Loja das Conservas

Top choice in Macau


This beautiful shop carries dozens of canned seafood brands (representing hundreds of varieties) from Portugal, all labelled with details on the history of the maker and the product. You'll find not only excellent sardines, tuna and mackerel but also sea bream, bacalhau (salted cod), octopus and sangacho de atum (tuna blood). The last is good on a bed of greens with a citrus dressing.

Some of the common varieties of canned fish may sell for lower prices at other stores. That said, this shop is like a mini-gallery of Portuguese canned seafood and the service is immaculate.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Macau attractions

1. Street of Happiness

0.03 MILES

Not far west of Largo do Senado is Rua da Felicidade (Street of Happiness). Its shuttered terraces were once Macau’s main red-light district. Several…

2. Pawnshop Museum

0.07 MILES

Occupying a street corner, the photogenic Tak Seng On (virtue and success) pawnshop building is now a museum offering a fun and atmospheric glimpse into…

3. Sam Kai Vui Kun Temple

0.07 MILES

Literally ‘a community hall for three streets’, this temple was a meeting place for merchants and an adjudication court, before the Chinese Chamber of…

4. IACM Temporary Exhibition Gallery

0.1 MILES

This cool, dimly lit gallery just inside the entrance of the Leal Senado offers welcome respite from the heat and hectic pace of Avenida de Almeida…

5. Leal Senado

0.1 MILES

Facing Largo do Senado is Macau’s most important historical building, the 18th-century ‘Loyal Senate’, which houses the Instituto para os Assuntos Cívicos…

6. Senate Library

0.1 MILES

Located in the Leal Senado, Macau's oldest and most lavish library is a beautiful adaptation of the 18th-century library in the Convento de Mafra outside…

7. Sir Robert Ho Tung Library

0.11 MILES

This charming building, founded in the 19th century, was the country retreat of the late tycoon Robert Ho Tung, who purchased it in 1918. The colonial…

8. Church of St Augustine

0.12 MILES

The foundations of this church date from 1586 when it was established by Spanish Augustinians, but the present structure was built in 1814. The high altar…