macau Journalists Association
Associação de Cozinheiros de Culinária Chinesa de Macau
Associação de Empregados de Restaurantes e Padarios de Macau

Sponsors:
Macau Government Tourist Office
Macau Foundation
Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau

Is Macau in danger of losing its soul? by Jennifer welker

Is Macau in danger of losing its soul?
Comment by Jennifer Welker MACAU - On November 5, one of Macau's most celebrated Portuguese coffee shops - Cafe Ou Mun - will close its doors. Why? The rent is simply too high. The cafe's owner, Fernando Marques will focus instead on growing his bakery, and continue to sell his famous Portuguese bread throughout Macau. Cafe Ou Mun ("Ou Mun" is the Cantonese word for "Macau") is the second casualty in recent months to close because of rents going through the roof in downtown Macau, near the Senado Square along Travessa de S. Domingos. Its neighbour, CaffeChocola, was forced to close its doors due to rent hikes and before that, another famous Portuguese cafe - O Barril - which was open for years had to close as well. Fortunately, this little lane off Senado Square is still home to a popular Portuguese eatery, Platao; an Italian restaurant known as Caffe Tuscana, a more recent Portuguese restaurant known as Boa Mesa and a lovely French place called La Bonne Heure. Sebastian Pompele, owner of La Bonne Heure is worried. "I was really sad to see CafeChocola go, and now Cafe Ou Mun," Pompele said. "We really hope to stay on, but the rents are getting really high. I had to close my other restaurant on Praia Grande for the same reason." ---- We want to know what you think. Is Macau at risk of losing its home-grown restaurants? And will this affect the soul of this city?

Please write with your views to jennifer.welker@redantmediagroup.com

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Fernando

Fernando Marques para alem de proprietario do Cafe Ou Mun 'e tamb'em o seu padeiro-pasteleiro.
Os bolos e pao sao diariamente feitos pelas suas maos.
Para al'em dos seus paes e bolos serem vendidos no seu cafe sao igualmente vendidos em diversos supermercados locais, tanto em Macau como na ilha da Taipa.

Surpreendidos por falta de agua

Hoje o Cafe Ou Mun acordou sem agua. Pusemos a hipotese de corte de agua pela SAAM, apos telefonema o caso nada tinha com a SAAM. Fomo ver o contandor de agua e parte do tubo de agua tinha desaparecido.
Telefonamos para o canalizador para vir ver o caso. Apos 30 minutos o canalizador apareceu, olhou e disse: O vosso tubo de agua foi cortado.
Contou-nos tambem que esta semana tinha saido num dos jornais chineses que Chineses turistas estavam a vir a Macau para roubar cobre devido ao seu elevado custo.
Assim o nosso tubo de agua de cobre foi-nos roubado para ser vendido... Sem comentarios.
Durante a manha o Ou Mun esteve a meio gaz, pois nao tinhamos qualquer agua.
Agradecemos a compreensao de todos os nossos clientes pelo inconveniente causado.