a creole term used in various contexts that can translate the state of “joy, satisfaction, celebration” or mean “everything is delicious” – opened in February 2022 to promote African gastronomy “so appreciated” but “no advertising space” in Macau , said Elias Colaso, one of the four project leaders.
Cachupa from Cape Verde, caldo de Mancarra from Guinea-Bissau, moamba from Angola and matapa from Mozambique are just a few of the delicacies available in the space of the Association for the Promotion of African Gastronomy, which was closed for several months during the pandemic and only reopened. in March, “already with a new team and the inclusion of gastronomy from Goa, Daman and Diu”.
For the small Indo-Portuguese community living in Macau, this new project, launched in February, is “the light at the end of the tunnel,” said Lusa, president of the Goa, Damao and Diu Cultural Animation Centre.
“Unfortunately, as far as I know, we have never had a Goan restaurant in Macau. The Goans lived among themselves, and today he was in the house of one, tomorrow in the house of another, and each prepared his own delicacies and shared a few. moments of one’s own place, worthy of a Goan home. And that has been the case in Macau for the past 50 years,” said Vicente Pereira Coutinho, who now hopes that the local population can “join and taste the delicacies.” from SoSabi.
The Goa, Daman and Diu community in Macau has between 80 and 90 members, the official admits, noting that presence in the region has also dwindled over time due to members marrying locally.
Around the 50s of the last century, “Macau would already have a community of Goans, Damanense and Dihuense”, and “after the so-called liberation of Goa”, “many more Goans” moved to the territory.
“The 1970s and 1980s were a very long period. As a matter of fact, until 1969 there were overseas missions in which people from Goa came to Macau and shopped here like suitcases of camphor. Many factories in Macau exported to the Portuguese colonies,” he recalled.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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