At the table
Cut across the tube with knife and fork to eat squid and filling together. Remove any toothpick used to close it, or ask the server for help.
Contains squid, pork and egg. Sausage may contain other allergens; sauces may use wine.
Confirm the filling and sauce if avoiding meat, egg or alcohol. Rice-filled versions are a separate variation.
GET TO KNOW THE DISH
What goes into it?
Explore some key ingredients below. Preparations may use additional seasonings and ingredients.
Some versions add rice to the filling or white wine to the sauce. This selected filling contains meat and egg white, without rice.
Typical ingredients
In some versions
Recipes vary by restaurant.
How does it taste?
Savory seafood and sausage with sweet-tart tomato sauce.
- Chili heat
- Heat not recorded
- Texture
- Tender but springy squid around a moist meat filling.
- How it’s made
- The seasoned pork, sausage, onion, garlic and egg-white mixture is packed into squid tubes, cooked and served with tomato sauce.
Some versions add rice to the filling or white wine to the sauce. This selected filling contains meat and egg white, without rice.
A CONNECTION TO PLACE
Origin & regional roots
Associated with Macau.
About this regional connection
Macau: MGTO Portuguese dishes page.
Ask if they have it first
请问你们有葡式酿鱿鱼吗？
Do you have this item?
A LITTLE SOMETHING TO READ
Story & history
A filled squid tube
This account describes a tradition or story, rather than an established historical fact.
The Portuguese name lulas recheadas means stuffed squid. In Macau, the seafood exterior can conceal a substantial meat filling; it is not simply a plate of plain squid.